For those who are not familiar with the word, 'Iftar' is the name for the meal after opening your fast during Ramadan. I attended an Iftar dinner with a group of migrant workers in the Sana'iya (Doha's industrial area). Although the camp was fairly new looking, it was over-crowded as with many such labour camps in this region. One room would typically house 10 workers (5 bunk-beds) with not much room to put their belongings etc. It turned out that the group of Ghanian workers for which the meal was arranged were a lot less in number than expected. The reason for that we were told is that they were not sure if the meal arrangements would actually take place at the camp so they decided to take a 3 KM walk in the hot sun to the nearest Iftar tent where free meals are distributed. The workers who remained at the camp had to eat on the roof of the building since there was no other space in the multi-storey building. There was a strong solvent type smell from the workshop next to the camp but it didn't seem to distract anyone once the eating was underway. Qatar has a great ongoing tradition of erecting large tents or "Khaima's" which are dotted around different parts of the city and feed a large number of single men living here. Apparently less were erected this year due to construction, I believe Al jazeera English did an online piece on this recently.