Al-Ahram Weekly

5 - 11 October 2006
Issue No. 815
Special

Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875

Although the government revealed plans to raise salaries, this does not help with the hike in prices during Ramadan. Mona El-Fiqi counts pennies

By Amany Abdel-Moneim

Faith in festivities

Nader Habib, samples Ramadan in Shubra, where the intimacy of Egypt's two major religious traditions is evident

Dena Rashed discovers that the spirit of Ramadan has yet to reach the village of Shabramant

Amira El-Noshokaty asks intellectual Galal Amin on how social changes have affected the holy month and Egyptians