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(RNS) For the first time since 1992, Egypt’s famous “Ramadan Cannon” is once again firing to mark sunset in Cairo, when the daily fasting for Islam’s holy month ends for the city’s Muslims. Now fired from an 1871 cannon positioned at the historic Saladin Al-Ayyubi Citadel, the nightly blast has been an on-again, off-again tradition since the time of Mameluke Sultan Kho Shoqdum in the 15th century. The cannon was known for decades as the “Al Hajjah Fatima” after a story, possibly apocryphal, involving the daughter of Khedive Ismail Pasha, who ruled Egypt in the mid-19th century. The princess asked that the cannon be fired during Ramadan to help the people of Cairo know when they could break their fast. ....
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