Sometime in the middle of the night local time Pilgrim’s pageviews went over 20,000 total hits. Due to the limited information about those hits this is a fairly meaningless statistic. However, for me it’s incredible that what started out as a little experimental foray into the blogosphere has turned into 2-years and 20,000 hits. Many [...]
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Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting, ended last weekend with the annual multi-day festival and holiday of Eid Al-Fitr. I don’t really have much to blog about that right now, but I do have a Ramadan related post that’s been sitting around for a couple of weeks waiting to get polished up for “publishing”. [...]
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A year ago tomorrow (is that a phrase?), I wrote about my desperate need to find a local saloon. Not for a beer, which would be haraam (forbidden) normally, but especially during Ramadan, but rather for a haircut. As I explained a year ago you’ll find saloons all over Amman – a strange sight in [...]
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