Lebanon marks a somber Ramadan this year

BEIRUT: It is a somber Ramadan for many in Lebanon, including 30-year-old Sherine, who works in a luxury boutique and used to be part of the middle class, which today hardly exists. “We started preparations more than ten days before Ramadan. My sister, my mother and I would get together to make fatayers, rakakats and sambousseks, which we would put in the freezer to fry at the break of the fast to accompany other dishes. This year, we will replace them with chips and I’m sure we won’t be able to eat desserts or invite family as we used to,”…