Ramadan Fawanis (lanterns) are back on every Cairo street corner heralding the beginning of preparations to welcome the Holy Month of Ramadan which will begin this week. Meanwhile, television and radio producers are busy finalising programming schedules. Lavish soap operas are as characteristic of the month as the dried fruits, nuts, sweets and charity feasts which, in a few days, will be as ubiquitous as the lantern photo: Youssef Rakha