To Hajj Without an Escort

October 16, 2012
By Alex Thurston During the week of September 24, Saudi Arabian authorities detained and subsequently deported over 1,000...

Acid Devils

January 11, 2006
11 January 2006 While 2.5 million Muslim pilgrims making hajj stone the devil (under heavy police supervision to prevent stampedes), NPR...

Which Disease Spreads Faster?

February 11, 2005
Religious epidemiology: Pilgrims returning from Mecca may be spreading polio, according to the World Health Organization. “We’re staring at the...

Without a Peg

February 6, 2004
Faiza Saleh Ambah of The Christian Science Monitor concluded her five-part series on making the hajj yesterday. An hour after the last...

Hajj, Tragic & Trivial

February 2, 2004
The dead: “54 Indonesians, 36 Pakistanis, 13 Egyptians, 11 Turks, 11 Indians, 10 Algerians, 10 Bangladeshis, eight Sudanese, seven...

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