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"An outdoor late-night suhoor celebration held in the Sears parking lot at Fairlane Shopping Center featuring more than 50 food vendors—everything from edible cookie-dough bites to halal tacos—and festive touches like twinkle lights and a large printed Ramadan passage. The event opens around 11 p.m., often with long lines, and has grown from an eight-thousand-visitor pop-up in 2018 to drawing roughly 20,000 people a night; founder Hassan Chami describes it as a safe, family-friendly space that helps recreate the Ramadan atmosphere young people experience in the Middle East. Vendors such as Lebanese Sushi serve inventive items (monstrous wraps and shawarma rolled, grilled and cut to resemble sushi rolls), the festival attracts visitors statewide and of all faiths, and admission is one dollar donated to charity." - Eater