Celebrating Break of Ramadan Fast at Borough President’s Office

By QNS Editorial Posted on July 10, 2014

Queens Borough President Melinda Katz hosted her office’s seventh annual Iftar program at the New York Hall of Science in Flushing Meadows Corona Park on Wednesday, July 2. Iftar means “breaking of the fast” which Muslims do every evening during their observance of the holy month of Ramadan. During the event Katz spoke about how proud she is of the borough’s diversity and the contributions of the Muslim community to the economic, social and cultural life of Queens. Among those pictured are City Council Member I. Daneek Miller (behind Katz) and the event’s honorees (in the front row). The honorees were, from left to right, Jehangir Khattak, chief editor of Voices of New York; Imam Askia Muhammad, chaplain with the New York City Department of Correction; Talat Gilani Hamdani, the mother of Salman Hamdani (an NYPD cadet from Bayside that helped others to safety during 9/11); and Shaykh Rafeek Mohamed, principal of Al-Ihsan Academy in South Ozone Park.

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