ramadan

As those of you who read this blog already know, I’ll be going to the Oktoberfest at the end of September for a 20-year reunion of sorts. The strange thing about the Oktoberfest is that it starts in September and, more often than not, the bulk of this famous beer festival does not in fact take place in October.

Far more strange than that is this report from the BBC, reporting on an Oktoberfest in, of all places, the West Bank…. More »