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The Jeddah Season festival has provided a wide range of seasonal employment opportunities for young Saudi men and women, helping them gain experience and prepare them to enter the job market.
Source: Jeddah Season provides seasonal employment for young Saudis
In the middle of the dry and arid plains of northeastern Saudi Arabia, a mysterious and solitary building stands majestically on the sand. It is the tomb of Qasr Al-Farid. One of the most famous monuments of the Madain Saleh archaeological site, listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Source: The tomb of Qasr Al-Farid, an archaeological mystery in the Saudi desert – KAWA
The 40-day Jeddah Season festival is currently underway, with the launch of a schedule of international shows and plays being presented for the first time in Saudi Arabia. The festival, which…
Source: Jeddah’s Kanz Al-Balad, Al-Ozwa Street Performance enthrall visitors
Wild cat conservation group Panthera has signed an agreement with a member of the Saudi royal family to help protect leopards worldwide, especially perhaps the rarest subspecies in the world, the Arabian leopard (Panthera pardus nimr). Panthera chairman Thomas Kaplan signed the deal June 7 in the county of Al-Ula with Bader bin Abdullah bin […]
Source: Leopards get a $20m boost from Panthera pact with Saudi prince
Jubbat Hail, in the Hail region of northeast Saudi Arabia, is on an old caravan route through the Nefud Desert. A UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2015, recent government investment has improved the…
Source: ThePlace: Jubbat Hail, an old caravan route through Saudi Arabia’s
The Saudi Ministry of Culture and auction house Christie’s on June 26 will hold a special charity auction of contemporary Middle Eastern art to benefit a new heritage museum in Jeddah’s…
Source: Auction of contemporary Middle Eastern art to benefit Jeddah’s
Once the kingdom’s capital and an enduring memorial to the nation’s past, Diriyah is an area of beauty and a must-visit for locals, expats and other visitors to Saudi Arabia​…
Source: 7 things to do in Diriyah, a historic jewel of Saudi Arabia
With its $1.1tn project pipeline, Saudi Arabia is looking for qualified builders to shape its most ambitious projects…
Source: Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 projects need more construction contractors
RIYADH: In almost no time, the city of Al-Ula in northwest Saudi Arabia went from being relatively unknown to a very early symbol of success for the Kingdom’s ambitious Vision 2030 reform plan.
Source: How Saudi Arabia’s Al-Ula went from being underdeveloped…to having
As the world marks International Museum Day on Saturday, Saudi Arabia is getting one of its national treasures in Ad Diriyah ready for opening to the public at the beginning of 2020. Arab…
Source: The wonder that is Salwa Palace, the original home of the Al-Saud
