Word: ramadan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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White & Black Threads. Last week, for Jerusalem's Moslems, it was Ramadan, the Mohammedan month of fasting: for which the Koran commands the Faithful: "Eat and drink until ye can discern a white thread from a black by the daylight, and then fast strictly till night...
Three hours later Gandhi came out again: the unity talk had been postponed until the following Monday. Sunday is the 21st day of Ramadan, the Moslem holy month, and Jinnah must spend it in silence...
...cagey, ambitious Mustafa El Nahas Pasha; Syria's President, handsome, able Shukri Kuwatly; Iraq's ex-Premier, shrewd, far-seeing General Nuri Pasha Es-Said. Nahas Pasha had finally fixed the much-postponed Pan-Arab talks to open in Alexandria's garden-girdled Antoniades Palace after Ramadan (which ends Sept. 17); Kuwatly and Nuri Pasha had produced a joint plan to turn the mirage of Pan-Arabia into a reality...
...Duties one to four: repetition of the Moslem reed (Allah is Allah, and Mohammed is his prophet), prayer, almsgiving, fasting during the month of Ramadan...
Peacetime Ramadan in Egypt had children, rich and poor, wandering from house to house swinging red and green lanterns from poles, singing for candy and food. "Joy, oh joy," they would sing, "the Sultan's daughter is wearing a robe of bright scarlet red, bright lemon yellow. Oh, give to me as is your custom, and a very happy New Year to you." Now there is war: parents will not let their children out in the blackout; villagers do not like to give away any of their expensive, rationed food...