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FORTUNE-TELLERS IN THE MIDDLE EAST

In the Middle East, fortune-tellers use tarot cards kept in red boxes and read coffee grounds and buy prophetic poems by medieval sages.

In Iran, fortune-tellers use "jyotish" (“the science of light”), a practice related to astrology that is said to have originated in Persia. Sessions often last two hours.

Umm Hussein, an Iraqi fortune-teller that specials in helping families locate lost ones, says he conducts investigations by making notes of a disappearance and then sleeping with a piece of paper under her pillow that has the name of the missing person on it.

In a process that can take from a few days to several weeks, the location of the missing person eventually comes to her in a dream.

Ali al-Bakri, an Iraqi fortune-teller and astrologist, hosts a television show called "You and Luck" on Iraq’s state run Al-Iraqiya TV, astrology and numerology to offer advice