Millions around the world areusing the Internet to find highquality health information. But for many local communities, this valuable knowledge is lockedaway in languages they cannot understand. You can help your community learn to speak the language of health! Translate health information into your locallanguage with Health Speaks. Health Speaks is an initiative to overcome [...]
huffingtonpost – But they can be built in the other 56 Muslim-majority countries in the world! As Americans, do we want to compare ourselves to the single exception to the rule of interfaith tolerance? After all, we pride ourselves on our freedom of religion, our freedom of speech, our freedom of expression… freedoms that are [...]
Vanity Fair’s Maureen Dowd traveled to Saudi Arabia to experience first-hand the Arab kingdom’s newly declared commitment to tourism. But apparently she didn’t get the memo—that promise seems to only apply to men. Saudi Arabia! Just the vacation spot for a headstrong, adventure-loving, cocktail-imbibing, fashion-conscious chick. Long averse to non-Muslim curiosity seekers, the Kingdom is [...]
Today, the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia in coordination with Dar Al-Hekma College is opening a photo exhibit entitled “Photography Through the Eyes of Saudi Arabian Women.” The exhibition is the first of its kind, portraying a collection of work from dozens of Saudi women photographers to be exhibited in the United States. The exhibit will run from July [...]
Despite the cultural shock you are likely to get, and in some cases the religious and social disparities as well, mutual curiosity is one thing that can ignite interaction between you and a Saudi. Royal biographer and historian Robert Lacey, having seen a huge success from his bestselling The Kingdom: Arabia and the House of Sa’ud, published [...]
True Life, the MTV documentary series that tracks late teens and 20-somethings as they deal with life’s serious issues and challenging transitions — newlywed life, sexuality, gambling addictions, imprisoned parents, self image and chronic disease or disability, for example — makes an unusual journey to the Middle East with Resist The Power! Saudi Arabia. The episode is [...]
Saudi newspapers ran front page pictures on Friday of King Abdullah and Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz in a crowd of women with their faces bared, adding fuel to the growing fight over mixing in the kingdom. The undated photograph showed the kingdom’s two most powerful men together with more than three dozen smiling [...]
A group of Saudi students have launched a magazine in Australia called “Saudi Oz”. This week came the magazine’s first issue included an article by Dr. Abdullah Al Moosa, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Higher Education for missions in addition to a series of topics that carry the voice scholarships recipients in Australia. The magazine [...]
(via huffingtonpost.com) Following Sept. 11, reports of hate crime rose exponentially across the United States. But, living deep in the heart of Texas, Dr. Salam Al-Dini says he had no problems. The reason, says the former-Texas A&M student, was because he served as a volunteer in the community. In his years studying and working in [...]
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