This Ramadan, the Great Cairo Library in Zamalek has been running a number of craft workshops for children aged from six to 15 years. Among the activities aimed at stretching kids' creative thinking ...

The Ramadan lantern, or fanous, is a time-honoured decoration that started on Ramadan to welcome a Fatimid Caliph in the year 968 Ramadan is the Muslem holy month where the Quran was bestowed upon ...

Ramadan is a very important holy month for Muslims all over the world. During Ramadan, many Muslims pray, do good deeds and do not eat or drink anything between dawn and sunset. Some people decorate ...

Let the Ramadan festivities begin! As Ramadan knocks on the door, cities worldwide light up and prepare for the month of fasting. Late night malls, hotels, and offices are decorated with beautiful ...

AFP — At his shop in Jerusalem’s Old City, Palestinian craftsman Issam Zughair makes traditional lanterns for Muslims marking the holy month of Ramadan, battling competition from cheap Chinese imports ...

Cairo: “I wish the whole year was Ramadan,” said Mukhtar Al Hawi without taking his eyes off a piece of cloth he adroitly embellished. In the run-up to Ramadan, and during the holy month, Al Hawi has ...

Cairo: Since walking into the vocation of lantern-making more than 30 years ago, Ahmad Abdul Gafour has been attached to Ramadan. "We had to work all year in my father's workshop in order to meet the ...

A giant lantern, standing at 18.5 metres tall, was lit on Sunday night in Nabatieh, southern Lebanon, to celebrate the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The lighting ceremony coincided with the launch of ...

A Coptic Christian carpenter from a Minya Governorate village surprised his Muslim neighbors by gifting them a giant hand-made lantern for Ramadan. Armanius Fawzy, from the village of al-Hataheta in ...