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of them and their ideas.

We're told that our sins

are forgiven during the Hajjj,

so we come out reborn.

Here where the temperature sometimes

soars above 120 degrees,

shade can feel like

the soothing hand of God.

For Muslims, the Ka'ba

or the cube, is a holy magnet.

The very first house of God.

Muslims believe it was built by Abraham,

patriarch of the three religions,

Muslim, Christian and Jewish.

Nimah has written

something that I really love,

it says that we're all

sons and daughters of Adam,

that the three faiths

are interlinked.

We walk around

the Ka'ba seven times,

and we become one with all

the human beings around us.

We touch the Ka'ba

because it's the house of God

and we feel close to Him

when we touch it.

It's our touchstone.

We feel the flow of the Earth's

celestial turning around the sun.

It's a never-ending circle that's

continued through the centuries.

Performing the Hajjj helps us feel

that we are part of one community,

the human community.

We're all one.

Surrounded by desert,

the corals of the Red Sea

have had to adapt to survive.

Just like the people of Arabia.

I left Makkah

and headed home to Jeddah.

After one month of filming,

I was really struck by the

relaxed spirit of my hometown.

I love it.

Nimah taught me

that words matter,

that ideas can

change the culture.

Many women agree with Nimah,

including my mom.

I set out on this journey to discover

who we are and how we got here.

I came away inspired

by the Nabataeans.

They were able to build

great things out of nothing.

To survive in the desert, families had

to be really close with each other.

And we're still that way today.

I asked my dad

for advice on my film

because that's how we do things. All

decisions are family decisions.

The strength of our

culture is our family.

And from this strength,

we'll build our future.

It's much too soon to say

if a third Golden Age

could be happening here.

The recent opening of the new

university of science and technology

is just a first step.

But four more majjor research

centers are soon coming online,

whole communities

devoted entirely to learning

and the exploration of ideas.

The Prophet Mohammed

encouraged people to learn,

gather knowledge

and explore the world.

I'm starting to see that

same spirit take hold here.

And that, more than

anything else, gives me hope.

Twice, our ancestors built

Golden Ages, and we can, too.

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