Each day also consists of a candle-lighting ritual. You have what is called a kinara (candle holder) and seven candles (one black candle, three green candles and three red candles). The black candle ...

They sit on the plush red-and-gold carpet, alone in contemplation or ... Sireen Karim, a middle-age kindergarten teacher dressed in black, gestures at the mass of stone that dominates the center ...