The Atlanta Halal Fall Festival opened at noon Saturday and Sunday under a bright clear sky in Grant Park near downtown Atlanta in what organizers say they hope will become a city tradition.

A brisk crowd sampled pastries, meat sandwiches, coffees and desserts from Muslim traditions around the globe, and shopped for jewelry and crafts.

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Newlyweds Layan Awad (left) and Othman Awad with coffee drinks from Bearly Awake Coffee on Sunday at the Atlanta Halal Fall Festival. (Ariel Hart/AJC)

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Ekhlass Gzar, whose dream is to open a restaurant, heard about the festival and decided to give it a try. Working with her children, including a medical student and a University of Georgia student, they bought equipment from Goodwill and Amazon and opened "Al Halawani" — hanging a wooden sign the girls carved from an old coffee table. (Ariel Hart/AJC)

Ekhlass Gzar and her family set up a dessert stall for the first time to test her dream of owning a restaurant. (Ariel Hart/AJC)

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Luma Younis, a medical school student, pours tea at the desserts stall her family set up at the festival. (Ariel Hart/AJC)

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Matt Mastin and his sons Arthur and Oscar (right) give a thumbs up to the food at the Atlanta Halal Fall Festiva in Grant Park behind them. (Ariel Hart/AJC)

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