Ruth Nasrullah

Sky Tiger

January 27, 2021 Ruth Nasrullah

This originally appeared in Texas Parks and Wildlife magazine. If ever there were an owl that resembled Superman, it would be the great horned owl

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5 Things You Should Know About the Lone Star Hiking Trail

December 6, 2020 Ruth Nasrullah

This originally appeared in The Trek. When I moved to Houston 17 years ago I had to do some research to find a trail of

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Essay: The women journalists who fought for suffrage and freedom

August 20, 2020 Ruth Nasrullah

This originally appeared in the Houston Chronicle. Jovita Idar stood in front of the building that housed the equipment of El Progreso, the Spanish-language newspaper

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Night Crawler seeks a trail epiphany

June 12, 2018 Ruth Nasrullah

Dann Hailey thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail this year, starting northbound from the approach trail on March 27 and summiting Katahdin on October 6. He is an Arizona native who left an 80-hour-a-week job working in a warehouse after hearing about the AT. He announced his intention to do a thru-hike – barefoot.

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How a Muslim cemetery became a battleground for America’s soul

June 9, 2018 Ruth Nasrullah

Farmersville, Texas, lies about 35 miles northeast of Dallas — a few hours from my home in Houston. So when I read that the city council had scheduled a special town hall meeting to address opposition to a Muslim cemetery, I decided to take a road trip to attend the meeting.

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“They said we put each other on a list”

June 5, 2018 Ruth Nasrullah

Adama Bah’s story begins at Fajr time on March 24, 2005.
That morning, agents from the FBI, the New York Police Department and immigration authorities knocked on the door of her family’s apartment in Harlem. Adama was 16, the oldest of five children of Guinean immigrants.

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