MAKKAH: When it comes to sighting the new crescent moon, one Saudi family is light years ahead of most.
For more than 100 years, members of the hawk-eyed Al-Barghash family have been spotting the moon each month without the use of telescopes or other modern devices.
The tradition has been passed down through generations of the family from the central Saudi city of Tumair, 140 km northwest of Riyadh.
“This is a gift from God that we enjoy and seek to teach to our children after we have inherited it from our parents and ancestors,” Mutaib Al-Barghash told Arab News.
He said his father and friends used to stand on a watchtower to sight the crescent of Ramadan, Eid Al-Fitr, and the month of Dhu Al-Hijjah.
GAZA CITY: The Gaza Strip echoed to the sound of explosions as fighting between Israel and Hamas in contested Jerusalem escalated on Tuesday.
Since Monday night, 26 Palestinians, including nine children and a woman, have been killed in Gaza, most by Israeli airstrikes, health officials said.
Eid preparations came to a halt on the largely empty streets as shops downed shutters and people stayed indoors.
Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said: “As long as the Zionist aggression against our people continues, the Palestinian resistance, especially Hamas, will remain in a state of permanent clash with the occupation, which has made Jerusalem, Al-Aqsa and the Gaza Strip a target and a scene for its crimes and violations.”
Students in the School of Business Administration (SBA) at American University of Sharjah (AUS) can now further explore their career options and connect their academic studies with their professional goals and personal growth through the newly established iLead program, which launched this semester.
A comprehensive development and career preparation program, iLead is a pioneer program in the region benchmarked against leading US universities. It will guide students to make the most of their years at SBA and prepare them for joining the workforce.
“iLead gives our students an early start and a broader understanding of personal growth, career exploration, and the tools to perform job searches, as well as an updated view of the workplace skills required. We use internationally recognized tools that are well-known to recruiters. Participants will also be given the choice to take personal strengths and career path finder assessments, such as the Gallup Strengths Finder for Student
Dr. Maryam Ali Ficociello has been the chief governance officer at The Red Sea Development Company (TRSDC) and AMAALA a tourism project on Saudi Arabia’s northwestern coast since 2017, leading the governance, risk and compliance department.
She is also a board member of several committees, including the audit committee of the Royal Commission of AlUla and the risk committee of the Health Sector Transformation Program.
Before joining TRSDC and AMAALA, Ficociello worked as director of governance practice and risk assurance services at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) from 2013 to 2017.
Ficociello also worked as head of research and assistant professor at the School of Business at Dar Al-Hekma University in Jeddah from 2012 to 2013. She played a key role in the establishment of Dar Al-Hekma’s first research center.
Gas Flowing 5 MPHÂ Will Take Two Weeks to Reach New York Once Pipeline Is Reopened
May 12 2021, 9:38 AM
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May 12 2021, 9:38 AM
(Bloomberg) Once Colonial Pipelineâs sprawling system is back in full operation, it will take nearly 15 days to move gasoline sitting in the Houston refining hub to the fuel-starved U.S. East Coast.
(Bloomberg) Once Colonial Pipelineâs sprawling system is back in full operation, it will take nearly 15 days to move gasoline sitting in the Houston refining hub to the fuel-starved U.S. East Coast.
Transit times for gasoline to pass through Colonialâs network of pipelines that allow oil products to flow from the U.S. Gulf Coast, up to its North Carolina hub, and then on to New York Harbor, is 14 days and 16 hours, at a speed of about 5 miles per hour, according to the most recent schedule sent to shippers. Diesel and jet fuel, heavier and more dense products, need about 19 days to make the same trip that spans about