<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8118648780502273889</id><updated>2012-02-16T17:04:04.217+03:00</updated><title type='text'>From Middle East</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sonia-arauajo.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8118648780502273889/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sonia-arauajo.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Hassan Taher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11164305575823144574</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_8DlGTW4Vd-o/R_IKAyQrx1I/AAAAAAAAAAU/lvWQK8N9_6g/S220/20080401056.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>2</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8118648780502273889.post-4684679880030738183</id><published>2008-04-07T15:59:00.012+03:00</published><updated>2008-04-07T16:39:21.220+03:00</updated><title type='text'>Saudi Arabia</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8DlGTW4Vd-o/R_ojNiQrx8I/AAAAAAAAABg/HoYwMOgDmdg/s1600-h/flag.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5186496636312602562" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8DlGTW4Vd-o/R_ojNiQrx8I/AAAAAAAAABg/HoYwMOgDmdg/s320/flag.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8DlGTW4Vd-o/R_oitSQrx7I/AAAAAAAAABY/9_d91hTgLXw/s1600-h/saudi+arabia.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5186496082261821362" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8DlGTW4Vd-o/R_oitSQrx7I/AAAAAAAAABY/9_d91hTgLXw/s320/saudi+arabia.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8DlGTW4Vd-o/R_od-SQrx6I/AAAAAAAAABQ/_PFAEN5vOzA/s1600-h/flag.JPG"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (‎, al-Mamlaka al-Arabiyya as-Sudiyya) is the largest country of the &lt;a title="Arabian Peninsula" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabian_Peninsula"&gt;Arabian Peninsula&lt;/a&gt;. It is bordered by &lt;a title="Jordan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan"&gt;Jordan&lt;/a&gt; on the northwest, &lt;a title="Iraq" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq"&gt;Iraq&lt;/a&gt; on the north and northeast, &lt;a title="Kuwait" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuwait"&gt;Kuwait&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a title="Qatar" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar"&gt;Qatar&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a title="Bahrain" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahrain"&gt;Bahrain&lt;/a&gt;, and the &lt;a title="United Arab Emirates" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Arab_Emirates"&gt;United Arab Emirates&lt;/a&gt; on the east, &lt;a title="Oman" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oman"&gt;Oman&lt;/a&gt; on the southeast, and &lt;a title="Yemen" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemen"&gt;Yemen&lt;/a&gt; on the south. The &lt;a title="Persian Gulf" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Gulf"&gt;Persian Gulf&lt;/a&gt; lies to the northeast and the &lt;a title="Red Sea" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Sea"&gt;Red Sea&lt;/a&gt; to its west. It has an estimated population of 27.6 million, and its size is approximately &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;2,150,000 square km (830,000 square miles).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div dir="ltr" align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div dir="ltr" align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div dir="ltr" align="left"&gt;&lt;a title="History of Saudi Arabia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Saudi_Arabia"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;History of Saudi Arabia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div dir="ltr" align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div dir="ltr" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;The Kingdom is sometimes called "The Land of The Two Holy Mosques" in reference to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Mecca" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecca"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Mecca&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Medina" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medina"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Medina&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;, the two holiest places in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Islam" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Islam&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;. In English, it is most commonly referred to as Saudi Arabia (pronounced /ˈsɒdɪ/ or /ˈsaʊdɪ əˈɹeɪbɪə/). The Kingdom was founded by Abdul-Aziz bin Saud, whose efforts began in 1902 when he captured the Al-Saud’s ancestral home of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Riyadh" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riyadh"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Riyadh&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;, and culminated in 1932 with the proclamation, and recognition of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.&lt;br /&gt;Saudi Arabia is the world's leading &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Petroleum" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum#Export"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;petroleum exporter&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Petroleum" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;petroleum&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; exports fuel the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Economy of Saudi Arabia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Saudi_Arabia"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Saudi economy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabia#cite_note-1"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;[2]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; Oil accounts for more than 90 percent of exports and nearly 75 percent of government revenues, facilitating the creation of a &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Welfare state" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_state"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;welfare state&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabia#cite_note-2"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;[3]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabia#cite_note-3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;[4]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; which the government has found difficult to fund during periods of low &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Price of petroleum" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_of_petroleum"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;oil prices&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabia#cite_note-4"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;[5]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Human rights" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Human rights&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; groups such as &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Amnesty International" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnesty_International"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Amnesty International&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Human Rights Watch" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Rights_Watch"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Human Rights Watch&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; have repeatedly expressed concern about the state of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="Human rights in Saudi Arabia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Saudi_Arabia"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;human rights in Saudi Arabia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;, although these concerns have been dismissed by the Saudi government&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8118648780502273889-4684679880030738183?l=sonia-arauajo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sonia-arauajo.blogspot.com/feeds/4684679880030738183/comments/default' title='تعليقات الرسالة'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8118648780502273889&amp;postID=4684679880030738183' title='0 تعليقات'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8118648780502273889/posts/default/4684679880030738183'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8118648780502273889/posts/default/4684679880030738183'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sonia-arauajo.blogspot.com/2008/04/saudi-arabia-kingdom-of-saudi-arabia.html' title='Saudi Arabia'/><author><name>Hassan Taher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11164305575823144574</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_8DlGTW4Vd-o/R_IKAyQrx1I/AAAAAAAAAAU/lvWQK8N9_6g/S220/20080401056.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8DlGTW4Vd-o/R_ojNiQrx8I/AAAAAAAAABg/HoYwMOgDmdg/s72-c/flag.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8118648780502273889.post-3284903015098890963</id><published>2008-04-07T15:55:00.007+03:00</published><updated>2008-04-07T16:45:13.400+03:00</updated><title type='text'>المملكة العربية السعودية</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="rtl" align="right"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;المملكة العربية السعودية دولة عربية تقع في &lt;a title="شبه الجزيرة العربية" href="http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ø´Ø¨Ù_Ø§ÙØ¬Ø²ÙØ±Ø©_Ø§ÙØ¹Ø±Ø¨ÙØ©"&gt;شبه الجزيرة العربية&lt;/a&gt; وتستأثر بثلاث أخماس مساحتها، ويحد المملكة العربية السعودية من الشمال كل من &lt;a title="العراق" href="http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ø§ÙØ¹Ø±Ø§Ù"&gt;العراق&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a title="الأردن" href="http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ø§ÙØ£Ø±Ø¯Ù"&gt;والأردن&lt;/a&gt; و &lt;a title="الكويت" href="http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ø§ÙÙÙÙØª"&gt;الكويت&lt;/a&gt;، و من الشرق الامارات &lt;a title="قطر" href="http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/ÙØ·Ø±"&gt;وقطر&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a title="البحرين" href="http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ø§ÙØ¨Ø&amp;shy;Ø±ÙÙ"&gt;والبحرين&lt;/a&gt; و &lt;a title="الخليج العربي" href="http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ø§ÙØ®ÙÙØ¬_Ø§ÙØ¹Ø±Ø¨Ù"&gt;الخليج العربي&lt;/a&gt;، و الجنوب كل من سلطنة عُمان &lt;a title="اليمن" href="http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ø§ÙÙÙÙ"&gt;واليمن&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="تاريخ السعودية" href="http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/ØªØ§Ø±ÙØ®_Ø§ÙØ³Ø¹ÙØ¯ÙØ©"&gt;تاريخ السعودية&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;تميزت &lt;a title="شبه الجزيرة العربية" href="http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ø´Ø¨Ù_Ø§ÙØ¬Ø²ÙØ±Ø©_Ø§ÙØ¹Ø±Ø¨ÙØ©"&gt;شبه الجزيرة العربية&lt;/a&gt; بموقعها الأستراتيجي بين ثلاث قارات كبرى وتقع في النصف الشمالي للكرة الأرضية موطنا للعديد من الحضارات، ومهداً للرسالات السماوية. فقد ازدهرت فيها داخل حدود المملكة حضارة مدين، بالإضافة إلى حضارة ثمود في &lt;a title="العلا" href="http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ø§ÙØ¹ÙØ§"&gt;العلا&lt;/a&gt; والتي لاتزال آثارها موجودة حتى اليوم في المنطقة المعروفة بإسم &lt;a title="مدائن صالح" href="http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/ÙØ¯Ø§Ø¦Ù_ØµØ§ÙØ&amp;shy;"&gt;مدائن صالح&lt;/a&gt;، وفي &lt;a title="نجران" href="http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/ÙØ¬Ø±Ø§Ù"&gt;نجران&lt;/a&gt; نجد الاخدود الذي ذكر في القرآن الكريم عن أصحاب الاخدود.وفي هذه الجزيرة التي كانت ممر تجارياً هاماً وطريقا للقوافل يؤمن &lt;a title="إسلام" href="http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ø¥Ø³ÙØ§Ù"&gt;المسلمون&lt;/a&gt; أن &lt;a title="الله" href="http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ø§ÙÙÙ"&gt;الله&lt;/a&gt; أنزل القرآن على نبي الإسلام محمد وانتشر الاسلام في قلب الجزيرة العربية وانتشرت منها إلى سائر أرجاء العالم حتى وصلت إلى أفريقيا وآسيا وجزء من أوروبا على مدى عصور ازدهار دولة الخلافة الإسلامية.ومرت مئات من السنين ظهرت فيها دول، وزالت دول، وقام المسلمون بدورهم الحضاري التاريخي، الذي عبرت عليه الحضارة الانسانية الحديثة من عصورها المظلمة، وانتشر الإسلام في شتى بقاع الأرض. ورغم ابتعاد القيادة الزمنية عن &lt;a title="المدينة المنورة" href="http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ø§ÙÙØ¯ÙÙØ©_Ø§ÙÙÙÙØ±Ø©"&gt;المدينة المنورة&lt;/a&gt; وشبه الجزيرة العربية بوجه عام، قد أحدث تأثيرات كان لها دورها فيما وقع بعد ذلك من أحداث فالأراضي المقدسة ظلت مقصداً للحجاج والمعتمرين والزائرين.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8118648780502273889-3284903015098890963?l=sonia-arauajo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sonia-arauajo.blogspot.com/feeds/3284903015098890963/comments/default' title='تعليقات الرسالة'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8118648780502273889&amp;postID=3284903015098890963' title='0 تعليقات'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8118648780502273889/posts/default/3284903015098890963'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8118648780502273889/posts/default/3284903015098890963'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sonia-arauajo.blogspot.com/2008/04/blog-post_07.html' title='المملكة العربية السعودية'/><author><name>Hassan Taher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11164305575823144574</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_8DlGTW4Vd-o/R_IKAyQrx1I/AAAAAAAAAAU/lvWQK8N9_6g/S220/20080401056.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
