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Saudi Arabia. History of Saudi Arabia, Geography of Saudi Arabia, Politics of Saudi Arabia, Human rights in Saudi Arabia, Human trafficking in Saudi Arabia, Women's rights in Saudi Arabia, Economy of Saudi Arabia, Bedouin, Tribes of Arabia, Education in Saudi Arabia, Military of Saudi Arabia, Al Yamamah, Foreign relations of Saudi Arabia, International rankings of Saudi Arabia, Outline of Saudi Arabia, Telecommunications in Saudi Arabia, Public holidays in Saudi Arabia, Irrigation in Saudi Arabia, Basic Law of Saudi Arabia, LGBT rights in Saudi Arabia, Mutaween, Nuclear program of Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabian Boy Scouts Association, Saudi Aramco, Saudi riyal, House of Saud, List of cities and towns in Saudi Arabia, List of Arabian Houses, Demographics of Saudi Arabia, Arab diaspora, Water supply and sanitation in Saudi Arabia, Energy policy of Saudi Arabia ... Read more

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Chapters: Jeddah. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 188. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt:Jeddah (also spelled Jiddah, Jidda, or Jedda; Arabic: Jidda) is a Saudi Arabian city located on the coast of the Red Sea and is the major urban center of western Saudi Arabia. It is the largest city in Makkah Province, the largest sea port on the Red Sea, and the second largest city in Saudi Arabia after the capital city, Riyadh. The population of the city currently stands at over 3.4 million. It is considered the commercial capital of Saudi Arabia. Jeddah is the principal gateway to Mecca, Islam's holiest city, which able-bodied Muslims are required to visit at least once in their lifetime. Jeddah is the most cosmopolitan and tolerant of all Saudi Arabian cities, hosting expatriates from all over the world who have made Jeddah their home. It is the primary resort city of the country where Saudi visitors especially from Riyadh escape the dry heat of the desert to the sea side resorts of Jeddah. There are at least two explanations for the etymology of the name Jeddah, according to Jeddah Ibn Helwaan Al-Qudaa'iy, the chief of the Quda'a clan. The more common account has it that the name is derived from Jaddah, the Arabic word for "grandmother". According to eastern folk belief, the tomb of Eve ( ), considered the grandmother of humanity, is located in Jeddah. The Tomb was sealed with concrete by the religious authorities in 1975 as a result of some Muslims praying at the site. Ibn Battuta, the Berber traveller, visited Jeddah during his world trip. He wrote the name of the city into his diary as "Juddah". The British Foreign Office and other branches of the British government used to use the older spelling of "Jedda", contrary to other English-speaking usage, but in 2007 changed to the spelling ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=277718 ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Saudi Arabia is a country situated in Southwest Asia, the largest country of Arabia, bordering the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea, north of Yemen. Its extensive coastlines on the Persian Gulf and Red Sea provide great leverage on shippingthrough the Persian Gulf and Suez Canal. The kingdom occupies 80% of the Arabian Peninsula. Most of the country's boundaries with the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and the Republic of Yemen are undefined, so the exact size of the country remains unknown. The Saudi government estimate is 2,217,949 square kilometers. Other reputable estimates vary between 2,149,690 square kilometers and 2,240,000 square kilometers. Less than 1 % of the total area is suitable for cultivation, and in the early 1990s population distribution varied greatly among the towns of the eastern and western coastal areas, the densely populated interior oases, and the vast, almost empty deserts. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Winston's Hiccup or Churchill's Hiccup is the huge zigzag in Jordan's eastern border with Saudi Arabia, supposedly because Winston Churchill drew the boundary of Transjordan after a generous and lengthy lunch.Churchill, then British Colonial Secretary, boasted that he had "created Transjordan with the stroke of a pen on a Sunday afternoon in Cairo." A story subsequently arose that, after enjoying an overly liquid lunch that day, he had hiccuped while attempting to draw the border and had refused to allow it to be corrected. Thus the zigzag, with the Saudi town of Kaf near its apex has been written into history as "Winston's hiccup". ... Read more

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Introduces the geography, history, economy, culture, and people of the large middle eastern country that occupies most of the Arabian Peninsula. ... Read more

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Recent efforts to elaborate a feminist geopolitics have centered on challenging and expanding classical spatializations of ''the political''. Building on this growing body of work, this article explores the gender politics of state power as refracted in struggles over women's transnational migration and domestic labor. Specifically, it analyzes the Indonesian and Saudi states' involvement in shaping the migration and working conditions of Indonesian domestic servants employed in Saudi Arabia. It examines key aspects of both states' direct and indirect influences on the feminization of the migrant labor force, the limitations of their policies for protecting overseas migrant women, and the political strategies that activists are employing to broaden the states' spaces and scales of jurisdiction. It points up gender-specific limits to the internationalization of state labor regulation, as well as possibilities that NGOs have identified for improving the protection of migrant workers in this transnational context. It thus identifies some particular ways in which contestations around women's transnational labor migration and gendered constructions of domestic labor are interlinked with the changing geographies of state power. ... Read more

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Saudi Arabia is a young nation with an ancient history. It is one of the most conservative traditional societies in the world grappling with the impact of modernization wrought by the influx of great oil wealth beginning only in the mid twentieth century. Saudi culture is in constant flux, and the culture gap between the West and Saudi Islamic culture is wide. Culture and Customs of Saudi Arabia is the first cultural overview of country and provides timely, authoritative insight into a major Middle Eastern power.

The Saudis are a proud people with a closed society, but circumstances have caused them to play an important role in current world affairs. The author has lived and worked in Saudi Arabia and has extensively used his contacts there to provide up-to-date material. Saudi culture developed through age-old interactions between the Arabian peoples and their harsh desert environment. Saudi Arabia is the birthplace of Islam, and the basic Islamic values of Saudi culture have remained to this day. The themes of an ancient desert society infused with Islam values on a collision course with modernity are interplayed throughout chapters on the land, people, and history, traditional Islamic culture and modernization, the extended family and gender roles, cuisine and dress, social customs, rites of passage, and holidays, communication and mass media, and artistic expression. Color photos and a map, chronology, and glossary round out the narrative.

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the trials and triumphs of the 19th and 20th Century Al Saud family
This book is part of a Young Adult (YA) series called "Creation of the Modern Middle East."All of the books contain an introduction by Dr. Akbar S. Ahmed, the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies and Professor of International Relations, School of International Service, American University, in which he congratulates "Chelsea House Publishers for taking the initiative in helping us to understand the Middle East through this series."

The earliest history of the land that became the property of Al Saud family is shaped around the black meteorite that was venerated by the pagans of the Arabian Peninsula.Pre-Islamic merchants in Mecca made their living off of the pilgrims who came to worship at the temple where the meteorite was housed. Many of the photographs in "Saudi Arabia" are of the Ka'ba, the cube-shaped building whose eastern cornerstone consists of the reassembled parts of the meteorite.This is now the holiest site in Islam, and it is toward the Ka'ba that Muslims face when they pray.

I've read four books in this series now, and "Saudi Arabia" is the best written.It reads more like a story than a longish newspaper article, as the other books did.The author focuses her history on the trials and triumphs of the 19th and 20th Century Al Saud family, and the daring exploits of Colonel T.E. Lawrence before and during World War I.

Unfortunately for the Saud family, Colonel Lawrence "had a very different candidate in mind to be the leader of the Arab revolt [against the Ottoman Empire]:the third son of the Sharif of Mecca, Feisal al Hussain."

Abdul Aziz, who was the current leader of the Saudi tribe turned to the Ikhwan (the 'Brotherhood'), a group of religious zealots linked to the Wahhabis.They were fierce fighters, who "could travel for hundreds of miles with only the most minimal supplies."With the help of these warriors, the Kingdom soon belonged to Abdul Aziz.

However, after the conclusion of World War I, the British stepped in and awarded the choicest portion of the Arabian Peninsula to Sharif Hussain (Colonel Lawrence's candidate):the Hejaz, which contained both Mecca and Medina, the chief pilgrimage sites for all Muslims.It was only after geologists concluded that there was little oil to be found in Arabia (!) that the British lost interest in the Peninsula, and Abdul Aziz was able to complete his conquest of the Hejaz.He was proclaimed the new king of the Hejaz on January 8, 1926.In 1932, after subduing his old allies, the Ikhwan, his new country became known as Saudi Arabia.

The author then takes us through the modern history of this country, beginning with the discovery of oil (that the British geologists had missed) and ending with the terrorist attacks on the United States on 09/11/2001.

Although you will need to turn to other books to learn about the early history of the Arabian Peninsula, including the life of Muhammad and the birth of Islam, "Saudi Arabia" is a very readable introduction to the recent history of this oil-rich nation. ... Read more

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Introduces the history, geography, people, and customs of Saudi Arabia. ... Read more