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Mashup Score: 0Exploring the oceanic materials used in Historic Jeddah’s Hejazi houses - 11 month(s) ago
JEDDAH: Historic Jeddah has undergone many renovations of its buildings. However, some unpainted patches reveal oceanic materials still a part of their structure today. Sea mud, coral limestone and coral reef extracts were used as building materials over 500 years ago. Abdullah Al-Hodaif, owner of Al-Hodaif Museum, a six floor center and one of the tallest buildings in Al-Balad, said that homes…
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Mashup Score: 0Aviv Clinics Dubai: A game-changer in stroke rehabilitation - 12 month(s) ago
A stroke is a medical emergency when the blood flow to the brain is disrupted or reduced, depriving the brain tissue of oxygen and nutrients. There are two types of stroke: Ischemic stroke, which occurs when the brain’s arteries are blocked and accounts for 85 percent of cases, and hemorrhagic stroke, which happens when blood leaks out of the arteries into the nearby brain tissue and makes up the…
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Mashup Score: 1Saudi Arabia’s Thiqah plans expansion to Egypt - 1 year(s) ago
CAIRO: Saudi Arabia’s business service provider Thiqah has signed a memorandum of understanding with Cairo-based e-Finance Investment Group to facilitate the company’s entry into the Egyptian market. The agreement will enable both companies to provide digital solutions, electronic payment services and integrated technological systems to Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
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CAIRO: The Egyptian government is seeking to work more closely with the UN to bring peace and stability to Syria, with an end to all terrorism and foreign interference in the country. Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry recently held discussions over the telephone with UN Envoy to Syria Geir Pedersen to seek further cooperation and express Cairo’s sentiments, according to the spokesperson of…
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Mashup Score: 1How Ramadan makes me a better Christian - 1 year(s) ago
I have always been fascinated by Islam. I began my career as a professor and chaplain at the world’s largest Christian university. During every academic break, I would take a group of students on an excursion overseas. Once, I had 20 students in Tunisia with me over spring break, and I made a point of booking all of us at a hotel in Tunis that was as close as possible to a mosque. Why? I wanted…
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RIYADH: Saudi Arabia will send the Kingdom’s first female astronaut and a male astronaut to the International Space Station (ISS) during the second quarter of 2023. Astronauts Rayyanah Barnawi and Ali AlQarni will join the crew of the AX-2 space mission, Axiom Space’s second all-private astronaut mission to the ISS. “The step aims to empower Saudi capabilities in human spaceflight geared towards…
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Mashup Score: 2BBC Arabic stops broadcasting after 85 years - 1 year(s) ago
LONDON: BBC Arabic went off-air on Friday, bringing an end to its 85 years of radio broadcasts. However, the BBC online service will continue. BBC Arabic, the BBC Empire Service’s first foreign language radio broadcast, aired for the first time on Jan. 3, 1938. The Arabic-speaking network announced earlier this month that it would gradually reduce its service before finally closing. The network…
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Mashup Score: 0Merry Christmas from Arab News - 1 year(s) ago
As millions around the world celebrate the birth of Christ, we — at Arab News — take this opportunity to wish all our Christian readers, both in Saudi Arabia and abroad, a Merry Christmas. We also take this opportunity to start a new tradition. Indeed, subscribers to our print edition inside the Kingdom will enjoy the first-ever Arab News Christmas Edition in print. At the same time, our online…
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Mashup Score: 1Syria reports 39 dead in cholera outbreak - 2 year(s) ago
DAMASCUS: Syria’s health ministry has recorded 39 deaths from cholera and nearly 600 cases in an outbreak spreading in the war-ravaged country that the United Nations warned is “evolving alarmingly.” A total of 594 cases have been recorded across 11 of its 14 provinces since late last month, the health ministry said late Tuesday. “The situation is evolving alarmingly in affected governorates and…
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Any meeting between Egypt and Saudi Arabia on the pitch is a big deal and that will be the case when Zamalek and Al-Hilal clash on Friday in the Lusail Super Cup in Qatar. For this summit between the club champions of two major Arab leagues, one from Asia and one from Africa, traffic in downtown Doha will be regulated, extra trains will be laid on, and the international community will be watching…
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Exploring the oceanic materials used in Historic Jeddah’s Hejazi houses; • The building stones used in historical homes are coral limestone extracted from the coral reefs along the Red Sea coast, and some were brought from what was then Al-Ruwais beach. https://t.co/OBcdLh1y3Z