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The Somali Wedding: The Meher, the Shash Saar and the Buraanbur

Sixty people watched him sit on the floor with the knot in his hands for twenty minutes, and every one of them was enjoying it.

Emre drank the whole cup without changing his face. His future mother-in-law had put two spoons of s...

Two friends held his hands still while a third drew the henna, and Mo'taz laughed so hard the patter...

The hall was booked and the dresses were chosen when a cousin nobody had thought about in years made...

The trays came down the street with the drums in front of them. Amira counted eleven. Her aunt, with...

Seven men sat in the room and the coffee went cold in front of them. Nobody would touch a cup until...

Yamina had been married six years when a clerk told her, politely, that as far as the state was conc...

Munira had been married for eight months and still said goodnight to her husband at her father's fro...

Tarek had agreed to everything until the folded paper came out of the drawer. Nobody had told him ab...

The afternoon Salma became a wife, she ate cake in a living room with twelve people and then went ho...