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Celebrations, feelings of happiness and relief on first days of driving
Videos and photos went viral on social media of women celebrating their first rides in the streets of the Kingdom, a number of which couldn’t wait till morning from the excitement and started driving at midnight of June 24.
Change in progress
Throughout the years, Saudi society has gone through rapid changes and waves of modernity in relatively little time for a young country. As women progressed academically, received equal scholarship opportunities as men, climbed career ladders and were sharing leadership positions ...
Saudi Arabia ranks number one in food waste
Some of the major causes of food waste are low awareness in society, dinner hosts’ tendency to show off to guests and often some restaurants and hotels that have poor organization related to curbing food waste, according to Abdullah Al ...
Glory of early Muslim scholars revived in exhibit
Others include Sharafuddin Al-Tusi, a Persian mathematician and astronomer of the Islamic Golden Age, and Mohammed Ar-Razi, a Persian polymath, physician, alchemist and philosopher who is considered an important figure in the history of medicine, in addition to Lagari Hasan ...
Saudis celebrate issuance of driving licenses to women
Fatima Al-Zahrani, a medical student, said, “I’ve been driving for almost eight years now in Canada or whenever I travel to other countries and I like the independence and the ability to explore. Although there are some benefits to having ...
The inner workings of the largest website offering Arabic content: Mawdoo3.com
“On an infrastructure level, we’re 22 times more efficient,” said Jaber. “That’s taking into account everything from monitoring to database management and ensuring system security. It’s all faster in AWS. Working in the AWS Cloud also costs about 88 percent ...
Women engineers break stereotypes
“Some companies where we interned were at first skeptic about our abilities but then we proved we could deliver,” she further said. “The feedback they gave us was that we did the work more thoroughly than they expected and delivered ...
Benten: Pilgrims to enjoy comprehensive insurance
Former Saudi ambassador to Japan Dr. Abdulaziz Turkistani was inspired as a child to see a translator accompanying King Faisal during the former leader’s meeting with the Japanese emperor. He recounts that later on in life, he focused on education ...
Women staff fill car showrooms
Asked about visitors in recent months, Mirza said, “Since the decree was announced, we have found an increase in traffic in our showrooms. Some even showed up the day following the announcement of the decree out of curiosity. Since last ...
Volunteering for 'Safe Ramadan'
A wider campaign titled “Ramadan Aman”, or “Safe Ramadan”, launched in 19 cities in the country to prevent traffic violations during the holy month where speedy drivers during sunset pose a threat to road safety.
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