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Diriyah, Nov. 20, 2019, SPA — Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud patronized today the laying foundation stone ceremony for Diriyah Gate Project which aims at restoring the historical area as a cultural heritage project and returning this historical area to its ancient past…
The German Cultural Days will highlight the thriving Saudi-German cultural ties and the rich and diverse cultural scene in Germany. In Riyadh, all exhibitions, concerts and film screenings take place at the King Fahad National Library. Most of the events are open to the public every day from 5 PM…
A total of 67 young men and women took part in the construction of the historic market area Work was carried out with the assistance of 247 on-site workers of different nationalities RIYADH: A group of Saudi youths has helped to build a giant market for the latest session of…
Mecca: Like millions of other Muslims, Cory Ireza from Indonesia travelled to Mecca to pray in the Grand Mosque. But she also found a new attraction just a stone’s throw away from Islam’s holiest shrine. After performing the pilgrimage, Ireza, her husband Dodi and their two children were among the…
‘Dunya’s Day’ won the short film jury prize for international fiction in Sundance, it was the first time Saudi Arabia had appeared at the festival, a delegation of 13 young Saudi filmmakers has descended on the German capital, eight of whom with short films being represented at the European Film…
More than two million pilgrims gathered last month in Mecca for the Hajj – the annual pilgrimage. The advent of photography in the mid-19th century is of crucial importance to the history of the Hajj. Two photographers – Muhammad Sadiq Bey and Al Sayyid Abd al Ghaffar–were able to capture…
Following a meeting of UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee held in Bahrain last July, the Al-Ahsa oasis in Saudi Arabia which covers 8,544 hectares making it the largest oasis in the world, was one of nineteen sites around the world to be awarded world heritage status (see the August 2018 issue…
For many of the world’s 1.8 billion muslims, the month of Ramadan represents an opportunity to try to partially detach themselves from the world and devote themselves to fasting, reciting the Koran, prayer and acts of charity. Each year, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) holds a photography contest around…
The British Museum has announced that the Albukhary Foundation Gallery of the Islamic World will open to the public on the 18th of October, 2018. Conceived as a major re-display of the Museum’s world-class Islamic collection, the new gallery will be a comprehensive presentation of the Islamic world through art…
2018 marks the 70th anniversary of the 1948 Palestinian exodus known as the “nakba” which means catastrophe. @70: Celebration of Contemporary Palestinian Culture which took place last month in London, was a week-long festival of theatre, dance, films and talks. Every year on May 15, Palestinians around the world, who…
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