But locals say Abu Shukri (63 Al-Wad Road, 972-02-627-1538) has the best hummus in the Holy City.
In addition, cameras and aerial surveillance will monitor the crowds in the holy city, he said.
The holy city has been fought over for centuries and is being fought over still.
The semi-official ILNA agency said he died at his home in the Iranian holy city of Qom.
Over the past two days, the Shiite holy city has been without water and electricity, reports said.
Jerusalem's former mufti, Akrama Sabri, thundered that believers should be liberating the holy city, not helping its occupier.
The Shi'ite holy city of Najaf is also veering toward becoming a protectorate of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.
Palestinian claims that Israel has been tightening its grip on the holy city have some truth to them.
Karbala is a Shiite holy city, southwest of the capital city of Baghdad.
So much so that even a building housing terminally ill patients, who wait for death in this holy city, is not spared.
The holy city is striving to meet the challenge with some Vegas-like amenities.
The device exploded in a car park at 17:00 (14:00 GMT) as pilgrims returned from the holy city of Karbala.
Mojtaba Vahedi was born in 1964 to a pious household in the holy city of Qom but grew up mostly in Tehran.
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It has installed thousands of new centrifuge machines at an underground military facility in the holy city of Qom, the IAEA reported.
Manal al-Sharif was born in the holy city of Mecca to a family of "conservative" but "regular Muslims, " as she puts it.
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In the mainly Shiite southern port city of Basra, and the Shiite holy city of Najaf, demonstrators took to the streets in celebration.
NPR's Anne Garrels was in the Shiite holy city of Najaf as news spread of the bombing of the Shiite shrine in Samarra yesterday.
Fordo, which is buried deep under a mountain inside a military base near the holy city of Qom, has long been of concern to the West.
The temperature at the 1, 500sqm complex is set to a cool -10C and contains an ice-skating rink, live entertainment and a holy city built entirely of ice.
In November, the IAEA announced that Iran had more than doubled its capacity to produce nuclear fuel at an underground military facility near the holy city of Qom.
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The eastern sector of the holy city is one of the territories that Israel has occupied, along with the West Bank, Gaza and others, since a 1967 war.
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He lamented the situation in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, where radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr is holed up with his Mehdi Army militia and surrounded by coalition troops.
The Guardian said the top negotiator for the Iraqi government, Sami al-Askari, had flown several time to Iran to negotiate with the kidnappers in the holy city of Qom.
Radical anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has defied him repeatedly most notably in 2004, when Sadr led an uprising against American forces in the Shiite holy city of Najaf.
The latest sign of this was the assassination attempt on Grand Ayatollah Seyed Mohammed Said al-Hakim, a leading Shia Muslim cleric, in the Iraqi holy city of Najaf on Sunday.
In the new Discovery Channel documentary, Koppel travels to the border of Iran's border with Iraq, the ancient capital of Isfahan, the holy city of Qom and the Persian Gulf.
's nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, on Friday passed a resolution demanding that Iran stop construction on a once-secret nuclear enrichment facility in the Iranian holy city of Qom.
According to the AFP news agency, McDonald's will open the outlet in the middle of next year, near the Golden Temple in the Sikh holy city of Amritsar in northern India.
KARBALA, Iraq (CNN) -- Crowds of Shia Muslims Wednesday chanted and danced in the streets of this holy city on the final day of a pilgrimage long suppressed under Saddam Hussein's rule.
In exchange, al-Sadr said he wants the majority of coalition forces to leave the holy city, followed by a "broad discussion" about the future of his Mehdi Army in Iraq, al-Rubaie said.
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