SFU’s Pakistan Students Association (PSA) and Ismaili Students Association (ISA) came together to throw an Eid party in Freedom Square.
The event was held on Saturday, July 18, from around 9:00 p.m. until the early morning hours, past 1:00 a.m. Tickets for the event were $15 per person and included lots of ethnic foods and live performances.
The party was held in celebration Eid al-Fitr, a three-day long Islamic festival which marks the end of the month of Ramadan, the ninth month of the Islamic lunar calendar. Ramadan is the holiest month for Muslims, and is commonly known as the month where adherents of the faith fast during the days, from dawn to dusk.
Zainab Bukhari, the President of the PSA, explained that this was the first time Eid was celebrated on campus. “For the first time, there was an Eid event [. . .] and on the exact day of Eid.” Usually the club hosts dinners during Ramadan, known as “iftar,” but in the past it has done nothing special for Eid.
The PSA and ISA found a common ground in their shared faith and common ethnicity, and decided, rather than throwing two separate Eid events, to collaborate and create something on a larger scale in order to engage more of the SFU community.
Bukhari explained the collaboration was initiated by the president of the ISA, looking for a way to garner a large audience to partake in the festivities.
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