THE EVALUATION OF PEDESTRIAN FACILITIES ON HAJJ CROWD BETWEEN ARAFAT AND MUZDALIFAH PEDESTRIAN STREET

Makkah is the holy city of Muslims which is located in the southwest of Saudi Arabia. It is the being visited by pilgrims from all nationalities every year for the annual Islamic Pilgrimage (Hajj). Hajj is the fifth pillar of Islam which is the largest annual religious pilgrimage event in the world. The Hajj management authority specifies that the current pilgrimage’s performance is challenging due to the increase of pilgrims every year. Pedestrian conflicts and uncomfortable walking environment are the crucial issues that have been identified, which are due to insufficient pedestrian facilities. Hence, this paper presents the pedestrian facilities assessment between Arafat to Muzdalifah road. The objectives of the study are to determine the available pedestrian facilities for pilgrimage from Arafat to Muzdalifah, and to suggest the suitable solution for pedestrian facilities in every 5 minutes walks. Meanwhile, qualitative methods of site inventory and observation were applied to gather the related data on the selected study area. Possible pedestrian facilities design is suggested for the purpose of future Hajj improvement.

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Konstruksi Citra Joko Widodo dalam Sampul Majalah Milenial Arrajol, Arab Saudi, Edisi 20 Mei 2019

Al-Ma rifah ◽

10.21009/almakrifah.17.01.07 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 17 (1) ◽

pp. 69-76

Author(s):

Hendro Eko Setiawan

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Saudi Arabia ◽

Qualitative Methods ◽

Role Model ◽

Charles Sanders Peirce ◽

Cover Story ◽

World Community ◽

The World ◽

Promotional Video ◽

Lifestyle Magazine

Indonesian President Joko Widodo is widely discussed on social media because he was chosen as the cover story in Arrajol, a monthly Arabic men’s lifestyle magazine published in Saudi Arabia. On its official Facebook page, Arrajol displays a promotional video of their latest edition by writing, “President of Indonesia, a figure in the new edition of Arrajol magazine.” The video was uploaded by Arrajol on Thursday, May 16, 2019. The purposes of this study are to determine the symbol contained in Arrajol, the meaning contained within the symbol, and how these symbols constructing Joko Widodo’s image as a role model. This study uses qualitative methods with semiotics analysis from Charles Sanders Peirce. The result of this study showed Arrajol magazine consists of two main symbols, the gesture symbol of Joko Widodo who is dressed in a suit with a thin smile on his face, is Joko Widodo’s authority, and followed by the text on the bottom right showing Joko Widodo’s personality. These symbols have different meanings. The meaning contained in each symbol constructs the image of Joko Widodo as a model for the world community.

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Auto Markets in the World and Strategy of Japan’s Companies

Journal of Business and Economics ◽

10.15341/jbe(2155-7950)/10.10.2019/008 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 10 (10) ◽

pp. 1003-1008

Author(s):

Hiroyuki Matsuoka ◽

Keyword(s):

Saudi Arabia ◽

Electric Vehicle ◽

New Technologies ◽

Auto Industry ◽

Domestic Market ◽

Automatic Driving ◽

The World ◽

Almost All ◽

Made In

In the world auto market, top three companies are VW(Volkswagen), Runault-Nissan-Mistubishi, and Toyota. About some selected countries and areas, China, England, Italy, Australia, Germany, Turkey, Russia, Sweden, USA, Brazil, UAE, Japan, Vietnam and Thailand are more competitive. However, the situation is different. Seeing monopolistic market countries and areas, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Korea, Malaysia, France, India, and Pakistan, in particular, the influence of Japan to Taiwan, India, and Pakistan is very big. But in Korea and France, their own companies’ brands occupy the market. In Japan domestic market, the overall situation is competitive. Almost all vehicles made in Japan are Japanese brand. From now on, we have to note the development of electric vehicle (EV) and other new technologies such as automatic driving and connected car. That is because they will give a great impact on the auto industry and market of Japan. Now Japan’s auto industry is going to be consolidated into three groups, Honda, Toyota group, and Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi group for seeking the scale merit of economy. Therefore, I will pay attention to the worldwide development of EV and other new technologies and the reorganization of auto companies groups.

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THE ROLE AND ROLE OF OIL POLICY IN SAUDI ARABIA IN POST WORLD WAR II ECONOMIC LIFE

Journal of look to the past ◽

10.26739/2181-9599-2019-20-06 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 20 (2) ◽

pp. 37-41

Author(s):

Maftuna Sanoqulova ◽

Keyword(s):

Saudi Arabia ◽

World War Ii ◽

Economic Life ◽

World War ◽

Post World War Ii ◽

The World ◽

History Of ◽

Oil Policy

This article consists of the politics which connected with oil in Saudi Arabia after the World war II , the relations of economical cooperations on this matter and the place of oil in the history of world economics

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Analyzing User Digital Emotions from a Holy versus Non-Pilgrimage City in Saudi Arabia on Twitter Platform

Applied Sciences ◽

10.3390/app11156846 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (15) ◽

pp. 6846

Author(s):

Kashish Ara Shakil ◽

Kahkashan Tabassum ◽

Fawziah S. Alqahtani ◽

Mudasir Ahmad Wani

Keyword(s):

Saudi Arabia ◽

Behavioral Differences ◽

Initial Attempt ◽

Bilingual Dictionary ◽

Metropolitan Cities ◽

Emotion Lexicon ◽

User Data ◽

Regional Location ◽

Media Platform ◽

Holy City

Humans are the product of what society and their environment conditions them into being. People living in metropolitan cities have a very fast-paced life and are constantly exposed to different situations. A social media platform enables individuals to express their emotions and sentiments and thus acts as a reservoir for the digital emotion footprints of its users. This study proposes that the user data available on Twitter has the potential to showcase the contrasting emotions of people residing in a pilgrimage city versus those residing in other, non-pilgrimage areas. We collected the Arabic geolocated tweets of users living in Mecca (holy city) and Riyadh (non-pilgrimage city). The user emotions were classified on the basis of Plutchik’s eight basic emotion categories, Fear, Anger, Sadness, Joy, Surprise, Disgust, Trust, and Anticipation. A new bilingual dictionary, AEELex (Arabic English Emotion Lexicon), was designed to determine emotions derived from user tweets. AEELex has been validated on commonly known and popular lexicons. An emotion analysis revealed that people living in Mecca had more positivity than those residing in Riyadh. Anticipation was the emotion that was dominant or most expressed in both places. However, a larger proportion of users living in Mecca fell under this category. The proposed analysis was an initial attempt toward studying the emotional and behavioral differences between users living in different cities of Saudi Arabia. This study has several other important applications. First, the emotion-based study could contribute to the development of a machine learning-based model for predicting depression in netizens. Second, behavioral appearances mined from the text could benefit efforts to identify the regional location of a particular user.

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Increased Emergency Calls during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Saudi Arabia: A National Retrospective Study

Healthcare ◽

10.3390/healthcare9010014 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 14

Author(s):

Ahmed Al-Wathinani ◽

Attila J. Hertelendy ◽

Sultana Alhurishi ◽

Abdulmajeed Mobrad ◽

Riyadh Alhazmi ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Saudi Arabia ◽

Retrospective Study ◽

Emergency Medical Services ◽

Indirect Effect ◽

Mobile Application ◽

Healthcare Systems ◽

Emergency Calls ◽

The World ◽

Staffing Patterns ◽

The Impact

The coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has a direct and indirect effect on the different healthcare systems around the world. In this study, we aim to describe the impact on the utilization of emergency medical services (EMS) in Saudi Arabia during the COVID-19 pandemic. We studied cumulative data from emergency calls collected from the SRCA. Data were separated into three periods: before COVID-19 (1 January–29 February 2020), during COVID-19 (1 March–23 April 2020), and during the Holy Month of Ramadan (24 April–23 May 2020). A marked increase of cases was handled during the COVID-19 period compared to the number before pandemic. Increases in all types of cases, except for those related to trauma, occurred during COVID-19, with all regions experiencing increased call volumes during COVID-19 compared with before pandemic. Demand for EMS significantly increased throughout Saudi Arabia during the pandemic period. Use of the mobile application ASAFNY to request an ambulance almost doubled during the pandemic but remained a small fraction of total calls. Altered weekly call patterns and increased call volume during the pandemic indicated not only a need for increased staff but an alteration in staffing patterns.

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Public Facilities Design in Sustainable Ways for Reconstruction Work of Yushu Area

Applied Mechanics and Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.672-674.2195 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 672-674 ◽

pp. 2195-2210

Author(s):

Ang Li ◽

Shu Bin Kan ◽

Xin Zhang ◽

Xin Yu Song ◽

Shi Long Zhang

Keyword(s):

Design Theory ◽

Physical Models ◽

Overall Design ◽

Public Facilities ◽

Local Characteristics ◽

Current State ◽

Environmental Friendly ◽

The World ◽

Facilities Design ◽

Pros And Cons

The region of Yushu has fragile natural environment. In 2010, it suffered severe damages caused by earthquakes. This paper subject, on the basis of status research of natural and cultural environment in Yushu area and urban public facilities across the world, is aiming at a design attempt of public facilities suitable for Yushu area under the guidance of sustainable-development design theory. After constructing computer models, we made physical models to further test the reliability of our scheme. The overall design acts according to circumstances, and makes it environmental friendly, developmental sustainable, economical, aesthetic, practical and reliable. We also added to our design some local characteristics to make it better integrate into the local natural environmental features so that it could be widely used. In the end, we summarized the pros and cons of the scheme through theoretical analysis of our design process, despite that, in June 2014, we had an on-the-spot investigation in Yushu, and according to its current state of development, we made outlooks of our further scheme practice.

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Barriers to special care patients with mental illness receiving oral healthcare. A cross sectional study in the Holy City of Makkah, Saudi Arabia

Saudi Medical Journal ◽

10.15537/smj.2018.4.21560 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 39 (4) ◽

pp. 419-423 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Mohsen Aljabri ◽

Ibrahim Gadibalban ◽

Aboelezz Kalboush ◽

Hesham Sadek ◽

Hassan Abed

Keyword(s):

Mental Illness ◽

Saudi Arabia ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Special Care ◽

Sectional Study ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Holy City

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The Prospects for Scientific and Technological Development in Saudi Arabia

International Journal of Middle East Studies ◽

10.1017/s0020743800000155 ◽

1979 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

pp. 355-372

Author(s):

Joseph S. Szyliowicz

Keyword(s):

Saudi Arabia ◽

Sixteenth Century ◽

Iberian Peninsula ◽

New World ◽

Technological Development ◽

World History ◽

Rare Phenomenon ◽

The World ◽

Scientific And Technological Development

Today we are witnessing a very rare phenomenon in world history: a state suddenly deluged with an apparently inexhaustible amount of wealth as occurred in sixteenth-century Spain and Portugal when the riches of the New World flowed to the Iberian peninsula. Now the ‘black gold’ under the sands of the Arabian desert has provided one of the most underpopulated and under developed regions of the world with an equivalent bonanza. The new wealth of Spain helped to ruin that country. What will be the fate of Saudi Arabia and its small neighbors?

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The Applications of Intention (Qaedat al- Umu:r bi Maqasidaha) in Saudi Law: A Comparative Study

Journal of Politics and Law ◽

10.5539/jpl.v13n2p1 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 13 (2) ◽

pp. 1

Author(s):

Majed Al-Shaibani

Keyword(s):

Saudi Arabia ◽

Cultural Context ◽

Comparative Law ◽

The West ◽

Theoretical Understanding ◽

Sharia Law ◽

The World ◽

Similarities And Differences ◽

New Vision ◽

Western Law

The current study aims to tackle the theoretical understanding of intention as between Sharia and law. It addresses the similarities and differences in the analysis of interpretation of intention across sharia law and law. The paper contrasts between the two ways of dealing with the concept of intention that is both technical and intuitive, across law and religion. Starting from the hypothesis that the concept of intention in sharia law originated in classical contextual realities different from the contemporary realities of Saudi Arabia and become outdated, the study attempts to answer the following questions: How can the concept of intention be adapted to the new socio-economic realities of Saudi Arabia with its new vision toward the world? How can the concept of intentionality adopt by sharia benefits from the analysis of law theory relating to intention? In order to answer the questions of the study, the study adopts the comparative law methodology through which concept of intention is comparatively examined in both sharia and law. The research investigates the historical and cultural context that gives rise to the concept of intentionality in both sharia law and law, as it helps reflect on aspects of similarity and differences and how gap between the sharia law and law can be bridged. The collected data is obtained through comparing sharia law in Saudi Arabia to the law applied in the West. The study has reached a conclusion that the sound methodological application of the concept of intention in sharia law requires the integration of elements and concepts from the Western law concept of intention.

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