The entire month of Ramadan has passed by and I never managed to publish a post about this very culinarily charged period. For those of you who don’t know, the month of Ramadan is observed by Muslims with daily fasting. Because the timing of Muslim holidays is calculated using a lunar calendar, the date that … Read More »
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A Time to Fast, a Time to Feast
The month of Ramadan, that started this year on August 1st, has passed the halfway mark. For observant Muslims, this means less than two more weeks of the daily fast – that extends from the pre-sunrise meal through dinner at sundown. Lately, I’ve been waking up at 4 AM with the sound of the Muezzin’s … Read More »
Bedouin Hospitality
Thank goodness some relief has come from the monotony of these long, hot summer days. Ramadan begins today and a few days ago I paid a pre-holiday visit to my good friends Maryam and her sister Emna, in the neighboring Bedouin village of Basmat Tabun. I haven’t seen them for some time – they used … Read More »