Sarah Almukhtar is a graphics editor based in New York, where she designs visual stories about the news. She studied architecture at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and earned a master's degree in urban planning from Columbia University. Ms. Almukhtar joined The New York Times in 2015.
Most people of Middle Eastern and North African descent are classified as “white” in U.S. census data. Thousands of respondents to a Times survey told us how they actually identify.
By Karen Zraick, Allison McCann, Sarah Almukhtar, Yuliya Parshina-Kottas, Robert Gebeloff and Denise Lu
Utah had a state flag that didn't stand out from the crowd. The state embarked on a redesign, and found the process was far from simple.
By Mitch Smith and Sarah Almukhtar
A Supreme Court decision created a 50-state patchwork of differing abortion laws. An eclectic network of volunteers and organizations has tried to fill the gaps in health care and support.
By Kate Kelly and Marisa Schwartz Taylor
The Taliban’s takeover ended decades of war. But their restrictions, and the economic fallout, threw many women into a new era of diminished hopes.
By Christina Goldbaum and Kiana Hayeri
From bars and clubs to parks and sidewalks, you can hear a global soundtrack, music brought by immigrants and remixed and remade, like the musicians themselves.
By David Gonzalez and Photographs By Todd Heisler
Songs with familiar samples dominated pop and performed well on the charts, lending upstart artists a trick to break through — and tossing older ones a lifeline.
By Jon Caramanica
Half the world could soon face dangerous heat. We measured the daily toll it is already taking.
By Alissa J. Rubin, Ben Hubbard, Josh Holder, Noah Throop, Emily Rhyne, Jeremy White, James Glanz, Josh Williams, Sarah Almukhtar and Rumsey Taylor
We visited 10 cities across the country to see how the pandemic and its aftershocks have reshaped the American downtown.
By Mike Baker, Jack Healy, Rick Rojas, Edgar Sandoval, Julie Bosman, Eliza Fawcett, Emily Cochrane and Campbell Robertson
This was featured in live coverage.
By Jeremy White, Amy Harmon, Danielle Ivory, Lauren Leatherby, Albert Sun and Sarah Almukhtar
While Covid stole lives from all strata of society, it magnified disparities based on factors like sex, age, health care access, income and housing.
By Adeel Hassan