Ramadan's an interesting month for all of us: balancing our day-to-day responsibilities, work and worship, some days it might just seem like there's not enough time for all of it! So what happens when your day-to-day involves travelling from one country to another? From figuring out sahur and iftar timings, to his favourite spots to travel around the world, we speak to 25-year-old Kaleem Ahmid: a scholar, community builder, and of course, a traveller!
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Travelling & Fasting During Ramadan
1. Tell us about yourself!

2. Which countries did you travel to this Ramadan?
During Ramadan I travelled to Oxford, London, Milwaukee, Boston, and New York. The traveling to the UK was for work pertaining to Effective Altruism, whilst the other stuff was me having a bit of a holiday after an intense past 6 months.
3. Do you usually travel this often?

4. What was fasting like across different timezones?
Fortunately Boston and London and Oxford are in pretty similar latitudes, so the sunrise and sunset times weren’t that different whilst I was travelling. So the timezones didn’t make it harder to fast, although it was a tough Ramadan because of all the work I was doing.
5. Did you ever experience moments where you would sahur in one country and break fast in another? Did that bring about any concerns and how did you rectify that?

6. Have you ever had any interesting sahurs/ iftars (eg. In a plane? Which timings did you follow?)
Yeah, I broke fast with Mufti Menk on a flight to Zimbabwe from South Africa in 2014. It was pretty special!
7. What’s your favourite destination and why? Do you have any travel tips for that destination?

8. Do you have any tips for fellow travellers who might want to travel during Ramadan in the future?

9. Do you have any tips for travellers travelling during Covid?
Thankfully I think in a lot of places we’re on the decline with cases, and lots of people are fully vaccinated. The public health professional in me would probably say be sensible about mask wearing - you don’t have to do it all the time (like when you’re outside or in a sparsely populated indoor space) but I would still consider wearing them on public transport or in crowded spaces. The main risk now is getting infected when abroad and not being to fly back because you can’t produce a negative covid test before your flight. Okay but, lunch with Mufti Menk and having sahur in the sky? Traveller dreams, for sure! ? It's the end of Ramadan - what's Ramadan been like for you?
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TL;DR
- 1. Tell us about yourself!
- 2. Which countries did you travel to this Ramadan?
- 3. Do you usually travel this often?
- 4. What was fasting like across different timezones?
- 5. Did you ever experience moments where you would sahur in one country and break fast in another? Did that bring about any concerns and how did you rectify that?
- 6. Have you ever had any interesting sahurs/ iftars (eg. In a plane? Which timings did you follow?)
- 7. What’s your favourite destination and why? Do you have any travel tips for that destination?
- 8. Do you have any tips for fellow travellers who might want to travel during Ramadan in the future?
- 9. Do you have any tips for travellers travelling during Covid?
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