RIYADH: MD RASOOLDEEN ARABNEWS Labor Minister Adel Fakeih told members of the Shoura Council yesterday that the Kingdom’s Saudization program is well on track and the ministry was able to find jobs for 195,000 Saudi men and 51,000 women over the past few months. Fakeih was addressing the 38th regular […]
Huff Post The Hayat Mall in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, probably sees a constant stream of religious police, or mutaween, attempting to keep a check on female morality. But when one brave Saudi woman had enough, she flipped on her camera phone and made sure her harasser — and the rest […]
Commission lists Egypt among countries with religious freedom problems Friday, May 25, 2012 By Catholic News S… By Maria-Pia Negro Catholic News Service “Egypt was one of 16 countries that the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom singled out for particular concern in its 2012 annual report, released in March. […]
Source: ARABNEWS Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah received a number of people who pardoned killers of their family members at his palace here yesterday. In a unique […]
JEDDAH: NADIM AL-HAMID ARABNEWS An international forum on introducing Islam to the world that began in Jeddah on Tuesday will wind up today with the issuance of a final communiqué. […]
RIYADH: ABDUL HANNAN TAGO ARABNEWS Saudi Arabia will be giving additional financial support to Yemen amounting to $ 3.25 billion as part of its contribution to development projects that will […]
MAKKAH: ARAB NEWS An acute shortage of cement is delaying most commercial and residential projects in Makkah, according to sources in the contracting sector. Amid an unprecedented construction boom featuring […]
Reuters | May 21,2012 | ARABNEWS CAIRO — The Arab League called on Tehran on Monday to halt what it described as a media campaign against Bahrain over a proposal for political and military union between Gulf Arab states. Saudi Arabia has been pushing the idea of closer Gulf integration […]
BY: JEDDAH: ARAB NEWs The Holy Qur’an, which is full of divine instructions from the Creator, is the greatest of all blessings from God for mankind and is the panacea for all their problems, said Abdul Shukoor Ali, an Islamic researcher, community leader and a patron of cultural organization Thanima […]
BY: JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah yesterday emphasized the need to strengthen Arab and Islamic unity. “I am servant of you and of the […]
BY: JEDDAH: BADR AL-QAHTANI ARABNEWS The biggest expansion of the Grand Mosque in Makkah was carried out during the reign of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah. In […]
Author: Edited by Adil Salahi ARABNEWS The first marriage of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) gave him six children. The first was a boy, named Al-Qasim. While most human societies, past and present, give preference to male offspring, the pre-Islamic Arabian society surpassed all others in this regard. It […]
Author: Edited by Adil Salahi ARABNEWS Worship should always be performed in the way and the manner that God likes and the Prophet (peace be upon him) has shown and explained. Prayer, or salat, is the most important form of Islamic worship. It includes readings from the Qur’an, movements from […]
BY: ISLAMABAD: Z. MAHMOOD SHEIKH ARABNEWS Saudi Arabia, while fulfilling its commitment to help Pakistan in times of need, continued its relief activities with the launch of the second stage of reconstruction in which 5,000 more houses would be built costing $ 20 million. The houses are meant for those […]
A TRUE STORY. “And as for those who strive in Our path-We will surely guide them in Our ways. And verily Allah is with those who do good”.(Al Qur’an~29:70) I can never forget the story of Ibrahim Saheb. He was from Kerala state of India. He worked as a Computer […]
By RIYADH: GHAZANFAR ALI KHAN ARABBEWS The Muslim world will have its own social networking site this summer. SalamWorld, a cleaner, Islam-centered alternative to Facebook, aims to reach 50 million […]
By JEDDAH: BADR AL-QAHTANI ARAB NEWS Prominent women campaigners and human rights activists called for harsh punishments, including naming and shaming, for those convicted of domestic abuse following the issuance of a draft law aimed at the protection of domestic abuse victims by the Shoura Council on Sunday. “One year […]
By RIYADH: GHAZANFAR ALI KHAN ARAB NEWS STAFF Foreign ministers of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) met here yesterday to draw up the agenda for the consultative meeting of […]
By JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Saudi Arabia will chair the 5th conference of environment ministers from the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) member countries in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, on Thursday. Head of the Presidency of Meteorology and Environment (PME) Prince Turki bin Nasser, who is also chairman of the […]
by Areej Abuqudairi | May 13,2012 | JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Turkey is reworking its foreign policy to play a much more active role in the region following the unrest prompted by the Arab Spring, academicians said on Sunday. Speaking at the Third Arab and Turkish Dialogue Forum, Hassan Barari, […]