Makkah All Set For Its First Flower Festival Previous
A carpet of flowers featuring 1 million blooms will be one of the main attractions as Makkah hosts its first flower festival.
The event, which begins on Tuesday at Muzdalifah, has been organized by...
March 19, 2019398Category: General
Saudi Relief Center Concludes Training For Yemeni Women
The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSRelief) has completed a pilot project management course for women heads of households in the Yemeni governorate of Lahij.
About 100 women trainee...
March 19, 2019362Category: General
Budding Authors Given Writing Tips At Riyadh Book Fair Previous
Visitors to a Saudi book fair have been given free chapter-and-verse writing tips on how to produce top content.
Abeer Al-Jarbou, Arabic teacher at King Saud University, has been running interactive ...
March 19, 2019345Category: General
Saudi Women Are Getting Ahead Of Men As STEM Graduates
More and more girls in Saudi Arabia are opting for an education in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM), and now the challenge is finding them employment, said Dr. Fatima Alakeel, a cyber...
March 20, 2019435Category: General
Tuwaiq Sculpture Symposium Opens In Riyadh For The First Time
The first Tuwaiq International Sculpture Symposium kicked off in Riyadh on Monday morning in the capital’s Diplomatic Quarter, featuring the works of 23 artists from 18 different countries.
Par...
March 20, 2019497Category: General
70,000 Women Obtain Saudi Driving Licenses
As many as 70,000 women have been issued driving licenses since June 24, 2018, when authorities lifted the ban on women driving in Saudi Arabia, according to Director General of Traffic Maj. Gen. Moha...
March 20, 2019502Category: General
Motherly Advice From Dr.Thoraya Obaid
The first Saudi to head a UN agency, the first Saudi female to graduate from a US university on a government scholarship, one of 30 women to be appointed to the Shoura Council for the first time, one ...
March 21, 2019411Category: General
Darah Sends Atlas Of Makkah, Holy Sites To US, UK
The King Abdul Aziz Foundation for Research and Archives (Darah) has sent Arabic and English copies of the “Illustrated Atlas of Makkah and the Holy Sites” to the British Museum and the US...
March 21, 2019433Category: General
Saudi ICT Sector Holds Key To Growth, Forum Told
Information and communications technology (ICT) is one of the main drivers of development in today’s world, a Riyadh forum on “Digital Transformation for an Ambitious Country” has be...
March 21, 2019366Category: General
Saudi King Salman, Seychelles President Discuss Enhancing Bilateral Ties
King Salman received at Al-Yamamah Palace in Riyadh on Wednesday Seychelles President Danny Faure and his accompanying delegation.
Faure expressed his happiness at visiting Saudi Arabia and meeting...
March 21, 2019386Category: General
Saudi Arabia Jumps 5 Places In UN’s World Happiness Report
Saudi Arabia has jumped up the rankings of the world's happiest countries, according to a new UN report.
The Kingdom is now 28th out of the 156 countries included in the UN Sustainable Developm...
March 21, 20191194Category: General
Saudi Film Festival Opens Its Doors At Sharqiah Season
The fifth Saudi Film Festival opened at the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture (Ithra) in Dhahran on Thursday evening, bringing with it a “who’s who” of Gulf cinema.
Organize...
March 22, 2019399Category: General
Jeddah Celebrates 2nd Italian Design Day
The Consulate General of Italy in Jeddah celebrated the second Italian Design Day by hosting a conference on urban design.
The event, at the Italian Cultural Center, was promoted by the Minis...
March 22, 2019375Category: General
ICT Indicators Forum Discusses Digital Transformation
The annual ICT Indicators Forum held by the Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC) in Riyadh on Wednesday, discussed the impact of digital transformation on the education, health ...
March 22, 2019315Category: General
Council Of Saudi Chambers Holds KSA-Bulgarian Business Forum
The Saudi-Bulgarian Businessmen Forum at the headquarters of the Council of Saudi Chambers in Riyadh on Friday discussed the development of trade and the signing of investment agreements between the t...
March 23, 2019349Category: General
Mariam Al-Ghamdi, Saudi Actress, Radio Host, Director And Writer
Mariam Al-Ghamdi is a Saudi actress, radio host, director and writer. She was one of the first women to feature on live radio in the Kingdom, reading the newscast in 1962.
She began scriptwriting f...
March 23, 2019499Category: General
Saudi Arabia To Head World’s First Camel Organization
The Saudi capital has been named as the international headquarters for the world’s first camel organization.
Representatives of 96 countries gathered on Thursday in Riyadh for the inaugural con...
March 23, 20191521Category: General
Pitbull And Akon Wow Crowds At Saudi Arabia’s Asharqiah Music Festival
Week two of Sharqiah Season started with a bang as US rapper Pitbull performed at Dammam’s Life Park as part of the Asharqiah Music Festival on Friday afternoon.
Although his Thursday night con...
March 23, 20191492Category: General
More Than 800,000 Visit Riyadh Book Fair
More than 800,000 people had visited the Riyadh International Book Fair 2019 by the end of Friday, according to Abdullah Al-Kinani, supervisor of cultural affairs at the Ministry of Media.
Al-Kinani ...
March 24, 2019418Category: General
Saudi Red Crescent Society’s Medic Receives World Recognition
A Saudi Red Crescent Society medical supervisor has received a health facility assessment certificate from the International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua), the first award of its kind any...
March 24, 20191989Category: General