Singles Eid al-Fitr, also known as the "Festival of Breaking the Fast" is a holiday that marks the end of the Islamic holy month of fasting, Ramadan. A feast is prepared, children receive gifts and those celebrating wear their best dress for the daylong community celebration. Nemam, age 7, helps to clean following a community Iftar meal held at the Masjid Mosque on the Northside of Syracuse, New York. The community feast is held following sunset each evening during the month of Ramadan and used to break the daylong fast. A year has passed since I first photographed Kaylee on the "Shooting Star" ride at the New York State Fair. For now she is cancer-free. entering the second grade and beginning to gain weight and regrow her hair. In spite of improved health Kaylee remains a young girl often lost in her own thoughts, one moment a silly 7-year old and the next a stoic young lady. “In Somalia there are people shooting and killing each other. Sometimes people are raping very young girls. This happened to my sister and they took her. We keep looking for her but I never saw her again. This happened to other girls and that’s why we had to escape. We feel like in Utica these things can’t happen to us. I want to study science and become a doctor. That way I can go back and help my people.” - Imran, 14 In 2014 Imran, in pink, and her family were resettled in the United States and have joined a growing Somali community in Utica, New York. On September 17, 2018 the Trump administration announced that refugee admissions would be limited to 30,000 for Fiscal Year 2019, the lowest number since the passage of the Refugee Act of 1980 and an undermining of the United States’s long-standing position of refugee protection. Tension between Kaylee and her younger sister Abigail flared up during an event to raise money for childhood cancer in downtown Syracuse, New York. Alisha, three, and her family resettled to Syracuse shortly after her birth. Though she cannot remember Nepal, Alisha is part of a generation who will grow up in an American society and still retain traditional customs and practices at home. Her mother, Chandra, a Nepalese New American, teaches Alisha how to pick and then string dried flowers. The flowers are threaded, hung to dry, and will be used as decor during traditional Nepalese holiday celebrations. Eid al-Fitr, also known as the "Festival of Breaking the Fast" is a holiday that marks the end of the Islamic holy month of fasting, Ramadan. A feast is prepared, children receive gifts and those celebrating wear their best dress for the daylong community celebration. Eid al-Fitr, also known as the "Festival of Breaking the Fast" is a holiday that marks the end of the Islamic holy month of fasting, Ramadan. A feast is prepared, children receive gifts and those celebrating wear their best dress for the daylong community celebration. An Iraqi medic rushes an injured child into a makeshift medical clinic as an airstrike hit his family's home. Mosul, Iraq 2017
