Saudi Arabia offers condolences to Azerbaijan over plane crash    Interior minister emphasizes enhancing Saudi-Qatari security cooperation    176 teams carry out 1.4 million volunteer hours at Prophet's Mosque in 2024    RCU launches women's football development project    RDIA launches 2025 Research Grants on National Priorities    Damac appoints Portuguese coach Nuno Almeida    GASTAT: Protected land areas grow 7.1% in 2023, making up 18.1% of Kingdom's total land area    Kuwait and Oman secure dramatic wins in Khaleeji Zain 26 Group A action    South Korea becomes 'super-aged' society, new data shows    Trump criticizes Biden for commuting death sentences    Russian ballistic missile attack hits Kryvyi Rih on Christmas Eve    Financial gain: Saudi Arabia's banking transformation is delivering a wealth of benefits, to the Kingdom and beyond    Four given jail terms for Amsterdam violence against football fans    Blake Lively's claims put spotlight on 'hostile' Hollywood tactics    Saudi Awwal Bank inaugurates Prince Faisal bin Mishaal Centre for Native Plant Conservation and Propagation in partnership with Environmental Awareness Society    Five things everyone should know about smoking    Saudi Arabia starts Gulf Cup 26 campaign with a disappointing loss to Bahrain    Gulf Cup: Hervé Renard calls for Saudi players to show pride    Do cigarettes belong in a museum    Marianne Jean-Baptiste on Oscars buzz for playing 'difficult' woman    Order vs. Morality: Lessons from New York's 1977 Blackout    India puts blockbuster Pakistani film on hold    The Vikings and the Islamic world    Filipino pilgrim's incredible evolution from an enemy of Islam to its staunch advocate    Exotic Taif Roses Simulation Performed at Taif Rose Festival    Asian shares mixed Tuesday    Weather Forecast for Tuesday    Saudi Tourism Authority Participates in Arabian Travel Market Exhibition in Dubai    Minister of Industry Announces 50 Investment Opportunities Worth over SAR 96 Billion in Machinery, Equipment Sector    HRH Crown Prince Offers Condolences to Crown Prince of Kuwait on Death of Sheikh Fawaz Salman Abdullah Al-Ali Al-Malek Al-Sabah    HRH Crown Prince Congratulates Santiago Peña on Winning Presidential Election in Paraguay    SDAIA Launches 1st Phase of 'Elevate Program' to Train 1,000 Women on Data, AI    41 Saudi Citizens and 171 Others from Brotherly and Friendly Countries Arrive in Saudi Arabia from Sudan    Saudi Arabia Hosts 1st Meeting of Arab Authorities Controlling Medicines    General Directorate of Narcotics Control Foils Attempt to Smuggle over 5 Million Amphetamine Pills    NAVI Javelins Crowned as Champions of Women's Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) Competitions    Saudi Karate Team Wins Four Medals in World Youth League Championship    Third Edition of FIFA Forward Program Kicks off in Riyadh    Evacuated from Sudan, 187 Nationals from Several Countries Arrive in Jeddah    SPA Documents Thajjud Prayer at Prophet's Mosque in Madinah    SFDA Recommends to Test Blood Sugar at Home Two or Three Hours after Meals    SFDA Offers Various Recommendations for Safe Food Frying    SFDA Provides Five Tips for Using Home Blood Pressure Monitor    SFDA: Instant Soup Contains Large Amounts of Salt    Mawani: New shipping service to connect Jubail Commercial Port to 11 global ports    Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Delivers Speech to Pilgrims, Citizens, Residents and Muslims around the World    Sheikh Al-Issa in Arafah's Sermon: Allaah Blessed You by Making It Easy for You to Carry out This Obligation. Thus, Ensure Following the Guidance of Your Prophet    Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques addresses citizens and all Muslims on the occasion of the Holy month of Ramadan    

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Palestinian olive harvest under threat from Israeli attacks and restrictions
On a Thursday afternoon toward the end of last month, a 59-year-old Palestinian woman set out to gather olives on her family's land near the village of Faqqua, in the north of the occupied West Bank. It was something that Hanan Abu Salameh had done (...)

20 - 11 - 2024
Ruler, Crown Prince of Umm Al Quwain Congratulate Custodian of Two Holy Mosques on Being Discharged from Hospital
Sheikh Saud bin Rashid Al-Mualla, member of the Supreme Council and Ruler of Umm Al Quwain, in a cable, has congratulated the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud on the occasion of leaving the King Faisal Specialist (...)

17 - 05 - 2022
Agreement signed to build 5G ICT Infrastructure in MASAR Project
Qura Development and Construction Company, owner and executor of the MASAR project announced on Thursday the signing of a 15 years framework agreement for strategic partnership with Advanced Communications and Electronics Systems Company (ACES). The (...)

04 - 02 - 2022
Umm Al Quwain FTZ's business sustainability policy helps investors reopen and grow
UAQ's Risk Mitigation Measures contribute to post COVID-19 economic recovery of the 7000+ investors — large, medium, small and micro — in the Umm Al Quwain Free Trade Zone, one of the fastest-growing Free Zones in the MENA Region. The Umm Al Quwain (...)

08 - 07 - 2020
Students' viewpoints
This is the second month in the school year in Saudi Arabia. Thousands of new students are enrolled in all higher education institutions across the nation. Newly accepted college students are settling down as they come across different aspects of (...)

10 - 11 - 2019
Minority Arabs in Israel object to cameras at polling centers
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's party sent monitors equipped with body cameras to a number of polling stations with Arab constituents on election day in Israel on Tuesday, and Arab politicians condemned the move as voter intimidation. Police, (...)

09 - 04 - 2019
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques receives two congratulations cables from Umm Al Quwain Governor, Crown Prince
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud received two cables of congratulations from Sheikh Saud bin Rashid Al Mualla, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Umm Al Quwain and Sheikh Rashid bin Saud bin Rashid Al Mualla, (...)

21 - 06 - 2017
In remote corner of Iraq, an unlikely alliance forms against Daesh
They share little more than an enemy and struggle to communicate on the battlefield, but together two relatively obscure groups have opened up a new front against the Daesh militants in a remote corner of Iraq. The unlikely alliance between an (...)

12 - 05 - 2016
Umm Al Quwain aspires to be a new trade & tourist hub
The government of Umm Al Quwain and Sobha Group, a leading luxury real estate developer, announced Wednesday the launch of "Firdous Sobha", an integrated world-class resort and residential island development in Umm Al Quwain. Aimed at setting new (...)

28 - 04 - 2016
On the Wing of Fear
When we think of the word "fear" we think about our parents not finding out about something we do behind closed doors on a Fridaynight, or we think about our boss firing us because we did not complete a project on time. Fear is always something we (...)

05 - 02 - 2016
Prince Mishaal Bin Abdulaziz Patronizes Festival of King Abdulaziz Award for Pageant Camels on Saturday
Prince Mishaal Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, President of Allegiance-Pledge Commission and Chairman of the Higher Organizing Committee of Festival of King Abdulaziz Award for Pageant Camels, will patronize the closing ceremony of the festival and handing (...)

02 - 01 - 2014
Iraq Receives Support Vessels
Two U.S.-made offshore support vessels built for Iraq through a Foreign Military Sales deal have been delivered at Iraq's Umm Qasr naval facility. The U.S. Navy reports delivery of the 196-foot vessels - OSV 1 and OSV 2 -- was made in a joint naval (...)

02 - 01 - 2013
طقس شديدة البرودة على شمال المملكة اليوم
توقعت الرئاسة العامة للأرصاد وحماية البيئة أن يظل الطقس شديد البرودة اليوم على أجزاء من شمال المملكة يشمل ذلك منطقتي تبوك والجوف وعلى أجزاء من منطقتي الحدود الشمالية وحائل وبارد على منطقتي الرياض والقصيم وأجزاء من شرق المملكة وغربها. كما توقعت (...)

27 - 12 - 2011
Prince Mohammed Ibn Nawaf Opens Fifth International Saudi Conference 2
Qura University Dr. Bakri Asas described the Conference as a historical event, expressing his pleasure over the dynamism shown by Saudi students on scholarships at the Conference. On his part, Saudi Cultural Attaché to the United Kingdom and (...)

25 - 06 - 2011
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
Campaign to help women contribute to development
Qura Women's Charitable Society represented by the Women's Makkah District held a workshop Monday on “How to Become a Productive Person”. The event was part of activities of the “Communication for Security” campaign it is organizing to acquaint (...)

02 - 03 - 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
UAE yacht maker banks on emerging market rich
QUWAIN, UAE: Gulf Craft, the largest Gulf Arab yacht maker, projects modest sales growth in 2011 but hopes a new emerging market elite will spur its luxury boat business, its chief executive said. The United Arab Emirates is home to some of the (...)

06 - 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 (...)

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
Israeli police, Arabs clash
FAHM, Israel: Israeli police Wednesday fired tear gas and stun grenades to disperse Arabs who were protesting against a rally by ultranationalist Jews in an Israeli-Arab city. Riot police, some on horesback, charged about 200 Arabs who threw stones (...)

28 - 10 - 2010
Umm Al-Qura needs urgent attention
Qura University in Makkah is considered the oldest higher education institution in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It started in 1969 with the establishment of the College of Shariah (Islamic Law). In 1980 it became an independent university with five (...)

20 - 09 - 2010
Umm Al-Qura inks MoU with Sains University
Qura University Dr. Waleed Abul Faraj signed here Tuesday a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Dr. Zul-Kifl Abdel-Raziq, Director of Sains University in Malaysia. The MoU stipulates cooperation in the field of nanotechnology and in the exchange (...)

03 - 02 - 2010
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
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