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SCT Plans Islamic Heritage Museum - Arab News

-JEDDAH, 25 April 2008 — Prince Sultan bin Salman, secretary-general of the Supreme Commission for Tourism (SCT), announced plans to establish an Islamic heritage museum in Makkah and a Qur’an museum in Madinah. He said the two museums would be ...

Jeddah Headed Toward Ecological Disaster: Expert - Arab News

-Hard to believe, but these images show the same reef taken three years apart. Pollution has completely wiped out the reef and therefore its function as nursery for fish and food source for reef dwellers. (AN photos: Roger Harrison) JEDDAH, 25 April ...

Search for Peace - Arab News

-The report of the killing of 19 Palestinians, including a Reuter photographer made, sad reading. There was unintended humor in the sentence that he was killed in spite of wearing an identifying jacket and a big “Press” sticker on his vehicle. Did ...

Blind Custom That Does Not Provide a Meeting Point for Marrying ... - Arab News

-JEDDAH, 25 April 2008 — Samar M. was engaged to her cousin for three years while waiting for him to graduate and find a job. Samar never met her fiancé, as her family is strict about women mingling with men unless they are mahram (an ...

Our Writers - Jeddah based - Arab News

-Khaled Al-Maeena is Editor-in-Chief of Arab News. Senior columnist, Asharq Al-Awsat, Al Madina, Urdu News, Gulf News . Khaled Al-Maeena is a well-known businessman, journalist, editor, PR consultant and media personality in Saudi Arabia. He received ...

Islamic Finance Can Solve Global Crisis, Says Scholar - Arab News

-MANAMA, 24 April 2008 — While the global economic system rattled by the US subprime mortgage crisis, a distinguished speaker has said that ‘Islamic finance model’ is the only answer to this persistent economic turmoil. Dr Mohammed Mahmud Awan ...

Saud Links Reopening of Iraq Embassy to Security - Arab News

-RIYADH, 24 April 2008 — Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal said yesterday that Saudi Arabia was not opening its embassy in Baghdad because of security reasons. “The reason is not political, it is entirely security, and when security is there ...

SRMG Plans Strategic Expansion in Media Sector - Arab News

-DUBAI, 25 April 2008 — The Saudi Research and Marketing Group (SRMG) has said that it was in the process of executing a number of strategic projects that aim at providing support to its affiliates and seek to enhance the Group’s leading position ...

Victims’ Relatives Demand Death for Vice Cops Accused in Madinah ... - Arab News

-MADINAH, 24 April 2008 — Relatives of four people who died in an accident last month after two members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice chased their car said they would demand execution of the culprits who caused ...

Burmese Community Leaders Dispel Rumors on Bangladeshi Meddling - Arab News

-MAKKAH, 25 April 2008 — Burmese community leaders in Makkah have refuted an “inflaming” report published in a local newspaper that said Bangladeshis were obstructing the progress of Burmese people in the Kingdom. They said the report had ...