by Dahlia Rahaimy · Jan 7, 2021 · Features & Reports
Once considered one of the most difficult countries to visit, boosting tourism in Saudi Arabia is in full flight. By launching new cultural festivals, sporting events like the Dakar Rallye, easing visa restrictions, opening new tourist sites Saudi Arabia is clearly... 
by Dahlia Rahaimy · Oct 22, 2020 · Features & Reports
First of all, not all Saudis belong to tribes. For example, people in the Western Province, the Hejaz, from where I come, are mostly not tribal because we descend from people who made the pilgrimage to Makkah and Madinah and settled here, called “Hajj Left Overs” by... 
by Dahlia Rahaimy · Apr 23, 2020 · Features & Reports
Due to the COVID-19 crisis, this year Ramadan in the Saudi Arabia and the entire Muslim world will not be the same. On 10 April, the government in Saudi Arabia announced it what it considers the last in a series of restrictions which it has imposed on the nation to... 
by Dahlia Rahaimy · Mar 29, 2020 · Features & Reports
At first, I could not grasp the depression that overcame me with the gradual lockdown. I tried to reason with myself, but still continued feeling trapped. Like many other cities in the world, Dubai went into lockdown. The closure happened gradually, making it easier... 
by Dahlia Rahaimy · Nov 18, 2019 · Features & Reports
Siege Of Makkah in 1979 (Contd. from Part 1) Where it all came from In the siege of Makkah in 1979, many of Juhayman’s followers were theology students at the Islamic University of Medinah. There, Juhayman had joined a fundamentalist Salafi group that was headed by... 
by Dahlia Rahaimy · Nov 17, 2019 · Features & Reports
On 20 November 1979, about 300 heavily armed men assaulted the Grand Mosque of Makkah, the Masjid Al Haram. Within minutes, they had transformed the holiest place in Islam into a fortress and taken thousands of worshippers hostage. The siege shocked Saudi Arabia to... 