Government employee Abdallah, 51, said he rushes out to buy a naaem to share with his wife and two daughters at the end of every day. "However tough the circumstances, the naaem is a tradition we can't go without during Ramadan," he said. At around 2,500 Syrian pounds (less than a dollar), the crunchy dessert is still one of the few affordable ones, he said. Other more elaborate sweets, such as sesame-covered barazeq biscuits or syrupy baklava stuffed with pistachios, have become prohibitively expensive.
AFP