Arab News
Published: 03 January 2009

MAKKAH: In his Friday speech yesterday, Imam of the Grand Mosque Sheikh Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais appealed to international bodies to take steps to ensure an immediate cease-fire in Gaza and condemned state-sponsored terrorism against innocent people.

“On behalf of all Muslims in the world we call on the international community and other organizations to immediately stop this Zionist terrorism,” Al-Sudais said. Read More...  

Arab News
Published: 03 January 2009

JEDDAH: Exhibitors at the recent Halal Expo 2008 reportedly canceled more than SR41.2 million ($11 million) worth of deals over the course of the three-day event and successfully ushered in a number of international players into the region’s Halal market, which is already worth an estimated SR7.8 trillion. Read More...  

(AFP)
Published: 30 December 2008

LONDON - Britain and the United States clung to the belief that the shah of Iran would remain in power until shortly before the Islamic revolution, newly declassified documents from 1978 revealed Tuesday.

Officials thought Mohammad Reza Pahlavi would continue to rule in some form up to the final weeks of 1978, in spite of violence, protests and the increasing influence of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Read More...  

Khaleej Times
Published: 30 December 2008

JEDDAH - Pilgrims have started leaving the holy city of Madinah following the conclusion of the recent Haj.

Of the total 564,242 pilgrims who arrived in the holy city by Sunday, 344,044 of them have left, according to the Haj Committee.

More than 220,000 pilgrims are still in the holy city of Madinah, which is a drop of 20 per cent over the same period last year. Read More...  

Nizar Sakhnini
Published: 29 December 2008

Massacres were part and parcel of the Zionist project in Palestine. They aimed at intimidating the Arabs and make them leave the country.

Dozens of massacres were committed against the Arabs starting with the Massacre at Baldat al-Shaikh in December 1947 and not ending with the massacres in Qana in South Lebanon in 1996 and 2006. Another brutal massacre is being committed in Gaza today. Hundreds of Palestinian Arabs have been killed and/or wounded. Given below, is a list of some of the massacres committed by the Zionists since 1947: Read More...

Gulf News
Published: 27 December 2008, 23:32

For a region that boasts a relatively large population, it is important to look at the state of its youth to determine its destination. For the Arab world, such a question would ensure whether it builds either a future of progress and prosperity or one that is marred with failure and lack of development. Read More...  

Arab News
Published: 25 December 2008

RIYADH: A legal expert at the Ministry of Labor has denied that the Kingdom’s new labor law bans mingling of men and women in workplace.

“While article 166 of the old labor law prohibited men and women from mingling in workplace, the new law only stipulates that their employment should be in accordance with Islamic Shariah,” Al-Watan newspaper quoted the unnamed expert as saying. Read More...  

Arab News
Published: 24 December 2008, 23:29

Makkah: The Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs has started procedures for the expropriation of an additional 130 real estates to facilitate the expansion of the Al Haram Al Sharif Mosque in Makkah.

The ministry has directed owners of the real estates to contact the Committee for the Development of the Northern Courtyards of the Al Haram Al Sharif in order to complete the procedures of expropriation of their properties for the sake of the largest ever Haram expansion, ordered by King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz, early this year. Read More...