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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…
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AN AMERICAN SUPERMARKET SAYS شكرا “THANK YOU” …
Tweet More than 30 years ago, a young immigrant made his long journey from Egypt, a very old country to America, a very new country, a trip to the unknown, a trip to a place that I only could imagine from images reflected in American movies, or from a taste of a Coke bottle in the street of Egypt. The trepidation, the excitement, the anticipation of the nuances in America, where everything is big and everyone is busy, intrigued me. I found myself looking around every time someone said, “Have a nice day”, or looking up every time someone said, “What’s up.” But nothing was so intriguing and culturally transforming…