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The Muslim Times
Aliyah's grandfather Mohamed Rasheed, a religious leader, published The Muslim Times as a newsletter for the Ahmadiyya community in the country.

Women's Section, Ahmadiyya Anjuman Masjid, Guyana
This photo of the women's section at an Ahmadiyya Anjuman masjid in Wakenaam, Guyana, was taken during Eid in the 1960s. The Khan family brought it with them to the United States.

Salima and Aliyah Khan, Small Days Photo
This picture of Salima and Aliyah Khan together in Guyana in the 1980s was among the many things they carried from Guyana, including a collection of dolls puchased from across the world, Enid Blyton and Hardy Boys books, an urni that Aliyah wore as a child in masjid, her brother's Islamic skullcap, pamphlets and documents, crystal and household wares.

Wazir and Jordanna Ishmael Oral History
Jordanna Ishmael, an attorney at a law firm in Miami, speaks to her father Wazir Ishmael about his journey as a ten year-old boy from the sugar plantation in Berbice, Guyana where his father had worked as a "dispenser" (a cross between a pharmacist and physician) to the Bentham Grammar School, a boarding school in England. When he arrived there in 1970, he was one of two children of color there.

Sheorani and Kamelia Kilawan Oral History
Sheorani Kilawan, a claims supervisor at the New York State Insurance Fund, speaks with her daughter Kamelia Kilawan, a journalist who worked most recently for Al Jazeera English in Qatar, at their family home in South Ozone Park, Queens.

Sheorani Kilawan at Her Wedding in Guyana
This photograph was taken during Sheorani's wedding ceremony in her home in Albion, Guyana in 1986.

Sheorani Kilawan Arrives as a New Bride in America
This photograph was taken in Queens on Jan. 23, 1988, soon after Sheorani Kilawan's arrival in the United States.

Sheorani Kilawan's Wedding Ceremony
This photograph was taken during Sheorani's wedding ceremony in her home in Albion, Guyana in 1986.

Mohaiyuddin Khan, 1921
The U.S. Census, passport applications and naturalization petitions unfold the story of Mohaiyuddin Khan, a commercial trader who married, then divorced, a German-American woman.

Handwritten letter from Mohaiyuddin Khan
This handwritten petition for a passport in 1921 provides a glimpse of Khan's transnational life and the circuits he traveled, from London to Calcutta to Brooklyn.

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