Muslims around the world are welcoming the arrival of Ramadan, a month of dawn-to-dusk fasting, intense prayer, charity and feasts.
A member of staff uses a telescope to search the sky for the new moon that signals the start of the Islamic holy fasting month of Ramadan, at the Astronomical Observatory of the Muhammadiyah University of North Sumatra in Medan, Indonesia, Sunday, March 10, 2024. People in the world's most populous Muslim country will start observing Ramadan, the holiest month in Islamic calendar on March 12.
At sundown, many will break the fast with a date or two, as the Prophet Muhammad was said to have done, before attending evening prayers. Then they will gather for “iftar,” a typically lavish feast shared with friends and family, and a festive atmosphere will prevail late into the night.Muslims liven up their iftar spreads with their own local delicacies. In Egypt, the shelves are lined with qamar el-din, a sticky apricot treat.
Mosques and charities across the Muslim world organize free iftars for the poorest, and sometimes it's the only meat they will eat all year.In Cairo, the streets are decked with colorful Ramadan lanterns, bakeries are hawking holiday sweets and TV networks are promoting prime-time soap operas, hoping to capitalize on nightly food comas.
She looks forward to attending nightly prayers, drinking tea with friends and catching up with people she hasn't seen for the past year., those joyful moments will be shadowed by concern for Gaza, where a five-month Israeli offensive has killed over 30,000 Palestinians, driven most of the population from their homes and pushed hundreds of thousands
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