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Imprisoned in Israel when he was 21, the Palestinian writer Basim Khandaqji wins the US$50,000 International Prize for Arabic Fiction.

The winner of this year's International Prize for Arabic Fiction will be announced in Abu Dhabi on April 28.

Hamas' October 7, 2023 large-scale terror attack in southern Israel, in which some 1,300 people were murdered and about 200 were abducted, sparked extensive reactions in the Saudi papers, both those published in the kingdom and those published in London. Alongside many articles that came out against Israel and blamed the events on its policy towards the Palestinians and its

The conflict is inflaming tensions across the region, where many of the problems that fueled uprisings and conflicts a decade ago remain unresolved.

On June 6, 2023, U.S. State Secretary Antony Blinken visited Saudi Arabia and met with Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman and Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan. He also attended meetings with the foreign ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries and with representatives of the coalition for fighting ISIS. According to official Saudi reports, he and his

'The Water Diviner' wins the US$50,000 International Prize for Arabic Fiction purse, plus translation, for the Omani novelist Zahran Alqasmi.

In an interview[1] aired on the official Saudi channel Saudia TV on April 7, 2023, Saudi cleric Saleh Al-Moghamsy, former imam and preacher of the prestigious Quba Mosque near Medina, expressed his wish to establish a new Islamic school of jurisprudence and argued that there is a dire need for such a school, saying that reexamination of the work of ancient scholars is

Evacuees who reached Saudi were grateful to be out of Sudan where the doctors' union reported 'full morgues' and 'corpses littering streets'.

Even so, those who reached Saudi soil on Monday said they were grateful to be out of a country where the doctors union has reported that

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia - Clutching overstuffed suitcases, bleary-eyed civilians described a harrowing escape from violence-wracked Sudan across the Red...