Ramadan

In the Middle East and North Africa, homemade sweets and confectionary are gestures of welcome and celebration.

Ramadan is a time of reflection and communion for the estimated 1.8 billion Muslims worldwide.

A group of Muslims and Christians have come together in Egypt to give their time to help the needy of society.

Insomnia remains a largely undiagnosed and under-treated issue in the Middle East region.

US sanctions have pushed up food prices, making the elaborate meals that break their fast an expensive business.

Taliban insurgents posed for photos and shared hugs with their opponents during the three-day ceasefire.

More than twenty years ago, the Sheikh Mohammed Centre for Cultural Understanding (SMCCU) was set-up to bridge the cultural gap between the local community and the estimated 200 nationalities living and working in the UAE.

A heatwave has killed 65 people in Pakistan's southern city of Karachi over the past three days, a social welfare organisation said on Tuesday (May 22), amid fears the death toll could climb as the high temperatures persist.

Muslims join together with Jews and Christians to celebrate Muslim Holy Month

As the Holy Month of Ramadan begins, we examine how children are embracing the spiritual time in the multicultural UAE. We also travel to Cairo to shine a light on ‘fawanees’, the colourful lanterns which hold great cultural significance for Egyptians at this time of the year.

In Indian-controlled Kashmir, Muslims gathered at Srinagar's Grand mosque to offer their special prayers.

The Iraqi city of Mosul is celebrating its first Eid festival in three years freed from ISIL occupation.

Worshippers gathered in Lagos to mark the Eid-al-Fitr religious holiday

Muslims around the world are marking the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. People in the Philippines were among the first to celebrate

Iraq has high hopes ahead of Eid al-Fitr, but in Philippines Muslim festival is sombre affair this year

The would-be attacker blew himself up after exchanging fire with police.

More than 200 million of Muslims in Indonesia have started fasting on the first day of the holy month of Ramadan.

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Sunni and Shiite Muslims in Baghdad hold a memorial vigil for the estimated 250 killed in a massive suicide bombing, the worst to hit the city since the 2003 U.

Millions of Muslims across the globe are celebrating Eid al-Fitr to mark the end of Ramadan this week.

The traditional image of the celebrations marking the end of Ramadan is far from the current reality experienced by the people of the Iraqi city.

Police in Istanbul fired tear gas, rubber pellet and water cannon on Saturday (June 18) to disperse protesters that gathered, angered by an attack the previous night on a record store that was celebra

Ramadan is well underway, one of the most important periods on the Islamic calendar.