Ramadan: Iftar around the world

Anwaar Hussain, 35, his coworkers and employer eat iftar inside a shop in the old quarters of Delhi.

Karachi - "For me Ramadan is to fast and do good deeds, it keeps you away from Satan."

By Reuters

Published: Tue 5 Jul 2016, 3:58 PM

Last updated: Wed 14 Aug 2024, 3:34 PM

During Islam's holy month of Ramadan, believers abstaining from food and drink during daylight hours, break their fast with the iftar evening meal.

From inside a coal mine in Bosnia and Herzegovina to a military training camp in Damascus, Reuters photographers have produced images capturing the daily practice just after sunset in different countries during Ramadan, which ends this week.

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Fisherman Haji Husain, 65, said: "For me Ramadan is to fast and do good deeds, it keeps you away from Satan."

The meals vary from fruits and sweet drink on a fishing boat on the outskirts of Karachi to a cooked prison meal in Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as a beach picnic in Morocco.

Syrian army recruits eat their iftar meal, at a guard post inside a military training camp in Damascus.

Syrian army recruit eats his iftar meal.

Filipino tricycle drivers eat iftar as they break their fast in Taguig, Metro Manila.

Bosnian prisoners eat iftar inside the country's biggest prison in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovinauae

Coal miners eat iftar deep inside the Haljinici coal mine, in Kakanj, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Members of the Palestinian National Security Forces eat iftar in the dining hall at a base in the West Bank of Jericho.

Shir Alam (left), 31, prepares shorba, an Afghan soup made from beef or lamb, which is served with bread and potatoes, before iftar.

Civil defence members eat iftar in the rebel-controlled area of Maaret al-Numan town, in Idlib province, Syria.

Sanaa (2nd right), eats iftar with her children, while sitting with relatives next to a clothes shop advert in Beirut. Sanaa, 23, mother of three children, begs on Hamra street in Beirut. The family fled Syria two years ago, after her husband went missing.