In 1995, Hollywood released a movie titled: "The American President." In the closing speech scene of the movie, the president is attacking one of his opponents, saying: "The only thing he is good at doing is intimidating something, and then finding (...)
دائماً ما يجد البشر الكثير من الشقاء والتعب والآلام في حياتهم، وهذا يعود لطبيعة فكرهم.. فالحياة مرتبطة بأفكارك، ومعتقداتك هي وحدها التي تجعل حياتك ذات طابع وطعم مختلف، وخير هدية تقدمها لنفسك أن تبني أفكاراً إيجابية وروحاً مبتسمة، ولكن هناك سمات لا (...)
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ranked first in the evaluation of people's optimism for the future of their countries. The Ipsos survey "What worries the world" showed that 92 percent of Saudis see their country moving in the right direction, followed (...)
لا تكتمل المائدة الكورية من دون «الكيمتشي»، وذلك لهوس الكوريين في إضافته إلى كل شيء تقريبا، فهو يحتوي على العديد من الألياف والمعادن والفيتامينات التي تعود لمكوناته الغنية، ويعد الملفوف المكون الأساسي، إضافة إلى الفلفل الأحمر والثوم والزنجبيل، وتضاف (...)
Al-Jazirah
THE most surprising and astonishing thing in dealing with women in our society is that we always put our customs and traditions before rules and regulations.
May be most of us do not know that the approval of the male guardian is not (...)
Okaz/Saudi Gazette
JEDDAH — The Saudi Stem Cells Donor Registry reported that some 10,000 people in the western region of Saudi Arabia has expressed their willingness to donate stem cells.
The registry reported it has over 46,000 registered donors (...)
HUNGER STRIKES don't get any easier with experience.
So says the family of Palestinian prisoner Majd Ziada, who has participated in multiple collective strikes since his arrest by Israeli occupation forces in 2002.
"It is as if you are carrying the (...)
Al-Jazirah
TALKING recently about the large number of the university students, Education Minister Ahmed Al-Issa has underlined the need for the establishment of more universities in the Kingdom to intake the increasing number of the secondary school (...)
Al-Jazirah
ACCORDING to the Data and Tourist Research Center (DTC) of the Saudi Commission for Tourism and National Heritage (SCTNH), the Saudis spent more than SR7 billion during their weekend tourism in Bahrain last year.
On the same line, tickets (...)
Anyone who has observed the plastic arts movement in the Kingdom over the last few decades will notice that the movement has become more popular and has gained the attention of the private sector. In the past, the Culture and Art Society was the (...)
DAMMAM — Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University in Dammam has appointed its first female dean since its opening in 1975.
Sumayyah Bint Sulaiman Al-Sulaiman has taken over as the dean of the College of Design at the university.
Al-Sulaiman won the (...)
JEDDAH — The municipal authorities finally decided to halt construction on the site of a cemetery in Al-Baghdadiyah district of Jeddah.
A source said residents of the neighborhood were upset about the municipality's decision to allow an investor (...)
Decades have passed and some social issues remain unresolved. Most members of the public consider these issues complicated and feel that they cannot be solved while other countries, including some Gulf states, view them as natural obstacles that can (...)
THE bravery of Cpl. Jabran Bin Jaber Awaji who killed two terrorists in Riyadh on Saturday in a face to face encounter deserves all praise. He gunned down the two terrorists armed to teeth with machine guns and explosive belts. We should highly (...)
BURAIDAH — An eight-year-old girl died in a hospital here due to an alleged medical error, the girl's father has said.
Rama Al-Mihaimid's father said his daughter was admitted to King Fahd Specialist Hospital in Buraidah with swollen lymphatic (...)
BURAIDA — A criminal lawsuit may be filed against a distributor who tried to sell 810,000 rotten chickens.
Last week 25 truckloads of rotten chickens were seized en route to sales points in Madinah and Makkah.
A criminal lawsuit may be filed if the (...)
The New York Times recently posted the following on its Twitter Account: "We would like to communicate with Saudi women. Tell us about your lives, ambitions and opinions in the Saudi community." A photo of two Saudi women standing in front of a (...)
SOMETIMES I wonder if Saudis have a different view of the law than other people do. Many Saudis do not respect laws and blatantly ignore them, even when they travel abroad. Why they do that, I do not know. All I know is that when a Saudi violates (...)
BURAIDAH — The Ministry of Islamic Affairs has terminated the services of 10,000 substitute imams to save SR360 million.
A source said the ministry gave the substitute imams the option to either transfer to the position of a full-time imam leading (...)
The Haj season is around the corner. Muslims all over the world have started heading to Makkah to perform the Haj Regardless of whether they are poor, rich, weak, strong, white or black, they all get together and wear the same white uniform.
Young (...)
TUNIS — Youssef Al-Chahed is to head Tunisia's new government of national unity after President Beji Caid Essibsi nominated him following the previous administration's ousting by lawmakers amid criticism of stalled economic reforms.
Born on Sept. (...)
BURAIDAH — Expatriates are dominating the private sector labor market with 8.9 million expat workers against 1.8 million Saudis who represent only about 16.7 percent of the labor force in this sector.
According to data released by the Ministry of (...)
JEDDAH — The Department of Civil Affairs has sent text messages to all citizens asking them not to carry their national IDs and family cards when traveling outside the Gulf countries.
"You cannot use your national ID when you travel abroad except in (...)
Okaz/Saudi Gazette
BURAIDAH — Citizens all over the Kingdom have welcomed the recent statement made by Deputy Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman, second deputy premier and minister of defense, in which he said the new water tariff will be (...)
Although human civilization emerged in several parts of the world, the Middle East will always be considered the "Cradle of Civilization." Much of the scientific, cultural, philosophical, agricultural and religious development that modern life (...)