Culture & Education | Tuesday 8 March, 2016 12:50 pm

Turner Reveals Significant Findings in Kids Compass Study

Turner, a division of Time Warner, has revealed key insights about the entertainment behaviors, spend, attitudes and purchasing power of kids in the Middle East in a new study titled Kids Compass. Leading the way in the children’s entertainment genre with channels such as Cartoon Network and...

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Culture & Education | Tuesday 8 March, 2016 12:30 pm

Palestinians Earn SAP Skills to Support Middle East’s Digital Economy

Palestinian university graduates have earned valuable high-tech skills to support the Middle East’s Digital Economy, thanks to a public-private partnership that graduated its first group of students.   As part of SAP’s Young Professional Program, 18 Palestinians are now...

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Culture & Education | Tuesday 8 March, 2016 12:06 pm

"Dana Mall" Endorses "Junior Engineer" Program Children Full Access to Engineering

Saudi Arabia is witnessing a dynamic growth in field of learning by entertainment, focusing on young generations. Dana Mall has decided to take lead in education development by embracing the "Junior Engineer" program cooperating with Engineering with Kids, which is an American...

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Culture & Education | Monday 7 March, 2016 9:05 am

OSN continues to cement content leadership in MENA through new long-term partnership with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios

Film lovers in the Middle East and North Africa region cannot have it any better than on OSN, the leading pay-TV network, as they will now have exclusive access to the expansive roster of movies and future television series from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios (MGM). The renewed long-term deal between...

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Culture & Education | Sunday 6 March, 2016 11:13 am

Netflix Launches Arabic Support for iOS

Netflix is thrilled to announce that it has added Arabic support for iOS enabling its Arabic speaking customers to get the best of Netflix in their own language on their iPads and iPhones. There are now 21 languages available on the Netflix User Interface (UI), and as the company continues...

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Culture & Education | Sunday 6 March, 2016 7:43 am

120 gifted Saudis qualify for ‘Innovation 2016’ awards

One hundred and twenty out of 22,046 Saudi geniuses (boys and girls) qualified for the final round leading to the presentation of 30 awards in scientific projects at the Sixth National Olympiad Creative and Science Awards “Innovation 2016.” The annual event, being organized by the...

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Culture & Education | Saturday 5 March, 2016 8:07 am

KSU students win professional ethics competition

Finance students from King Saud University emerged the winners of the 2015-16 CFA Research Challenge organized by the CFA Institute, Saudi Arabia chapter. The champion team will now represent Saudi universities in the upcoming CFA Institute Research Challenge to be held in April in Chicago. The ...

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Culture & Education | Friday 4 March, 2016 10:32 am

MoE seeks to ensure effective education

The Ministry of Education (MoE) seeks to create a system that ensures an effective and efficient method of education for modern times. Education Minister Ahmed Al-Issa said that to achieve this, the ministry has launched a number of projects.  He said this during the launch on Thursday of a...

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Culture & Education | Monday 29 February, 2016 6:55 am

Jeddah's Children to meet Harvard and Nasa's Techniques

The city of Jeddah has witnessed recently the opening of "Fast Track Kids" first branch in Saudi. This branch is to be among a wide chain of branches that reaches up to 338 ones, distributed in 48 countries around the world. Introducing a new educational concept through entertainment and...

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Culture & Education | Sunday 28 February, 2016 8:11 am

Saudi youth is leading the way to knowledge-based economy in the Kingdom

 In line with Saudi Arabia’s Development Plan focused on narrowing the technology gap between the Kingdom and other industrial countries by 2020, and to promote the transition to a knowledge-based economy, the Dean of Information Technology at Al-Imam Muhammad Bin Saud Islamic University ...

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