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From Moping to Musing: My Ramadan Roller Coaster


Posted by diana on 01 Aug 2012 / 0 Comments
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My conversion experience deeply informs my Muslim experience. We (converts) have varied experiences in our journeys and paths to Islam. Some have it easy—finding the transition relatively seamless—and others have a bumpy ride peppered with moments of angst and frustration. As an Egyptian-American convert, mine is the latter, driven by the disownment of my own […]

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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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