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Photo Album: Life in Ramadan

Published: 12 Jun 2016 - 12:00 am | Last Updated: 13 Nov 2021 - 03:28 pm
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A Bahraini vendor poses for the picture in his lantern shop at the old manama market in the Bahrain capital city of Manama, late on June 10, 2016 during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. AFP / MOHAMMED AL-SHAIKH

 

 

- In this photograph taken on June 9, 2016, Afghan children hold dishes as they wait to receive food donated by a private charity for the needy during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan in the city of Jalalabad.  AFP / NOORULLAH SHIRZADA

 

 

Volunteers of the "Syria charity" NGO prepare food to impoverished Syrian families during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan on June 11, 2016 in a rebel-held neighbourhood of the northern city Aleppo. / AFP / THAER MOHAMMED

 

 

Bahrainis walk near the shops at the old manama market in the Bahrain capital city of Manama, late on June 10, 2016 during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. AFP / MOHAMMED AL-SHAIKH

 

 

Saudis buy sweets from a street vendor as they break the fast during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan on June 10, 2016 in the Red Sea city of Jeddah. AFP / AMER HILABI

 

 

Saudis buy food from a shop as they break the fast during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan on June 10, 2016 in the Red Sea city of Jeddah. AFP / AMER HILABI

 

 

Muslim worshippers break the fast with a diner distributed at the Prophet Mohammed Mosque during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan on June 10, 2016 in the Saudi holy city of Madina. AFP / BANDAR ASDANDANI

 

 

Muslim worshippers gather at the Prophet Mohammed Mosque during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan on June 10, 2016 in the Saudi holy city of Madina.  AFP / BANDAR ASDANDANI

 

Omani Muslim worshippers break the fast with a diner distributed at a mosque during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan on June 10, 2016 in the Omani capital Muscat.  AFP / MOHAMMED MAHJOUB

 

An Egyptian man reads the Quran inside Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah Mosque after the first Friday prayers during the holy fasting month of Ramadan, in Cairo, Egypt June 10, 2016. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

 

Palestinian woman prays in front of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound during the first Friday noon prayers of the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan on June 10, 2016.  AFP / AHMAD GHARABLI

 

An Indian Muslim child looks on as others offer the first congregational Friday prayers of the holy month of Ramadan at Hayat Bakshi Begum Masjid in Hyderabad on June 10, 2016. Hayat Bakshi Begum Masjid was constructed in 1672 during the reign of Abdullah Qutb Shah the fifth Sultan of Golconda.  AFP / NOAH SEELAM

 

Muslim women walks outside the Pink Mosque after the first Friday of Ramadan in Datu Saudi Ampatuan in Maguindanao province, on the southern island of Mindanao, Philippines  on June 10, 2016.  AFP / MARK NAVALES

 

Pakistani Muslims offer first Friday prayers alongside a street during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan in Karachi on June 10, 2016.
 AFP / RIZWAN TABASSUM

 

 

A Rohingya Muslim man walks beside a flooded road to a mosque for a Friday prayer at a camp in Sittwe located in Rakhine on June 10, 2016. While Myanmar's Muslim minority in Yangon freely marks the first Friday prayers on June 10, during Islam's holy fasting month of Ramadan, the persecuted Muslim minority Rohingya in the western state of Rakhine languish in displacement camps following bloody sectarian violence in 2012 between the Rohingya and Buddhist population.  AFP / WIN MOE

 

 

A Kashmiri muslim prays during prayers on the first Friday of the fasting month of Ramadan at The Jamia Masjid in Srinagar on June 10, 2016. AFP / TAUSEEF MUSTAFA