One of the oldest traditions of Ramadan is waking people up with the sound of drums before the pre-dawn meal. Although this ...

As the water disappears, so too does a 5,000-year-old culture. Water buffalo gently glide through shallow water canals that snake throughout Iraq’s southern Mesopotamian Marshes, their black ...

Similar to Hindu and Buddhist bathing rituals, the custom is known to have been performed since ancient times in Java and has since been assimilated into Islamic traditions. Popular in Iraq ...

and traditions. Rama's* family was forced to leave Iraq following the US invasion 2003. Living in Baghdad became precarious, and they were targeted because they belonged to the Mandaean community ...