[Translate] Could the kingdom’s religious leaders be about to make a sharp U-turn? For decades Saudi Arabia’s religious police have enforced a rigid separation of the sexes in public places. Plain-clothes agents of the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, as the religious police are known, patrol streets, parks and shopping centres, intervening [...]

[Translate] Ahmed El Bayed is the first professional Saudi Magician. Not just that, but he is also the first Arab to perfect magic. He can make things fly and others disappear. He first started when he began to realize that there were something’s that could truly amaze people, and so he began learning how to perform illusions and perfect them, [...]

[Translate] On the occasion of choosing Jerusalem as the capital of Arab culture for 2009, the Ministry of Culture and Information in cooperation with the Palestinian Embassy in Riyadh organizes four Palestinian cultural days that include exhibitions, folk art shows for both men and women, and literary evenings. Palestinian culture and folklore comprises many aspects from literature, [...]

[Translate] Saudi painter Ibrahim Alfassam will be holding an exhibit of his painting at the King Faisal bin Fahad center for Arts. The exhibit with feature 180 original oil and abstract painting by Ibrahim Alfassam. This event is hosting by the ministry of culture to support and spread awareness for the arts. The event is from Nov [...]