The map below shows the location of Mecca and Medina. The blue line represents the straight line joining these two place. The distance shown is the straight line or the air travel distance between ...

Perfectly matched. Painfully apart. Adam is in Doha, Qatar, making a map of the Hijra, a historic migration from Mecca to Medina, and worried about where his next paycheck will come from.

Last year, a record 13.5 million Muslims visited the holy cities of Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia. As I passed through immigration at the Mumbai airport wearing an abaya for the first time in ...

The region of Hijaz is located in the western third of the country and is home to the two most sacred Islamic cities, Mecca and Medina. However its rich history and significance predates Islam.