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27 Sep 2015, 5:24 pm
Sadly, more than 700 persons were killed while making a religious pilgrimage called Hajj to Mecca in Saudi Arabia this past week. [read post]
25 Sep 2015, 10:04 am
The terrible tragedy in Mecca during the Hajj yesterday is a challenge to King Salman's prestige. [read post]
25 Sep 2015, 4:10 am
" He also extended his "sentiments of closeness" to Muslims on the deaths of hundreds in the crush of Hajj crowds near Mecca yesterday. [read post]
24 Sep 2015, 1:03 pm
In Saudi Arabia, a stampede has killed over 700 in Mina, a desert plane used to house pilgrims travelling to nearby Mecca for the annual Hajj. [read post]
24 Sep 2015, 11:51 am
It appeared to be the deadliest accident during the hajj since 1990, when 1,426 pilgrims perished in a stampede in a tunnel linking Mecca and Mina. [read post]
24 Sep 2015, 8:30 am
Said Madawi al-Rasheed — the anthropologist who has written books on Saudi Arabia — about the 310 717 pilgrims who died and 450 863 who were injured in a stampede near Mecca.Mina, about six miles east of the city center of Mecca, provides temporary accommodation — with tens of thousands of air-conditioned tents.... [read post]
24 Sep 2015, 6:31 am
Reuters reports that at least 717 Hajj pilgrims were killed and 805 others injured in a stampede outside Mecca today. [read post]
20 Sep 2015, 9:54 am
The crane that collapsed in Mecca’s Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia last week killed at least 107 worshippers and injured over 200 more. [read post]
13 Sep 2015, 4:30 am
According to CNN, yesterday in Mecca, ten days before the beginning of the Hajj, a powerful storm caused a construction crane to collapse through the roof of the Grand Mosque, killing 107 and injuring 238 others. [read post]
28 Aug 2015, 12:25 am
Soon afterward, he was driving with a friend down Sand Hill Road, that Mecca of venture capitalists in Menlo Park, to see an investor. [read post]
27 Aug 2015, 8:12 pm
We met up for lunch at Carolina’s – Paul’s first time to this Mexican food Mecca with the best tortillas in Phoenix. [read post]
6 Aug 2015, 11:03 am
5Pointz controversy: court clearly says that they can—a case involving the “UN of Graffiti,” NY’s “Graffiti Mecca. [read post]
16 Jul 2015, 7:10 pm
Charlotte is a banking hub, Manhattan a financial center, Boston an education mecca. [read post]
10 Jul 2015, 1:14 pm
Before the whitewashing of 5Pointz, artists came from around the world to be featured there, and the “Graffiti Mecca” was the site of several photo shoots, films, music videos and television shows. [read post]
17 Jun 2015, 4:20 am
The dawn to dusk fast that begins tomorrow morning is particularly difficult in northern Europe and North America because the holy period based on the lunar calendar falls this year during the long days of summer.The International Business Times reports that Muslim clerics in Britain differ on whether Muslims in Europe can use the fasting hours for Mecca-- 12 to 13 hours per day-- instead of the longer 18 hours that are involved by using actual sunrise and sunset in northern… [read post]
16 Jun 2015, 7:29 am
Big cities also tend to be cultural meccas, filled with dozens of museums, art galleries and concert halls. [read post]
4 Jun 2015, 6:30 am
In our conversation we discuss types of mosque activities, Mamluk Cairo, women's educational participation, the Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, the transmission of knowledge, European travelers accounts of Muslim women, night prayers, mosque construction, debates about the mosque in Mecca, and modern developments in legal discussions during the 20th century. [read post]
3 Jun 2015, 4:00 am
During a February congressional hearing on the Guantanamo Bay prison facility, discussion turned—as it invariably does—to the detention facility’s role in jihadist propaganda. [read post]
31 May 2015, 9:35 am
., Superior Court Judge Jane Gallina-Mecca) issued it in the first place. [read post]
24 May 2015, 4:06 am
"The city is turning into Mecca-hattan... [read post]
