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An artist’s impression of the complete newly renovated Dammam women’s market. (Asharq Al-Awsat)
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File photo of a Riyadh mosque. (Asharq Al-Awsat)
Saudi Arabia promotes eco-friendly mosques
Dammam, Asharq Al-Awsat—Saudi Arabia is in the planning stages of making more than 90,000 mosques across the Kingdom more eco-friendly, utilizing solar and other renewable sources of energy as part of a bid to put green building on the national stage. The initiative...Caption:
A boy sits outside a water pipe shop in Cairo July 13, 2006. (Reuters)
Saudi Arabia enforces crackdown on shisha cafes in Eastern Province
Dammam, Asharq Al-Awsat—Saudi authorities have initiated a crackdown against shisha cafes in the Kingdom’s Eastern Province, as part of a larger national clampdown on public smoking. Government inspectors are touring cities in the Eastern Province, penalizing...Caption:
Veil-clad female workers process olives at a factory for pickling olives in the Saudi city of Tabuk on October 23, 2013. (REUTERS/Mohamed Al Hwaity)
Saudi women challenging male business monopoly
Dammam, Asharq Al-Awsat—Despite official statistics showing that 75 percent of economic activity by women in Saudi Arabia is in the fields of cosmetics and catering, some women are distancing themselves from the stereotypes and starting business ventures in other...Caption:
File photo of Saudi women attending a career fair. (AAA)