Eid al-Adha — also known as Eid al-Kabir, or “Big Eid” — is an expensive day for most Moroccans. A family purchases a sheep, often days or weeks in advance, then slaughters it on the first ...

Moroccan families usually celebrate Eid al-Adha, the Feast of Sacrifice, with prayers at the mosque in the morning and sizzling meat skewers at night. But in recent years, many have been unable to ...

During last year’s Eid, sheep prices skyrocketed to 200,000 Algerian dinars ($1,496) in some markets — ten times the country’s minimum wage. Many Algerians have in recent years been forced ...