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لا يــُـمــْــكــِــنــَــك أبـَـداً فـِــهــْـم لــُــغـــَـــة وَاحــِـدَة حــَــتـــَّــى تــَــفــْــهــَــم اِثـــْـــنـــَـــيــْــن عــَـلى الأقــَــل

 

 

Countries Where Arabic Is The Official Language

Quickly search for Algeria, Bahrain, Chad *, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Israel*, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Maldives*, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Western Sahara*

* not member of the League of Arab States,

see the also official site (Arabic / عـَـرَبِــيّ)

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General

• Ancient Scripts
• Arab American Institute (May ’11)
• Arab’s Spring: an interactive timeline of Middle East protests (Sep.’11)
• Arab Winter: Middle East Review of 2012 (Dec. ’12)
• Archaeologists uncover proof of how Ancient Egyptians built the Great Pyramid in 2600 BC (Sep.’17)
• The biggest archaeological museums in the world (middleeastarchitect.com) (Aug. ’19)
• The brain of a 3,200-year-old Egyptian mummy Hatason revealed through CT scans (Dec.’15)
  
• Calling all Sales & Marketing professionals to the Middle East! (Feb.’14)
• Dubai and Saudi Arabia towers in a time war to be the world’s tallest (Des.’16)
• DNA analysis proves that Egyptians are not Arabs (Jan.’17)
• Foreign Investments in Arabic-speaking Africa, a Source of Opportunities? (Mar.’14)
• Global Arab Network Interesting الــشــَّـبــَـكــَـة الــْـعــَـرَبــِـيــَّـة الــْـعــَـالــَـمــِـيــَّـة  (Jul. ’14)
• Global Passport Ranking 2023 (Jul. ’23) New
• Global Passport Ranking 2022 (Jul. ’22)
• Golan Heights profile (Nov.’15)
• Half of Jewish Americans Don’t Think Protesting Israel Is Antisemitic, Poll Finds (Jul. ’26)
• Internationale paspoorteindex, passport power (Apr.’15)
• Lonely Planet reveals the treasures of the Arabian Peninsula (Sep.’13)
• LookLex Noorse Encyclopaedia of the Middle East
• Map of the world’s happiest countries (Sep.’16)
• Middle Eastern Virus More Widespread Than Thought (Mar.’14)
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Oct. ’11)
• The Arab Spring and Europe’s Chance
• The Egyptian Postal System: Oldest Postal System in the World (Oct.’18)
• The Euro-US War on Libya: Official Lies and Misconceptions of Critics (Mar. ’11) interesting
• The Israeli Occupation of the West Bank and Gaza (Feb.’12)
• Top 10 Richest Countries in the World by GDP [Mei 2015 IMF Report]
• Umm Kulthum has no real equivalent among singers in the West (Jan. 23)
• UNESCO Resolution on Jerusalem ‘Dismisses’ Jewish History (Oct.’16)
• UNHCR  Middle East, North Africa
• What Africa can learn from Egypt’s tilapia markets (Sep. “21)
• What do Arabs Want? (Jan. ’12)
• What does each country do best? (Oct.’13) (Doghousediaries)
• Wikipedia Arab world (Jul.’08)

• أقـدم الـمـخـطـوطـات الـعـربـيـة فـي مـكـتـبـات الـعـالـم (Arabic / عـَـرَبِــيّ)

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Algeria

• Algeria Military Strength 23 (out of 136) (GFP) (Feb.’18)
  
• Algeria country profile (Aug.’16)
• Algerian Embassy in Brussels,  سـفـارة الـجـمـهـوريـة الـجـزائـريـة الـديـمـقـراطـيـة الـشـعـبـيـة بـبـروكـسـل (Arabic / عـَـرَبِــيّ)
• Flag of Algeria
• Small American Town, Big Algerian Legacy (Dec.’26)
• United Nations Development Programme (English), Programme des Nations Unies pour le développemnet (Français)

• بــِـرْنــَـامــِـجُ الأمــَـم الــْـمــُـتــَّـحــِـدة الإنــْـمــَـائــِـيَّ (Arabic / عـَـرَبِــيّ)
• تـاريـخ ثـوْرة الـتـَّحـْريـر الـجـَزائـريـِّة (Arabic / عـَـرَبِــيّ)

• Ambassade du Royaume des Pays-Bas à Alger (Février ’12)

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Bahrain

• Bahrain Military Strength 74 (out of 136) (GFP) (Feb.’18)
• 40 Rules of Love to stage in Bahrain (Oct.’17)
• Bahrain Center for Human Rights (Aug.’12)
• Bahrain country profile (Sep.’16)
• Bahrain moves forward to strengthen tax information exchange provisions (Mar.’09)
• Consulate (honorary) of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Manama (Feb. ’11)
• Discover Bahrain
• Flag of Bahrain
• Netherlands Embassy in Kuwait (Feb.’12)
• United Nations Development Programme

• مـــركـــز الـــبـــحـــريــن لـــحـــقـــوق الإنـــســـان (Arabic / عـَـرَبِــيّ)

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Djibouti

• Djibouti country profile (Oct.’14)

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Egypt

• 24 Strange and Wonderful World Records Held by Egypt and the Egyptians (Sep.’18)
• 3D CT scanning tech used to non-destructively unwrap an Egyptian mummy (Dec.’21)
• The new Egypt (Nov. ’22)
• A Night of Anarchy: Black Friday and the 1952 Cairo Fire (Jan.’22)
• Christo’s massive Mastaba sculpture to reach almost 500 feet in height (Feb.’22)
• Egyptology’s Eloquent Eye  (Oct. ’21)
• Egypt to Allow Orphans to Include Foster Parents’ Names in Birth Certificates (Jul.’21)
• Nawal El Saadawi: Trailblazing Egyptian feminist writer dies, aged 89 (Mar.’21)
• Inside the new Grand Egyptian Museum (Aug.’20)
• Egypt Unearths Largest Archaeological Discovery of 2020 (Nov.’20)
• Top 10 Most Beautiful Women In History, no.: 1. Cleopatra VII (Jul.’20)
• Inside the new Grand Egyptian Museum (Sep.’20)
• This Is What 5,000-Year-Old Ancient Egyptian Beer Tastes Like (May ’18)
• Upper Egyptian identity revived in spearing competition (Apr.’18)
• Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities will not remove historical pulpits from mosques (Apr.’18)
• 5 Mysteries of Ancient Egypt we never knew about (Oct. ’17)
• Ahly tops clubs with most titles (CAF) (Feb.’14)
  
• Al-Azhar rewrites curricula (Jun.’15)
• Amazing facts you didn’t know about Ancient Egypt! (Jun.’17)
• Ancient Egyptian Artifacts
• Ancient Egyptian Culture Exhibit, The
• Ancient Egyptian mayor’s tomb was found a century after it was lost
• Ancient Egyptian Woman Buried With ‘Complex Coiffure’ of 70 Hair Extensions (Sep.’14)
• Ancient hydraulic lift systems could have helped build the pyramids (Aug.’24)
• Ancient mastaba tomb found in Egypt’s Dakahliya (Feb.’14)
  
• Arab investors and land grabbers wanted by Egypt (Apr.’14)
• Art in Egypt’s Revolutionary Square (Jan.’12)
• Cairo International Airport (Nov.’12)
• Can the Egyptian-American Relationship Be “Reinvented”? (Apr.’14)
• The cheap, simple technique turns seawater into drinking water (Oct.’15)
• Construction to begin on Iconic Tower in Egypt, Africa’s tallest building (Feb. ’19)
• Coptic women come out on top (Mar.’14)
  
• Easter in Egypt: Why is it a movable feast? (Apr.’15)
• EBRD in Egypt, The (Nov.’12)
• Egypt’s Airline Guide (Sep.’16)
• Egypt’s First Museum of Arabic Calligraphy (Aug. ’15)
• Egypt’s Tourism Minister Receives IPRA President’s Award (Jan.’14)
  
• Egypt A-Z
• Egypt air
• Egypt can use ICTs to drive public sector reform (Mar.’13)
• Egypt.com
• Egypt country profile (Nov.’16)
• Egypt joins new bank of BRICS bloc (Mar ’23)
• Egypt gets its first solar-powered village (Oct.’16)
• Egypt Information Search
• Egypt Military Strength 12 (out of 136) (GFP) (Feb.’18)
  
• Egypt moves to ban foreign fishing boats in its territorial waters (seafoodsource.com)
• Egypt mulls the importing of Iraqi gas surplus from Jordan (Mar.’14)
  
• Egypt Naphtha Market Outlook to 2018 – Industry Shift from Natural gas to Naphtha (Sep.’14)
• Egypt reopens ancient tombs following 10-year renovation (Sep.’12)
• Egypt Scholars (Sep’10) عــُـلــَـمــَـاء مــِـصــْـر
• Egypt Shakes Up the Classroom (Sep.’11)
• Egypt state information service
• Egyptian Lawyer and Women’s Rights Advocate Wins RFK Award (Jul.’13)
• Egyptian Streets (Mar.’14)
• Egyptians are the second internet users in Africa (Mar.’12)
• Egyptians make world’s biggest Koshary (Feb.’15)
• Embassies in Egypt (Sep.’16)
• Embassy of Egypt in Brussels – Belgium (Jan.’14)
  
• Embassy of Egypt in The Hague – The Netherlands (Jan.’14)
  
• Expat Cairo (Jul. ’10)
• Flag of Egypt
• Falling under the spell of Alexandria (Nov ’19)
• Frozen desserts made with snow first appeared over 5,000 years ago in China, and then in Egypt (Jan.’22)
• Great Pyramid of Giza (Mar.’12)
• Guardian’s Egypt (Nov.’08)
• How much do you know about Egypt? Take this quiz (Feb.’13)
• How to See the Nile River (travelandleisure.com) New
• Is there hope for Egypt’s first space odyssey? (Jun.’15)
• Lego expert recreates famous buildings, Brick by Brick (Apr.’16)
• List of Famous Cairo Buildings & Structures (Feb.’18)
• Make your own cartouche
• Marine Centre International, leading yacht dealer in El Gouna (Feb.’15)
• Men at work
• The mystery of the Great Pyramid Missing Capstone (Jan.’14)
• Queen Nefertiti: Secret chambers containing ‘organic material’ discovered in search of Tutankhamun’s tomb (Mar’16)
• Related Links (Jan.’14)
  
• Selected picture’s Tip!
• Sleeping trains
• Sounds of hope and light (Jan.’13)
• Suez Canal
• Sun, sea, and…solar power for Egypt’s Sharm el-Sheikh (Mar.’15)
• Super-sharp view of the Great Pyramids from space (Aug. ’15)
• The BA Receives the Collection of the Royal Tropical Institute, the Netherlands (Nov.’13)
• The first modern humans to arrive in Europe and Asia migrated north out of Egypt (Mei ’15)
• The First Solar Power Plant in the World was in Maadi !!?? (Dec.’08)
• The oldest case of cancer in human history (Apr. ’18)
• The Origin of the Word, “Egypt” pdf ® (Jun.’13)
• The rising number of female Egyptian entrepreneurs (Mar.’15)
• The search for a California sphinx (Oct. ’18)
• This ancient Egyptian practice can cheaply purify dirty water (Jun.’15)
• TIES Congratulates The Intel Science & Engineering Fair Egypt Finalists (Feb.’14)
• To Catch Cairo Overflow, 2 Megacities Rise in Sand (Aug.’10)
• Tour Egypt
• United Nations Development Programme
• US investments in Egypt estimated at US$17 billion (Jul.’14)
• What Do Egyptians Know (Jul. ’12)
• What you need to know about Egypt’s first-ever female minister of tourism (Jan.’18)
• Why Cairo is the hot new foodie destination (Jan.’18)
• Wikipedia Egypt (Aug.’08)

• الأقـصـر.. مـديـنـة تـُعـانـق الـتـاريـخ (Arabic / عـَـرَبِــيّ)
• الـهـيـْئـة الـعـامـة لـلإسـتـعلامـات الـمـصـريـّة (Arabic / عـَـرَبِــيّ)
• ســفـارة جــمــهــوريــة مــصــر الــعــربــيــة فـي بــروكــســل- بــلــجــيــكــا (Arabisch / عــَـرَبــِيّ)
• ســـفـارة جــمــهــوريــة مــصــر الــعــربــيــة فـي لاهــاى- هــولــنــدا (Arabisch / عــَـرَبــِيّ)
• مـعـْلـومـات مـُفـيـدة عـن هـولـنـدا (Arabic / عـَـرَبِــيّ)

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Iraq

• 20 Years On, a Question Lingers About Iraq: Why Did the U.S. Invade? (Mar. ’23) New
• Baghdad was beautiful once, and peaceful and prosperous too (Aug.’14)
• Baghdad memories: what the first few months of the US occupation felt like to an Iraqi (Feb.’ 23) New
• Egypt mulls the importing of Iraqi gas surplus from Jordan (Mar.’14)
• Flag of Iraq
• Iraq country profile (Dec.’16)
• Iraqi Kurdistan profile (Feb.’16)
• Iraqi Presidency (Dec. ’11)
• ‘Iraq Military Guide’
• Iraq Military Strength (GFP) (Feb.’14)
  
• Netherlands Embassy in Baghdad (Feb.’12)
• Ten years after the invasion: Iraq helpless under a rain of terror (Nov.’13)
• United Nations Development Programme (Jan.’12)
• Zaha Hadid proposes stacked skyscraper for Melbourne (Dec.’15)

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Jordan

• Archaeologists find massive monument hidden in plain sight at Petra Unesco site (Jun.’16)
• EBRD in Jordan (Nov.’12)
  
• Egypt mulls the importing of Iraqi gas surplus from Jordan (Mar.’14)
• Embassy of The Hashemite Kingdom of  Jordan
• Flag of Jordan
• His Majesty King Abdullah II Ibn Al Hussein
• Jordan Military Strength (GFP) (Feb.’14)
  
• Jordan country profile (Dec.’16)
• Jordan’s Black Desert may hold key to Earth’s first farmers (Jun.’15)
• United Nations Development Programme

• King Abdullah II (En.) الـمـلـك عـبـد الـلـه الـثـانـي (Arabic / عـَـرَبِــيّ)
• Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation, وزارة الـــتـــخـــطـــيـــط والـــتـــعـــاون الـــدولـــي
• Queen Rania Al-ABDULLAH (En.) الـمـلـكة رانـــيـــا الـــعــبــد الـلـه (Arabic / عـَـرَبِــيّ)

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Kuwait

• King Abdullah II Flag of Kuwait
• IGF Open Forum on “principles for an open Internet”, Summary (Sep.’11)
• Kuwait Military Strength (GFP) (Feb.’14)
  
• Kuwait country profile (Nov.’16)
• Kuwait to buy Eurofighter Typhoon warplanes (Sep.’15)
• Netherlands Embassy in Kuwait (Feb.’11)
• United Nations Development Programme (Jan.’12)

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Lebanon

• Aid for Trade at a Glance 2009 (Jul.’09)
• Al Mashriq (Aug.’10)
• Beirut Sounds Like This (Aug.’16)
• Famous Lebanese Singer Wadih Safi Dies (Oct.’13)
  
• Flag of Lebanon
• Lebanese poet Haddad pushes boundaries on erotica (Sep.’10)
• Lebanon’s first free fashion school (Jun.’15)
• Lebanon’s winemakers cultivate a niche
• Lebanon Military Strength (GFP) (Feb.’14)
  
• Lebanon  country profile (Nov.’16)
• Orange Architects completes twisting stacked tower in Beirut (Feb.’16)
• Rust and Dreams on the Beirut-Damascus Railroad (Sep.’21)
• United Nations Development Programme (Jan.’12)
• Watch Lebanese Girl’s Amazing and Inspiring Piano Skills (Dec.’15)
• Women Behind the Lens: The Middle East’s First Female Photographers (Apr.’21)
• Yabeyrouth (Jul.’10)
• Zaha Hadid Architects to present its first retrospective in China (May ’21)

• وزارة الإعـــلام (NNA)  (فــبــرايــر  2012 )

• Agence Nationale D’information (Français) (Février ’12)

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Libya

• Emails to Hillary contradict French tale on Libya war (Jun.’15)
• Flag of Libya
• Libya
• Libya country profile (Dec.’16)
• Libya Military Strength (GFP) (Feb.’18)
  
• Libya to host a press conference on its human rights abuses
• Libyan Jamahiriya Broadcasting Corporation
• Nicolas Sarkozy corruption charges reveal France’s loose campaign finance practices (Mar.’18)
• Qaddafi’s Western Friends (Sep.’11)
• United Nations Development Programme (Jan.’12)

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Mauritania

• Agence Mauritanienne d’Information (Français) (Mar.’12)
  
• Flag of Mauritania
• Map of Mauritania (Mar.’12)
  
• Mauritania (Mar.’12)
  
• Mauritania country profile (Aug.’16)

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Morocco

• $9 billion in 2,000 MW solar investment streams (Feb. ’14)
• EBRD in Morocco (Nov.’12)
  
• Entrepreneurship in Morocco (Jun.’14)
• Flag of Morocco
• Moroccans are the third internet users in Africa (Mar.’12)
  
• Morocco amends controversial rape law (Jan.’14)
  
• Morocco country profile (Nov.’16)
• Morocco Is A Positive Example Of Democratization Efforts (Dec.’14)
• Morocco join multilateral business integrity and green growth instruments (May ’12)
• Morocco Military strength 74/136 (GFP) (Feb.’14)
  
• The economic value of Moroccan emigrants
• Ramadan in Marocco: To fast or not to fast (Aug.’10)
• what role for intellectuals today? (Feb.’12)
  

• Programme des Nations Unies pour le Développement (Français) (Jan.’12)
  

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Oman

• Aid for Trade at a Glance 2009 (Jul.’09)
• Flag of Oman
• Investing in Oman – why not! (Mar.’14)
• Oman is an impressive oasis of calm (Oct.’14)
• Oman Military Strength (GFP) (Feb.’14)
  
• Oman news (Jan.’12)
  
• Oman profile (Nov.’14)
• One of the world’s largest solar plants to be used to produce … oil (May ’16)
• Qaboos launches a book on Royal Cavalry (Jan.’13)
  

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Palestine

• Aid for Trade at a Glance 2009 (Jul.’09)
• Anti-Zionism does not equate to antisemitism interesting (May ’16)
• Arabic film on Bedouin women takes Israel’s top prize, en route to Oscars (Sep.’16)
• Commission launches PEGASE – a new mechanism to support the Palestinian people (Jan.”08)
• B’ Tselem organization English, Русский, עבױת , عــَـرَبــِـي
• Collective punishment will not bring the justice that murdered teens deserve (Jul.’14)
• Every US presidential candidate vowed to move the embassy to Jerusalem but failed (Nov.’16)
• France prepares sanctions against settlement policy (Jun.’15)
• Gauging UNRWA’s Purpose on its 65th Anniversary (Jun.’15)
• Gaza Shrugs (Sep.’11)
• Golda Meir, Israeli Prime Minister 1969 – 1974 ‘I’m a Palestinian’
• Hamas orders schools in Gaza to be segregated by gender (Apr.’13)
  
• New iPhone App Turns Back The Clock on Israel (May ’14)
• Occupation Magazine
• Palestinian flag
• Palestinians hand dossier detailing alleged war crimes by Israel in Gaza to ICC (Jun.’15)
• Palestinian profile (Jul.’15)
• Palestine Becomes A Full Member Of “The Court Of Arbitration” (Mar.’16)
• Palestine to set up an embassy in Pakistan (Oct.’13)
  
• Palestine Wants to Boost Economic Cooperation With Russia (Aug.’15)
• Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics  الــجــهــاز الــمــركــزي للإحــصــاء الــفــلــســطــيــنــي (Jan.’16)
• Peace Now (Feb.’12)
• Pro-Palestinian Hackers Attack Israeli Government Websites (Apr.’13)
• Profile: Fatah Palestinian movement (Jun.’11)
• Profile: Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) (Nov.’14)
• The Balancing Act is Over: What Elor Azaria Taught Us about Israel (Jan. ’17)
• The Electronic Intifada
• The Nakba at 68: A catastrophe born of discrimination and impunity (May ’16)
• ‘There Are 1,700 Hamas Millionaires in Gaza’ (Mar. ’14)
• Top 10 Locations Where Israel Could Have Been (Sep.’13)
  
• UNESCO Resolution on Jerusalem ‘Dismisses’ Jewish History (Oct.’16)
• Which countries recognize Palestine already? – interactive (Sep.’11)
• With Gaza War, Movement to Boycott Israel Gains Momentum in Europe (Aug.’14)
• Zionists seek occupying not only Palestine but the entire Arab region (Jan. ’17)

• الإتـــحـــاد الـــفـــلـــســـطـــيـــنـــي لـــكـــرة الـــقـــدم (Arabic / عــَـرَبــِيّ) (Jan.’11)

• Kommission führt PEGASE ein – einen neuen Mechanismus zur Unterstützung des palästinensischen Volkes (De.) (Jan.’08)
• La Commission lance PEGASE, le nouveau mécanisme de soutien au peuple palestinien (Français) (Jan.’08)

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Qatar

• Demountable stadium built using almost 1,000 shipping containers (Dec.’21)
• Embassy of Qatar (Mar.’16)
• First Airbus A350 XWB delivered to Qatar Airways (Dec.’14)
• Official tourism site (Fr.), (Ar.)
• Peer Review Report of Qatar – Phase 1: Legal and Regulatory Framework (Nov.’10)
• Shaped by Stone: The Tools That Made Prehistoric Qatar (Dec.’25)
• Qatar Airways destined for longest non-stop flight record (Mar.’16)
• Qatar breaks record for world’s largest flag (Dec.’13)
  
• Qatar country profile (Nov.’14)
• Qatar’s $42.5bn UK investments will hopefully rise, says PM Cameron (Jun.’16)
• Qatar’s Development Co-operation (Jul.’14)
• Qatar government (Apr.15)
• Qatar launches campaign for ‘modest’ dres’ code for tourists (May ’14)
• Qatar Military Strength (GFP) (Feb.’14)
  
• Qatar sports stadium designed to look like a huge nomadic tent (Dec.’21)
• Qatar tops the world list of places for expats to get rich (Dec.’15)
• UN Climate Change Conference in Doha (COP 18) (Dec.’12)
• Zaha Hadid-designed skyscraper planned for Qatar (Jul.’16)

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Saudi Arabia

• How Saudi Arabia Sees the World (Nov.’22)
• Aid for Trade at a Glance 2009 (Jul.’09)
• Aramco Competes Against Socar for OMV’s Turkish Unit (Feb.’17)
• As the Saudi-Egypt bridge looks likely to get the green light, environmentalists see red (Sep.’12)
  
• Berlin Backs Large Defense Deal with Saudi Arabia (Feb.’15)
• Construction of 1km high new world’s tallest building to begin next week (Apr.’14)
• A first female lawyer (Apr.’13)
  
• First area of Saudi’s Neom giga-project opens for business (Oct.’24)
• First Muslim Sex Shop Opens For Business  EL ASIRA (Apr.’15)
  
• Flag of Saudi Arabia
• Headscarf Emoji (Sep.’16)
• How Working Women Are Remaking Saudi Arabia (Jul.’15)
• King Salman of Saudi Arabia (Jan.’15)
• Riyadh’s silent ballistic-missile surge (Feb.’25) New
• Saudi Arabia and Egypt to build a bridge over the Red Sea (Apr.’16)
• Saudi Arabia approves an ambitious plan to move the economy beyond oil (Apr.’16)
• Saudi Arabia’s Contradictory Transformation (Jun.’15)
• Saudi Arabia’s Decade of Denial (Sep.’11)
• Saudi Arabia’s Famous “Souks”
• Saudi Arabia’s massive economic-diversification experiment (Dec. ’14)
• Saudi Arabia’s Oil Wealth Is About to Get a Reality Check (Feb.’17)
• Saudi Arabia’s pre-Islamic treasures come to the Louvre (Aug.’10)
• Saudi Arabia and Egypt to build a bridge over the Red Sea (Apr.’16)
• Saudi Arabia begins construction of multi-billion dollar metro project (Apr.’14)
• Saudi Arabia joins Shanghai Cooperation Organization as China ties increase (Mar. ’23)
• Saudi Arabia to build $22bn Riyadh metro (Jul.’13)
  
• Saudi Arabia Military Strength (GFP) (Feb.’14)
  
• Saudi Arabia profile (Apr.’15)
• Saudi Arabia seeks to silence Neom project doubters with images and video (Aug.’24)
• Saudi Arabia’s Line megacity is using 20% of the world’s available steel (Oct.’24)
• Saudi Arabia’s Port of Neom expanding to be one of world’s largest (Mar.’24)
• Saudi Arabian divorced women and widows to get greater legal powers (Dec.’15)
• Saudi’s Neom mega-project hails a fleet of electric foiling water taxis (Aug.’24)
• Saudi business optimism after strong GDP results (Nov.’14)
• Saudi King appoints 30 women to Shura Council (Jan.’13)
  
• Saudi labor program Tamkeen offers 600 jobs for people with disabilities (Mar.’22)
• Saudi-based dairy company Almarai plans to enter seafood category (Jun. “22)
• Traveling Through History on the Forgotten Hejaz Railway (Mar. ’23)
• United Nations Development Programme
• Woman in Saudi Arabia, 1937: Historical Analysis (Apr.’21)

• مـنـتـديـات وبـرامـج مـتـنـوعـة (Arabic / عـَـرَبِــيّ)

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Somalia

• 200 al-Shabab fighters pledge allegiance to IS (Dec.’15)
• Flag of Somalia
• Q&A: Somalia’s conflict (Oct.’11)
• Somalia Military Strength (GFP) (Feb.’14)
  
• Somalia profile (Oct.’14)
• United Nations Development Programme (Jan.’12)
  
• Who is Somalia’s al-Shabab? (Apr.’15)

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Sudan

• Sudan country profile (Jan.’15)
• Sudan Military Strength (GFP) (Feb.’14)
  
• United Nations Development Programme (Jan.’12)
  

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Syria

• Aid at a Glance, OECD (Feb.’14)
• Aid for Trade at a Glance 2009 (Jul.’09)
• Before and after: See how war has damaged Syria’s heritage sites (Dec.’14)
• Café Syria, Syria news
• The complete list of Syrian Embassies Abroad & Foreign Embassies In Syria
• Finest Russian Combat Helicopters Come to Syria (Dec.’15)
• Flag of Syria
• HSBC dealings in the Middle East in the spotlight (Aug.’12)
  
• Mapping the conflict (Mar.’15)
• Once Upon a Time in Damascus (Jan.’12)
  
• Syrian Arab News Agency (Jan. ’26) New
• Syria conflict in numbers (Nov.’14)
• Syria Military Strength (GFP) (Feb.’14)
  
• Syria profile (Dec.’16)
• Syrian Embassy (London.UK)
• The story of the conflict (Mar.’15)
• The Struggle for Syria (Aug.’11)
• United Nations Development Programme (Jan.’12)
• Wikitravel

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Tunisia

• Ambassade van België in Tunis
• EBRD in Tunisia (Nov.’12)
  
• Flag of Tunisia
• OECD’s Gurría welcomes democratic progress and pledges continued support (Feb.’14)
• Programme des Nations Unies pour le développemnet (Français)
• Reviving the Art of Tunisian Glass (May ’22)
• Terror No longer has a Nationality (Jan.’17)
• TunisAir suspends serving alcohol on flights during Ramadan (Jul. ’12)
  
• Tunisia country profile (Sep.’16)
• Tunisia join multilateral business integrity and green growth instruments (May ’12)
• Tunisia Military Strength (GFP) (Feb.’14)
  

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United Arab Emirates

• 6″don’ts” of the workplace (Mar.’14)
• Abu Dhabi
• Abu Dhabi chamber (Feb.’12)
  
• Compulsory military service for UAE National men (Jan.’14)
  
• Dubai among top 5 most improved cities, study says (May ’15)
• Dubai vying to be the world’s next fashion capital (Feb.’14)
  
• Dubai’s Mall Of The Emirates To Get World’s Biggest Apple Store (Aug.’14)
• Dubai Tourism Guide 2015 (Dec.’14)
• Emirates NBD Beats Estimates With 35% Quarterly Profit Rise (Jul.’14)
• Emirates to fly the world’s longest non-stop route, between Dubai and Panama City (Aug.’15)
• Etihad Airways to buy 49% stake in Serbia’s JatAirways (Aug.’13)
  
• Europe pushes the houseboat out at Dubai’s The World (Mei ’16)
• Expandable solar-powered floating Aqua Pod launches in Dubai (Oct.’21)
• Extraordinary winged museum prepares for flight in Abu Dhabi (Jun.’24)
• Flag of United Arab Emirates
• Futuristic observation tower approved for Dubai Creek Harbour (Feb.’16)
• Gays ‘to be barred from entering Gulf’ (Oct.’13)
  
• General information over Abu Dhabi (Feb.’12)
• Greenery covered pavilion provides respite from sweltering Dubai heat (Oct.’21)
• The largest shopping center on the planet unveiled in Dubai (Jul.’14)
• Lonely Planet (Feb.’12)
• More details emerge on Dubai’s new mega tall observation tower (Apr.’16)
• Russia, UAE Deliberating Joint Arms Manufacturing (Dec.’15)
• Stunning pavilion shaded from Dubai sun with airplane-inspired facade (Oct.’21)
• Success comes at a price for UAE’s native minority (France 24 news)
• Sustainability’s Dubai Beta Lab (May ’22)
• The new Entrepreneurs’ Heaven? (Feb.’14)
• UAE plans to send the first Arab spaceship to Mars in seven years (Jul.’14)
• UAE’s Mars space mission has a new name: Hope (May ’15)
• United Arab Emirates’ Development Co-operation (Jun.’14)
• United Arab Emirates Military Strength (GFP) (Feb.’14)
  
• United Arab Emirates profile (Sep.’16)
• United Arab Emirates Statistical Reporting to the OECD Development Assistance Committee (Mar.’11)
• United Nations Development Programme
• World’s first 3D-printed office building to go up to layer by layer in Dubai (Jul.’15)
• World’s largest aquarium nears completion in Abu Dhabi (Oct.’21)
• World’s largest spherical building gets Middle Eastern doppelgänger (Oct.’24)
• Zaha Hadid’s solar-powered sand dune rises out of the desert (Apr.’22)

• الـــغـــرفـــة الـــتـــجـــاريـــة لأبـــوظـــبـــي (Arabisch / عــَـرَبــِيّ)
• Ministry of International Cooperation and Development, وزارة الـــتـــنـــمـــيـــة والـــتـــعـــاون الـــدولـــي

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Yemen

• Aid at a Glances, OECD (May ’14)
• Aid for Trade at a Glance 2009 (Jul.’09)
• Flag of Yemen
• Gitmo Is Killing Me (Apr.’13)
  
• Netherlands Embassy in Sana’a (Feb.’12)
  
• United Nations Development Programme (Jan.’12)
  
• Yemeni Women Struggle to Step Forward (Jan.’13)
  
• Yemen Military Strength (GFP) (Feb.’14)
  
• Yemen profile (Dec.’16)
• Yemen’s national dialogue conference concludes with an agreement (Jan.’14)

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