Article: 20,000 expected at Al Quds Day celebrations.

Byline: MOHAMMED AL A'ALI

A MAJOR festival marking the Palestinian Intifada is expected to draw over 20,000 people to Bilad Al Qadeem tonight.

The event celebrates the International Al Quds (Jerusalem) Day, commemorated worldwide on the last Friday of Ramadan.

The event, at 8.45pm, is being staged by the Ansar Al Hussain Ma'tam for the 24th consecutive year, on an open ground in the middle of the village.

It will include speeches by top Islamic scholar Shaikh Maitham Al Salman and operettas by Lebanese singers Bassam Shams and Ali Al Attar.

A play entitled The Beating Heart of The Resistance by Bahraini director Mohammed Al ...

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