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Hijri New Year/ Muharram - still no announcement??

Old Nov 24th 2011, 9:45 am
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Default Hijri New Year/ Muharram - still no announcement??

According to my calendar Sunday should be a holiday but absolutely no announcements where I work and I can't see anything announced in the press either. Is it just being ignored this year?

It's on the official websites also: http://www.visitabudhabi.ae/en/plan.....holidays.aspx
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Old Nov 24th 2011, 9:50 am
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Default Re: Hijri New Year/ Muharram - still no announcement??

Originally Posted by ctfc
According to my calendar Sunday should be a holiday but absolutely no announcements where I work and I can't see anything announced in the press either. Is it just being ignored this year?

It's on the official websites also: http://www.visitabudhabi.ae/en/plan.....holidays.aspx
Same here, no day off for us - anyone??
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Default Re: Hijri New Year/ Muharram - still no announcement??

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Same here, no day off for us - anyone??
I'm off
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Nothing for us either
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no announcement as usual
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Old Nov 24th 2011, 1:46 pm
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Default Re: Hijri New Year/ Muharram - still no announcement??

It's just been announced!

UAE to move the New Hijri Year's holiday for public and private sector employees to December 1 (Thursday)


They really do make it up as they go along, don't they?
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Old Nov 25th 2011, 2:52 am
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Default Re: Hijri New Year/ Muharram - still no announcement??

Just announced....
Christmas (25th Dec) will be moved to the 27th so that people will get a 4 day holiday ... Can you imagine the outcry if we randomly moved our religious holidays??
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Default Re: Hijri New Year/ Muharram - still no announcement??

Originally Posted by Patsy Stoned
Just announced....
Christmas (25th Dec) will be moved to the 27th so that people will get a 4 day holiday ... Can you imagine the outcry if we randomly moved our religious holidays??
Is that true?
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Default Re: Hijri New Year/ Muharram - still no announcement??

Originally Posted by Patsy Stoned
Just announced....
Christmas (25th Dec) will be moved to the 27th so that people will get a 4 day holiday ... Can you imagine the outcry if we randomly moved our religious holidays??
Can you imagine the outcry if a holiday was given to accommodate those naive enough to believe a single mother gave birth without any horizontal mambo taking place?

Can you imagine the outcry if an extra day's holiday was announced and people whinged about how it should be on Tuesday and to hell with the 4-day holiday?
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Default Re: Hijri New Year/ Muharram - still no announcement??

Originally Posted by Meow
It's just been announced!

UAE to move the New Hijri Year's holiday for public and private sector employees to December 1 (Thursday)


They really do make it up as they go along, don't they?
Old school BE's please explain Hijri is the New Year for Muslims, yet why is it tomorrow in Bahrain & next week in Dubai. I know they look to the sighting of the moon and crap, but my staff are off on Sunday....me not understand.

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Old Nov 26th 2011, 5:10 am
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Default Re: Hijri New Year/ Muharram - still no announcement??

Originally Posted by markinbahrain
Old school BE's please explain Hijri is the New Year for Muslims, yet why is it tomorrow in Bahrain & next week in Dubai. I know they look to the sighting of the moon and crap, but my staff are off on Sunday....me not understand.
It is so that they can have some extra time off..
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Default Re: Hijri New Year/ Muharram - still no announcement??

Here in Saudi, we don't get anytime off for the 1st of Muharram. They don't see it as a religious day. Just the two eids and national day (which we only started getting off a few years ago).
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Thursday 1st December...
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