JEDDAH: Next week’s partial solar eclipse will be seen in parts of North America, Russia and Greenland in the first of two polar eclipses this year, but the phenomenon will not be seen in the Kingdom or Arab World. Majed Abu Zahra, president of the Astronomical Society in Jeddah, said that the annual event is a type of solar eclipse that occurs at the start of the lunar month
Astronomers say that the sun will align with the Holy Ka'aba at the Grand Mosque on Thursday at 12:18 Saudi time (14:18 PST). According to experts, the
The generous donor was awarded the King Abdul Aziz Medal for his humanitarian act earlier this month
Updated 31 May 2021
May 31, 2021 23:38
MAKKAH: It is no secret that generosity runs deep in Saudi society, even to the point of saving lives.
And organ donation, permissible in Islam, is one of the greatest acts of charity.
In 2017, there were 19,659 dialysis patients in Saudi Arabia, most aged between 26 and 60, with only 1 percent under 15 years of age, according to the Saudi Journal of Kidney Diseases and Transplantation.
Earlier this year, Abdulrahman Al-Dosri, a young, healthy Saudi in his early 30s living in Al-Khurma province, northeast of Taif, decided to donate a kidney to a child living thousands of miles away who was suffering from advanced renal disease.