Saudi Arabia

IELP Culture Hour

! Discover The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Present :
Darweesh Salamah Jubarah Al-Mudahki
Alaa Momena Mudhar Nassir
Fahad Al-Moutiri Fahad Al-Rashedi
In The Name of God The Merciful

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Index
 1. Introduction
 2. General Information
 3. What Make Saudi Arabia Special ?
 4. Education
 5. Entertainment
 6. The Traditional Food
 7. Conclusion

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Introduction .1
This presentation is about our country
which is the kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Its about general information, history,
culture, what make Saudi Arabia very
special, education, entertainment, and
traditional food.

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 2. General Information About
Saudi Arabia`
 2.1. The Flag
TheThe flag of Saudi Arabia
script on the flag is written
is in
thenever
Thuluth script.
flown It is the green
at half-staff.
shahadah or Islamic
flag featuring declaration
in white an of
faith: "There
Arabic is no godand
inscription butaAllah
sword.
and Muhammad is the messenger
of Allah“ The sword symbolizes
justice

 2.2. The Coat of arms

It consists of two crossed swords with a
palm tree in the open upper space between
the blades. The swords represents the two
areas Hijaz and Nejd united under King
Abdulaziz All Saud in 1926.

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 2. General Information About
Saudi Arabia
 2.3. The Saudi Arabian Map

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the Meddle East

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2. General Information About
Saudi Arabia
 3.2. The History
The story of Saudi Arabia began at 1913 by the King Abdulaziz All
Saud hands the establisher of Saudi Arabia. After that, the kingdom
went to too many stages of development. It has Different regions in
the kingdom that played a very important role in Saudi Arabia.

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2. General Information About
Saudi Arabia
The Result The Object
Riyadh Capital
Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz All Saud King
km2 2,150,000 ≃ Area
≃ 24,000,000 (12/km2) People Population
Arabic Language
 Saudi Riyal (SR) Currency
GMT+3 Time zone
sa. Internet TLD
+966 Calling code

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2. General Information About
Saudi Arabia
 2.3. The National Anthem
- Hasten to glory and supremacy,
- Glorify the Creator of the heavens!
- And raise the green flag
- Carrying the emblem of Light,
- Repeating: Allah is the greatest,
- O my country!
- My country, Live as the glory of Muslims!
-Long live the King for the flag and the
country

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 ? What Make Saudi Arabia Special .3
 3.1. The Capital of Islam

Arafat
Al Madinah, Muslims are drawn to
Madinah, not as a religious duty as in the
case of Makkah, but out of love and
respect for God's last Prophet. For it is in
this city that the Prophet Muhammad
established the first Islamic community, Makkah,
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globe face to pray five times a day.
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? What Make Saudi Arabia Special .3
 3.1. The Capital of Islam
Al-Ka’abah is the direction of
Muslims in all over the world. It
was established in Prophet
Abraham’s time before 2,000 B.C.

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 ? What Make Saudi Arabia Special .3
 3.2. The Islamic Rules
Taboos (for example) :
No Alcohols
No Gambling
No Nightclubs
No Eating pork

Saudi Arabia take laws

All shops and and the provisions from
stores closed 5 the Quran (Holly Book)
times a day at and the Sunnah of the
pray times. Prophet Muhammad
(What Prophet
Muhammad said & did)

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What Make Saudi Arabia .3
?Special
 3.3. Saudi Economy
The Most Important Elements
of The Economy
1. Export and manufacture of oil.
2. Petrochemical and basic
industries.
3. The Islamic Tourism.
4. Cultivation & Export of Dates
5. Livestock and Fisheries

The biggest producer

of oil in the world

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? What Make Saudi Arabia Special .3
It has been a great misunderstanding to the world that
 3.4.
the women of The Women
Saudi Arabia Work
are being mistreated, and they
are being treated as inferiors. It was hard for women to
The women work in most of fields, like:
get educated, and it was hard for them to work because
1. The medicine fields.
of the hard life that they encountered in the early days. A
2. The education fields.
lot of ignorance and closed minded extremists were
3. The business fields.
representing the Saudi Arabian society. After that, Islam
came and liberated women. Islam taught the people of
Saudi Arabia how to treat women respectfully and fairly.
They still have to cover their entire body when they want
to go outside the house, yet they are allowed to take that
cover off in front of their husband of course and their
brothers and everybody that they can take their cover off
according to the Islamic religion. Nowadays, women of
Saudi Arabia can participate in various ways. They can do
whatever they want in the range of the Islamic
regulations. The Saudi Arabian government had
developed a lot of education programs to the women.
They can get their education for free; also they can get
scholarships, and study abroad. Furthermore, they can
choose any career that they want. 14
? What Make Saudi Arabia Special .3
 3.5. Special Places

Jeddah (King Fahad) Fountain, It’s Mada'in Saleh, The majority of the
the tallest water fountain in the vestiges date from the Nabatean
world, (260 m) Kingdom (1st century CE)
Education .4
 In Saudi Arabia many of schools for basic
education in three levels :
1. elementary School
2. Intermediate School
3. Secondary School (High School)

 High Education :
there are many institutes (health care
,computer and technical).
there are many colleges & universities.

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Entertainment .5
 Soccer
 Play cards (Balo’ut)
 Chilling in Cafes
 Shopping
 Diving
 Car Drifting
 Poetry
 Dinner Invitations
 Video Games

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5. The Traditional Food
 Rice & Meets:

Kabsa Saleeg

Mfatah
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5. The Traditional Food
 Breads

Tameez
Sheurak

Gorsan
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5. The Traditional Food
 Beverages & dates

Arabic Coffee
Sobya (Raisin Juice)

Tea 20
5. The Traditional Food
 Dessert:

Konafa Mahlabya

Lugymat
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6. Conclusion

We cant talk about Saudi Arabia just in

only15 minutes !
Because it has a great history and
many of achievements in all different
fields ,but we hope to introduce
general idea about our country.

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ATTENTION

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