please Tell us about Ramadan habits in foreign countries :)

Mostafa samy wrote:

if you live in any foreign country please tell us about ramadan there what happened and do you feel it or not
thanks

hey mostafa, just saw this...you feel ramadan in toronto if you have muslim friends or colleagues. i've worked with many muslims in the investment banking industry and regardless of their country of birth, they have fasted.

we have many mosques in the city so of course local muslims attend and you see commercials on tv with ramadan greetings, or you see ads in the local grocery store flyers for specials: dates, juices, etc depending on favourites for each community ie: malaysian, pakastani or middle eastern

of course the best is to be invited to a friend's house for iftar! it is lovely to break the fast with them. i refuse to visit during the day as i know they will want to cook for me but how could i eat or drink in front of them?

btw - the first time i visited egypt, i arrived in cairo on eid...no wonder the roads were empty! then later at the resort as i got settled, a party started up at the club/disco...music was sooo loud and the fireworks were beautiful. i remember thinking "man, egyptians sure like to party !!

now whenever i arrive and depart, i pick fridays...way less traffic it seems.

k

Katyusha wrote:

Mostafa samy wrote:

if you live in any foreign country please tell us about ramadan there what happened and do you feel it or not
thanks

hey mostafa, just saw this...you feel ramadan in toronto if you have muslim friends or colleagues. i've worked with many muslims in the investment banking industry and regardless of their country of birth, they have fasted.

we have many mosques in the city so of course local muslims attend and you see commercials on tv with ramadan greetings, or you see ads in the local grocery store flyers for specials: dates, juices, etc depending on favourites for each community ie: malaysian, pakastani or middle eastern

of course the best is to be invited to a friend's house for iftar! it is lovely to break the fast with them. i refuse to visit during the day as i know they will want to cook for me but how could i eat or drink in front of them?

btw - the first time i visited egypt, i arrived in cairo on eid...no wonder the roads were empty! then later at the resort as i got settled, a party started up at the club/disco...music was sooo loud and the fireworks were beautiful. i remember thinking "man, egyptians sure like to party !!

now whenever i arrive and depart, i pick fridays...way less traffic it seems.

k

Hello Katyusha first of all really thanks for your lovely post i really like it so much
it`s very kind of you to not eat or drink in front of muslim person that`s very respectable from you on the other hand i`m so happy that`s easy for muslim to celebrate in america with ramadan i thought that people will Denounced that i`m very happy and yeaaaaah egypt is so cool in eid there is fireworks in everywhere celebrating it`s really awesome day and i hope you visit egypt again you welcome in anytime really thank you so much i`m glad to know you thanks alot