I RECENTLY visited Makkah after a gap of about four years. There has been a vast improvement in the arrangements around Masjid-i-Haram in terms of roads and tunnels, and a separate place for women for ...

Doha, Qatar: Located just across the Holy Kaaba, the famous Clock Tower in Makkah shines its light in the sky, in a gesture signaling the entry of the Hijri month of Rabbi Al Awwal. The clock tower ...

In the evening of August 23, the Clock Tower in Makkah, located just across the Holy Kaaba, lit up signalling the entry into the month of Rabi' Al Awwal. A picture shared on X by Haramain, shows the ...

As a child, Osama al-Bar would walk from his home past Islam's holiest site, the Kaaba, to the market of spice and fabric merchants where his father owned a store. At that time, Mecca was so small, ...