Gaza Two carpenters from Gaza have created what they claim to be the world’s largest “Fanoos”, or lantern. Tinkering away at a tiny workshop that barely fits them both, Mustafa Masoud, 29, and ...

Egyptians turn to the lantern, known as a fanoos, as part of the tradition of the holy month of Ramadan, when Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset in a process intended to light one's path toward ...

A man walks around stalls selling festival lights and Ramadan lanterns, or "fanoos Ramadan", at Sayida Zienab district market during the first day of Ramadan in old Cairo, Egypt June 6, 2016 ...

The traditional colorful lanterns, known as fanoos in Arabic, are key ornaments to decorate homes and workplaces during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Holiday Centre Mall invites parents and kids in lantern painting competition and religious singing contest Dubai, 18 th October 2006 - Children will honor a cultural tradition attributed to the origin ...

Ahead of the holy month of Ramadan, people in Egypt flock to local markets to purchase colorful lanterns, known as fanoos in Arabic.

The religious moorings in Ramadan are mostly uniform across the Muslim world but strands of local culture in different places give uniqueness to the customs. One of them is the display of fanoos ...