Ramadan

... ! We're heading off to spend18 days clamoring around a new country- a new continent (!) for us. From Cairo to the Red Sea, Mt. Sinai to Luxor, the White Desert to Siwa, Alexandria and returning back to Cairo- and during Ramadan, we are so ready!

The month of Ramadan has been both enlightening and extremely challenging in many ways. Senegal changes drastically during Ramadan because the vast majority of the country is Muslim. Although I'm nowhere near being an expert on the topic, I can tell you ...

... . Yet for the proceeding two weeks after my first arrival there, I resented the city and its whole-hearted embrace of Ramadan, and I scratched around for nourishment and fluids and ate yesterday's food and drink in unwanted privacy. The city was dead to ...

... culture that doesn't involve fasting, some of my co-workers have learned to drive much the same way.)  During Ramadan, the afternoon drive home is even more more exciting.  People are grumpy from fasting all day (so much for ...

... are about to celebrate the Holley month of Ramadan within one or 2 days time. In Egypt as aMuslim country, we will celebrate Ramadan effective Wednesday August 11th2010 through the next 29 or 30 days (depending on the Arabian - moon calendar). Ramadan is ...

... ; Successive attempts at others were also fruitless and I ended up in my corner cafe, praying for a later opening somewhere. Ramadan has been a fascinating experience for me.  It clearly closed several doors for me (closed places; limited ...

... tourists are exempted from this order. - Establishments serving alcohol, including bars in restaurants, will remain closed throughout Ramadan. Foreign tourists may be served in their hotel rooms. - Eating and smoking in public, especially in ...

... even thinking that you're not thinking about sex. For this reason, women are required to dress even more conservatively during Ramadan - no arms showing and preferably skirts or pants reaching well below the knees, preferably to the ankles. So what is ...

... dates), samosas, bread, grapes, bananas, and sometimes something more substantial if someone had bothered to actually cook something. Ramadan wasn't all fun and games though, and I would hate to give the impression that I'm belittling the sacrifice ...

... up. Ramadan lasts from sunrise to sunset. You cant eat, drink or smoke. Its actually pretty amazing to experience a whole population doing Ramadan. I get free breakfast from my hotel. Then after that i dont eat till the sun goes down. The streets are ...

... ;Usual daily life is lived at night time (eating and prayers) and things are slow to get going during the day. Happy Ramadan!!! Where are the belly dancers? When do we see a camel? No we dont want to see your carpet store. Now we feel ...

... rest of the family filed in shortly, and I prepared my stomach for the next step of this crazy food rollercoaster of Ramadan. It took a little convincing - a few "vraiment's" and fi haqiqah's"-to convince my father that I really wanted to try Ramadan, ...

... food and water: "they don't eat, but they kill!"  To Ismailis, the Koran verses talking about fasting during Ramadan are interpreted as metaphorical. In Gilgit, Sunnis, Shi'as, and Shi'a Ismailis mix, creating a visibly tense situation.  ...

... this because it is a major part of the next month of travels for me and almost everything revolved around fasting and Ramadan. I consoled myself further by remembering that all faiths have an aspect of fasting, or doing without something.  Buddha ...

... Ramadan paraphernalia. On our last night in Istanbul, while attending the nightly festivities we sampled a number of the Ramadan delicacies, including a strange apple yogurt drink and a sweet cheese pastry. It was pretty interesting to witness Ramadan ...

... and the shisha great.  Check out www.dubaidaysarabiannights.blogspot.com for a dubian experience. Eid is the festival that ends Ramadan.  Everybody is out socialising and Eating.  I spent the first day of Eid at Wild Wadi, a massive ...

... sounding of the canon and as we found out, the place is transformed into a hive of activity with a festival atmosphere. They have Ramadan tents serving food and the meaning of Ramadan, as I learned, goes much deeper than the fasting and self sacrifice. ...

... The guys who walk around town with trays of sweets for sale was impressed and let me off easy when I declined due to Ramadan.  Today I met a Moroccan from Casablanca who isn’t fasting.  He noted the ironic situation – he a Muslim ...

... mouth. The not as known things are no smoking and no sexual relations. In addition to the five daily prayers, during Ramadan Muslims recite a special prayer called the Taraweeh prayer (Night Prayer). The length of this prayer is usually 2-3 times as long ...