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]]> https://hiddencities.wordpress.com/2011/03/11/possibilities-in-tahrir/#comment-412 Thu, 24 Jul 2014 14:33:33 +0000 https://hiddencities.wordpress.com/?p=907#comment-412 […] (Tahrir in una cartolina del 2009, via Hidden Cities) […]

]]> https://hiddencities.wordpress.com/2011/02/13/turning-oil-into-water-the-nation/#comment-375 Sat, 22 Mar 2014 16:23:35 +0000 https://hiddencities.wordpress.com/?p=882#comment-375 It’s an amazing article for all the web users; they will take
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]]> https://hiddencities.wordpress.com/2010/08/23/royal-mecca-clock-tower-is-an-investment-in-national-pride/#comment-339 Fri, 24 Jan 2014 15:40:35 +0000 https://hiddencities.wordpress.com/?p=792#comment-339 This is appalling Soviet-Era Russian-Style Kitsch “architecture”. It’s no wonder Mecca is now referred to a HAJ VEGAS!

]]> https://hiddencities.wordpress.com/2008/12/12/a-studio-visit/#comment-338 Sat, 07 Sep 2013 14:09:33 +0000 https://hiddencities.wordpress.com/?p=275#comment-338 Right away I am ready to do my breakfast, after having my breakfast coming again to read
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]]> https://hiddencities.wordpress.com/2011/03/11/possibilities-in-tahrir/#comment-334 Tue, 12 Mar 2013 12:10:43 +0000 https://hiddencities.wordpress.com/?p=907#comment-334 […] (Tahrir in una cartolina del 2009, via Hidden Cities) […]

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]]> https://hiddencities.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/nasser-on-time/#comment-290 Fri, 10 Aug 2012 16:35:25 +0000 https://hiddencities.wordpress.com/?p=630#comment-290 […] de este último país, en aquella época regido porGamal Nasser, uno de los dirigentes políticosmás populares del siglo XX en el mundo árabe. La unión entre los dos países era contemplada originariamente como un primer […]

]]> https://hiddencities.wordpress.com/2012/02/11/muizz-street-flood/#comment-283 Wed, 11 Jul 2012 04:03:32 +0000 https://hiddencities.wordpress.com/?p=1091#comment-283 After I initially left a comment I seem to have clicked on the -Notify me when new comments are added- checkbox and from now on each time a comment is added I receive four emails with the same comment. Perhaps there is an easy method you can remove me from that service? Thanks!

]]> https://hiddencities.wordpress.com/2010/08/23/royal-mecca-clock-tower-is-an-investment-in-national-pride/#comment-276 Tue, 24 Apr 2012 12:44:37 +0000 https://hiddencities.wordpress.com/?p=792#comment-276 Thanks for sharing your views on the clock tower and Mecca’s over-development. There is a an excellent reported piece in a recent New Yorker on the building boom in Mecca and “the transformation of a holy city.” The writer, Basharat Peer, mentions how intrusive the gaudy, outsized clock tower is from below; he purposely lowererd his head when circling the Kaaba to avoid seeing it. “It feels like a scared place is being profaned.” https://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/04/16/120416fa_fact_peer

]]> https://hiddencities.wordpress.com/2010/08/23/royal-mecca-clock-tower-is-an-investment-in-national-pride/#comment-275 Tue, 24 Apr 2012 12:23:21 +0000 https://hiddencities.wordpress.com/?p=792#comment-275 To Amina I AGREE!! 100% SHIRK, SHIRK, SHIRK, The Prophet ( Sallallahu Alaihi wa salam) would have NEVER allowed such a mocery of the house of Ibrahim where the true pious and beleivers of Allah worship. What i see now is the oppurtunity for money, and power and another era of a pre-islamic state in the arab nation back to it’s original ways, what happen’s to the poor and less fortunat people that live around Masjid al-Haram this is Ashame….

]]> https://hiddencities.wordpress.com/2010/08/23/royal-mecca-clock-tower-is-an-investment-in-national-pride/#comment-274 Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:46:13 +0000 https://hiddencities.wordpress.com/?p=792#comment-274 In my opinion as a Muslim, this clock tower is an abomination. Are they so arrogant that they built a structure to tower over God’s house? It’s a crying shame that Makkah is in the hands of people who seem to have no respect for it and no understanding of the deen as it was taught there.

]]> https://hiddencities.wordpress.com/2010/08/23/royal-mecca-clock-tower-is-an-investment-in-national-pride/#comment-272 Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:19:27 +0000 https://hiddencities.wordpress.com/?p=792#comment-272 […] ♦ March 30, 2012 ♦ Leave a Comment Royal Mecca Clock Tower is an investment in national pride | Hidden Cities. Share this:EmailPrintDigg Pin ItShare on TumblrLike this:LikeBe the first to like this […]

]]> https://hiddencities.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/nasser-on-time/#comment-270 Tue, 13 Mar 2012 07:28:42 +0000 https://hiddencities.wordpress.com/?p=630#comment-270 […] de este último país, en aquella época regido por Gamal Nasser, uno de los dirigentes políticos más populares del siglo XX en el mundo árabe. La unión entre los dos países era contemplada originariamente como un primer […]

]]> https://hiddencities.wordpress.com/2010/08/23/royal-mecca-clock-tower-is-an-investment-in-national-pride/#comment-265 Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:46:24 +0000 https://hiddencities.wordpress.com/?p=792#comment-265 […] by all the available printed Korans, not to mention clocks, Islam has overcome its distaste for technology. Not without problems […]

]]> https://hiddencities.wordpress.com/2012/01/28/anniversary-in-the-city/#comment-263 Wed, 22 Feb 2012 04:30:52 +0000 https://hiddencities.wordpress.com/?p=1078#comment-263 amazing picture of Cairo, and great qoutation

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