Cairo Park as Art

Also have to shout out 30 Days, 30 Mosques. Ramadan blogging is alive and well this year… « Talk Islam. Ramadan blogging is alive and well this year! I am doing a series called Longest Days, Shortest Month at my blog on Beliefnet, and Wajahat Ali is doing a series for Patheos called Spiritual Appetite. Also a few years ago Shahed Amanullah did a series at Beliefnet called Hungry for Ramadan. Anyone have other Ramadanblogging links to share?

Bohras help War-ravaged Kufa get back its glory – The Times of India. A sprinkling of Dawoodi Bohras, with their white and gold pillbox skullcaps, stand out among thousands of pilgrims paying obeisance at one of the holiest Islamic shrines — the Great Mosque at Kufa in Iraq. But hardly anybody among the faithful knows that the small trading community from Mumbai has single-handedly rebuilt the site at the peak of strife in the beleaguered Arab country.