Tweet“I hope your Boxing Day was fun and festive, and you enjoyed a delicious Christmas dinner with leftovers. However, our Boxing Day here was over 80 days and still not over yet. On Boxing Day here, we bury our loved ones’ inboxes; there is no gift exchange, and the only leftovers we have are the destruction and city ruins.” Dear World, I hope you had a blessed Christmas celebrating Jesus’s birth in your safe homes and churches. I hope your children got all their lovely gifts from Santa, and I hope parents stick to the 7-gift rule. I hope your Boxing Day is fun and festive and you enjoyed…
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GUESS WHO IS COMING TO DINNER!
Tweet I. The Birthplace I was born in a small village on the bank of a small river in northern Egypt. A revered Imam was visiting the village for the annual prophet birthday festival; his name was Shick Tharwat, and that how I got my name Tharwat. They told me. My village, “Meet Swaid ” had one street, one river, one bridge, one grocery shop, one mosque, one school, one style of houses, a mud, and a windless connected covered by dry straws like an old stalled cargo train. People’s lifestyles had changed little since the time of the pharaohs, and local demographers couldn’t find any dramatic census changes…
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HOLIDIVERISTY: MY RAMADAN-CHRISTMAS DINNER!
Tweet Notes from America With all the turmoil around the world and poisonous relationships between the two biggest monolithic religion, it is a welcoming news. Muslims and Christians celebrate their holidays together. Christmas is celebrated during Muslims holy month of Ramadan. As a Muslim American who has been married to an American woman for 20 years, I wanted to celebrate Ramadan and Christmas at the same time. Wow, I thought to myself, what an occasion: our two religious celebrations combined into one magic evening in my house, an evening of transformation that would symbolize our great, diverse life in America. A Ramadan-Christmas dinner would bring a real meaning to our two…
