For food merchants around Kuwait, business is always booming in Ramadan. Other businesses also flourish as shoppers look for many different things to buy during the holy month. Whether it is vegetables, dates, meats, groceries, sweets, the ‘fanoos’ or traditional lantern and other decorative items, people can always find what they need as markets typically stay open well past midnight throughout the holy month. — Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat and Joseph Shagra