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Ammon (in Arabic عمون) also known as Ammon News is a private news agency and alternative news body based in Amman, Jordan. [1] It is the first online newspaper in the country. The agency has both Arabic and English language websites. The name of the agency, Ammon, refers to ancient name of Amman, capital city of Jordan. [2]
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.
The White House Iftar dinner is an annual reception held at the White House and hosted by the U.S. President and the First Lady to celebrate the Muslim month of Ramadan. The annual tradition started in 1996 when Hillary Clinton hosted a Ramadan Eid celebration dinner .
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 ...
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 ...
Jabal al-Ashrafieh (Arabic: جبل الأشرفية, often called al-Ashrafiyah or simply Ashrafiya) is a town and neighbourhood in Amman, Jordan. Located in East Amman, it is the highest point in the city and it features many services, such as schools, restaurants, and shopfronts. [1]
Sweileh (Arabic: صويلح, romanized: Ṣuwayliḥ, alternatively spelled Suwaylih, Swaylih or Swaileh) is district number sixteen in Amman, Jordan out of twenty-seven. It lies to the north of the city center. It was founded by Chechen settlers in 1906 during Ottoman rule. It had a population of 151,016 in the 2015 census. [1]
Al Qastal (Arabic: القسطل) is a town in the Amman Governorate of northern Jord Originally established as an Umayyad settlement, it remains the oldest and most complete such settlement in the Near East [2] The remains of the minaret at Qastal is especially important as it is the only one extant from the Umayyad period, making it one of the oldest minarets in the world. [3]