{"id":25931,"date":"2012-10-11T02:16:50","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T02:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=25931"},"modified":"2012-10-11T02:22:29","modified_gmt":"2012-10-11T02:22:29","slug":"a-diverged-family-converges-at-harvard-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=25931","title":{"rendered":"A diverged family converges at Harvard Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.harvard.edu\/news\/2012\/10\/10_diverged-family-converges-at-hls.html\" target=\"_blank\">A diverged family converges at Harvard Law<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.harvard.edu\/news\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Havard Law School News<\/a><br \/>\n2012-10-10<\/p>\n<p><strong>Audrey Kunycky<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>A chance encounter, a discovery of kin on opposite sides of the world<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t inevitable that Harvard Law School graduate students Erum Khalid Sattar and Rebecca Zaman would meet so soon, or even at all. Sattar has been at the law school for three years, pursuing a doctorate in juridical science (S.J.D.); Zaman arrived in August to begin a year of study for a master\u2019s in law (LL.M.). Sattar is from Pakistan, and studied law in London; Zaman grew up, earned her law degree and completed a judicial clerkship in Australia. Then again, they\u2019re about the same height, with the same dark brown hair, and that might not be just a coincidence.<\/p>\n<p>In August, a few days into LL.M. Orientation, the two women shook hands and said hello at a Graduate Program reception. \u201cIf we hadn\u2019t been wearing nametags, what happened next might never have happened,\u201d says Zaman. Sattar\u2019s large, expressive eyes are glittering, <strong>but she wants Zaman to tell the story, because she tells it better.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My surname is Zaman, and it\u2019s a very unusual surname for a white-appearing Australian to have,\u201d explains Zaman. \u201cSo when they saw my nametag, <strong>a lot of the Indians, Pakistanis and Middle Easterners asked how I could have this name.<\/strong> When I met Erum, it was very similar.\u00a0 So I said, \u2018Oh! My father\u2019s father is a Muslim Indian from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hyderabad,_India\" target=\"_blank\">Hyderabad<\/a>.\u2019 And Erum said, \u2018Oh, what a coincidence. My family was from Hyderabad, before they moved to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Karachi\" target=\"_blank\">Karachi<\/a> after <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Partition_of_India\" target=\"_blank\">the partition<\/a>.\u2019 And she laughed, and said, \u2018Maybe we\u2019re related.\u2019 We both laughed, and I said, \u2018Maybe. It\u2019s a strange story.\u2019\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.harvard.edu\/news\/2012\/10\/10_diverged-family-converges-at-hls.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A diverged family converges at Harvard Law Havard Law School News 2012-10-10 Audrey Kunycky A chance encounter, a discovery of kin on opposite sides of the world It wasn\u2019t inevitable that Harvard Law School graduate students Erum Khalid Sattar and Rebecca Zaman would meet so soon, or even at all. Sattar has been at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,459,125,20],"tags":[12410,986,12408,12412,631,1351,12411,12409],"class_list":["post-25931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-history","category-identitydevelopment","category-usa","tag-audrey-kunycky","tag-australia","tag-erum-khalid-sattar","tag-harvard-law-school","tag-harvard-university","tag-india","tag-pakistan","tag-rebecca-zaman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}