Day 24 - Hilarie Clement: “A First Year Alone in Dubai”
Revealing Ramadan: 30 Days, 30 Voices [mp3, 4:32]
by Trent Gilliss, senior editor
On this 24th day of Ramadan, a teacher who grew up in Syracuse, New York and now lives in Chicago with her family. Hilarie Clement recalls celebrating one of her first Ramadans while teaching third-graders in Dubai, and how “scared” she was at first and how “horrible” her first day of fasting was. Like most other things in Islam, she says, it takes time to learn how to be a practicing Muslim.
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