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The kafala system (also spelled "kefala system"; Arabic: نظام الكفالة, romanized: niẓām al-kafāla; meaning "sponsorship system") is a system used to monitor migrant laborers, working primarily in the construction and domestic sectors in Gulf Cooperation Council member states and a few neighboring countries, namely Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Saudi Arabia and the ...
Legal chattel Slavery existed in Saudi Arabia until the 1960s. Hejaz (the western region of modern day Saudi Arabia), which encompasses approximately 12% of the total land area of Saudi Arabia, was under the control of the Ottoman Empire from 1517 to 1918, and as such nominally obeyed the Ottoman laws. When the area became an independent nation ...
Saudization ( Arabic: السعودة ), [1] officially the Saudi nationalization scheme and also known as Nitaqat ( Arabic: النطاقات ), is a policy that is implemented in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by the Ministry of Labor and Social Development, which requires companies and enterprises to fill their workforce with Saudi nationals up ...
List of diplomatic missions in Saudi Arabia. This is a list of diplomatic missions in Saudi Arabia. There are currently 122 embassies in Riyadh. Several countries have diplomatic missions accredited from other capitals. In addition, many countries maintain consulates in other Saudi Arabian cities such as Jeddah and Dhahran (not including ...
Shia Islam portal. v. t. e. The Saudi government does not conduct a census on religion or ethnicity, [1] but some sources estimate the Shia population in Saudi Arabia to make up around 20% of the approximately 34 million natives of Saudi Arabia. [2] Saudi Arabia's Twelver Shia community, the Baharna, is primarily concentrated in the country's ...
The history of Saudi Arabia as a nation state began with the emergence of the Al Saud dynasty in central Arabia in 1727 [1] [2] and the subsequent establishment of the Emirate of Diriyah. Pre-Islamic Arabia, the territory that constitutes modern Saudi Arabia, was the site of several ancient cultures and civilizations; the prehistory of Saudi ...
The Tamimi Group of Companies, sometimes called the al-Tamimi Group, is a large Saudi Arabian conglomerate of companies involved in supermarket chains, hotels, catering, real estate, oilfield services & supplies, road construction, transportation and trucking, power generation and water filtration. The company is in partnership with Pakistani ...
السعودية. Saudi Arabia, [e] officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ( KSA ), [f] is a country in West Asia and the Middle East. It covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula and has a land area of about 2 150 000 km 2 ( 830 000 sq mi), making it the fifth-largest country in Asia and the largest in the Middle East.