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Wejdan Bugis's father offers the pilgrims home-cooked meals at the hotel they are staying in 1993.
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Fatin Hussain takes the pilgrims on a tour of the factory that makes Kiswah, the cloth that covers Kaaba.
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Tour guide Fatin Hussain with a group of pilgrims.
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Fatin Hussain during the Hajj in 2019.
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Hajj guide Aziza Kushak and her family during the pilgrimage in 2019.
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Fatin Hussain with a group of pilgrims at one of the cultural events she organised.
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Aziza Kushak, left, with her parents in Mount Arafat during the Hajj pilgrimage, 48 years ago.
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Ms Kushak's uncle and cousins during the Hajj, 65 years ago.
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Ms Kushak's uncle and cousins during he Hajj season, 65 years ago.
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Aziza Kushak helps a pilgrim during Hajj in 2019.
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Wejdan Bugis, the youngest in the middle, is surrounded by her family and cousins in hajj 1975, as all the Mutwaif family would participate in hajj.
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Wejdan Bugis in her mother's lap surrounded by pilgrims in hajj 1978.
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Wejdan Bugis's father welcomes the pilgrims upon their arrival in Makkah in 1989.
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Wejdan Bugis's father offers the pilgrims home-cooked meals at the hotel they are staying in 1993.
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Fatin Hussain takes the pilgrims on a tour of the factory that makes Kiswah, the cloth that covers Kaaba.
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Tour guide Fatin Hussain with a group of pilgrims.
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Fatin Hussain during the Hajj in 2019.
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Hajj guide Aziza Kushak and her family during the pilgrimage in 2019.
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Fatin Hussain with a group of pilgrims at one of the cultural events she organised.
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Aziza Kushak, left, with her parents in Mount Arafat during the Hajj pilgrimage, 48 years ago.
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Ms Kushak's uncle and cousins during the Hajj, 65 years ago.
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Ms Kushak's uncle and cousins during he Hajj season, 65 years ago.
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Aziza Kushak helps a pilgrim during Hajj in 2019.
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Wejdan Bugis, the youngest in the middle, is surrounded by her family and cousins in hajj 1975, as all the Mutwaif family would participate in hajj.
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Wejdan Bugis in her mother's lap surrounded by pilgrims in hajj 1978.
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Wejdan Bugis's father welcomes the pilgrims upon their arrival in Makkah in 1989.
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Wejdan Bugis's father offers the pilgrims home-cooked meals at the hotel they are staying in 1993.