Krismas fi Maccah ("Christmas in Mecca"), by Ahmed Khairi Al-Omari, Cairo: Aseer Al-Kotob Publishing, 2019, pp.331 Christmas in Mecca is a novel by the Iraqi author Dr. Ahmed Al-Omari, which ...

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St. Elmo's fire is named after St. Erasmus of Formiae (also called St. Elmo, the Italian name for St. Erasmus), the patron saint of sailors. The phenomenon sometimes appeared on ships at sea during ...