Feasting and fasting: Students observe Ramadan together at Stanford

Feasting and fasting: Students observe Ramadan together at Stanford

“Time check! 19 minutes!” Hasana Abdullah ’28 urged the others to finish eating before the sun came up. Fifteen people gathered in the early hours of a Friday morning. Shoes lined the baseboards outside the entrance to the small dorm room in Escondido Village Graduate Residences Building A (EVGR-A) as students arrived with sleepy looks in their eyes and sweatshirt hoods serving as temporary head coverings.  The smell of homemade biryani wafted a…