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Firas Kazaz, a Palestinian muezzin — the person appointed to recite the Muslim call to prayer — calling for prayer from the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem’s Old City, Nov. 21, 2016. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP/Getty Images)
by Nazir Majli | Mar 9, 2017 | Middle East
Tel Aviv- The Israeli Knesset gave a preliminary approval on Wednesday to a bill that would ban the use of loudspeakers to amplify the Muslim call to prayer (adhan). The Knesset’s majority voted in favor of two measures because those who have introduced the bill...
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File photo of Channel 4 Muezzin Hassan Rasool.
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 20, 2013 | Media
London, Asharq Al-Awsat—The London-based British television network Channel 4 announced at the beginning of July that it would be broadcasting the Islamic call to prayer, or adhan, every morning of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Now in its second week—which has...
