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Happy New Year

We get a long weekend. Saturday, January 20 is a holiday for Islamic New Year. It is year 1428 AH.

Years are counted since the Hijrah, which is when the Prophet Muhammad migrated from Mecca to Madinah (approximately July 622 A.D.). See this for more details.

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