We have many Saudi philanthropists. This proves that our society attaches great importance to charity work, even though some media outlets try to depict the Kingdom negatively.
Recently, the Khobar-based Gulf Girl Society launched a positive (...)
LAST Thursday I saw a large number of young men and women gathered in front of a shop in Madinah. They were waiting eagerly for a special individual to come.
Finally I saw a young man arriving at the spot and people welcomed him with a big hue and (...)
A group of medical students from King Abdulaziz University described the 8th Medical Career Day as useless. No serious job opportunities were advertised during the event, which seems to have become a way of promoting participating companies and (...)
AT the gates of one of the university colleges, I saw a group of students last week leaving in a way that appeared as if they were skipping lectures. As this group was exiting the campus, one of their friends was going in. They asked this student to (...)
ABOUT 12 years ago with the emergence of the international ranking of universities, our universities were at the bottom of the list. According to reason and logic, being in such a position meant that we would need to do something to change the (...)
DR. Majdi Habib Yacoub is one of the most renowned heart surgeons in the world. He was born in Egypt in 1935 and medicine has been his passion since childhood. He went to Cairo University, pursued higher education in the United States and moved to (...)
I have read about two acts of humanitarian kindness in two sisterly countries: the United Arab Emirates and Egypt. We should learn from these two incidents and try to do something similar in our country.
The first one was in relation to the recent (...)
In our society, the youth struggles and works day and night in search of providing a dowry for a Muslim girl, the cost of one night of marriage, and also insurance and furnishing of the marital home!
All the hard work and labor is not enough. He (...)
WHEN prices go up around the world, local merchants increase the price of products already in the market or products in stock. Merchants justify this by saying that global prices have affected their business. Strangely enough, when prices around the (...)
The e-newspaper Sabq.org recently published a shocking report detailing figures of road fatalities in the Kingdom. The statistics, which have been issued by the authorities, show that around 86,000 people have died on our roads over the past 20 (...)
In a long interview with The Economist, Deputy Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman, second deputy premier and minister of defense, was asked why women could not drive in the Kingdom. In a press conference in Munich, Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubair was (...)
INDIVIDUALS with a limited income complain about the increase in the cost of rent and consumer items. They say that their salaries are not enough to meet their needs. However, there are others who suffer from greater financial difficulties and are (...)
Al-Madina
About two months ago I was at Madinah airport waiting for a flight to Qassim. At that time we heard an announcement that the flight would be delayed. However, the announcement did not give the expected time for the next flight.
I logged (...)
Al-Madinah
A few days ago, I met one of my friends who warned me about a dangerous phenomenon that we are unaware of. It seems that not a single roundabout or street or wall in the different areas and provinces of the country is free from (...)
Madina newspaper
LAST week the Higher Education Exhibition and Conference was held in Riyadh, the turnout was high with over 450 universities from 39 countries participating. Truly, it was one of the most successful exhibitions held in the (...)