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Palestinian Muslims perform their midday Friday prayers in front of the Church of the Nativity in Manger Square, Bethlehem

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Palestinian Muslims perform their midday Friday prayers in front of the Church of the Nativity in Manger Square, Bethlehem, in the Occupied Palestinian Territories in December 2007. In the birthplace of Jesus, people celebrated both Christmas and the Muslim festival of Eidal-Adha.

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Muslim pilgrims reach out to touch the door of the Kaaba inside Mecca's Grand Mosque, Islam's holiest shrine. Saudi women enjoy an exhibition of work by Lebanese artist Wajih Nahle at the Khozama art gallery in the Saudi capital of Riyadh. Singer Fadimata Walet and dancer Moussa Ag Mohamed of the Tartit troup, are Tuareg musicians from Mali, in West Africa. One of 1,000 participants at a ‘summit of the poor’ in Mali, West Africa, in 2007, organised to counter the G8 summit of richest nations.

Palestinian Muslims perform their midday Friday prayers in front of the Church of the Nativity in Manger Square, Bethlehem, in the Occupied Palestinian Territories in December 2007. A Muslim woman at the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, a site considered sacred by all three Abrahamic religions – Judaism, Christianity and Islam. A mother and daughter explore what’s on offer at the 21st Tehran International Book Fair.Iranian women pass a shop selling wedding dresses in Tehran during election week in March 2008.

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