Ramadan tent

They offer you, in addition to the very popular argeelah, a rich assortment of little snacks.In recent years, restaurants and hotels have begun running Ramadan tents to attract customers.

[5] The highly commercial and materialistic nature of these Ramadan tents has led many in the Middle East to criticize them for cheapening the holiday and in particular for associating "corporate-sponsored materialism with morality.

[1] These open Ramadan tents have been in operation since RTP was founded in 2011 by a graduate student at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London.

However, Ramadan tents only became popular in the Levant following the end of the Lebanese Civil War in 1990, when they were introduced to Lebanon by a prominent businessman from the Tabbara family.

[6] Because Ramadan tents are a recent tradition, they are considered bid‘ah (Arabic: بدعة, innovation or heresy), by certain sects of Sunni Islam such as Salafism.