It seems like every few years there are interesting and meaningful connections between days on the Islamic calendar and days on the Gregorian calendar. Unfortunately, it seems like this year, Eid al-Fitr may fall on 9/11. Ouch.
Islam is at the heart of an emerging global anti-hegemonic culture that combines diasporic and local cultural elements, and blends Arab, Islamic, black and Hispanic factors to generate "a revolutionary black, Asian and Hispanic globalization, with its own dynamic counter-modernity constructed in order to fight global imperialism. (say what!)
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Wednesday, September 01, 2010
Sunday, January 13, 2008
happy birthday to me
So this year my (Gregorian) birthday landed on a date close to the Islamic new year and I just realized that the same was probably the case when I was born (which should give a hint about how old I am). It all reminds me of how arbitrary all these methods for marking time are.
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