You wouldn’t think that someone who goes around banging a drum in the streets before dawn and waking up the whole ...

CAIRO (AP) — You wouldn’t think that someone who goes around banging a drum in the streets before dawn and waking up the whole neighborhood would be so beloved. But many children and families ...

Across the Muslim world, the sound of a musaharati’s drum outside is as much a symbol of Ramadan as the crescent moon and the lanterns that people set up in their houses. He evokes the homey ...

Mahmoud Fanas, a "musaharati,"or "dawn caller," who beats on a drum to wake up Muslims for a meal before sunrise during Ramadan, teaches a boy how to beat on drum as walks through old streets in ...