Tag: lagmi

Jerusalem, Ūršalīm: Ramadan Kareem, Ramadan Mubarak

It seems fitting that I share a post about the Muslim Quarter in Jerusalem on this first night of Ramadan, a month-long observance filled with blessings.  The traditional Arabic greetings

Breakfast with Methuselah, part 1

The morning dawned bright and cloudless in Sfax, the largest city along the eastern coastline of Tunisia, fewer than 15 miles across the water from the nine low-lying Kerkennah Islands.