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Owais Qarni and his love for Prophet

Edit Arabnews 26 May 2016
Attached Files. . ID. . 1464290407018509400. Publication Date. . Thursday, May 26, 2016. Owais Qarni’s is a story that sets an example for all the Muslims as how even without meeting the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), one may still earn Allah’s favor and His pleasure, on account of his unflinching love for the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) ... Yet he would keep a tab on the developments in Hijaz ... He said. To Kufa ... ....

Saudi women face difficulties starting businesses

Edit Arabnews 25 May 2016
Attached Files. . ID. . 1464129722648425500. Publication Date. . Wednesday, May 25, 2016. DAMMAM ... However, the bank wanted her to be a government employee ... Ghada Al-Harbi said most names she submitted to the Commerce Ministry for her traditional Najd and Hijaz food business were rejected ... Main category.  ... ....

Sykes-Picot is history ... it should stay that way

Edit The National 19 May 2016
Next month will mark the centenary of the Arab Revolt, when the tribes of the Hijaz rose up to attack the forces of the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. I mention this not for any great love of anniversaries, but as an antidote to all the talk of the Sykes-Picot agreement signed in May 1916, which has exercised minds all over the Middle East and beyond ... For this, Britain and France were willing to sign away the crown jewels....

Museums to help realize Vision 2030

Edit Arabnews 15 May 2016
Attached Files. . ID. . 1463261020723571700. Publication Date. . Sunday, May 15, 2016. JEDDAH. There are 132 private and public museums in Saudi Arabia and the Vision 2030 plan has rightly focused on their role in boosting tourism and putting the Kingdom in the lead among different countries ... It is one of the prominent museums in the city ... It reflects the civilizations and historical stages of the Hijaz region. Tags.  ... ....

Islamic feminism matters

Edit Jakarta Post 12 May 2016
First, the Koran was revealed within the context of 7th century Hijaz and thus some of the verses, when read literally, would only amount to specific instructions for people who lived at that time in that region.  Second, a legalistic approach to understanding Islam reduces the vast and complex Islamic tradition into a simplistic judgment on ......

Teenage pregnancy: Causes, effects and how it can be curbed

Edit Graphic 11 Apr 2016
popParental supervision. The first primary cause of this canker is the lack of proper supervision from parents. In some urban areas, parents do not supervise their children. They don’t care where they are, where they sleep and what they eat ... Poverty. The second major cause to this menace is poverty ... They easily exchange sex for food and other favours ... Ignorance ... Social misfits ... The writer is a student of the Hijaz Islamic Basic School. ....

Islamic State affiliate claims Saudi police station bombing

Edit Tampa Bay Online 03 Apr 2016
CAIRO (AP) — An Islamic State affiliate in Saudi Arabia claimed on Sunday that its militants detonated two explosive devices in front of a police station in the city of al-Dalam, setting fire to three police vehicles ... It did not give further details ... Another IS-inspired group, calling itself the Hijaz Province affiliate, said it was behind a mosque bombing inside a police compound that killed 15 people in August ... ___ ... ....

Makkah is world's most profitable hotel market

Edit Khaleej Times 06 Mar 2016
It is no coincidence that the most profitable hotels on the planet are located in the holy city of Makkah ... Five, Saudi Arabia's planned expansion of the Grand Mosque and exponential increase in foreign pilgrimage visitor quotas is complemented by more than $100 billion investments in the transport infrastructure of the Hijaz ... This makes investing in Makkah hospitality a non-brainer ... This is a hotel investor's dream come true!. ....

Images Dawn

Edit Dawn 04 Mar 2016
KARACHI. Iqbal really loved the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him). This can be known from his writings and through the recollections of those who visited him. They say whenever the Prophet would be discussed, Iqbal would feel deeply touched by it and tears would begin to flow from his eyes ... Quoting from Armaghan-i-Hijaz, he said his community possessed the heart but had no beloved. And who is the beloved, he asked and replied. the Prophet ... ....

Q&A;: Director of 'Bedouin western' heads to the Oscars

Edit Al Jazeera 27 Feb 2016
British-Jordanian director Naji Abu Nowar has arrived in Los Angeles with his picture Theeb, a coming-of-age desert drama ... Set in 1916 in the Ottoman province of Hijaz, the film - shot entirely in Jordan - follows the journey of Theeb, who guides a British officer to a secret destination. If it wins at the ceremony on Sunday, it will become the first Arab film to receive an Oscar ... I work instinctually ... I just do it ... I've just won a BAFTA....

The bearish case for gold

Edit Khaleej Times 13 Feb 2016
Gold was considered a "barbaric relic" by John Maynard Keynes and thought only fit to pave the floors of capitalist latrines by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. Yet gold has changed the fate of nations and dynasties for millennia, from the Roman Empire's lust for Cleopatra's gold to the Spanish conquistadore's dreams of El Dorado ... Indian brides have venerated gold since Vedic times and the gold souqs of Jeddah predate Ottoman rule in the Hijaz....

The lute master and the siege of Aleppo

Edit New Statesman 12 Feb 2016
Luthier Ibrahim al-Sukkar's shop was bombed; when he moved, militants came for him. Over WhatsApp, he told me what's next. " data-adaptive-image-768-img="" data-adaptive-image-1024-img="" data-adaptive-image-max-img=""> ... To the north, west and south, the city is encircled by ground troops from the Syrian armed forces, Hezbollah and Iran ... He wept on the floor, amid the dust and ash ... Hijaz suggests loneliness and melancholy ... Getty ....

What movies are playing? "Deadpool" and "Zoolander 2" in central Pa.: Feb. 12-18

Edit Penn Live 11 Feb 2016
Here is a list of movies opening Feb. 12 and the films that are still in area theaters. Check websites of theaters near you for times. NEW MOVIES. "Deadpool". Time. 1 hour, 48 minutes. Rated ... With Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin and T.J ... In the Ottoman province of Hijaz during World War I, a young Bedouin boy experiences a hastened coming of age as he embarks on a perilous desert journey to guide a British officer to his secret destination ... G ... ....
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