Ramadan

I guess I am not the only one thinking the month of Ramadan is being observed in a rather “weird” way in the media.

I am not a scholar on religion. I don’t have the necessary experience, nor am I well equipped to lecture on that subject.

China has banned civil servants, students and teachers in its mainly Muslim Xinjiang region from taking part in Ramadan fasting, government websites said, prompting condemnation from an exile group on Wednesday.
      
China's ruling Communist party is officially atheist, and for years has restricted fasting in Xinjiang, home to the mostly Muslim Uighur minority.
      

Fresh pide from the oven, still lovingly warm… Plumb succulent dates and glistening black olives waiting side by side in little pretty plates. Home-made jewel-like jams and honey in comb next to morsels of cheese. Thirst-quenching glasses of tamarind sherbet.

The activist group anti-capitalist Muslims have repeated last years’ experience by organizing for the second time a fast-breaking dinner in Istanbul’s central İstiklal Avenue near the Taksim Square for the first day of Ramadan on June 28.

Muslims in Turkey have welcomed the holy month of Ramadan, while the fasting will start in most Arab and African nations on Sunday.

The first suhoor - a Ramadan meal before dawn - took place in Turkey's northeastern city of Ardahan at 2.39 a.m. on Saturday while the last one occurred in the southwestern city of Mugla at 4.02 a.m.

Istanbul’s Mövenpick Hotel will be offering a unique iftar buffet that will showcase the rich heritage of Turkish and Ottoman cuisine to the accompaniment of fasıl music during the month of Ramadan, from June 28 to July 27.

BELGRADE - Serbian Mufti Muhamed Jusufspahic has read a missive on Ramadan, which begins at sunset on Friday, and called on all the Muslims in Serbia to meet the start of this observance in peace with God and all the peoples around them.

The fifth edition of Jazz in Ramadan will once again host world-renowned local and foreign artists. The festival will be organized between July 5 and 19, at the Zorlu Center PSM and at the French Palace.

A handful of Islamic preachers in Turkey will earn more than a million Turkish Liras with their special shows on Turkish TV screens throughout Ramadan this year, which will start on June 28.

Top of the list is Islamic scholar Nihat Hatipoğlu, who has clinched a contract worth 600,000 liras with ATV for 30 episodes of his trademark Ramadan program, according to daily Vatan.