Is it just me or does Ramadan seem to get more air-time and column inches with every passing year?
Tag: Ramadan
Ghosts Of Ramadans Past
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…
How I Discovered The Real Ramadan
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…
Once Upon a Time in the Hijaz
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…
The Good, The Bad & The Hungry
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…
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…