Tens of thousands of mosques across Saudi Arabia reopened Sunday for the first time in more than two months, with worshipers ordered to follow strict guidelines to prevent the spread of the coronavirus as Islam's holiest site in Mecca remained (...)
A Colliers International report on 2020/21 hotel occupancy rates anticipates the UAE and Saudi Arabia's hotel sectors will witness the fastest recovery in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.
The report considered the impact of the (...)
Saudi Arabia announced on Tuesday several measures to ease nationwide lockdown gradually, paving the way for reopening the country on 21 June while taking precautions against coronavirus.
From 28 to 30 May, the curfew will be from 06:00 to 15:00 in (...)
Saudi Arabia will begin easing restrictions on movement and travel this week, more than two months after stringent measures were introduced to help curb the spread of the novel coronavirus.
Restrictions will be lifted in three phases, culminating in (...)
Muslims around the world on Sunday began celebrating Eid al-Fitr, a normally festive holiday marking the end of the fastiedinang month of Ramadan, with millions under strict stay-at-home orders and many fearing renewed coronavirus outbreaks.
The (...)
Unemployment rates rose and total employment fell in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia in April as efforts to contain the coronavirus pandemic forced businesses to close across the country, the Labor Department said on Friday.
The (...)
The Muslim World League (MWL) on Wednesday donated one million Saudi riyals (US$266,259) to Egypt, part of the Islamic NGO's humanitarian mission to provide support for Muslim and non-Muslim societies in their fight against the coronavirus.
Mohamed (...)
Billionaire Saudi businessman Saleh Abdullah Kamel, who founded the banking and real estate conglomerate Dallah Albaraka Group, has died, according to relatives quoted in the kingdom's media. He was 79.
People close to Kamel told The Associated (...)
As the world prepares for a new phase in the fight to contain the coronavirus pandemic, the Gulf region is still seeing a rise in infection cases. Yet, its countries are on the verge of easing lockdown restrictions to get their economies moving (...)
For many Iraqis, the anti-British revolt of 1920 was the greatest event in their modern history, an inspiring revolutionary movement which ushered in the birth of a new nation in ancient Mesopotamia.
Even though the revolt was crushed by the (...)
Wearing a light-coloured jacket, dark trousers and sunglasses, the 12-year-old boy is led onto the stage of Harlem's legendary Apollo Theater. He is taken to sit on a chair, the microphone is adjusted to his height, and bongo drums are placed into (...)
It's been a Ramadan unlike any other for Abdourahmane Sall, far from the mosque during the Muslim holy month as coronavirus cases mount. With only a little over a week left, he decided joining thousands of others in tradition was worth the risk (...)
Saudi Arabia will enforce a countrywide 24-hour curfew during the five-day Muslim Eid al-Fitr holiday later this month to help stem the spread of the coronavirus, the interior ministry said on Tuesday.
The curfew will apply from May 23-May 27 (...)
The head of the Egyptian syndicate for Quran reciters and learners, Sheikh Mohamed Mahmoud El-Tablawy, died at his home in Menoufiya governorate on Tuesday at the age of 86 after a long illness.
Syndicate spokesman Mohamed El-Saaty said the funeral (...)
Saudis began tentatively returning to shopping malls and open-air markets on Wednesday after authorities relaxed restrictions imposed to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus.
Security guards took shoppers' temperatures as a small number of (...)
The live scenes from the Kaaba broadcast by Saudi satellite television were stunning. The imam of the Grand Mosque, Islam's holiest site, in Mecca was praying to an empty courtyard amid the coronavirus lockdown in the country.
Islam's second most (...)
People throughout the Arab Gulf are scaling back their celebrations of the Muslim Holy month of Ramadan this year because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Though some countries have eased the restrictions that have been in place for weeks to stop the (...)
Most of Gulf stock markets surged on Sunday buoyed by gains in banking shares and because some countries in the region had eased coronavirus restrictions during the holy month of Ramadan.
Saudi Arabia's benchmark index added 2.4 percent, with Al (...)
Saudi Arabia eased curfews across the country, while keeping 24-hour curfews in the city of Mecca and in neighbourhoods previously put in isolation.
Outside those exceptional areas, curfews will be eased between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m effective Sunday (...)
Saudi Arabia's King Salman issued an order to partially lift the curfew in all regions of the kingdom, to become from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., starting Sunday through Wednesday May 13, while keeping a 24-hour curfew in Mecca and in previously isolated (...)
Saudi Arabia eased curfews on Sunday across the country but kept 24-hour lockdowns in place in the city of Mecca and neighbourhoods previously put in isolation to curb the spread of the new coronavirus, state news agency SPA said.
It also signed a (...)
The Egyptian Exchange's (EGX) market capitalisation stood at EGP 564.894bn at the close of Sunday trading, gaining about EGP 9.5bn.
In the first trading session in the Muslim's holy month of Ramadan, Egypt's blue-chip index EGX30 advanced 2.54% to (...)
Mahmoud cleans a small mosque in Nasr City, east of Cairo. For 20 years he has spent his weekends doing so: the job supplements the income he earns during the week from his job as cleaning a government school in the same neighbourhood.
As Ramadan (...)
Speaking to Al-Ahram Weekly in a 2018 interview, the editors of New York University's Library of Arabic Literature, an ambitious series of mostly classical works of Arabic literature in new English translations, explained that “the series is aimed (...)
All Sufi celebrations for the middle of Shabaan Islamic month have been cancelled in Egypt due to the coronavirus.
“Before lockdown regulations, we use to gather either at the mosque or at Al-Saha Al-Rodwania [the Radwani courtyard in Luxor], pray (...)
