Edge of Arabia, a groundbreaking cultural initiative, promoting and empowering contemporary artists from Saudi Arabia, launched today its world tour at the Global Competitiveness Forum (GCF), held in Riyadh’s iconic Kingdom Tower under the patronage of The Custodian of the two Holy Mosques, King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz. Edge of Arabia’s participation at the GCF [...]

Could the kingdom’s religious leaders be about to make a sharp U-turn? For decades Saudi Arabia’s religious police have enforced a rigid separation of the sexes in public places. Plain-clothes agents of the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, as the religious police are known, patrol streets, parks and shopping centres, [...]

Ahmed El Bayed is the first professional Saudi Magician. Not just that, but he is also the first Arab to perfect magic. He can make things fly and others disappear. He first started when he began to realize that there were something’s that could truly amaze people, and so he began learning how to perform illusions and perfect [...]

On the occasion of choosing Jerusalem as the capital of Arab culture for 2009, the Ministry of Culture and Information in cooperation with the Palestinian Embassy in Riyadh organizes four Palestinian cultural days that include exhibitions, folk art shows for both men and women, and literary evenings. Palestinian culture and folklore comprises many aspects from [...]

Saudi painter Ibrahim Alfassam will be holding an exhibit of his painting at the King Faisal bin Fahad center for Arts. The exhibit with feature 180 original oil and abstract painting by Ibrahim Alfassam. This event is hosting by the ministry of culture to support and spread awareness for the arts. The event is from [...]

When the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was founded in 1932, education was not accessible to everyone and limited to individualized instruction at religious schools in mosques in urban areas. These schools taught Islamic law and basic literacy skills.

A group of Saudi women have launched an international campaign against the kingdom’s male guardianship law, on the anniversary of a prominent protest, in which dozens of Saudi women publicly drove their cars through the country’s capital.

No this is not a prank, and yes this is real. Saudi boasts with a few underground rock bands, who for the most part only play in their own basements and at private parties. This is a great chance for you to meet these bands and show some love!

King Fahad cultural center will be hosting Kazakhstan culture week. There will be exhibits showing various elements of Kazakhstani culture, as well as booths and activities from the entire family.

RIYADH — Remittances from Saudi Arabia’s estimated nine million mostly Asian foreign workers are soaring as the kingdom recruits more of them for its massive development plan, an economist said on Saturday.