A PALESTINIAN WOMAN READS IN THE KORAN, THE ISLAMIC HOLY BOOK, AS HER CHILD TAKES...

A PALESTINIAN WOMAN READS IN THE KORAN, THE ISLAMIC HOLY BOOK, AS HER CHILD TAKES AN AFTERNOON NAP DURING NOON PRAYERS KHAN-YOUNES. A Palestinian woman reads the Koran, the Islamic Holy Book, as her child takes an afternoon nap during noon prayers on the first day of Ramadan Khan-Younes November 27, 2000. For more than a billion Muslims around the world Ramadan is a month of prayer,fasting and charity. Faithful Muslims abstain from drinking,eating smoking and sexual intercourse from Dawn till dusk during Islam's holiest month. This year's Ramadan overlaps with Christmas and the Jewish Hanukkah.