“Eid Mubarak” means Blessed Eid. This week was filled with turning in assignments right before the beginning of the Eid break. This whole week, starting on Thursday night, I have off from school until next Sunday! It has been really nice to get a break from school.
On Saturday, a couple of my friends and I got together and cooked a ton of food leading up to the beginning of Eid, which began on sundown on Saturday. My Libyan friend Heba cooked a lamb and couscous, which was incredibly delicious. It had a red sauce, thick and juicy pieces of lamb, and was served with incredibly fluffy couscous.
Then on Sunday, the actual Eid celebration occurred. Most of the day was full of purchasing and preparing the ingredients for the huge dinner we were going to have. More lamb was to be cooked but this time we were barbecuing the lamb. We made a homemade barbecue from a pot, and used the grill from the oven to make delicious barbecued lamb. Then there was salad, Basmati rice, and Arab sweets. The sweets were kenafah bites and baklava bites from a local bakery. All of the food was delicious! But once we thought the food was finished… our Nigerian friend Bawa, came with more food! It was Ox cooked in rice in a red sauce. It is a traditional Eid dish that is eaten in Nigeria. Then we started to make shish kebabs. I was in-charge of putting the meat and the vegetables on the skewers.Â
*Daniel Sacerio ’13 is studying at the American University of Cairo in Cairo, Egypt  for the whole year. He majors in  Sociology/Anthropology and Middle East Studies.