With more than one billion people observing Ramadan in the Muslim world, Al-Ahram Weekly examines how Muslims in war-ravaged -- and occupied -- countries in the Middle East are struggling to mark the holiest of months in the Islamic lunar calendar

The provision of free food to the poor by professional female entertainers during Ramadan is bedevilled by controversy. Gamal Nkrumah sounds out the debate

Rania Khallaf bonds with her daughter