Cyber Organisms
Region: Saudi ArabiaSo we've been told It's a small world after all. And thanks to technological advancements, the statement has begin to state its exactitude louder than ever. The world of science and media has improved immensly; creating and gifting civilisation with countless accessories to communincate and coincide together; both as a society and conflicting communities. ... more
Views: 863Philippine Embassy Riyadh to conduct Overseas Absentee Voting registration at IPSR
Region: Saudi ArabiaRiyadh, Saudi Arabia – The Philippine Embassy in Riyadh will conduct a mobile registration for the Overseas Absentee Voting (OAV) at the International Philippine School in Riyadh (IPSR) on Friday, March 27, 2009 from 8:00am until 4:00pm. The registration would allow qualified Filipino citizens to vote during the next Philippine national elections in May 2010. OAV applicants are requested to bring a copy of their... more
Views: 3496EPBL continues to blaze the Eastern Province
Region: Saudi Arabia
Dammam, Saudi Arabia - The Eastern Province Basketball League (EPBL) traces its humble origin from the Al-Munirah Basketball Players Association (MBPA) of the Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco) which was then headed by Pete Catanjal, an expatriate from the Philippines. Under the guidance and advisorship of Mr. Rashed A. Al-Hatllan, the first Open Invitational Basketball tournament of the MBPA was held in 19... more
Views: 2763Saudi Stations 100,000 Security For Hajj Pilgrimage
Region: Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia deployed some 100,000 security personnel to keep order as Muslim pilgrims flooded into the holy city of Mecca in preparation for the annual hajj, beginning on Saturday. Nearly 3 million pilgrims from around the world are expected to perform the hajj in Mecca and its nearby holy sites this year, according to Saudi authorities. Every year sees a massive security deployment for the pilgrimage -mainly to man... more
Views: 686No Free Oil for Sean "P. Diddy" Combs
Region: Saudi ArabiaAmerican rapper Sean P Diddy Combs has appealed to his ‘brothers and sisters in Saudi Arabia' and other oil producing countries to donate some oil to keep his private jet afloat. The multi-millionaire Grammy Awards winner says soaring gas prices are making it difficult for him to use his private jet, and now has to use commercial airlines to fly. He made his appeal in the following vlog: Saudi bloggers react.... more
Views: 1658Saudi Arabia: Independent Women
Region: Saudi Arabia
While there are no doubt restrictions for women living in Saudi Arabia, they do not necessarily match the oppressive image that many foreigners have of the country. In this post we have advice for women wanting to visit Jeddah alone, a review of a women-only hotel in Riyadh, and a plea to those foreigners who feel they want to speak on behalf of oppressed Saudi women. We start with Hala, currently living in the US and... more
Views: 3020It's All in The Name
Region: Saudi Arabia
It is common practice for converts to Islam to adopt Muslim names. But is it necessary - and what kind of name is appropriate? One Saudi blogger ponders the question, while some others are thinking about the use of aliases in the blogosphere - and yet another encourages the government to ‘name names'. Zuhair asks whether you need to change your name when you change religion, in a post entitled ‘What if my ... more
Views: 1104Saudi Arabia: Is Divorce an Easy Word?
Region: Saudi Arabia“Has divorce become such an easy word?” asks Saudi Arabian blogger 3abira Sabeel [Ar], in this post which discusses how different today's women are from their grandmothers and why young women and men find it easy to dissolve their unions. She sets the tone for her post by describing the scene when our “illiterate” grandmothers “ruled the roost”: فـ السابق كانت الفت... more
Views: 1846Saudi Arabia: The Black Garbage Bag
Region: Saudi ArabiaAmerican Sabra is in Saudi Arabia … and has to do what the Saudi women do when it comes to covering up from head to toe when outside her house. On the Abaya, or cloak worn by women in Saudi, Sabra writes: I wear my abeya when I leave our compound to do occasional grocery shopping - which is about the ONLY shopping I do here [I had to wear it a week or two ago when I went downtown to try to get paint samples]... more
Views: 873Saudi has hiked output by 300,000 bpd
Region: Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia has increased its oil production by 300,000 barrels per day in response to orders from customers, mostly from the United States, and will pump 9.45 million bpd in June, Oil Minister Ali al-Nuaimi said on Friday. "Every month, we receive (orders) from our customers worldwide. On May 10 we increased our response to our customers by 300,000 barrels because they asked for it," Nuaimi told reporters during a... more
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