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This is Homework number 42. We will be discussing the book Baghdad Burning written by a blogger named Riverbend. On page 124 we learned about the holiday Ramadan. WE found that it is the 9^th month in the Islamic year.

We also learned that they consider the holiday to be one of the holiest month of the year. They spend the whole of Ramadan fasting from the sunrise to sunset. They can’t eat, drink smoke or chew gum until it is time to break the fast during the evening.

Ramadan is also considered a very festive month. It is the month where you find yourself meeting family members you never knew existed. The whole month is referred to as a “family month”. Ramadan is meant to help people grow an appreciation for food and water and how it should not be taken for granted.

On page 63 Riverbend states, “I’ll be perfectly honest, I forgot about September 11^th until around 2 pm.” For an Iraqi woman to be alive when this occurred and to simply forget about it, struck me as odd.

To go along with Jen’s statement, the only reason that Riverbend remembered was because her electricity suddenly went back on as she was watching tv watching an Arabic station. They showed American troops standing in a 9/11 memorial service being held in Tikrit, where Sadam Hussein was born.

That is all for our first pod cast.

Expect us back next week with a follow-up report!!!!

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