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3/23/2023 10:22:26 AM
The first daily fast of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan began Thursday, as hundreds of millions of Muslims worldwide enter a four-week period of worship.
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World
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Region
3/21/2023 8:52:22 PM
Iran's supreme leader on Tuesday said the Islamic republic is not "upset" with European nations and is ready to work with them if they do not "blindly follow US policies".
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Egypt
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Society
3/21/2023 6:17:15 PM
Dar Al-Ifta, the main authority responsible for issuing religious edicts in Egypt, announced on Tuesday that the Islamic holy month of Ramadan of the Hijri year 1444 will start on Thursday 23 March.
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Egypt
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Society
3/20/2023 10:20:25 PM
The Egyptian Meteorological Authority (EMA) forecasts on Tuesday, the first day of spring, a slight rise in temperature of around 3-5 degrees Celsius that will continue till the first day of the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan on Thursday.
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3/20/2023 5:44:13 PM
Islamic banking has become increasingly popular among practicing Muslims who want to adhere to religious principles while conducting financial transactions. Islamic banking is a financial methodology based on Islamic law or Shariah, which operates on the principle of profit and loss sharing.
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World
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Region
3/19/2023 10:35:14 PM
Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad said Sunday one of its senior members, an engineer, had been shot dead in Syria in an assassination it blamed on Israeli agents.
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Egypt
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Society
3/18/2023 10:35:11 PM
Egypt’s Al-Azhar, the world's leading Sunni Islamic institution, said it categorically rejects calls for merging the three divine religions -Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - under the umbrella of “One Abrahamic Religion”, but reaffirmed its keenness on promoting human cooperation between the followers of different faiths.
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Arts & Culture
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Music
3/18/2023 6:48:05 PM
Egyptian renowned Islamic chanter Mahmoud ElTohamy has been celebrated on Saturday afternoon by the UAE’s Abu Dhabi Music and Arts Foundation (ADMAF).
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World
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Region
3/15/2023 12:44:00 PM
Saudi Arabia could start making investments in Iran "very quickly" after they agreed to restore diplomatic ties, the Saudi finance minister said on Wednesday, despite sweeping US sanctions against the Islamic republic.
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World
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Region
3/13/2023 6:51:07 PM
A total of 22 Islamic State militants, including some of the group's leaders, were killed in an operation in Iraq's western province of Anbar, the Iraqi military said on Sunday.
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World
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International
3/13/2023 1:26:13 PM
Iran announced Monday that the country's supreme leader has pardoned 22,000 people arrested in the recent anti-government protests that swept the Islamic Republic.
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World
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Region
3/12/2023 8:56:30 PM
The Islamic State group still has up to 500 active fighters in Iraq, a senior military official estimated Sunday in the country where jihadist cells continue to launch sporadic attacks.
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Egypt
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Society
3/12/2023 2:37:24 PM
The Islamic holy month of fasting, Ramadan, will begin on 23 March this year in Egypt and most Arab countries, according to astronomical calculations by the Cairo-based National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics (NRIAG).
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3/11/2023 6:25:53 PM
Children of foreign jihadists play football on a dirt field at a centre in northeastern Syria that Kurdish authorities hope will help rehabilitate minors raised on Islamic State group ideology.
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World
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Region
3/5/2023 10:17:08 PM
Syria's foreign ministry on Sunday condemned a surprise visit by the United States' top military officer to an army base in the Kurdish-held northeast, dubbing it "illegal", state media said.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Heritage
3/3/2023 7:28:00 PM
A new heritage trail exploring 12 Islamic monuments in the Al-Darb Al-Ahmar district of Historic Cairo has been inaugurated.
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Egypt
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Society
3/1/2023 1:57:11 PM
Egyptian Islamic thinker and former Muslim Brotherhood official Kamal El-Helbawy passed away on Tuesday at the age of 84, his son Amr El-Helbawy wrote on Facebook.
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Africa
2/25/2023 2:10:48 PM
The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for killing more than 70 soldiers, wounding dozens, and taking five hostages, in an ambush on a military convoy in northern Burkina Faso.
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Egypt
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Health
2/23/2023 5:33:14 PM
Egyptians willing to perform Hajj (annual Islamic pilgrimage) this year in the holy city of Mecca are required to be fully vaccinated against coronavirus and to take a meningitis vaccine shot, Spokesman of Egypt’s Ministry of Health Hossam Abdel-Ghaffar affirmed.
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World
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Region
2/23/2023 5:30:37 PM
Switzerland's ambassador to Iran on Thursday faced accusations of betraying the women-led protest movement after she wore all-enveloping black Islamic dress on a visit to a holy shrine alongside clerics.
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