Sleepy Salma: “I can’t accept this.”

Salma.

By Wael Abdelgawad | WaelAbdelgawad.com

We’re in the middle of the Muslim month of Ramadan, during which we fast from dawn to sunset. My daughter Salma, who will be eleven soon, is fasting her second year. Last year she got through it easily, but this year she’s having a hard time, which I think has more to do with the way her general attitude has changed in the last year than anything else. I wake her up very early each morning – around 3 am – to have suhoor, which is the pre-dawn mea...