Saudi expat Karima AlKaisi, invites us for a family gathering for Iftar (the meal eaten after sunset during Ramadan) at the villa of her sister-in-law Maha Al-Farhan in Nad Al Hamar, Dubai.
Al-Farhan and her husband Ghaith AlAni are long-term expats and business professionals based in Dubai.
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Al-Farhan and her husband Ghaith AlAni are long-term expats and business professionals based in Dubai.
Read the full story here: https://gulfnews.com/uae/ramadan/ramadan-2023-inside-a-saudi-family-iftar-with-the-al-ani-household-in-dubai-1.94654304
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00:00Ramadan Kareem to everyone.
00:22My name is Kareem Al-Kasey and this is my niece Hadeel Al-Ani and we're excited about
00:28Ramadan this month.
00:30It's a time for us to get together, slow down, meditate, and reflect and strengthen my connection
00:37with God and detox as well.
00:41Ramadan also for me is a time to be grateful for everything I have, for the food I have,
00:46for the shelter I have.
00:48Like Alhamdulillah, I live in Dubai where most people would love to live in.
00:53So Ramadan is for me a time to realize the privileges that I had access to.
00:59To me Ramadan is a holy month where we come together as a family and people we love to
01:06celebrate the month.
01:07We pray and we test our willpower and patience through fasting.
01:11Ramadan is a holy month and it just means like connecting with family and bonding basically,
01:17you know, without any like, while everyone's like happy.
01:23Usually, we have dishes that like quench our thirst or like more liquid like haris
01:36and margug.
01:39We stay away from fish because it gets you thirsty a bit.
01:46Usually every year, me and my family would go to Sharjah to my grandmother's house and
01:51we'd have iftar there every single year at the first day of Ramadan and at the last day.
01:57Least memory I'd say is me and my cousins, you know, being children, being very impatient
02:01with the food.
02:02You know, when you're younger, you don't realize the actual message behind fasting.
02:09As time passed, we realized that first off this, we are doing this for spiritual reasons
02:14and for our connection with God as she said.
02:17And we are also doing this because it brings us all as a family together because obviously
02:21when we grow up and we go to university and stuff, we won't have these types of memories
02:25anymore.
02:26So we understand that we have to make the most of it.
02:29For me, the earliest memory in Ramadan was probably at my grandmother's house where we'd
02:36come together as me and my cousins as we're very close and we'd enjoy the Iraqi-Saudi
02:43food that we ate.
02:51And that's it for me.
02:52I'll see you next time.
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