The photos in this article are about the annual "peace making celebration" that takes place in Siwa every full moon October.

Konwn as "Eid el-solh" (peace making celebrtion), the celebtration is help at Gebel El-Dakroury over 3 days of the full moon (or around) in October, after the harvest season of dates and olives.

I asked an OLD siwan man about it and why do they celebrate. As his mother tongue is the siwan language I felt he was replying me and hardly trying to say the story in the foreign language (arabic), he was doing some effort to say the right words he wanted to say, and here is the story as he said:

Many years ago, there was huge troubles (between eastern & western siwans as I know), and there was a good man was trying to solve the problems and it took him three days to make peace among all the siwans. And to celebrate the peace making they searched for a place to gather them all to eat and celebrate together (eating together is a sign of peace), and this place was at Gebel El-Dakroury.

He told me also how it is prepared nowadays, people start to collect the food (ro'a'e/kind of bread) through 17-18 mosques in the town, then food is collected at Gebel El-Dakroury, THE MEANING is that the person eats from the food and it is not known who is the person who offered the food that was eaten/finished (looks like if someone's food is eaten/finished this means something good).

The kids were wearing nice colourful clothing, some games like those in normal "Mulid" were there. vendors come even from Matrouh for making some profit.