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Making A Meal Of Ramadan

Table with various arabic food served
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Is it just me or does Ramadan seem to get more air-time and column inches with every passing year?

Published June 22, 2015
Categorised as Blog, Islam Tagged Fasting, Muslim, Ramadan

Ghosts Of Ramadans Past

Sunset on Lake Ontario

It’s the early hours of the morning. The sky is still a bottomless black and I’ve roused myself from sleep to eat before the fast begins…

Published August 6, 2013
Categorised as Interracial marriage, Islam Tagged Family life, memories, Muslim, Ramadan

How I Discovered The Real Ramadan

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I ached to experience the nightly anticipation of breaking the fast as part of something larger. Deprivation is so much more tolerable, and joy heightened, in company…

Published July 30, 2013
Categorised as Blog, Islam Tagged Fasting, Muslim, Ramadan

Once Upon a Time in the Hijaz

The Qur'an

We’re now over halfway through the month of Ramadan, the holiest month in the Islamic calendar. In countless homes across the globe, for more than two weeks, muslims have risen in the darkness before daybreak to eat a meal which must sustain them until sunset…

Published August 7, 2012
Categorised as Blog, Islam Tagged I'tikaaf, Laylat al-Qadr, Ramadan, spirituality, Tahajjud, Tarawih

The Good, The Bad & The Hungry

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On the last evening before Ramadan I get that feeling of quiet, happy anticipation that comes before the start of something you know is going to test you…

Published July 20, 2012
Categorised as Blog, Islam Tagged Fasting, Five Pillars of Islam, Quran, Ramadan, spirituality, Tarawih

Has anyone seen the moon?

Well, it seems it doesn’t matter what country you’re in, there is the same confusion over when the muslim festival of Eid-ul-Fitr falls…

Published August 31, 2011
Categorised as Blog, Islam Tagged Canada, Culture, Eid ul-Fitr, moon-sighting, Muslim, Ramadan, Saudi Arabia
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