14 Things Egyptians do on the 1st day of Ramadan!

June 17, 2015

When It comes to celebrating the first day of Ramadan, Egyptians are gurus. However, apart from the classic celebrations of turning on the lanterns and hanging the Ramadan decorations, we do other weird celebrations too!!

1-Photos of food shower instagram. I don’t quite know what’s the reason behind that. Maybe it’s just to torture others, or maybe it’s because we can’t eat and that shouldn’t mean we can’t still enjoy how it looks.

2-Besides pictures of food, Instagram is flooded with pictures of lanterns and decorations.

3-Foooood: We eat the day before Ramadan like we’re literally going into starvation mode. Don’t get me started on what we have on the first day of sohoor. And the amount of water we drink especially before the fagr prayer with minutes until the azan says “Allahu akbar.”

That's how we, at "Identity Magazine," celebrated last day before Ramadan — That’s how we, at “Identity Magazine,” celebrated last day before Ramadan

4-Shopping: The day before Ramadan, we go shopping for anything and everything; tamr, nuts, konafa and everything else.

5-Working out: If you hit the track or the gym first day of Ramadan just before Iftar by an hour or so, you’ll find it cramped with people working out and you have the intention to stay fit in Ramadan by working out on daily basis. However, around the 7^th day of Ramadan you can barely find half the number of people in the track.

6-Taraweeh: The first day of “taraweeh” prayer is just beautiful!!

7-First day of Ramadan means first day of coffee deprivation and smoke for deprivations for those who smoke. And you definitely know what that means.

8-Zahma, zahma, zahma and we have no clue what’s the reason for it. It actually starts a couple of days before Ramadan.

9-Food commercials: As if Ramadan is the month of eating not fasting. We have everything going the other way round!

10-Charity commercials (ana 3ayza a3eesh): This aspect is subjective. We won’t be talking about whether it’s right or wrong, however, there isn’t one illness that isn’t covered yet by those commercials.

11-You need to decide the shows you’re going to watch. You try to watch as much series as you can the first day so you can decide which one or two you’re going to watch for the whole month. There’s around 60 TV series this Ramadan so, goodluck with that!