{"id":13726,"date":"2023-03-30T09:40:36","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T12:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/?p=13726"},"modified":"2023-03-30T09:40:39","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T12:40:39","slug":"love-from-mecca-to-medina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/love-from-mecca-to-medina\/","title":{"rendered":"Love from Mecca to Medina"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By S.K. Ali<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Adam and Zayneb. Perfectly matched. Painfully apart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Adam is in Doha, Qatar, making a map of the Hijra, a historic migration from Mecca to Medina, and worried about where his next paycheck will come from. Zayneb is in Chicago, where school and extracurricular stresses are piling on top of a terrible frenemy situation, making her miserable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then a marvel occurs: Adam and Zayneb get the chance to spend Thanksgiving week on the Umrah, a pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina, in Saudi Arabia. Adam is thrilled; it\u2019s the reboot he needs and an opportunity to pray for a hijra in real life: to migrate to Zayneb in Chicago. Zayneb balks at the trip at first, having envisioned another kind of vacation, but then decides a spiritual reset is calling her name too. 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