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"Commercialism during Ramadan – in Egypt or elsewhere – is nothing compared to American Christmas ... American Christmas, though, doesn’t bill itself as a time of self-denial."
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– Justin D. Martin, a journalism professor at The American University in Cairo, in a Monitor opinion piece about the excesses of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in Egypt.
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