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Ramadan 2012

Some Background on MMW’s Ramadan Series


Posted by Krista Riley on 29 Jul 2012 / 0 Comments
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Hello all, and Ramadan kareem to those celebrating it. I hope you’ve been enjoying the Ramadan post series so far!  We’ve got lots more posts on the way for you.   I’m linking the stories that we’ve posted so far at the bottom of this post, and will be adding to those links as the month […]

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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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Ramadan (Food) and the Working Girl


Posted by nicole on 23 Jul 2012 / 0 Comments
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This year is my thirteenth Ramadan, and I have spent ten of them working full time. While my husband was always able to organize his annual leave to be off for two weeks in Ramadan, a collection of luck and circumstances meant that I usually had to work – a board meeting, a month-end close, […]

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Muslim Women Reflect on Ramadan


Posted by Krista Riley on 17 Aug 2011 / 0 Comments
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As most people reading this probably know, it’s Ramadan, which brings some combination of fasting, iftars, overeating, praying, partying, and so on.  In the world of online media, many of us have come to expect the yearly collections of photographs (such as those from the Washington Post and the Boston Globe), as well as written […]

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