I found this article interesting…, I’ll bet the mall they’re talking about is Technology Mall on Makram Albeid. It’s true that many places don’t close during prayer times, but I find it hard to see why that is such a threatening occurance in a muslim country, it not like the mall has a lot of [...]
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A few days before Ramadan, one of the kids teachers’ asked me if I was prepared for Ramadan. She had been fasting voluntary fasts, reading more Quran. I got ready to tell her about the kilos of onions I’d sliced and frozen, the samosas we’d prepared, basically all of the food prep that I’d done. See, [...]
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My daughter is getting bigger mashallah, so we went to Ataba to shop for abayas. Ataba is a shopping district in Cairo. It’s like the New York shopping district on steriods. There are sections for clothes, electrical appliances, plastics, fabrics, books, and much more.
I was too intimidated to go there alone. Alhamdulillah my daughter’s Quran teacher offered to go [...]
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Finding decent clothes, especially for summer is a problem for me. For women it’s the arab style caftan dress, or basically night gowns. Those are usually inexpensive, but I don’t feel comfortable wearing a house dress ALL the time. Younger women wear jeans, skirts, or long tunic set with pants. A lot of the stuff is [...]
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