Perhaps the best-known and most common form of social engineering scam is phishing, in which criminals send out emails that appear to be from reputable sources in an attempt to trick recipients. For example, an email or message might claim that recipients have won a prize and need to enter their bank account details at a link that is provided. This information can give the fraudsters access to the bank account and allow them to clean it out.
Another trick hackers use, Al-Sultan said, is telling you they need you to send them your unique WhatsApp code so that they can add you to a group. Most of the people who come to Al-Sultan for help have fallen victim to blackmail, he said. This is an area that also concerns the Saudi government, which has launched an anti-extortion website to help victims and catch the perpetrators. Arab News spoke to some blackmail victims about their experiences.
Their names have been withheld to protect their identities. Thank God, he was caught. The event will also include a program of 12 public talks, guided tours and educational trips for more than students, explaining the process of making an artistic sculpture and giving them access to material, tools, and techniques to enrich their experience and that of the community. The event starts on Nov. This is the second public art program under Riyadh Art, following the success of Noor Riyadh festival of light and art earlier this year, which attracted more than , visitors.
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The training program, funded by the Abdullah Al-Zamil Charity Foundation, aims to create a group of urban heritage craftsmen to preserve traditional architecture as a national heritage. The training program will be held in the Al-Hamdan heritage village and will include 15 trainees to learn about traditional mud construction methods and techniques. The training curriculum will be divided into two phases.
The first phase is about the preparation and selection of clay and the preparation of other materials used, such as stones, wood, plaster, palm branches, and leaves. In the second phase, trainees will learn how to execute construction. You are here Home The history of the Holy Kaaba. The holy Kaaba is seen as the first group of pilgrims perform tawaf at the Grand Mosque during the annual Hajj pilgrimage, in the holy city of Makkah, Saudi Arabia, July 17, Short Url.
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Thousands will also scale a hill called Jabal al-Rahma, or Mountain of Mercy. It is here where the Prophet Muhammad delivered his final sermon, calling for equality among mankind and for Muslim unity. Around sunset, pilgrims head to an area called Muzdalifa, 9 kilometers 5.
Many walk, while others use buses. The last three days of the hajj are marked by three events: a final circling of the Kaaba, casting stones in Mina and removing the ihram. Men often shave their heads and women clip a lock of hair at the end in a sign of renewal. During the three-day Eid, Muslims slaughter livestock and distribute the meat to the poor.
Follow Aya Batrawy on Twitter at www. Sections U. Science Technology Business U. Connect with the definitive source for global and local news. According to travel writers, such as the Ibn Jubayr, who saw the Kaaba in , it retained the eighth century Abbasid form for several centuries.
From , the Mamluks of Egypt controlled the Hijaz, the highlands in western Arabia where Mecca is located. Sultan Qaitbay ruled built a madrasa a religious school against one side of the mosque. In , the Kaaba and the surrounding mosque were entirely rebuilt after floods had demolished them in the previous year. This mosque, which is what exists today, is composed of a large open space with colonnades on four sides and with seven minarets, the largest number of any mosque in the world.
At the center of this large plaza sits the Kaaba, as well as many other holy buildings and monuments. The last major modifications were carried out in the s by the government of Saudi Arabia to accommodate the increasingly large number of pilgrims who come on the hajj.
Today the mosque covers almost forty acres. Today, the Kaaba is a cubical structure, unlike almost any other religious structure. It is fifteen meters tall and ten and a half meters on each side; its corners roughly align with the cardinal directions. The door of the Kaaba is now made of solid gold; it was added in The kiswa, a large cloth that covers the Kaaba, which used to be sent from Egypt with the hajj caravan, today is made in Saudi Arabia.
Until the advent of modern transportation, all pilgrims undertook the often dangerous hajj, or pilgrimage, to Mecca in a large caravan across the desert, leaving from Damascus, Cairo, or other major cities in Arabia, Yemen or Iraq. The numerous changes to the Kaaba and its associated mosque serve as good reminder of how often buildings, even sacred ones, were renovated and remodeled either due to damage or to the changing needs of the community.
Hajj Stories from the Asian Art Museum.
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