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It’s the 92nd Saudi National Day, a day where we celebrate everything we love about the kingdom, and so we thought it was only appropriate to list 92 things about Saudi Arabia you might or might not have known. Let’s go!
The Saudi-Arabian writer Raja Alem is regarded as one of the leading voices in Arabic literature. Her new novel, "The Necklace of the Dove", which shows the dark side of modern Mecca, was awarded the Arab Booker Prize. An interview by Irmgard Berner
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2. One of the earliest examples of a clock is what device, which uses a flat surface and shadows determined by the position of the sun to show the current time?
3. Perhaps the most popular example of time-travel fiction is the âBack to the Futureâ film trilogy. In the second film, the main characters go forward to the year 2015, and in the third film, they travel back to the 1880s. In the first film, Marty McFly starts out in the 1980s and goes back to what decade?
4. Depictions of the cultural character known as Father Time tend to show him as an old man carrying an hourglass and what bladed, long-handled agricultural tool that has historically been used for cutting grass and reaping crops?Â