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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Hassan Ammar,Amr Nabil and Manish Swarup

AP PHOTOS: With the bang of his drum, he wakes up the whole neighborhood in a Ramadan tradition

Ramadan The Dawn Caller Photo Gallery - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

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 love the “musaharati,” or “dawn caller,” a traditional fixture of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month when the faithful fast from dawn to sunset. It’s his job to wake people up in time to have a meal before the daily fast begins.

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