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World
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Region
11/5/2011 11:07:40 AM
More than two million Muslims begin massing Saturday on Saudi Arabia's Mount Arafat and its surrounding plain, marking the peak day of the largest annual pilgrimage
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World
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Region
11/3/2011 12:00:00 AM
Saudi Arabia makes security preparations for the annual pilgrimage where Muslims from around the world congregate in Saudi cities Mecca and Medina where Islam was born
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Heritage
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Heritage special
11/1/2011 7:17:52 PM
In this series, Ahram Online looks at how the Islamic practice of pilgrimage to Mecca, or hajj, has been practised by Egyptians
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Heritage
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Folk Arts
11/1/2011 7:17:00 PM
A seminar is held to celebrate the book of graffiti prints- an Upper Egyptian phenomenon
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Heritage
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Heritage special
11/1/2011 7:16:03 PM
The covering, or keswa, of the Kaaba was traditionally made in Egypt
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Folk
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Special Files
11/1/2011 7:15:41 PM
Ritual songs which used to accompany the sending of the cover of the Kaaba from Egypt to Mecca
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Folk
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Special Files
11/1/2011 7:15:21 PM
Upon seeing Hajar, Sarah sank in a sea of bewilderment
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World
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International
10/29/2011 1:22:51 PM
The African Union force in Somalia is poised to get several thousand reinforcements at a regional summit planned for next month, Kenyan Defense Minister Yusuf Haji said
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World
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Region
10/29/2011 12:39:35 PM
Yemeni police arrested five suspects after the killing of a top security agent in a car bombing blamed on Al-Qaeda in the southern city of Aden
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Business
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Economy
7/31/2011 12:50:07 PM
Pilgrimage visas are 1.1 million up on 2010 making for an unprecedented rise in one of the Kingdom's most important sources of non-oil revenue
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Arts & Culture
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Visual Art
7/28/2011 11:02:41 AM
The exhibition, set to open next year, will feature old and new illuminations of the religious practice
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Egypt
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Politics
12/16/2010 2:11:23 PM
578 Egyptians who remained in the Kingdom illegally due back today
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