{"id":83599,"date":"2015-07-13T10:00:11","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T02:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=83599"},"modified":"2015-07-30T07:16:17","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T23:16:17","slug":"communication-students-iftar-gathering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=83599","title":{"rendered":"Communication students organise Iftar gathering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Hamka Rosli &amp; Nurman Lazim<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>GOMBAK, 10 July 2015: <em>Ramadan<\/em> is a month that gives opportunity for everyone to have <em>iftar<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0or breaking of fast with their family and friends. For IIUM students who are on their short semester session, it is a chance to have <em>iftar<\/em> with their friends and lecturers.<\/p>\n<p>This time around, Communication student, Arshad Hamid, had organised an\u00c2\u00a0<em>iftar<\/em> gathering for his fellow friends at the home of the head of Communication Department, Dr. Zeti Azreen Ahmad.<\/p>\n<p>The guests arrived at around 6.30 p.m to prepare the venue for the <em>iftar<\/em> as the gathering theme was &#8216;pot-luck&#8217;. Everyone brought his or her own food, to be shared with the others. After finishing all preparations, \u00c2\u00a0everyone waited for the <em>azan<\/em>, they broke fast with some dates, refreshment and fruits before proceeding for the <em>maghrib<\/em> prayer which was led by Wan Ahmad Khairi, ex-Student Representative Council member for welfare and secretariat.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am happy that we all can gather here and break fast\u00c2\u00a0together. This <em>Ramadan<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0should be the month of gathering for all of us and I am here to take the opportunity to bring Communication students for an\u00c2\u00a0<em>iftar<\/em> together with beloved friends and lecturers.\u00c2\u00a0I hope \u00c2\u00a0students would do this programme again,&#8221; said Arshad who will be graduating soon.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Zeti who helped in organising the<em> iftar<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0was happy to see her students there to enliven the gathering. &#8220;I am happy to see my students took such initiative to gather among themselves for the\u00c2\u00a0<em>iftar<\/em>,&#8221; Dr. Zeti said during the gathering.<\/p>\n<p>Among the lecturers who attended the<em> iftar <\/em>that evening\u00c2\u00a0were Madam Mazni Buyong and Mr. Amran Baharom.***<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Hamka Rosli &amp; Nurman Lazim GOMBAK, 10 July 2015: Ramadan is a month that gives opportunity for everyone to have iftar\u00c2\u00a0or breaking of fast&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83599"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86257,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83599\/revisions\/86257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}