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Articles of the author Okaz Seven Umm Al
Seven Umm Al-Qura students develop solar-powered buggy
Qura University students have succeeded in developing a solar-powered golf buggy. The car is the Mechanical Engineering students' graduation project which they named Mashaer. The students demonstrated the buggy in the courtyards of the Grand (...)

26 - 05 - 2011
People document flood disaster with cellphones
Khair and other districts of Jeddah affected by the heavy rains and floods have documented the horrific scenes with their mobile telephones. They recorded the start of the floods that smashed the walls of their homes and swept away their cars right (...)

01 - 02 - 2011
University hijab campaign to introduce penalties
Qura University in Makkah is to gradually introduce penalties for its female students who do not wear the Islamic hijab as part of a wider campaign to promote it entitled “My Hijab is Worship”. Sources at the university said that there are no (...)

05 - 01 - 2011
University hijab campaign to introduce penalties
Qura University in Makkah is to gradually introduce penalties for its female students who do not wear the Islamic hijab as part of a wider campaign to promote it entitled “My Hijab is Worship”. Sources at the university said that there are no (...)

04 - 01 - 2011
35 professors face eviction
Qura University in Makkah have been threatened with eviction after their university refused to pay a rent increase requested by their landlords. The university pays up to SR30,000 a year directly to landlords in housing allowance for its faculty (...)

13 - 01 - 2010
Umm Al-Qura University safe from floods,claims official
Qura University has taken ample precautionary measures and is safe from floods, Dr. Hashim Hariri, Vice President of the university, said here Saturday. The official was referring to the precautionary steps taken by the university administration (...)

27 - 12 - 2009
Lawsuit against mayoralty planned
Khair and Al-Nakheel districts are planning to take the mayoralty to court for allegedly allowing building of houses on natural flood courses in the area. They have also demanded that the mayoralty take action against officials responsible for (...)

14 - 12 - 2009
Umm Al-Qura Festival promotes reading
Qura Women's Charity in Makkah is organizing a two-week festival under the patronage of Princess Jawahir Bint Majid Bin Abdul Aziz to promote reading, focusing on encouraging the practice in young children. “The festival hopes to help develop (...)

02 - 04 - 2009
Big quantity of rotten lamb seized
Salam Municipality and police patrols on Makkah-Jeddah Old Road Monday morning seized 270 headless sheep unfit for human consumption from a number of vehicles heading to Jeddah. The head of the municipality's Markets Department, Abdullah (...)

10 - 12 - 2008
Students flee high rent, return to ways of old
Qura University say they have been forced to return to the ways of their forefathers and erect tents in the desert and valleys surrounding the Holy City to escape high rents in districts close to their university. Students living in tents say the (...)

27 - 11 - 2008
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