Below are some of the pictures that I mostly liked.
Palestinian women lead young girls through the Kalandia checkpoint, on the outskirts of the West Bank city of Ramallah, to cross to Jerusalem to attend Friday prayers at the Al-Aqsa mosques compound on September 19, 2008. Thousands of Muslim faithful have been crossing every week from the West bank to attend Friday prayers at the Al-Aqsa, Islam's third holiest shrine, since the start of the holy month of Ramadan three weeks ago. (DAVID FURST/AFP/Getty Images)
Israeli border police hold back Palestinians on their way to pray for the holy fasting month of Ramadan at the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem's Old City, at Kalandia checkpoint, between the West Bank town of Ramallah and Jerusalem, Friday, Sept. 12, 2008. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue
This picture taken September 5, 2008 shows a stall worker preparing roasted chicken wings to be sold at a Ramadan bazaar in downtown Kuala Lumpur for the breaking of their fast. In Muslim households across Asia, the inflation crisis is casting a shadow over the holy month of Ramadan, and making the nightly ritual of breaking the fast a more meagre affair. From Afghanistan to Malaysia, the high prices of food are forcing the poor to go without, and curtailing the lavish evening buffets which the well-off have flocked to in better economic times. (KAMARUL AKHIR/AFP/Getty Images
A seller of traditional Syrian sweets calls out for customers in the Meidan quarter of Damascus September 2, 2008. Sales of the sweets go up during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. (REUTERS/Khaled al-Hariri)
An Egyptian family looks to buy a "Fanus Ramadan", a traditional lantern popular during Ramadan, at a shop in el-Sayeda Zaynab district of downtown Cairo, late August 28, 2008. (KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images)
The Al-Zaim family of Duxbury, Massachusetts sits, gathered together for their dinner after 7pm on September 14th, 2008, to break their Ramadan Fast. (Justine Hunt/Globe Staff Photo)
Lebanese "Musaharati" Mohammed Fanas wakes up observant Muslims for their overnight "suhur" meal before the day's fast in Sidon's Old City in south Lebanon just before dawn on September 3, 2008. (MAHMOUD ZAYAT/AFP/Getty Images)
And my Favourite is this one...
A boy sleeps in a mosque while waiting to break his fast on the first day of Ramadan in Makassar, Indonesia on September 1, 2008. (REUTERS/Yusuf Ahmad)
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The ones from Palestine are very touching! They are the ones who know the true meaning of Ramadan and faith unlike the millions who spend hours eating, cooking, and thinking of eating and cooking! Al Aqsa mosque cries for us and we cry for mini series!
Arabist, the second picture explains it all. I wonder if Sa3ed Zaghloul is still alive, would he still say "Mafeesh Faydah"!!
Keefak!
Finally I posted a comment on your blog. o e7ki 3anni 3atel ;-)
I was feeling so down today until i saw these pictures (and also the full ones on boston website). It made me feel just great.
The glory of Islam and its diversity around the globe. just amazing. I love it.
Thanks for sharing.
Islam seems like and amazing tolerant religion. How come you people have no PR machine to show the world how diversified your religion is?
American, because we are a weak nation that is busy with its daily life issues and problems that are caused by our non damocratic leaders that are origianly assigned and apprived by your governemt and the government of Western nations that like to support such regimes for their benefit
Bilal, thanks for checking my blog my friend. Yeah, I realy loved those pictures that sare from our day to day life in Ramadan. But I guess we don't pay attention to these beautiful moments.
Glad you feel better now
I know that my American government is supporting undemocratic systems but I am talking about artists, painters, musicians, film makers, and average people!
Well these final pictures just made me very hungry.
yeah, you should come to Amman and will let you try realy nice sweets, which requires alot of gym time after that ;)
You got yourself a deal. Just point me to the gym.
ash3ar badani on the last one!
thanks for sharing
Ricardo, Im killin gymself at the gym now after Ramadan and Eid ;)
Kinan, yeah the child picture is just so honest
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