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Great British Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain to make Mecca pilgrimage documentary

Great British Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain will be embarking on an intensely personal and emotional journey following the Hajj. Hussain, who won the UK cookery show in 2015, will be presenting a two part series for BBC One.

Meet Motawifs - Saudi religious tour guides for pilgrims from abroad

Motawifs of pilgrims, religious tour guides, have been greeting pilgrims who arrive in Saudi airports and ports and offering services to them in the holy sites for more than eight centuries. Ahmad Halabi, a researcher in Hajj affairs and a Motawif himself, told Al-Arabiya.net that the profession of Motawifs have been inherited by sons and grandsons.

3 Makkah museums get SCTNH licenses

Director General of the toursim body in Makkah, Faisal Al-Sharif, said SCTNH chief Prince Sultan Bin Salman on Friday approved licenses for the three museums taking the total number of such facilities in the city to seven

Saudi Health Ministry and WHO in joint monitoring of Hajj pilgrims to prevent epidemic outbreaks

Hajj operations are monitored by a special epidemic control team comprising officials from the Saudi Health Ministry and the World Health Organization (WHO) to ensure there is no epidemic outbreak

Muslim pilgrims in Africa start journey to Saudi Arabia for Hajj 2017

Millions of Muslims worldwide are heading to the Islamic holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia for this year’s Hajj pilgrimage. The Saudi Arabia government has increased the quota of pilgrims from all the 178 registered countries with 950,000 pilgrims expected to arrive at Jeddah, 750,000 at Madinah and 100,000 by land and sea.