 Iraqi Kurds buy nuts and dried fruits as they prepare for Ramadan at a popular market in the northern city of Arbil;  a Lebanese Muslim Shia family break their fast at their house partially destroyed during the Lebanese-Israeli conflict in the southern town of Sidiqin;  a man displays his stock of pickles in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah on the first day of Ramadan (photos: AFP) parent page (12 - 18 October 2006, issue #816) |