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In 2017, Donald Trump broke the two decade old White House tradition by opting not to host an Iftar dinner at the White House. [7] Donald Trump reestablished the Iftar dinner tradition at the White House on June 6, 2018 [8] and in 2019 the White House held the Iftar dinner on May 13, 2019. [9]
In New York City, alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations are suspended on Eid. Beginning in 2016, New York City public schools also remain closed on Eid. [137] Other school districts close on Eid, including Irvington New Jersey's school district and Vermont's Burlington School District. [138]
Iftar (Arabic: إفطار, romanized: ifṭār) is the fast-breaking evening meal of Muslims in Ramadan at the time of adhan (call to prayer) of the Maghrib prayer.. This is their second meal of the day; the daily fast during Ramadan begins immediately after the pre-dawn meal of suhur and continues during the daylight hours, ending with sunset with the evening meal of iftar.
Our names and nationalities, faces and faith brand us with the stain of collective guilt for crimes that we did not commit, writes Khaled A. Beydoun on the Arab and Muslim communities in the US.
The diversity of Muslims in the United States is vast, and so is the breadth of the Muslim American experience. Relaying short anecdotes representative of their everyday lives, nine Muslim Americans demonstrate both the adversities and blessings of Muslim American life.
The Arab newspapers industry started in the early 19th century with the American newspaper Kawkab America.(Arabic: كوكب أميركا, 'Star of America') was an Arabic-language weekly (later daily) newspaper published in New York City, United States, it was the first Arabic-language newspaper in North America; it was founded by Najib Arbeely and Ibrahim Arbeely.
The U.S. states with the highest number of mosques were New York (343), California (304), Texas (224), Florida (157), and New Jersey (141), with New York gaining the highest number of mosques compared to 2011 (86 additional). [145] As part of a sampled survey, the US Mosque Survey reports that 6% of mosques self identified as Shi'ite. [146]
The Supreme Court's decision ending the constitutional right to an abortion served as a springboard for Democratic candidates to share their personal experiences. For these Democratic women ...