“…It commemorates Prophet Abraham's willingness to carry out God's commands and sacrifice his son. It comes two lunar months and ten days after Aid es-Sghir, which is the celebration that marks the end of the fasting month [of Ramadan] (M. Bakhti, 2013) 3. El-Halqa is a "public gathering in the form of a circle around a person or a number of people (hlayqi/hlayqia) in a public space (be it a marketplace, a medina gate, or a newly devised downtown square).…”