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Where is your Mecca? Have you done your Hajj? | Ars OpenForum

I was talking with a guy at a party about the fact that many people have a Mecca. For example, Silicon Valley is the Mecca for techies. When they come to visit the area, they go from Intel to Yahoo to ...
Yahoo

What is it like living in Mecca? For residents, Islam's holiest sites are simply home

MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — For Zainab Abdu, the holiest sites in Islam were the backdrop for her weekends growing up. Raised in Mecca, Abdu remembers roller-skating with friends near the Grand Mosque ...
Yahoo

How Mecca is the lynchpin for Saudi Arabia's hospitality and tourism drive

MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Billboards line the Umm Al Qura highway leading to the Grand Mosque in Mecca, displaying manicured public spaces, glass-fronted stores and sleek towers. It’s part of a $26 ...
Los Angeles Times

For residents of Mecca, Islam’s holiest sites are home, not just a pilgrimage site

MECCA, Saudi Arabia — For Zainab Abdu, the holiest sites in Islam were the backdrop for her weekends growing up. Raised in Mecca, in Saudi Arabia, Abdu remembers roller skating with friends near the ...
Ars Technica

Where is your Mecca? Have you done your Hajj?

I want to go... everywhere. No, seriously. Yesterday was a lazy day before I head home to the holidays and I actually sketched out where I would love to go... over the next 8 years. Not really sure ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

What is it like living in Mecca? For residents, Islam’s holiest sites are simply home

MECCA, Saudi ArabiaMECCA, Saudi Arabia — For Zainab Abdu, the holiest sites in Islam were the backdrop for her weekends growing up. Raised in Mecca, Abdu remembers roller-skating with friends near the ...