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Umm Al-Qura (newspaper)
''Umm Al-Qura'' (Arabic: أُم القُرى, ''The Mother of Villages'') was the first Arabic language Saudi Arabian daily newspaper based in Mecca, and the official gazette of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The paper has been in circulation since 1924. History and profile ''Umm Al-Qura'' was established by Ibn Saud, the Kingdom’s founder, and the first issue was published on 12 December 1924. In fact, the paper was a successor of ''Al Qibla'' which was the official gazette of the Kingdom of Hejaz. One of the reasons behind the establishment of ''Umm Al-Qura'' was the harsh criticisms of an Egyptian newspaper, '' Al Muqattam'', against Ibn Saud. He started the paper to counterweigh this negative propaganda of ''Al Muqattam'' through the paper. ''Umm Al-Qura'' was initially a weekly newspaper issued in four hand-printed pages before it had turned into a government gazette – an announcer of royal decrees and other state-related news. Shortly after its start ''Umm Al-Qura'' freq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Media (Saudi Arabia)
The Ministry of Media ( ar, وزارة الإعلام) is one of the governmental bodies of Saudi Arabia and part of the cabinet. The main function of the ministry is to regulate the media of Saudi Arabia and the communications between Saudi Arabia and other countries. It is headquartered in Riyadh. The ministry's current incarnation was founded in 2018 after Saudi's former Ministry of Culture and Information split duties into the Ministry of Media and the Ministry of Culture. History The ministry was founded in 1962 as the ministry of information. The first minister of information was Jamil bin Ibrahim Al Hujaylan. In 2003, its portfolio was expanded to include cultural affairs and was renamed as the ministry of culture and information. later, on 1 June 2018 the culture was separated from the media resulting in two different ministries: Ministry of Culture and Ministry of Media. Iyad bin Amin Madani served in the post between February 2005 and 14 February 2009. His successor w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Najd
Najd ( ar, نَجْدٌ, ), or the Nejd, forms the geographic center of Saudi Arabia, accounting for about a third of the country's modern population and, since the Emirate of Diriyah, acting as the base for all unification campaigns by the House of Saud to bring Arabia under a single polity and under the Salafi jurisprudence. Historic Najd was divided into three modern administrative regions still in use today. The Riyadh region, featuring Wadi Hanifa and the Tuwaiq escarpment, which houses easterly Yamama with the Saudi capital, Riyadh since 1824, and the Sudairi region, which has its capital in Majmaah. The second administrative unit, Al-Qassim, houses the fertile oases and date palm orchards spread out in the region's highlands along Wadi Rummah in central Najd with its capital in Buraidah, the second largest Najdi city, with the region historically contested by the House of Rashid to its north and the House of Saud to its east and south. The third administrative un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
