{"id":11259,"date":"2023-04-21T20:56:02","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T20:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=11259"},"modified":"2024-02-06T19:56:27","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T19:56:27","slug":"mpr-highlights-interfaith-director-najeeba-syeeds-reflections-on-ramadan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2023\/04\/21\/mpr-highlights-interfaith-director-najeeba-syeeds-reflections-on-ramadan\/","title":{"rendered":"MPR Highlights Interfaith Director Najeeba Syeed\u2019s Reflections on Ramadan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6606 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/01\/mprNEWS-logo-300x143.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/01\/mprNEWS-logo-300x143.png 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/01\/mprNEWS-logo.png 925w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Najeeba Syeed<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, El-Hibri endowed chair and executive director of Interfaith at Augsburg University, recently shared her perspective of unity during Ramadan with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mprnews.org\/story\/2023\/04\/19\/a-shared-fast-a-shared-feast-ramadans-lessons-in-unity\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Minnesota Public Radio<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During the holy month of Ramadan, Muslims place extra emphasis on spiritual disciplines such as fasting, prayer, and reciting scripture. Those who are able fast between dawn and dusk and gather after sunset for a communal evening meal called Iftar. \u201cWhat&#8217;s really lovely about Islam in America is that we&#8217;re the most ethnically diverse and racially diverse religious community in the U.S.,\u201d Syeed told Jacob Aloi from MPR. She also noted that Ramadan and Iftar meals offer a unique opportunity for hospitality, interfaith work, and peacebuilding, \u201cwhich is based on food and breaking bread together, for sitting at the same table. It\u2019s really hard to fight afterward.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read or listen to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mprnews.org\/story\/2023\/04\/19\/a-shared-fast-a-shared-feast-ramadans-lessons-in-unity\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">full MPR story<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and learn more about <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/interfaith\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Interfaith at Augsburg<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Najeeba Syeed, El-Hibri endowed chair and executive director of Interfaith at Augsburg University, recently shared her perspective of unity during Ramadan with Minnesota Public Radio.\u00a0 During the holy month of Ramadan, Muslims place extra emphasis on spiritual disciplines such as fasting, prayer, and reciting scripture. Those who are able fast between dawn and dusk and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":569,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3409,2002,3671],"class_list":["post-11259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","tag-interfaith","tag-mpr","tag-mpr-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/569"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11259"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11417,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11259\/revisions\/11417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}