Eid al-Adha News

Big Apple schoolchildren may get the day off to celebrate the religion of the hijackers.

The NY Times fails to mention that Eid al-Adha falls on Sunday, September 11 in the year 2016 and Eid al-Fitr will begin at sunset on September 9 and continue to sunset on Friday September 10 in the year 2010.

Moneeb Hassan remembers having to choose between a final exam in American history or celebrating the Muslim holy day of Eid al-Adha. In the end, he chose both.

Spurred by a broad coalition of religious, labor and immigrant groups, the City Council overwhelmingly passed a resolution on Tuesday to add two of the most important Muslim holy days to the public schools' holiday calendar.

Jun 30, 2009 2:07 pm US/Eastern ALBANY Mayor Michael Bloomberg says New York City's schools can't close for Muslim holidays.

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MANILA: President Arroyo will declare November 27 and 28, 2009 as non-working holidays in celebration of the Eid Al Adha or the 'Feast of Sacrifice,' the culmination of Hajj or the Muslim pilgrimage to Makkah in Saudi Arabia.

An Iraqi man holds a goat at a market selling sheep, goats and cows to be slaughtered marking the start of the Eid al-Adha or feast of the sacrifice in southeastern Baghdad on December 7, 2008.

The best time to see the Islamic culture of Xinjiang is during the Islamic holidays: Eid ul-Fitr and Eid al-Adha , when celebrations take place throughout the cities and countryside.

A LAMB was slaughtered at a south Bucks military base as part of a religious celebration, sparking a Ministry of Defence probe, the Bucks Free Press can reveal.

A Muslim holiday that was on the school district calendar for 2008-09 will not appear on the 2009-10 calendar, nor will any other religious holidays.

What is the Islamic view [concerning the following]: 1. Celebrating this day? 2. Buying from these shops on this day? 3. Selling - " by shop-owners who are not celebrating - " the things which are used as ...

A policy was instituted last semester to prevent the scheduling of campus-wide events on a list of religious holidays, including but not limited to Rosh HaShanah, Yom Kippur, and Eid-al-Adha. The policy also ...

THE Barwa Housing Programme yesterday confirmed that it would deliver the Mesaimeer units to the beneficiaries on February 1, the date stipulated on the contract executed with them.

In line with its longstanding efforts in fulfilling its corporate social responsibility and positively influencing the lives of the Iraqi people, Asiacell a ' the first and only GSM mobile telecommunications ...

Click the sign in the bottom right corner to switch to a fullscreen view. This year, Bishkek's holiday season stretched for an entire month, extending from the December 8 Muslim festival of Kurbon Ait -- the ...

KUWAIT CITY, Jan 5, : Market observers and consumers were surprised by the 20 percent increase in the prices of all types of meat after Eid Al-Adha when demand is supposed to be low, reports Al-Qabas daily.

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The new Egyptian cinema film 'Al Mish Muhandis Hasan' participated in 'Eid Al Adha' season competition, starring Egyptian actor Muhammad Rajab and Lebanese artist Dolly Shaheen.

It happens only once in a generation that the Feast of the Sacrifice, or Kurban Bajram -- -- the name most Balkan Muslims know it by -- -- and Hanukkah fall so close to one another.