I lived and worked in various locations around the Middle East for 14 years, Ramadan always amused me. Fasting from dawn until dusk, no eating, drinking or smoking then off to sunset prayers and then 'pig out' to make up for it. Then it's party time well into the early hours. No wonder they were shagged out the next day but always feigning weakness and tiredness due to 'fasting'. It made my job easier anyway, less and less turning up for work the further into Ramadan we got and shorter working hours, so more time in certain watering holes that were, err, 'exempt'.