Al-Ahram Weekly Online   6 - 12 October 2005
Issue No. 763
Focus
 
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875

The heart of the matter
Essam El-Safty thinks that Ramadan is what one makes of it -- here, there and everywhere
Ramadan diaries
Every week Al-Ahram Weekly interviews people on a different Ramadan-related subject. This issue we ask: "Why are you fasting?"
The secret rite
Egypt's Grand Mufti Sheikh Ali Gomaa provides Nashwa Abdel-Tawab with the deeper connotations of the holy month
An elevation of the soul
Nader Habib looks at fasting's role in Christianity
Roots of Ramadan
Where does the word Ramadan come from?

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