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“Tayeb, okay, you must come for iftaar tonight, meet my wife and children and have fresh qatayef,” he tells me, a perfect stranger.
Global Voices in English » Palestine: Qatayef, A Special Ramadan Dessert 2009
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John Adams cited the Prophet Muhammad as one of the world's great truth-seekers alongside Confucius and Socrates; Thomas Jefferson learned Arabic using his Quran and hosted the first presidential iftaar during Ramadan; and Benjamin Franklin expressed his hope that the head cleric of Istanbul would preach Islam to Americans from a pulpit Franklin himself had funded, so passionate was his belief in religious freedom.
Frankie Martin: What I Learned About America from Visiting 100 Mosques 2010
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This scene repeats itself everyday during the month of Ramadan - the festivity, coloured lights on every street, the fun-fairs, the display of traditional Arabic sweets and ofcourse, the iftaar parties!
Chicken Biryani Jyothsna 2008
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This scene repeats itself everyday during the month of Ramadan - the festivity, coloured lights on every street, the fun-fairs, the display of traditional Arabic sweets and ofcourse, the iftaar parties!
Archive 2008-09-01 Jyothsna 2008
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Politician Priya Dutt may have been conspicuously absent from actor brother Sanjay Dutt's iftaar parties, but she says that people are reading too much into it.
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If you've fasted for the past 12 hours or so (some just wake up a few minutes before iftaar) ..
arabnews - frontpage 2010
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Jameel said he once witnessed a bad fight between a customer and seller. if ppl loose their patience just b4 iftaar time 2 buy ful, then they r really foolz and i wonder what the use of this remaining hungry and thirsty till sunset during ramadan as it is just a waste of time and useless ibadah since it defeats da whole purpose of this holy month. what a shame 2 say da least!
arabnews - frontpage 2010
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Politician Priya Dutt may have been conspicuously absent from actor brother Sanjay Dutt's iftaar parties, but she says that people are reading too much into it.
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As if to punish us for the very arrival of Ramadan we were given only two meals: the suhoor (pre-dawn meal) and iftaar (sunset meal), the latter being given to us often several hours after sunset.
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The greatest defiance, to me at least, was wishing each other "hanee-an maree-an" (bon appetite) at iftaar.
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