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Breaking the Fast With Family, Friends And Late-Night Fun
Sally Safaa el-Din, 21, right, enjoys an early morning out with friends in Cairo after she and family members broke the daily Ramadan fast with a meal at home after sunset.
(By Nora Younis For The Washington Post)
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Midnight found her at a cafe embracing friends, many of them young women accompanied by husbands or brothers. Hands slipped into purses, pulling out cigarettes the young friends hadn't dared smoke at home.
A friend's 14-year-old brother -- his sagging eyelids a reminder that his school day had begun at 7:30 a.m. -- began winning at cards.
By 2, Sally and her friends were moving to another restaurant, fortifying themselves with a heavy meal of ful, or boiled beans, for the next day of fasting.
Sally slipped back into the family home, where her mother sat quietly reading the Koran, then dozing through the Ramadan night.
Before dawn, the cycle began again. A drummer moved down Haram Street, pounding to wake up the people in time for a last meal before sunrise began the day's fast.
"Wake up! Wake up!" he cried, calling out to residents by name as he moved past in the dark.
In her bed, Sally slept on.
