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News of Mecca
Ahly welcome fans to their trainings in Saudi Arabia
Ahly manager Hossam El-Badry has given the green-light for Ahly fans to attend the team's training sessions in Saudi Arabia ahead of a friendly match they'll compete in against Saudi's Al-Hilal. The match on Friday will be the Saudi's club's Abdullah El-Sherida's final match. The Ahly delegation (...)

10 - 01 - 2013
Hundreds of Islamists take to Tahrir
Screen grab from ONTV channel showing Friday 2 November protests in Tahrir Square Hundreds of protesters gathered in Tahrir Square Friday demanding the implementation of the “rulings" of Islamic Shari'a. Two marches, one from in front of Al-Fath mosque that started moving following Friday prayers (...)

02 - 11 - 2012
Administrative Development Ministry Launches Center To Serve Egyptian Pilgrims
Egypt's ministry of state for administrative development, jointly with both ministries of tourism and social solidarity, launched a center for communications to provide the instant and updated information for citizens about the governmental services for pilgrims at the current season. The (...)

21 - 10 - 2012
175.000 Pilgrims Perform Umrah in Ramadan: Tourism Ministry
A source in Tourism Minister asserted that the total reservations of Egyptian pilgrims in Ramadan amounted to 175.000 ones, and the total number of pilgrims by the end of the Umrah season will reach 845.000 ones. The source elaborated that Umrah flights in Ramadan will be implemented till 18th of (...)

28 - 07 - 2012
Hotel Marketing Hikes Umrah Prices
Amari Abdel Azeem, chairman of tourism agencies in chambers of commerce, said hotel marketing companies negatively affected the Haij and Umrah, resulted in increasing the hotels' prices in Mecca and Madina Munawara, with a rate ranges between 10-15%. He elaborated that the Saudi agents raised the (...)

16 - 07 - 2012
Ministry of Tourism To Use Electronic-Draw in Selecting Pilgrims
Ministry of Tourism will start its electronic service for religious tourism registration on its website www.haji.gov.eg from Thursday, July 5th. This on-line service helps registering the pilgrims and their programs, as well doing the electronic-draw for the first time. Abdel Aziz Hassen, head of (...)

02 - 07 - 2012
SCAF to issue constitutional declaration on presidency within hours
The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces on Sunday held an emergency meeting, the third in three days, to discuss legal procedures after the election of a president. After the meeting, SCAF head Hussein Tantawi led an Egyptian delegation that included the foreign minister and members of the military (...)

17 - 06 - 2012
Mecca to be capital of Islamic banking
Osama El-Bar, mayor of the Holy Mecca, said that the Holy city will be the capital of Islamic banking soon, through the economic town, planned to be established in Mecca gate developmental project. El-Bar added that the town will be a huge center for Islamic banks and related projects. This will (...)

14 - 02 - 2012
New Vegan Kickstart program helps newbies go veg
No more excuses! It's a new year and the perfect time for a new you, according to Dr. Neal Barnard, president and spokesperson for the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM). The vegan advocate group is launching a 21 Day Vegan Kickstart program free to the public which includes daily (...)

04 - 01 - 2012
Four Saudi girls banned from exams over tight clothes
Four Saudi Arabian female student were banned from attending their exams for “wearing tight skirts” on the school premises, the Emarati 24 News reported. In October of last year, Saudi Arabia warned its female students against wearing tight clothes in school, which according to officials, breaks (...)

11 - 12 - 2011
Millions converge on Mecca
Millions of Muslim pilgrims from the world over were performing hajj in Mecca, Saudi Arabia on Sunday. Pilgrims collectively performed morning prayers led by an imam at the Great Mosque, Masjid al-Haram. Sunday is the last day of the pilgrimage, celebrated with the Eid al-Adha holiday. Muslims will (...)

06 - 11 - 2011
Muslims gather on Arafat for peak hajj day
MOUNT ARAFAT: More than two million Muslims began massing Saturday on Saudi Arabia's Mount Arafat and its surrounding plain, marking the peak day of the largest annual pilgrimage. Swarms of pilgrims who had spent the night in Mina, some 10 kilometers (six miles) northwest of Arafat surged (...)

05 - 11 - 2011
Mubarak regime stole religious endowment land, says minister
The government under the former Mubarak regime stole land belonging to the Religious Endowments Ministry and built over it with new projects, Religious Endowments Minister Mohamed Abdel Fadil al-Qousy has said, adding that he knows nothing about these new projects. Speaking from Mecca, where he is (...)

31 - 10 - 2011
Saudi Arabia warns Hajj pilgrims against political activities
Saudi Arabian authorities have set six rules for Hajj pilgrims to abide by this year, including not bringing with them printouts bearing political ideas. The Egyptian Solidarity and Social Justice Ministry, meanwhile, stressed that Egyptian pilgrims should travel to Saudi Arabia strictly to perform (...)

28 - 10 - 2011
Fine Arts workers to establish independent syndicate
Workers in Egypt's Fine Arts sector are looking forward to establishing an independent syndicate, which would protect their industry and ensure greater rights for workers. "The Syndicate's elections will be held on October 24 in order to choose the head and ten members to represent [the (...)

14 - 10 - 2011
Two sisters give the Venice Biennale its first taste of Saudi art
The Black Arch, an installation by Shadia and Raja Alem, represents the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in its independent pavilion during the 54th International Art Exhibition, the Venice Biennale The installationsof Shadia and Raja Alem can be read as a double narrative. Raja, the writer, and Shadia, the (...)

09 - 06 - 2011
Fayyad loses bid for head of Palestinian unity government
Ahram Online has discovered through informed sources that Salam Fayyad, the head of the Palestinian government in Ramallah, is no longer being put forward as a candidate for the premiership in the forthcoming transitional government. Informed sources affirmed that Fayyad was in fact among the four (...)

18 - 05 - 2011
Achaari and Alem share prestigious Arab fiction prize
The Arch and the Butterfly by Mohammed Achaari and The Doves' Necklace by Raja Alem have today, Monday 14 March, been announced as the joint winners of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2011. This is the first time the prize has been split between two novelists. According to the (...)

14 - 03 - 2011
Safeguarding Egypt's Islamic Heritage
Although it was stolen three months ago, the theft of the minbar (pulpit) in Qanibay El-Ramah mosque was revived two days ago, creating a conflict between the Ministries of Al-Awqaf (religious endowments) and Culture In the vicinity of the citadel, on a hill adjacent to the Al-Sultan Hassan mosque, (...)

30 - 12 - 2010
Libya imprisons Egyptian fisherman, Saudi Arabia deports pilgrims
A Libyan court has sentenced 21 Egyptian fisherman with 3 months imprisonment after they illegally entered Libyan waters in October, officials said. Authorities confiscated both vessels involved in the illegal fishing--the Baraka Da'a Al-Waladayn and Nur al-Mostafa Mohamed. The Egyptians will be (...)

16 - 12 - 2010
Shubra: power, money and free pilgrimages
Candidates vying to represent Shubra in the upcoming parliamentary elections include Taher Abu Zaid, the legendary El-Ahly club football star, Youssef Botrous Ghali, the minister of finance, and Ramy Lakah, the French-Egyptian millionaire and former MP who fled the country after his debts piled up (...)

25 - 11 - 2010
Al-Qaeda denies plans to attack Hajj pilgrims
The so-called "Jihad in the Arab Peninsula Organization," said to be affiliated with terrorist outfit al-Qaeda, denied on Sunday that it was planning to carry out terrorist attacks on Muslim pilgrims in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. “The Hajj pilgrimage represents one of the main pillars of Islam,” the (...)

14 - 11 - 2010
Egyptian Hajj pilgrims exceed 72,000, minister says
The number of Egyptian pilgrims to arrive in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, for the annual Hajj has now surpassed 72,000, according to the Minister of Higher Education and head of pilgrimage operations Hani Helal. Helal on Thursday told reporters in Mecca that 15,000 Egyptians that obtained their visas (...)

11 - 11 - 2010
Showing strength through mercy
There is a strong connection between the Hudaibiya treaty tackled in this corner last week and the conquest of Mecca. We can assume that the treaty initiated the surrender of the pagans of Quraish to the call of monotheism, which had been made by the Prophet Mohamed (PBUH) for some 13 years in (...)

06 - 09 - 2010
A potent victory, not a concession
FROM the many lessons that Muslims should draw from the life of the Prophet Mohamed (peace be upon him) was that of his wisdom in dealing with his enemies and how to accept making compromises when they were for the welfare of the entire nation. This lesson is clear in the Hudaibiya treaty the (...)

30 - 08 - 2010
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