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• Saudi Arabia
  Jeddah gears up for king’s cup in new Sports City | Arab News — Saudi Arabia News, Middle East News, Opinion, Economy and more.

  Jeddah is eagerly awaiting the grand opening of the King Abdullah Sports city on Thursday amid an air of festivity and excitement. The stadium opening will witness the final match between the Al-Ahli and Shabab teams for the Custodian of Two Holy Mosques Cup, a prime football competition between highly popular football clubs in the Kingdom.

• Saudi Arabia
  Showers cool off Riyadh residents | Arab News — Saudi Arabia News, Middle East News, Opinion, Economy and more.

  Riyadh and its surrounding areas experienced some moderate rainfall on Wednesday evening providing a much needed relief from the searing heat in the Saudi capital with mercury levels touching 44 degrees Celsius a week ago. The sky was overcast on Tuesday evening and the city experienced light drizzle but it was not enough to provide succor from the heat.

• soudi arabia
  Saudi Arabia | Arab News — Saudi Arabia News, Middle East News, Opinion, Economy and more.

  Through the website, citizens are able to inform the king about any shortcomings in the services offered by government agencies.

• soudi pt2
  73 accidents in Jeddah in a single day | Arab News — Saudi Arabia News, Middle East News, Opinion, Economy and more.

  73 accidents in Jeddah in a single day

• primary p2
  Jordanian lauds services at Two Holy Mosques | Arab News — Saudi Arabia News, Middle East News, Opinion, Economy and more.

  Jordanian lauds services at Two Holy Mosques

• primary lebel p2
  Memoirs of a Saudi Ph.D. student: At a loss for words | Arab News — Saudi Arabia News, Middle East News, Opinion, Economy and more.

  THE complexities of the English language never cease to amaze me. When I was applying for my Master’s degree in 2008, I was confident that I would not need any additional English language course prior to starting my Master’s program. According to my own “biased judgment,” I thought I was proficient enough to easily get enrolled in the degree program. I was confident that I would easily achieve the IELTS score (band 7) in the very first attempt.

• soudi Arabia
  All about the unwanted, rewrapped gift | Arab News — Saudi Arabia News, Middle East News, Opinion, Economy and more.

  Whenever, I read in the classifieds column of someone wanting to hock an unwanted gift I think of the poor sod who gave it. There he is wrapping it up in colored paper and sticking a card to it with best wishes and all that and what does the recipient do, he puts an ad in the papers looking for buyers. Here is an unwanted gift, any bids please. Imagine the giver picking up the paper with the coffee in the morning and yawning back to bed. He scans the columns and his eye alights upon this legend: For quick sale, an ormolu clock with filigree work and silver etchings, unwanted gift, good as new. So, he shakes awake his wife. Look at this, he says, there is an ad for a clock just like the one we gave the Shankars, what a coincidence, maybe we could alert them and then they can have a pair of ormolus.

• Memoirs of a Saudi Ph.D. student: At a loss for words | Arab News — Saudi Arabia News, Middle East News, Opinion, Economy and more.

  THE complexities of the English language never cease to amaze me. When I was applying for my Master’s degree in 2008, I was confident that I would not need any additional English language course prior to starting my Master’s program. According to my own “biased judgment,” I thought I was proficient enough to easily get enrolled in the degree program. I was confident that I would easily achieve the IELTS score (band 7) in the very first attempt.

• Will Friends of Yemen follow through? | Arab News — Saudi Arabia News, Middle East News, Opinion, Economy and more.

  As the “Friends of Yemen” meet in London on April 29 to coordinate international support for Yemen’s transition, the question many Yemenis have is “Will they actually follow through?”

• The elephant in the room | Arab News — Saudi Arabia News, Middle East News, Opinion, Economy and more.

  Poor old Tony Blair is condemned to spend the rest of his life trying to justify his decision to help George Bush invade Iraq. He was at it again recently, insisting that the threat of Islamist extremism is the great problem of the 21st Century. Western countries, he said, must put aside their differences with Russia and China in order to “cooperate” in the fight against radical Islam

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