• Elections were held in Saudi Arabia on 12 December 2015 for municipal councils, which have limited decision-making powers on local issues such as rubbish...
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    Municipal elections for 178 municipalities were held in Saudi Arabia between 10 February and 21 April 2005. The first to be held in the country since the...
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    Elections in Saudi Arabia are rare. Municipal elections were last held in 2015, the first time women had the right to vote and stand as candidates. The...
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    Municipal elections in Saudi Arabian towns and cities, initially planned for 31 October 2009, were held on 29 September 2011 (a week after the initial...
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    In February 2005, the first elections in Saudi Arabian history were held. The elections for "virtually powerless" municipal councils were for half the...
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    January 2015) was King and Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia from 1 August 2005 until his death in 2015. Prior to his accession, he was Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia...
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    head of government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia who holds absolute power. He is the head of the Saudi Arabian royal family, the House of Saud. The king...
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  • rights. Women's societal roles in Saudi Arabia are heavily affected by Islamic and local traditions of the Arabian Peninsula. Wahhabism, the Hanbali school...
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    King of Saudi Arabia from 9 November 1953 until his abdication on 2 November 1964. During his reign, he served as Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia from 1953...
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  • This is a discussion of telephone numbers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The country's calling code is +966. In addition to a numbering plan, there are...
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    founder of Saudi Arabia. It forms a subtribe of the larger prominent ancient Banu Hanifa tribe of Arabia, from which well known 7th century Arabian theologist...
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    The Saudi Council of Ministers (Arabic: مجلس الوزراء السعودي Majlis al-Wuzarā' as-Su'ūdī) is the cabinet of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It is led by...
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    a lawsuit for women's voting rights in the September 2011 Saudi Arabian municipal elections and her encouragement of other women by the launching of an...
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    The Consultative Assembly of Saudi Arabia (Arabic: مجلس الشورى السعودي, romanized: Maǧlis aš-Šūrā s-Saʿūdiyy), also known as Majlis ash-Shura or The Shura...
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    This is a list of ministries of the Government of Saudi Arabia. "Gov. Agencies Directory". Unified National Platform. Retrieved 1 January 2024....
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    of Saudi Arabia are the diplomatic and trade relations between Saudi Arabia and other countries around the world. The foreign policy of Saudi Arabia is...
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    order of succession to the Saudi Arabian throne is determined by, and within, the House of Saud. Every King of Saudi Arabia, upon his death, has been succeeded...
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    The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia (Arabic: ولي عهد المملكة العربية السعودية) is the second-most important position in Saudi Arabia, second to the King...
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    annual precipitation. Saudi Arabia is home to five terrestrial ecoregions: Arabian Peninsula coastal fog desert, Southwestern Arabian foothills savanna,...
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    The legal system of Saudi Arabia is based on Sharia, Islamic law derived from the Quran and the Sunnah (the traditions) of the Islamic prophet Muhammad...
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    spoken articles) The history of Saudi Arabia as a nation state began with the emergence of the Al Saud dynasty in central Arabia in 1727 and the subsequent...
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    government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The Prime Minister is always either the King of Saudi Arabia or Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia. Prince Mohammed bin Salman...
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    Kingdom of Saudi Arabia" (PDF). U.S.–Saudi Arabian Business Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 December 2014. Retrieved 12 February 2015. Tripp...
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    have been promised the vote in 2015 municipal elections. Like many Muslim countries of the Middle East, Saudi Arabia has a high population growth rate...
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    Foreign workers in Saudi Arabia (Arabic: العَمالَة الأَجْنَبِيَّة فِي السَعُودِيَّة, romanized: al-ʿamālah al-ʾāǧnabīyah fī as-Saʿūdīyah), estimated to...
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    be released took place during the 2011–2012 Saudi Arabian protests in many cities throughout Saudi Arabia, with security forces firing live bullets in...
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    Visitors to Saudi Arabia must obtain a visa, unless they come from one of the visa exempt countries. Some visitors are eligible to obtain a visa online...
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    list of political parties in the Saudi Arabia. Many, if not all, of the parties listed are illegal, as Saudi Arabia is an absolute monarchy with a government...
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  • Nassima al-Sadah (category Saudi Arabian women activists)
    the eastern province Qatif, Saudi Arabia for many years. She ran as a candidate in the 2015 Saudi Arabian municipal elections but was disqualified. Sadah...
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    Jeddah (redirect from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia)
    pronunciation: [ˈ(d)ʒɪd.da]), is the largest city in Makkah Province, Saudi Arabia, and the country's second largest city after Riyadh, located along the...
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