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Cairo’s Ramadan street feasts return after coronavirus suspension

April 20, 2022507 Views

Communal meals in which hundreds of people pack around long tables to break their fast during the holy month of Ramadan have returned to Egypt's streets after being widely suspended for the past two years due to COVID-19 restrictions. In the working-class Cairo neighbourhood of Matariya, residents sat back-to-back along two tables running down a narrow street festooned with balloons, bunting and banners as they enjoyed a meal of barbecued meat, rice and pickles. Chefs barbecue food for the residents of Ezbet Hamada district for Iftar, a meal to end their fast at sunset, during the holy fasting month of Ramadan in Mataria, Cairo, Egypt, April 16, 2022. Picture taken April 16, 2022. REUTERS/ Fatma Fahmy Evening street meals are organised by charities for the poor, while others, lik...

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Thousands gather at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa for prayers

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April 9, 2022839 Views

Tens of thousands of Muslims flocked to Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque on the first Friday of Ramadan for noon prayers, which passed peacefully despite concerns about a repeat of Israeli-Palestinian violence that erupted during the Muslim holy month last year. From early morning, residents of cities such as Bethlehem and Ramallah in the occupied West Bank lined up at Israeli checkpoints to visit Al-Aqsa. After two years of COVID restrictions, Israel has allowed some Palestinians from the West Bank who hold a travel permit to enter Jerusalem. Muslim women walk in front of the Dome of the Rock, on the compound known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as the Temple Mount, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, in Jerusalem's Old City, April 8, 2022 REUTERS/Ammar Awad But...