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13 August 2010updated 02 Mar 2025 11:45am

Mehdi Hasan: What is Ramadan – and other questions answered

A brief guide to the Islamic season of Ramadan for the curious, the bored, the uninformed and the ignorant.

By Mehdi Hasan

Photo by Abdel Ghani Bashir / AFP

Some of you may have noticed that it is the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. My stomach has. I can hear it groaning as I type this post. I won’t be eating anything till 8.38pm.

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