The annual Shiite pilgrimage to Karbala, the burial place of Imam Hussein, one of the sect’s most important figures, has run into a scheduling conflict of a contemporary sort: Saturday’s provincial elections.
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The annual Shiite pilgrimage to Karbala, the burial place of Imam Hussein, one of the sect’s most important figures, has run into a scheduling conflict of a contemporary sort: Saturday’s provincial elections.