Do Your Best for Pilgrims: Abdullah
P.K. Abdul Ghafour, Arab News |
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JEDDAH, 27 October 2004 — Crown Prince Abdullah yesterday urged all government departments to mobilize their resources in the service of pilgrims who have come from within and outside the Kingdom for...
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Jail Instead of Death for Drug Traffickers
Abdul Wahab Bashir, Arab News |
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JEDDAH, 27 October 2004 — The Shoura Council has concluded discussions on a new anti-narcotics draft legislation that would allow judges to use their discretion to substitute capital punishment for...
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A Good Laugh at Jeddah’s Traffic
Essam Al-Ghalib, essam@arabnews.com |
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JEDDAH, 27 October 2004 — I was sitting with a friend the other night when he surprised me by saying, “Saudi Arabia is the best place in the world to drive.” Curious, I begged him to explain. After...
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Tash Ma Tash Actors Receive Death Threats
Mahmoud Ahmad, Arab News |
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JEDDAH, 27 October 2004 — Actors of the popular Saudi TV serial Tash Ma Tash have come under death threat from terrorists after the highly popular episode “And life continues” was telecast. The...
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Vote for Women: Kuwait Moves a Step Closer
Staff Writer |
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JEDDAH/KUWAIT, 27 October 2004 — Ignoring stiff opposition from Islamist deputies, the emir of Kuwait Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah opened the new session of the National Assembly (Parliament) yesterday...
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The New Culture of Ramadan
Raid Qusti, rqusti@arabnews.com |
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Is refraining from drinking and eating for several daylight hours so hard for people that it causes a total breakdown? The fourth pillar of Islam, it seems, is just that for many of us here in the...
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