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Pakistan. :close_tema:

Wrong thread I believe. I am being told that you are an Indian false-flagger. Kindly do not troll.:coffee:

This is the first time that I am going to post photos of Mauritania. I do not think that this country has been covered in this thread as the only Arab country.

I am pleasantly surprised.

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The Grand Mosque project in Nouakchott:

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Beach in Nouakchott:

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Interestingly enough there is a quite significant Mauritanian diaspora in KSA (one of the largest in the world) and even we have Saudi Arabian citizens of Mauritanian origin, including a few famous clerical families. Mauritanian Arabic (Hassaniya) is also very much famous and well-liked and understandable by Near Eastern Arabs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hassaniya_Arabic

There is also Chinguetti = شنقيط (World Unesco Heritage Site):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinguetti

Videos of interest:





Very nice.

@Arabi do you know of any documentaries about Mauritanians in KSA? I remember watching one ages ago but now I cannot find any!
 
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By: AP | Luxor | Published:September 9, 2017 5:54 pm
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Mummies were found in the New Kingdom tomb that belongs to a royal goldsmith in a burial shaft [Nariman El-Mofty/AP]

http://indianexpress.com/article/wo...very-of-3500-years-old-tomb-in-luxor-4835801/


Egypt has announced the discovery in the southern city of Luxor of a pharaonic tomb belonging to a royal goldsmith who lived more than 3,500 years ago during the reign of the 18th dynasty.

The tomb is located on the west bank of the river Nile in a cemetery where noblemen and top government officials are buried.

Antiquities Minister Khaled el-Anany said the tomb is not in good condition, but it contains a statue of the goldsmith and his wife as well as a funerary mask. He said a shaft in the tomb contained mummies belonging to ancient Egyptian people who lived during the 21st and 22nd dynasties.

The tomb was discovered by Egyptian archeologists and the fanfare surrounding Saturday’s announcement is designed to boost Egypt’s slowly recovering tourism industry.
 
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By: AP | Luxor | Published:September 9, 2017 5:54 pm
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Mummies were found in the New Kingdom tomb that belongs to a royal goldsmith in a burial shaft [Nariman El-Mofty/AP]

http://indianexpress.com/article/wo...very-of-3500-years-old-tomb-in-luxor-4835801/


Egypt has announced the discovery in the southern city of Luxor of a pharaonic tomb belonging to a royal goldsmith who lived more than 3,500 years ago during the reign of the 18th dynasty.

The tomb is located on the west bank of the river Nile in a cemetery where noblemen and top government officials are buried.

Antiquities Minister Khaled el-Anany said the tomb is not in good condition, but it contains a statue of the goldsmith and his wife as well as a funerary mask. He said a shaft in the tomb contained mummies belonging to ancient Egyptian people who lived during the 21st and 22nd dynasties.

The tomb was discovered by Egyptian archeologists and the fanfare surrounding Saturday’s announcement is designed to boost Egypt’s slowly recovering tourism industry.

I am not trying to be rude here but I think that you have missed the purpose of this thread. This thread's purpose is to post photos of Arab countries. What you have posted is off-topic albeit interesting. It deserves its own thread in fact.


What is the purpose of posting the leader of Hamas in this thread? Have I missed something?

Kindly delete your two posts as they are off-topic. Please don't take the content of my post to heart as I do appreciate some of your posts and threads that you write and create.

Your post 738 is fitting in this thread for example.

May I ask why you have ignored the post that I have just reposted (just deleted the same older post) again?

I will try again.
 
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People of Najran take part in National Day celebrations on Saturday. — SPA

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People of Najran take part in National Day celebrations on Saturday. — SPA

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People of Najran take part in National Day celebrations on Saturday. — SPA

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Agence France-Presse, Sydney, Sep 28 2017, 12:38 IST
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She said King Salman's historic decree this week allowing women to drive from next June brought her to tears. Image: Manal al-Sharif via Twitter
 
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^^ Look at all that greenery.



If one didn't know better, you'd think this was Hawaii or something, not Oman. Incredible.

Oman is a jewel. I can recommend watching Anthony Bourdain's episode from when he visited Oman earlier this year.


People of Najran take part in National Day celebrations on Saturday. — SPA

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People of Najran take part in National Day celebrations on Saturday. — SPA

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People of Najran take part in National Day celebrations on Saturday. — SPA

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Nice photo and beautiful Arabian horses but I will try once again. Did you not understand what was written earlier in this thread?

We should seperate africa and the middle east in the future !!!

What are you blabbering about?

Agence France-Presse, Sydney, Sep 28 2017, 12:38 IST
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She said King Salman's historic decree this week allowing women to drive from next June brought her to tears. Image: Manal al-Sharif via Twitter

What are you doing? Are you a bot or just a spammer?
 
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Shi'ite clerics talk at al-Sayed al-Yazdi school run by the Hawza al-Ilmiyya in Najaf, Iraq. Following a slump in enrolments during the Saddam regime, the Najaf Hawza and its schools, under the chancellorship of Ayatollah Sistani host around 13,000 students. The curriculum has also seen updates to include modern subjects as well as inter faith and inter sectarian initiatives. (Abdullah Dhiaa Al-deen / REUTERS)
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Shi'ite clerics walk outside the Imam Hussein and Imam Abbas shrines in Karbala, Iraq. According to faculty at the Hawza al-Ilmiyya the school holds a high rank at the heart of society. Its impact reduces the moral degeneration and irregularities of life, creating a culture among people aimed at reinforcing relationships between different sects away from discrimination. (Abdullah Dhiaa Al-deen / REUTERS)
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Shi’ite clerics study at al-Gharawiya school run by the Hawza al-Ilmiyya in Najaf, Iraq. For more than 1,000 years, the Hawza al-Ilmiyya south of Baghdad has been one of the hearts of Shi’ite Islamic scholarship, training clerics who lead Shi’ite communities across the Muslim world. (Abdullah Dhiaa Al-deen / REUTERS)
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Shi’ite clerics engage in dialogue at al-Sayed al-Yazdi school run by the Hawza al-Ilmiyya in Najaf, Iraq. Shi’ites, the majority sect in Iraq, were repressed under Saddam Hussein, but now lead the Iraqi government since his ouster in 2003. Clerics trained at the Hawza have wide social and political influence, both inside Iraq and abroad. (Abdullah Dhiaa Al-deen / REUTERS)
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A Shi’ite cleric (L) speaks to a student at Ibn al-Fahd al-Heli school run by the Hawza al-Ilmiyya in Karbala, Iraq. Thousands of students, from teenage boys to university graduates study Islam at its schools in the holy cities of Najaf and Kerbala. (Abdullah Dhiaa Al-deen / REUTERS)
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Shi’ite clerics study at al-Gharawiya school run by the Hawza al-Ilmiyya in Najaf, Iraq. In the Najaf school, a typical day will see clerics in flowing black robes and white turbans giving lectures to groups of students sitting on the floor of a great hall, lined with pointed arches and elaborate mosaics (Abdullah Dhiaa Al-deen / REUTERS)
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A Shi’ite cleric holds a turban, headgear symbolic of the clergy at al-Sayed al-Yazdi school run by the Hawza al-Ilmiyya in Najaf, Iraq. This year, around 200 fully fledged clerics will graduate, completing a process that requires at least ten years of study. (Abdullah Dhiaa Al-deen / REUTERS)
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Shi’ite clerics study at al-Sayed al-Yazdi school run by the Hawza al-Ilmiyya in Najaf, Iraq. The Karbala school teaches around 250 students each year, and in Najaf there are more than 1000. Together they are served by a faculty of around 90 teachers. (Abdullah Dhiaa Al-deen / REUTERS)
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A Shi'ite cleric reads a book at a library in Najaf, south of Baghdad, Iraq. Students are given instruction in subjects including Islamic jurisprudence, philosophy, theology, logic and interpreting Islam’s holy book, the Quran. (Abdullah Dhiaa Al-deen / REUTERS)
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Abdul Hussain Jassim Al Aboudi, 60, a student at al-Gharawiya school run by the Hawza al-Ilmiyya, holds a book, in Najaf, Iraq. (Abdullah Dhiaa Al-deen / REUTERS)
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Shi'ite clerics talk at al-Sayed al-Yazdi school run by the Hawza al-Ilmiyya in Najaf, Iraq. Following a slump in enrolments during the Saddam regime, the Najaf Hawza and its schools, under the chancellorship of Ayatollah Sistani host around 13,000 students. The curriculum has also seen updates to include modern subjects as well as inter faith and inter sectarian initiatives. (Abdullah Dhiaa Al-deen / REUTERS)
 
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