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/ 17 January 2005
Dressed in a seamless white robe, Algerian pilgrim Tayyeb Bouguettaya circled the Kaaba several times on Monday with a prayer booklet in one hand and a cellphone in the other, reciting religious mantras in unison with his wife a continent away. Modern technology has changed the way Muslims experience the hajj pilgrimage.
A nationwide power failure on Monday left Bahrainis snarled in rush-hour traffic and without air conditioning on a day when temperatures reached the mid-fifties degrees Celsius. The United States Navy switched to generator power. A spokesperson for the electricity department blamed a ”technical fault”.