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  2. Kafala system - Wikipedia

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    The kafala system (also spelled "kefala system"; Arabic: نظام الكفالة, romanized: niẓām al-kafāla; meaning "sponsorship system") is a system that exists in many Arab countries in the Middle East, including most of the nations on the Arabian Peninsula, [2] which involves binding migrant workers to a specific employer throughout the period of their residence in a country.

  3. Demographics of Saudi Arabia - Wikipedia

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    Demographics of Saudi Arabia, Data of FAO, year 2005; Number of inhabitants in thousands. Saudi Arabia is the fourth largest state in the Arab world, with a reported population of 32,175,224 as of 2022. [ 6 ][ 7 ] 41.6% of inhabitants are immigrants. [ 8 ] Saudi Arabia has experienced a population explosion in the last 40 years, [ 9 ] and ...

  4. Saudization - Wikipedia

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    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 to certain levels.

  5. List of diplomatic missions in Saudi Arabia - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Slavery in Saudi Arabia - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Tamimi Group - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Foreign workers in Saudi Arabia - Wikipedia

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    Foreign workers in Saudi Arabia (Arabic: العَمالَة الأَجْنَبِيَّة فِي السَعُودِيَّة, romanized: al-ʿamālah al-ʾāǧnabīyah fī as-Saʿūdīyah), estimated to number about 9 million as of April 2013, [1] [failed verification] began migrating to the country soon after oil was discovered in the late 1930s.

  9. Sadad - Wikipedia

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    move to sidebarhide. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Sadadmay refer to: Sadad, Bahrain. Sadad, Syria. The SADADpayment system in Saudi Arabia. Topics referred to by the same term. This disambiguationpage lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name.