Thanksgiving Day, annual national holiday in the United States and Canada celebrating the harvest and other blessings of the past year. Americans generally believe that their Thanksgiving is modeled on a 1621 harvest feast shared by the English colonists (Pilgrims) of Plymouth and the Wampanoag people.

Fall break is usually a week or two in September or October. Winter break is usually a week in February or March including President’s Day. Spring break falls a week in March or April which includes Easter holidays. Summer break is from 10–11 weeks (May to August/June to Mid-August).

School holiday School holidays (also referred to as vacations, breaks, and recess) are the periods during which schools are closed or no classes or other mandatory activities are held.

Americans typically of Thanksgiving as a quintessentially American holiday. And it is! But the United States isn’t the only country in the world where people celebrate Thanksgiving. Here are five others — and the surprising ways that their celebrations relate back to the American tradition.

It is a well known fact that Muslims don’t drink alcohol. It is haraam, forbidden. They don’t eat foods with ethanol, they don’t wear perfumes containing alcoholic ingredients and they stay away from all forms of intoxicating substances .

Haram (/həˈrɑːm, hæˈrɑːm, hɑːˈrɑːm, -ˈræm/; Arabic: حَرَام‎, ḥarām, [ħaˈraːm]) is an Arabic term meaning ‘forbidden’.

Harem (Arabic: حريم‎ ḥarīm, “a sacred inviolable place; harem; female members of the family”) properly refers to domestic spaces that are reserved for the women of the house in a Muslim family. In harems of the past, concubines, which were enslaved women, were also housed in the harem.

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Therefore it is incorrect to say ‘wallah’ in the middle of a sentence while speaking in Arabic, rather if it is in the middle of a sentence one should say ‘wallāhi’, however in many Arabic dialects today this is not observed and it is entirely common to hear the term being used incorrectly, however the meaning and …

Let’s go, my dear

One of the most popular Arabic words is also widely used in Hebrew. ‘ When said twice, with more stress on the second word, yalla yalla means ‘yeah, right,’ or ‘as if!

Transliteration: marhaba el-saa’ Meaning: hello/welcome. Marhaba is the simplest form of greeting that’s used across all the Arabic speaking countries.

Marhaba (Welcome) It comes from the word “rahhaba” which means “to welcome”. The common reply is “Marhaban bik”, “Marhaban biki”, and “Marhaban bikum” to a male, female, and more than one person respectively.

“As-Salam-u-Alaikum” is the most common greeting among Muslims. This is the minimum required when greeting a Muslim. It is permissible to use the minimum greeting when time is short, such as when passing each other on the street.

Alcohol in Syria is not banned as it is in some Muslim countries. Nor is it reserved for the upper class elite or religious minorities. Syria’s constitution uses Islamic jurisprudence as a primary source of law, but the Baathist regime has kept alcohol legal, available and cheap.

Ahlan wa Sahlan literally means “welcome,” but is commonly used as a general greeting just like “hello” in English. When greeting a number of people, you should say ahlan wa Sahlan bekum or ahlan bekum.

“what’s your name?” in Arabic what’s your name? ما اسْمُكَ؟