Okay, I know I have to finish editing and posting the last few entries…and I will soon insha’Allah. But for now, a picture of some of my very favorite people, all of whom I sincerely love for the sake of Allah swt–from this weekend in D.C. It makes me cry to look at it, I [...]
Entries from January 2007
January 13, 2007
Monday January 8th Part II
When you go to the bazaars in Turkey, foreigners get hecka ripped off. Well, I guess that’s not technically true. Expensive prices for Americans are still relatively cheap, and for Europeans even more so, but you will definitely get charged more than a Turk if the seller knows you’re foreign. So when shopping, I always [...]
January 12, 2007
Monday January 8th
My cousin is a law student at Marmara University in Istanbul. In attempt to get at least some research done while I was in Turkey, I went with her to class today to look around, conduct some interviews, and the like. I’m well aware of the bans on hijab in universities and government buildings–this is [...]
January 12, 2007
And More Pictures…
In the gardens of the Topkapi Palace, there are all of these awesome old trees where the insides have pretty much been eaten away with time. Sezin and I took pictures in one of these. The rest are just some random pieces of the grandeur of the place:
What a handy wudu station!
January 12, 2007
A few more pictures
Selams all,
I’m in Germany now…I’m posting a few pics from the last days of Istanbul. insha’Allah I’ll post more pics and also the blogs I’d written in the past week later
These are all over Istanbul. Quotations from Ataturk.
The Bosphorous from my cousin’s balcony toward the end of fajr time.
I went to the Topkapi Palace with [...]
January 6, 2007
Selams all,
Some more pictures. I realize that I’m significantly less than good at taking pictures :-/. I took more video than photographs during my time out of Istanbul, but here are some random pictures nevertheless.
A picture of a mosque’s minaret taken from the car on the freeway:
A picture of Ataturk tucked away on the corner [...]
January 6, 2007
Saturday, January 6th, 04:33 PST
Subhanallah, back in the US, you see so many instances where someone’s mother doesn’t wear hijab, and they end up doing so. Most of my hijabi friends have mothers that don’t wear hijab. We all have those similar experiences of thinking about it, making dua for it to be made easier for us, and, elhamdulillah [...]
January 6, 2007
Friday January 5th, 13:15 PST
I *finally* got to go out other than to a relative’s house! Elhamdulillah! I went out with my cousin and Naz to Taksim today…it was nice. We took a bus from Ortakoy, it was *super* crowded, and from there took the metro, which is sort of like BART. We had a long discussion at a [...]
January 6, 2007
Friday January 5th, 02:50 PST
I’m so glad to be back in Istanbul. A quick rundown of what I did while I was gone: We arrived in Izmir around noon on Tuesday, and from there went our friend’s parents’ house, and had lunch. They’re from Mardin, so they speak Arabic and Turkish–and made amazing food. Man, masha’Allah, usually Arab food [...]
January 3, 2007
Words
I’m in Izmir now…only have a few minutes, so I’ll respond to your guys’ emails when I get back insha’Allah tomorrow night to Istanbul. Just a few words that I’m sick of hearing: vatan, millet, Ataturk, laiklik, modern, devlet. And the worst, the one that’s so frequently used to describe me here: dindar.
That’s it for [...]
