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Dubai Crown Prince Praises Food Delivery Agent Who Removed Bricks From Busy Road

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The Crown Prince of Dubai Hamdan bin Mohammad shared a video on Twitter of an unknown man (at the time of posting) that has since gone viral online with over 200,000 views. The video showed a delivery agent from Talabat (a UAE-based food delivery company) removing bricks from a busy road that might have caused

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Saudi Ministry readies e-design for Umrah Trip without intermediary for foreign pilgrims

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As a part of the Ministry of Hajj and Umrah’s efforts to achieve the objectives of the Kingdom’s Vision 2030 by improving the experience and hosting more guests of Allah ﷻ , a reservation system has been developed to serve as a central base to connect all online travel agencies and service providers in the

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47 Prominent Muslims in Queen’s Jubilee Honors

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Professor Aziz Sheikh, an eminent academic and medical researcher, whose work involved proving the efficacy of the Oxford-AstraZeneca and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines, has been awarded knighthood for services to medicine in the Queen’s Jubilee Birthday Honors, 2022. Through the EAVE II study, Professor Sheikh and his team were the first to reveal that the Omicron variant

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1444 years since Hijrah

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July 30, 2022 marks the beginning of the year 1444 AH according to the Islamic calendar also called the Hijri calendar, which comes from the Arabic word “hijrah”, referring to the migration of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ from Makkah to Madinah over 1,400 years ago. The Islamic calendar is based on lunar cycles and was first

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How South Americans with Middle Eastern roots are transforming Arabic cuisine

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Arabic food has become an integral part of the local cuisine in several Latin American countries since the first Arab immigrants arrived in the 19th century. The Arab influence on the Latin American culinary cannot be ignored. Now the new generation of Arabs on the continent is seeking to expand the concepts and possibilities of

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Saudi police arrest a citizen For Helping Israeli Journalist Enter Makkah

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A Saudi man was arrested in relation to a video that was posted on Twitter by an Israeli-Jewish reporter. Gil Tamary of Israel’s Channel 13 posted a controversial 10 minute long video of himself sneaking into Makkah, Islam’s holiest city, defying a law that prevents non-Muslims from entering the two most holiest cities of Islam.

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V Bionic team from Saudi Arabia and Germany Win Microsoft’s Imagine Cup 2022

Zain Ahmed Samdani, 21, founder of V-Bionic (and team1) has been awarded first place in Microsoft’s 2022 Imagine Cup World Championship for ExoHeal, a modular exoskeletal hand rehabilitation device that helps patients with neurological damage recover faster, at a fraction of the cost of other options.  This is a remarkable achievement, given that thousands of

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