While nearly every hotel in town offers an iftar, the dishes tend to veer towards the traditional.

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We held an Iftar here with Muslim Americans to break the daily fast during Ramadan.

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And as the Iftar meal, the breaking of the fast ended, so too did the relative silence.

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