Category: Travel
Wajid & The Perfect Pearl: Alluring tales from times past
A new book on the Arab States of the Gulf comes as a breath of fresh air amid news of turmoil, trauma and injustices occuring in the Middle East. Wajid & The Perfect Pearl by Australian photojournalist Christine Osborne...
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Masjid Al-Aqsa : Every Muslim’s dream, but few get to visit!
I was one of them. Despite having a great love for this third holiest place in Islam and despite...
Read MoreFrom Melbourne to Darwin: A Ramadan road trip experience
In July last year (2022), I met Ko Maung Maung from Mandalay in Melbourne. He went to Tasmania Island for 40 days by car. When he crossed the sea, he had to put the car on a ferry. I was very interested. This year on...
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Fasten seat-belts: Must travel quiz
Now that we have been cleared for overseas travel, how much have you learned during Australia’s...
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Resilient Muslims in regional and remote Australia
I was always very keen to visit Mosques located in the regional and remote areas of Queensland and...
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Africa Tour Part 7: Jahannesburg to Sydney via Abu Dhabi
We flew back from Durban to Johannesburg on SafeAir, a budget airline on Sat evening 20 April 2019...
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Africa Tour Part 6: Johannesburg to Durban by train
While planning our trip to Durban, I had a contact there who was going to guide me and take me...
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Africa Tour Part 5 SA – Juma at the Johannesburg Nizamiye Mosque
Our next destination from Nairobi, Kenya was to Johannesburg, South Africa on Thursday afternoon...
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Africa Tour Part 4 – Safari tour and community networking in Nairobi
This was our return visit to Addis Ababa on Sunday 14 April back from Mekele after visiting the...
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Africa Tour Part 3 – Kenya: My first encounter with Black Africa
Although I had set my foot on the African continent before by visiting Morocco, this was the first...
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Africa Tour Part 2 – Ethiopia: Visiting the First Mosque
During the time of Prophet Mohammad (s), 1400 years ago, Ethiopia was part of a vast empire in...
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Africa Tour Part 1 – Ethiopia: Meetings in Addis Ababa
In April 2019 myself and my wife Mehar embarked on our first tour of Africa south of the Sahara...
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