Ramadan is slowly becoming my favorite time of year. This year is the third year that I’ve had the wonderful chance to spend Ramadan in Central Asia – I spent one in Tajikistan, and this is now my second in Kyrgyzstan. And even though Ramadan here is very different from Ramadan in, say, Jordan, or Oman, it has its own wonderful unique charms that make me smile with every moment. Continue reading “The Return of Ramadan”
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It’s 3:10 in the morning, and in the starlight, I can make out the outline on the tablecloth of bread, teacups, a tub of Turkish Nutella, and two bowls of “shirchai,” a warm soup made from whole milk, butter, and tea leaves. I sit in the darkness with my host grandmother, and as I eat my fill of the smorgasbord, I can hear the soft clinking of forks, knives, and spoons against bowls and plates across our neighborhood and across Dushanbe, the capital of the small mountainous republic of Tajikistan.
