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Eid Al-Adha: Holidays
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Since Eid al-Adha is a religious, as well as a traditional holiday, "Kaack," which is similar to a small cake, is made in most Druze homes. "Kaack" contains flour, butter, sugar, milk, and special spices. On Eid al-Adha, these cakes are distributed to the "needy" in the villages, as well as to the Druze shrines. There are many Druze who slaughter a lamb to distribute among the poor. Another tradition on this day is to visit the Druze shrines; the tomb of the Sayyed Abdallah in Abey in the Gharb district of Lebanon and the tomb of the Nebi Ayoub Shrine in Niha in the Chouf mountains of Lebanon. There, they light candles and worship. Also, it is customary to wear new and brightly colored clothes because this is a joyous occasion. Children light sparkles and fire crackers to show their joy, and they eat sweets. Sweets, as well as kaack, are offered to everyone in the villages and sent to the Druze shrines to be distributed to those who are engaged in worship. The customary greeting is
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As with everything in Cairo, the Eid al-Adha was an inadvertent exercise in chaos. For the entire week leading up to the holiday, the alleys and rooftops of the city began to fill up with noisy, nervous knots of livestock brought in for the feast. Cairenes paid little mind as cattle munched clover outside coffee shops, goats gnawed on empty Marlboro packs in alleyways and skittish sheep rained down poop from apartment building balconies. For Egyptians, this preponderance of urban livestock was part of the excitement of the feast -- and it was certainly no stranger for them than putting a decorated tree inside one's house in anticipation of the winter holidays.
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Eid al-Adha is a public holiday in Muslim countries. Like 'Id al-Fitr, 'Id Al-Adha begins with communal prayer at daybreak on its first day, which takes place at the local mosque. Worshippers wear their finest clothes for the occasion. It is ... a time for visiting friends and family and for exchanging gifts.
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Raw Story - Islamabad- Newspaper hawkers in Pakistan are up in arms against the newspaper owners' decision to observe one holiday instead of the usual two for the forthcoming end-of-Ramadan Eid festivities. The All Pakistan Newspapers Society on Saturday accused
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Yes, there are Eid postage stamps available for sending holiday cards (something available in no other Western country), and there's the occasional "Eid Mubarak" greeting aired as a public service announcement on TV. But it's the person-to-person interaction that can have the most impact.
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