AMMAN — Jordan has been struggling with drastic water scarcity for some years now, suffering from a shortage of 500 million cubic meter per year. Jordan's per capita share of water is in the range of only 80 cm a year, compared to the global (...)
Okaz
SEVERAL incidents of women being saviors or heroes, especially when their men developed sudden health problems while behind the wheel, have been reported in the media.
Recently a female university student became the hero when she rose to the (...)
RIYADH — Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Naif, deputy prime minister and minister of interior, deserves to be named the "Vanquisher of Terrorism" and "Protector of Security".
His accomplishments to combat terrorism locally, regionally and globally have (...)
MY neighbor, a widow and mother of several children, is in financial difficulties. She takes care of and provides for her children. She applied for a job at a company and was happy when she was offered a position. However, she was shocked when she (...)
A group of female students at Taif University were recently in a fight, something that caused a commotion at the university. In an official statement issued the next day, the university said it had expelled all students involved in the fight and (...)
RIYADH — Recent confrontations with Daesh and Al-Qaeda terrorists have exposed their appalling moral and behavioral degradation and their breach of Shariah principles. The two terrorist groups have been using all means to carry out terror operations (...)
Al-Riyadh
When you hear how some people criticize the behavior of young men and women or the actions of senior officials, you would think that those people do not live in the real world. They are looking for a utopian society that does not exist. I (...)
Al-Watan
Recently, a video of a Saudi man cheating on his wife with the couple's housemaid became a sensation on social media websites. The clip was, apparently, captured by the man's wife who then circulated it on the web. A debate then ensued as (...)
واصلت الخطوط السعودية خلال شهر فبراير المنصرم تحقيق معدلات متنامية في معدلاتها التشغيلية التي تتضمن أعداد الركاب إلى جانب أعداد الرحلات ومعدلات انضباطها في تأكيد على الانسيابية الكبيرة في المنظومة التشغيلية إلى جانب الارتقاء بباقة الخدمات المقدمة في (...)
A billboard showing a picture of a grave with the message “Your return is to me” in front of Hawazen Elementary School in Taif, Saturday. – Al-Watan photo TAIF – Teachers, parents dropping off their children, and the young students themselves were (...)
A man has justified his possession of material on the deviant Takfiri ideology and explosive operations by saying his work as a mosque imam necessitated him having the information in order to refute the ideology. The man is one of five men who (...)
Security forces have foiled 220 terrorist operations which were about to be carried out by Al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups since 2003, a Ministry of Interior spokesman said Wednesday.
A large number of Al-Qaeda members therefore fled to nearby (...)
يا أيها المسئول ماذا بعد الموت ألا تعلم بأنك سوف تسأل
يا أيها المسئول ماذا بعد أن تموت هل أعددت الإجابات على ما قمت به من تجاوزات
يا أيها المسئول لماذا الظلم ألا تعلم بأن الظلم ظلمات يوم القيامة
يا أيها المسئول لماذا العنصرية ألم تسمع بأن أكرمكم (...)
قد يختلف علماء الدين فيما بينهم عند المقارنة الدينية بين دولتين مثل إيران وإسرائيل أو قل المجوس والصهاينة مع العلم بوجود قواسم مشتركة كثيرة تتضح عند التدقيق في الطقوس الدينية وبعض عقائدهم ، ولكن السياسيين المتمرسين لا يختلفون في وجود التشابه السياسي (...)
في الماضي عارضنا عمل المرأة وخصوصاً في المجال الصحي وبعده القطاع الخاص وفي الحاضر يتمتع النواعم بأصوات في مجلس الشورى و ... الخ
في الماضي كان هناك خلاف على عباءة الرأس والكتف وفي الحاضر لدينا عباءة مخصرة ومطرزة والخافي كان أعظم
في الماضي وقبل (...)
أستميحكم عذرا يا أخوتي على هذا المقال فأنا منكم و معكم ولكم ناصح أمين ، وأن أوجعت البعض ببعض الكلمات التي أسأل الله أن ينفع بها ، فأنا أحد المتألمين لحال بعض الملتزمين (والدعاة) الذين تبدلت أحوالهم تماشياً مع العولمة (الانفتاح) ورضوخاً لحب الشهرة (...)
Twenty-eight non-Muslims embraced Islam at the Al-Khobar Ramadan Camp on Friday.
The camp is organized by Dammam Islamic Cultural Center (DICC). Hussain Al-Shehri, the camp director, said the camp this year has a variety of programs such as the (...)
محاولة رفع أسعار الألبان وقرب شهر رمضان المبارك والقرارات المعطلة التي تصب في مصلحة المواطن بمكافحة الغش التجاري ومراقبة ارتفاع الأسعار ، تجعلنا نتساءل أين هي حماية المستهلك ؟ أهي حقيقة أم سراب ؟ ولو بحثنا عنها عملياً وسألنا الرجال بحكم كثرة (...)
Sponsor responsible, says NSHR official
Okaz/Saudi Gazette
JEDDAH – An official of the National Society for Human Rights (NSHR), reacting to Okaz/Saudi Gazette report on the plight of a Chadian woman with three disabled children, has said the (...)
Aisha and her children with special needs. — Okaz photo
Okaz/Saudi Gazette
JEDDAH – She carries her salted seeds and a plate on her back and walks for several kilometers every day. She places a piece of cloth on the ground at 6.00 A.M. and (...)
JEDDAH: Saudi Electricity Co. (SEC) said third-quarter profit advanced 34 percent on higher tariffs for power.
Net income increased to SR2.3 billion ($610 million) from SR1.73 billion a year earlier, the company said in a statement on the Saudi (...)
Frontier Guard patrols carrying out a regular patrol Sunday on the Red Sea intercepted a boat carrying 31 male and female infiltrators of various nationalities, Lt. Col. Saleh Al-Shehri, spokesman of the Frontier Guard, said.
The Makkah-based (...)
Solaiman Al-Shehri, the Ministry of Education's School Health chief, has said that a proposal is under study to set up a medical unit at all schools in the Kingdom.
“The proposal would see a small medical unit with a doctor and two nurses opened at (...)
The heavy rains and hail storms that hit the capital Monday claimed at least two lives, Civil Defense spokesman Abdullah Al-Ghaffari told Saudi Gazette Tuesday.
One person was injured and 155 people were rescued in the north and east of the city, (...)
Otaibi stands in the middle of his 55-year-old family house, in the Eastern Nuzlah District, that was recently destroyed by the authorities for not having legal ownership titles. “It was a short notice on the same day for evacuation and demolition. (...)