Arafat Day, also known as the Day of Arafah, falls on the 9th day of the Islamic month of Dhul Hijjah. Eid al Adha directly follows. Here's our guide.

The ritual at Mount Arafat, known as the hill of mercy, is considered the peak of the Hajj pilgrimage. Delivering Hajj sermon at Masjid-e-Nimrah in Maidan-e-Arafat, Sheikh Maher Al Muaiqly called ...

Hajj is the fifth pillar of Islam and one of the most significant religious obligations for Muslims. It is a sacred five-day ...

Mubiru’s prayer is that his attacking arsenal—Arafat Usama, Shafik Kwikiriza ... With financial struggles reportedly crippling their ability to mount a last-ditch fight, Lugazi could twist ...

On the eve of the 1987 hajj pilgrimage, around 400 people were killed in the clashes between mostly Iranian Shia pilgrims, ...

We can achieve that, in my opinion, with [King] Hussein and not with Yasser Arafat.” A poll taken by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research in 2023 (but before Oct. 7) found that ...

A prominent Washington think tank analyst has added up various terrorism statistics to “prove” that a Palestinian Arab state might not be such a bad idea after all. The problem is that his ...

Have you been paying attention to current events recently? See how many of these 10 questions you can get right. Compiled by Jeremy Engle How do these journalists craft arguments to compel ...

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Without remembering past events, we are doomed to repeat the same fatal mistakes. This has been proven endlessly over the ...