Philosophers from outside the Arab world contributed to the first issue, specifically from Germany and the US
Updated 14 April 2021
April 13, 2021 23:11
JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia’s first philosophy journal has been issued, with its editor-in-chief saying that the country was witnessing a “tangible philosophical renaissance.”
The Saudi Journal of Philosophical Studies (SJPS) was launched by the cultural platform Mana, which was set up two years ago.
According to its editor in chief, Sarah Al-Rajhi, the principal aim of the journal was to help researchers in the Kingdom, the Arab world and the West to publish their work without any financial cost and in line with accurate scientific standards.
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Houthi drone attack sets plane ablaze at Saudi airport
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A drone strike launched by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis on Wednesday left a civilian plane ablaze at a Saudi airport, drawing warnings from the US days after it moved to delist the rebels as terrorists.
Saudi authorities did not immediately report any casualties from the attack, claimed by the Houthis, the latest in a series of rebel assaults on the kingdom, despite a renewed US push to de-escalate Yemen’s six-year conflict.
Pictures released by state media showed a blackened gash on the side of a passenger jet after the attack, which occurred on the same day the new US special envoy for Yemen Timothy Lenderking met Saudi Arabian Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Faisal bin Farhan in Riyadh for talks.
Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud speaks during a meeting with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, at the State Department, in Washington, US, October 14, 2020. Photo: Manuel Balce Ceneta/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister, Faisal bin Farhan, said Thursday that the country is “optimistic” about relations with the United States under President Joe Biden, and called on Iran to change its priorities, according to an interview with the Saudi-owned
Al Arabiya network.
“We are optimistic of having excellent ties with the US under a Biden administration,” he said.
He also said that the government in Iran should shift its focus to its own citizens, the Dubai-based network reported, and addressed its conflict against the Iran-backed Houthi movement in Yemen.
She was sentenced to five years and eight months in prison on terrorism-related charges.
France and Germany called for her quick release.
The family of prominent human rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul will appeal her prison sentence but expressed little hope in the Saudi judicial system, calling the trial a sham and politically motivated .
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On Monday, a Saudi court sentenced al-Hathloul to five years and eight months in prison on terrorism-related charges and banned her from leaving the country for five years, sparking a torrent of international criticism.
Al-Hathloul, 31, was arrested in May 2018 with about a dozen other women s rights activists just weeks before the historic lifting of a decades-long ban on female drivers, a reform for which they had long campaigned.