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The Al Arabiya English website began under the same editorial management as the channel's Arabic website. [2]In July 2012, Faisal J. Abbas, a Huffington Post blogger, Middle East correspondent and former media editor of London-based daily Asharq Al Awsat, was appointed editor-in-chief of the Al Arabiya English Service.
On 14 February 2005, Al Arabiya was the first news satellite channel to air news of the assassination of Rafik Hariri. [42] In September 2008, Iran expelled Al Arabiya's Tehran bureau chief Hassan Fahs, the third Al Arabiya correspondent expelled from Iran since the network opened an Iran office. [43]
Saudi Arabia, [d] officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), [e] is a country in West Asia.Located in the centre of 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, the largest in the Middle East, and the 12th-largest in the world. [14]
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.
Qatar, the only peninsular country in the Persian Gulf on the larger peninsula, is home to the Arabic-language television station Al Jazeera and its English-language subsidiary Al Jazeera English. Kuwait, on the border with Iraq, is an important country strategically, forming one of the main staging grounds for coalition forces mounting the ...
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The Arabic Wikipedia (Arabic: ويكيبيديا العربية) is the Modern Standard Arabic version of Wikipedia.It started on 9 July 2003. As of January 2025, it has 1,250,311 articles, 2,675,260 registered users and 53,851 files and it is the 17th largest edition of Wikipedia by article count, and ranks 7th in terms of depth among Wikipedias.
South Arabia (Arabic: جنوب الجزيرة العربية) is a historical region that consists of the southern region of the Arabian Peninsula in West Asia, mainly centered in what is now the Republic of Yemen, yet it has also historically included Najran, Jizan, Al-Bahah, and 'Asir, which are presently in Saudi Arabia, and Dhofar of present-day Oman.