
Shireen Magedin
Storyteller
Shireen Magedin is a practicing pediatrician and a storyteller of tales in an ancient land.

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Is Karachi Protected by Sufi Saints?
Ever since I am aware of myself and my surroundings, I have seen that tsunamis and cyclones that have been predicted...
Eid Mubarak (Happy Eid)
The picture with the greettings for Eid shows the outline of the province of Sindh overlaying a background of the...
Interviewed on Chatting With Sherri March 17, 2022
Interviewed on the show Chatting With Sherri and the interview went live on March 17, 2022
The Bhitai Urs (Sufi Festival)
It was a sultry day. The heat of the summer was morphing into the cooler evenings. It was now pleasant to sit under...
Journey of a Different Kind
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we...
“To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.” ~ Daniel Patrick Moynihan
The Irish Connection I was excited to travel to Ireland. My admission to the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons...
How Do You Deal with Excessive Crying? “Opium, The Poor Child’s Nurse” from an 1849 issue of British humour magazine Punch. Source: HarpWeek.
Another one of Dr. Sarah's Adventures: Opium has had a chequered history down the ages. But did you know that it was...
The Colors of Love
“The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion . . . open...
Great things never come from comfort zones.
I would like to tell you an anecdote about my final surgical oral exam. I had a unique patient. While he was...
Spirits and Bones
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi College life was fun....
The Masjid: “Exams test your memory; life tests your learning; others will test your patience.” ~ Fennel Hudson, A Writer’s Year – Fennel’s Journal – No. 3
As the years passed by, the gardens in the college became lusher and even more beautiful. Especially the trees that...
The Wonder of Childbirth: “My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt.” ~ William Blake
Another day in the life of Sarah the Medical Student: The miracle of birth is wonderful, that’s the only word...
