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Ramadan 2018

Remembering Siti on Ramadan


Posted by Fatin Marini on 19 Jun 2018 / 1 Comment
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I’ll never forget March 21st of last year. It was Mother’s Day here in Amman and across the Middle East. I spent my mornings driving from school to school attending my children’s performances.  Once I was done, I planned to take a cake to my grandparents house and celebrate with my grandmother since my mother […]

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My “Anti-Social” Ramadan


Posted by izzie on 09 Jul 2015 / 1 Comment
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I moved from India to the USA two months back, and my life has completely changed, as expected. Before Ramadan started, because of the very long days and the fact that I was the primary caretaker of my 1 year old (like most mothers are), I worried if I would be able to fast. With […]

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Ramadan 2013

Solitude and Family: The Best of Both Worlds


Posted by izzie on 22 Jul 2013 / 0 Comments
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As a child, I once visited my aunt in her husband’s house during Ramadan. She had dark circles around her eyes due to lack of sleep, and she was haggard and toiling in the kitchen. She told us that her husband and his brothers all had “varied” food habits when it came to breaking the […]

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Building Ramadan Traditions, Then and Now


Posted by anneke on 27 Jul 2012 / 0 Comments
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When I chose Islam, almost a decade ago, I did not have much experience with fasting. I had grown up in not a very diverse environment and my experience with the Lent was very limited, coming from a Protestant background. Still, some years we would attend weekly “soup meetings,” where different families would come together […]

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Aliyah’s Choice: The LA Times’ Profile of a Lesbian Muslim


Posted by melinda on 07 Jan 2009 / 0 Comments
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It wasn’t but several years ago when a Google search for “gay Muslims” or “lesbian Muslims” turned up few results on actual people, mainly just pages on why homosexuality is a sin in Islam and perhaps one or two articles, usually focusing on men. Since then there’s been an increase in profiles on people who […]

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