Last Ramadan, something didn’t feel quite right. For the life of me, I was having all kinds of trouble integrating. The only time I got to break fast was when I went to Avery’s site to see my host family who lived there. I had moments when I felt jealous of all my friends living […]
Tag: Ramadan
Telling Time by the Moon, or Stories from the Endless Ramadan Days
The Boulemane Province, at least on this side of the mountains, is a little like Southern California. It never rains. Or rather, when it does rain in the summer, it does so for maybe twenty minutes and then dries up before you notice it even happened. The only reason it is noticeable is because of […]
Ramadan Mubarak Said
Since Ramadan started, my landlord’s son, eleven year-old Mohamed, consistently shows up at my door every evening at approximately six o’clock sharp, which is about an hour before the call-to-prayer that sounds when everybody breaks fast (el-ftour). Mohamed always has on his blue shorts and a blue wife-beater that says something in English on the […]
Ramadan Kareem (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar), a how-to on when to “Say Yes to the Dress”
M’brouk l-3id, or essentially, happy holiday. A month ago, when Ramadan first started, I posted on Facebook, “Ramadan Kareem,” which means that Ramadan is generous. A friend commented back on my post, “Kareem Abdul-Jabbar,” who is the retired Lakers basketball player and hopefully equally known for his role in the movie Airplane! as co-pilot Roger […]
A Few Minor Adjustments
In only a week and a half or so, Ramadan will be over. It’s gotten hotter, unbearably hotter, and I’m always a little hungry, always a little thirsty, and probably more irritable than I’ve ever been. Something tells me I’m not alone in this. I was talking with Caity and Avery about that, about how […]
Ramadan Kareem
It’s hot. I mean, that’s probably a bit of an understatement – where is it not hot right now, right? And to be honest, I don’t even have many bragging rights. You’d think living in the desert in Africa in August would just be awful (and in some ways, it is), but with temperatures […]
