The smell of chickpeas, vegetables and spices wafted across the dainty red and white table sets that filled the Straight Sunday night. Undergraduate and graduate students, professors and local Ithacans dined together at the fifth annual Eid Banquet, hosted by the Muslim Educational and Cultural Association, in honor of the end of Ramadan.

Eid al-Fitr, also known as the holiday of Fast-Breaking, celebrates the end of the Muslims’ month-long observance of the holiday remembering the revealing of the first lines of the Qur’an to Muhammad.

Sunday’s celebration included guests from all types of Muslim backgrounds, which Rong Ma ’10, president of MECA, noted in his address before dinner.