Hajj

Hajj: Medical Report to the Sultan! : By : Hatem Attahawi

Medical sciences have witnessed unprecedented developments in the past decades that have resulted in better health care systems in many countries of the world. Last decade, the World Health Organization's World Health Report for the year 2000 ranked the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 26th in terms of the performance of its health care system compared to that of 190 other countries assessed in the report. …

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French President open Haj exhibition in Paris

A photo taken by Muhammad Helmi in 1947 shows Maqam Ibrahim inside the Haram  French President Francois Hollande and Saudi Deputy Foreign Minister Prince Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah open a Haj exhibition in Paris on Tuesday. King Abdul Aziz Library and the Paris-based Institute of Arab World are jointly organizing the event, which will run for three months. Faisal bin …

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Hajj – A Beautiful Journey

Vision cannot encompass this beautiful sight (the Ka’bah). Each glance return with a greater delight! Glory be to ALLAH TA’ALA for making the Ka’bah the rendezvous of the Ummah, for making Hajj the key expression of solidarity among Believers and as a manifestation of the bond of fraternity and mutual affinity. A journey full of symbolism, for it represents the …

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German technology to speed up slaughtering – JEDDAH: IRFAN MOHAMMED

                    A shipload of goats and sheep from Somalia are unloaded at the Jeddah port on Oct. 5, 2013, to be slaughtered during Eid Al-Adha. (SPA) ​The Makkah Municipality has introduced German technology at a cost of SR56 million to speed up slaughtering this Eid. In a statement, the municipality said …

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