Ramadan Story Collection

Baktash Ahadi is currently an instructor at the Department of State’s Foreign Service Institute where he teaches diplomats about Afghanistan. Baktash holds degrees from The Johns Hopkins University and from Susquehanna University. He is on the boards of the Susquehanna University Executive Alumni Board, Friends of Afghanistan, and the Yellow Breeches Educational Center.  I was […]

Mohammad Hashim Pashtun describes his journey from displacement to belonging — and back to displacement, and finally belonging again. I was born in Kandahar city, but only 6 months later, our family migrated to Quetta, Pakistan, a small town with a substantial minority of Afghan refugees. As a refugees in Pakistan, my father made sure

Masoud Juya is pursuing a PhD at the University of North Texas through a Fulbright Scholarship. Here, he recounts his journey, and how it has shaped his commitment to public service. An entrepreneur, an educator and a Fulbright Scholar, I was born in a village near the City of Herat, considered to be Afghanistan’s cultural and

Kiran Ansari shares her love for the varying Ramadan calendar. I love how Ramadan comes at a different time each year. As Muslims follow the lunar calendar, Ramadan starts around ten days earlier every year. It may sound weird how this month-long holiday does not have a fixed date in our conventional Gregorian calendar, but

Yousef Askar is a 15-year-old high school student. He is the youngest of 5 children, born to Palestinian parents in Chicago. He aspires to become a firefighter and a servant leader in his community. Yousef is family-oriented and likes to push his family to go out and do things together. His role models are his