The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah Ibn Abdulaziz Al Saud, will patronize here on Sunday the opening ceremony of the City of Princess Nora Bint Abdul Rahman University for Girls, which is built at a cost of more than SR 20 billion. The city is spread over an area of ??nearly 8 million square meters. Its new headquarters are located on the King Khalid International Airport Road in Riyadh. It is the largest University City for girls in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. On this occasion, the University's President Dr. Huda Al-Ameel has expressed, on behalf of the University's personnel their great pride for this remarkable gift from the King who has followed up continuously the implementation of this integrated city to be added to other edifices of the higher education in this beloved country. She said that the university project includes an administrative area, comprising buildings and equipment of the university administration; a central library, a conference center, an academic area of buildings and equipment for 15 faculties in varied theoretical, scientific and medical specialties, a 700-bed teaching hospital provided with all medical specialties inclusive of university laboratories, a research zone for King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology along with three specialized scientific research centers for Nano Technology, Information Technology and Biological Sciences. She noted that the residential area includes housing units for families of employees and teaching staff of the university, accommodations for female students, two mosques, schools, two kindergartens, and recreational facilities. --More
