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Egyptian children played as their family awaited sunset and iftar, the meal during Ramadan that ends the daylong fast, at the Azhar Mosque in Cairo.
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Egyptian children played as their family awaited sunset and iftar, the meal during Ramadan that ends the daylong fast, at the Azhar Mosque in Cairo.
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A student reads the Koran before morning prayer on the holy month of Ramadan at the Al-Mukmin Islamic boarding school in Solo, Indonesia Central Java province, August 2.
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A Palestinian Muslim worshiper walks in an alley of Jerusalem’s Old City, on her way to pray at the Al Aqsa Mosque on the third Friday of Ramadan on Aug. 27, 2010.
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Thousands of Muslims circle the Kaaba inside the Grand Mosque in Islam’s holiest city of Mecca, taking part in dawn (fajir) prayers on August 29, 2010.
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A Palestinian Muslim man decorates an alley of Jerusalem’s old city with festive lights in preparation for Ramadan on Tuesday, Aug. 10 2010.
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In Hyderabad, India, on Monday, a young boy dried seviyan, thin vermicelli, which is used to make sheer korma, a traditional sweet dish prepared by the Muslim community during the holy month of Ramadan.
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Metin Kilic performs dhur, the afternoon prayer, on Cedar Street in Manhattan. “Not a nice place,” Mr. Kilic says of the sidewalk, “but I don’t have any place to pray.”
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Palestinians struggle at an access point as food rations given out by an Islamic charity on the second day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, in the West Bank city of Hebron, Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010. Devout Muslims refrain from eating, drinking and smoking from dawn to dusk during Ramadan, a time of heightened religious fervor.
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A Palestinian boy plays with fireworks to celebrate the holy month of Ramadan, in Gaza City, on August 10, 2010.
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Muslims performed prayers during Ramadan at a mosque in Allahabad, India, Friday.
