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 holy city is striving to meet the challenge with some Vegas-like amenities.
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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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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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.
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.
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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The arrests were made in "co-ordinated and simultaneous operations in four regions of the kingdom, " including the capital Riyadh and the holy city of Mecca, the ministry was quoted as saying in a separate statement.
Commentators also say that while hard-line Israelis saw Husseini's presence in Jerusalem as a threat to their claims of sovereignty, many others believe his informal contacts with Israelis prevented many confrontations in the Holy City.
"While we were there, al-Jazeera ran a totally false report that American troops had gone and detained one of the key imams in the holy city of Najaf, which was a false report, " Mr Wolfowitz said.
Race, religion, creed and sometimes even gender are supremely relevant if the Holy City, a complex web of separate Jewish and Arab districts, is ever to be divided peaceably into the capitals of two states, Israel and Palestine.
Mr Crocker added that Muqtada al-Sadr, perhaps the most powerful anti-American Iraqi Shia leader, has now told his men to stop attacking Iraqis or Americans, prompted perhaps by widespread revulsion at attacks by his militia, the Mahdi Army, on fellow-Shia worshippers in the holy city of Karbala.
We seem to be a long way from the Exaltation of the Cross, the subject of the last scene in Gaddi's fresco cycle, in which the Emperor Heraclius, having alighted from his horse by order of an angel and walking barefoot like a mendicant friar, bears the relic into the holy city.
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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.
U.S. troops remain massed on the outskirts of the holy Shiite city of Najaf, but it remains under the control of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and his Mehdi Army militia.
The semi-official ILNA agency said he died at his home in the Iranian holy city of Qom.
In the holy Shiite city of Karbala, drivers burned tires in front of gas stations in protest.
Over the past two days, the Shiite holy city has been without water and electricity, reports said.
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.
'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.
The leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (Sciri), Ayatollah Muhammad Baqr al-Hakim, was among about 100 people killed in a massive car bombing in the Shia holy city of Najaf in August 2003.
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.
After several hours, the coffin was taken to the city's Holy Trinity Cathedral in heavy rain for the burial.
"Since he cannot resume his previous occupation or continue to live in Vatican City, the Holy See, trusting in his sincere repentance, wishes to offer him the possibility of returning to a serene family life, " it said.
Just as well that there is no Father's Day in Vatican City, seat of the Holy Father.
Karbala is a Shiite holy city, southwest of the capital city of Baghdad.
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