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Articles of the author Khalid Al Fares Okaz
An unforgotten Saudi love story
Residents of Nakhlan Village in Jazan have not forgotten the story of the Italian man who passed through their village thirty years ago while chasing a deer and decided to embrace Islam and marry a young shepherdess. However, after 2 years of (...)

26 - 05 - 2012
3 Makkah mental asylum patients escape, one dies
Three patients at the Mental Health Center in Makkah have managed to escape. A fourth patient fell to his death from the second floor while trying to escape. Two of the three inmates went to their family homes, while the third has still not been (...)

22 - 05 - 2012
National committee to train brides and grooms-to-be on marriage
Ten societies and centers in charge of marriage family conditions are to establish a joint national committee to train brides- and bridegrooms-to-be on married life. The headquarters of the committee will be in Madina and will be run under the (...)

24 - 03 - 2012
Umrah firms not taking proper care of pilgrims – Ministry
The Ministry of Haj has blamed some Umrah companies and their foreign agents for not looking properly after their pilgrims, resulting in delays, overcrowding and procedural problems at the country's airports, ports and border posts. In a statement (...)

25 - 02 - 2012
Kingdom's illiteracy rate drops 13 percent
Illiteracy rate in the Kingdom has dropped by13 percent over the last two years, said Dr. Abdul Rahman Al-Barak, Undersecretary of Boys' Education at the Ministry of Education. It fell by 6.7 percent for males and 19.4 percent for (...)

16 - 01 - 2012
Research chair agreements with Sorbonne
Anqari, Minister of Higher Education, has said that the agreement entered into with the Sorbonne University in Paris for a Dialogue of Civilizations Chair further supports the initiative of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques to promote dialogue (...)

09 - 01 - 2011
School evacuated after false quake warning
About 300 female students ran for their lives Tuesday morning from their intermediate school building in Madina following a precipitous earthquake warning. The false alarm, which led to the panic-stricken evacuation of the school in the Qubaa' (...)

16 - 04 - 2009
Saudis live in fear in Jeddah's ‘Mini Africa
Harbi, one of the old Saudis who are still living in Jeddah's Al-Bawadi District, is forced to take his two sons with him to the district's mosque when he goes to perform dawn (Fajr) prayer due to fear of being attacked. Just a few days ago, (...)

02 - 02 - 2009
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