Asad Dandia conducts a guided tour about Malcolm X in the Harlem area of New York on August 22, 2026. Asad Dandia was eight when he watched the September 11, 2001 attacks on television at his Pakistani-immigrant parents' home in New York. Then came the backlash -- years of Islamophobia as Americans processed attacks that had killed nearly 3,000 people. There was anger, suspicion and worse. (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP via Getty Images)