#ramadan tradition
“Es’ha ya nayem, wahed el dayem” (Wake up you who is asleep, praise the Almighty), “Am Sayed, Ali, Abdo, Ostaz Ashraf, Captain Mahmoud, wahedo Allah” (Am Sayed, Ali, Abdo, Ostaz Ashraf, Captain Mahmoud, believe in the oneness of Allah). With these chants and a small drum in his hand, the mesaharaty roams the streets chanting to wake people up. Like many traditions that only come into being during Ramadan, the mesaharaty is a man who walks the street at night…
