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British teacher in UAE who had embraced Islam shares his Ramadan journey
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Dubai: When British expat Alexander Gabriel, who has embraced Islam, found out he couldn’t fast, the news came as “a major blow” to him. The 32-year-old Dubai school teacher has epilepsy. He had a seizure, triggered by dehydration, when he first tried to fast in Ramadan as a new Muslim in 2014, when he was teaching in Egypt. “During my first Ramadan, I discovered that I could not take part in the fasting due to my having epilepsy; I had a seizure part-way through and was told that dehydration was one of my triggers. This was a major blow to me as a convert — to not take part in one of the five pillars of Islam,” said Gabriel, who teaches Year 4 students at GEMS Wellington Academy — Silicon

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