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Jeddah Disaster: What If Jeddah was an American City!

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Dawad Al-Dawad from Aramco

Dawood Al-Dawood from ARAMCO

As Jeddah city has encountered such a devastating flood disaster by the end of November, specifically, a day before Eid Al-Adha where millions of Muslims around the world celebrate.

Official resources claimed that the flood was caused by the heavy rain downpour the city.

To me, it is a bit fishy that the rainfall only has caused the city to sink into the water due to the bad sewage infrastructure! But there is no evidence to confirm that my point is true.

In 2005, a category 5 hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans in LA, USA and left the city with a massive destruction.

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Saudi Banks Slience! Transparency Issue?

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Ma'an Al-Sana'a

Ma'an Al-Sana'a

Over six months ago, several creditors (banks) around the world announced their exposure to SAAD group especially to the SICL the financial unit of that group registered on Cayman Islands somewhere on the Caribbean owned by Saudi Billionaire Ma’an Al-San’a. Yet, he dragged his in laws (his wife’s family) al-Gosaibi group into a dirty sum of loans.

Day after day passes by and the Saudi officials at SAMA are denying to comments anything toward this problem.

Besides, All banks in Saudi have not announce or comment any exposure relating to the total debt amounts that are claiming these two family groups. The rumors and turmoil continued increasingly between the investors since SAMA did not want to speak and inform these people about what is exactly going on! Suddenly, SAMA has freeze down all SAAD group assets in Saudi and few Continue reading →

Fate to be a Terrorist! Jihad Phobia!

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Abdulsalam, The Saudi Student

Abdulsalam, The Saudi Student

Abdulsalam Al-Zahrani is 46 year old PhD Anthropology student at Binghamton University. Abdul has been charged with the second-degree murder of Binghamton University professor, Richard Antoun.

According to multiple resources, the grad student and his professor had known each other for quite sometimes. Al-Zahrani lived with two roommate at a three bedroom apartment in Binghamton.

Witnesses said that when police asked Zahrani about Antoun, he said, “Yeah, I just stabbed him,” according to news reports.

Psychologically, in my opinion, I would assume Al-Zharani is experiencing some mental problems by analyzing some of the comments provided by his Continue reading →

What Saudis are Searching for In Google!

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Google Insight

Google Insight

Google Insights for search is a tool provided publicly by Google which allows you to find out about the top search key words with multiple filters such as country, searched items, or time ranges.

I liked the idea, so I went digging for what Saudi users are looking for using Google search engine.

With Google Insights for Search, you can compare search volume patterns across specific regions, categories, time frames and properties.

See examples of how you can use Google Insights for Search.

My curiosity was to see what the most searched key words in Saudi, but I found more than that where I am able to find the most searched image and news.

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Jeddah Disaster: A Clip Collections!

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Car drown by Rain!

Car drown by Rain!

My Jeddawie friend (Mohammad) likes to keep me updated with his latest in term of images nor clips of what happened in Jeddah since he is in the heart of the situation. Yet, he sent the most stunning clip out of YouTube.

It is the most horrific clips yet that I’ve seen and received for this disaster.

Basically, It consists of a collection of clips merged together to be a single clip for almost 8.30 minutes.

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Riyadh Rain: Reasonable Damages!

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Exit 15 Top View

Exit 15 Top View (East Ring Road Highway)

So lets move on to Riyadh, as the clouds have been traveling east side of the Saudi semi-peninsula. Riyadh started getting some rain but intermittently, sometimes showering and other times are heavy. Luckily, I was able to take some images but haven’t downloaded them into my laptop yet. Anyhow, there were damages to some of the roads infrastructure and some bridges were flooded, but I appreciate the preventive measures that the Traffic Police (Al-Muroor) and Civil Defense (Al-Defa’a Al-Madani) that they took once the rain started. They blocked ways to these flooded area to preventive people from driving nor walking through and provided the vacuum tanks to clean these flooded roads as soon as possible.

I am still wondering what would happen if Riyadh was Rio De Janeiro, and these corrupted contractors  Continue reading →