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  2. Iftar Cannon - Wikipedia

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    Dubai Police fire the Iftar Cannon by Burj Khalifa. Though the tradition is practiced today in most parts of the Arab world, the blast of the cannon was first used to inform the entire city of the time of Iftar, before the invention of accurate clocks and mass media. The cannon is first fired to herald the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan ...

  3. Iftar - Wikipedia

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    Iftar (Arabic: إفطار, romanized: ifṭār) is the fast-breaking evening meal of Muslims in Ramadan at the time of adhan (call to prayer) of the Maghrib prayer.. This is their second meal of the day; the daily fast during Ramadan begins immediately after the pre-dawn meal of suhur and continues during the daylight hours, ending with sunset with the evening meal of iftar.

  4. Ras Al-Ein area - Wikipedia

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    Located near the center of town, Ras Al-Ein is a major transportation corridor. Amman's South Bus Station is located in this district. [8] The neighborhood is intended for inclusion in the Bus Rapid Transit project, construction for which is ongoing today and will eventually connect Ras Al Ein's northern streets with 5th Circle and Sports City via Princess Basma Street.

  5. Suhur - Wikipedia

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    The occupation is described by a Damascus musaharati: "My duty during the holy month of Ramadhan is to wake people up in the old city of Damascus for prayers and Suhur meal." [ 10 ] According to a Sidon musaharati, the attributes every musaharati should possess are physical fitness and good health, "because he is required to walk long distances ...

  6. List of cities in Jordan - Wikipedia

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    Map of Jordan Relief map of Jordan Amman, capital of Jordan Zarqa Irbid. List. Cities and urban localities with a population of higher than 20,000 are listed below.

  7. Syrian rebel assault widens as Assad races to defend Homs ...

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    AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) -Syrian rebels pressed their lightning advance on Saturday, saying they had seized most of the south, as government forces dug in to defend the key central city of Homs to ...

  8. Demoralised and abandoned by allies: why Assad’s army ... - AOL

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    DAMASCUS/AMMAN/BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Twenty-three-year-old Syrian military conscript Farhan al-Khouli was badly paid and demoralized. His army outpost in scrubland near the rebel-held city of Idlib ...

  9. Downtown Amman - Wikipedia

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    Downtown Amman is made up of a myriad of souq [2] markets and independently-owned businesses, including informal and marginalized economies. [3] As described by anthropologist Ahmad Abu Khalil: "...within the area there is a concentration of the oldest central markets for vegetables, clothes, and secondhand clothes.