Archive for August, 2010

13Aug
2010

myRamadan: Fasting in Pakistan

Amelia’s story |  Samina’s story |  Hana’s story | Sumaya’s story |  Alia’s story When I was a child, my family and I would visit Karachi, Pakistan every other year during November or December and spend a month there (I guess it wasn’t such a big deal if an elementary school kid started winter vacation a few weeks early). Back in those days, Ramadan fell during winter, so we would spend majority of Ramadan in Pakistan and celebrate Eid there [...]

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13Aug
2010

myRamadan: Family and Community Bonding

Amelia’s story |  Samina’s story |  Hana’s story |  Sumaya’s story |  Alia’s story by Samina Mohammad Since I live in a college town in Indiana, Ramadan and Eid is the time when my community comes together to help the college students feel part of a family. The mosque has daily iftars for them and each family would be responsible for cooking for a particular day. We have about 15 families that contribute and the MSA brothers come to our [...]

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13Aug
2010

myRamadan: Samosas with a Dear Friend

Amelia’s story |  Samina’s story |  Hana’s story |  Sumaya’s story |  Alia’s story by Amelia Noor I have a dear memory of my post office delivery worker from when I was a child. I lived in an apartment with my family, and my mother would always fry samosas for us before iftar time. Samosas were a specialty since we never had them during any other time of the year. I remember that I had established a dear friendship with [...]

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9Aug
2010

It’s Just Steam: Thoughts over a cup of tea

My father happily walks into my room handing me a mug of tea, hoping it would make me smile. As I take a whiff, I smell the aroma that teases me from a distance on my desk. Just like the smell of pie teases passerby’s from the kitchen windowsill in Saturday morning cartoons. The aroma suggests that it may be chamomile, and maybe with a hint of lemon. Tea: it can be inspiring, yet it still isn’t popular with most [...]

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5Aug
2010

Pakistan Emergency: A Call for Our Help this Ramadan

The  grave news from Pakistan emerged last week with the devastating flooding. The death toll has now reached over 1,500. There are shortages of food, water, clothing, shelter, and supplies and, yet, the water continues to rise in the region. In Punjab, 15,000 homes have already been destroyed, leaving what is to be called “a mass exodus of people”. These are 15,000 families who no longer will have shelter for the month of Ramadan. This year they will be forced [...]

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