With the Eid break behind them, UAE residents are already looking ahead to the few public holidays still to come in 2025. Based on official guidelines, these upcoming breaks follow specific rules around timing and confirmation.

The Islamic New Year is coming sooner than you might think, with the official UAE public holiday set to arrive in June 2025. Current astronomical predictions indicate that the Islamic New Year dates should fall on Thursday June 26 in the UAE, which would split the Dubai working week in half.

The city Department of Education is getting a failing grade for mishandling observance of a major Muslim holiday — Eid al-Adha.

Abeer Ghazzawi had little time to visit her two sons' graves for the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha before Israeli soldiers cleared the cemetery near the refugee camp in the occupied West Bank city

The Hajj, which is required once in a lifetime of every Muslim who can afford it and is physically able to make it, is one of the Five Pillars of Islam.

New York City Public School students will enjoy a long weekend this week after a new holiday was added to the school calendar for this year. Public Schools will be closed on Thursday in observance of the Muslim holiday Eid al-Adha followed by a clerical day on Friday.

Days ahead of the Muslim holiday Qurban Bayram or Eid al-Adha, hundreds of Syrian refugees who have lived in Türkiye for years are queuing up at the border gates to celebrate the holiday in their homeland.