Saudi Arabia is a country with a LOT of backstory and overall international acknowledgement. The birthplace of Islam. The cradle of Arabism. Today they find themselves at a unique time where they must coalesce the future with tradition. So much to discuss and it all happens on the world's largest peninsula. #SaudiArabia is up. Enjoy.
Was just about to post the same comment! 22% of the population is missing, lol! Also weird: 90% of the population are Arabs, but only 60% are citizens and 40% expats...mostly from Pakistan, India, Philippines...etc. I get that Pakistan is predominantly Muslim and there are lots of Muslims in India, but I'm pretty sure they're not ethnic Arabs. Filipinos certainly aren't Arabs.
@@alexlarsen6413 all r not arabs Out of 40% expats, 30% are Arabs from other Arab states and ppl from India, Pakistan, Philippines at 10% I guess He may be talking about the non Arab expats
@@sego6277 I NEED THIS ! Older videos have shorter duration. I really hope they'll make some fun facts about countries that didn't get mentioned in the older videos.
As a Filipino nurse who worked and lived in Saudi Arabia for 9 years (2010-2019) i can say 99% of what you said is accurate. Generally, most Arabs are generous bunch but Saudis are on the top. experienced it first hand while working as a nurse with one of the highest ranking member of the royal family. I miss you Saudi Arabia. Much love, Pinoy Nurse😘
Consider yourself lucky to work with the royal family hashana, as a boy who lived all his youth in Saudi I saw a lot of phillipines get the short end of the stick unfortunately . But their work ethic is amazing everytime!
It was also don't while the supreme court disapproved... The president basically gave them away to Saudi Arabia for investments so it was a matter of pride. Egypt did aquire the islands as a gift from Saudi Arabia in the 50's so Egypt can block Israel. Lol
@demetrius9533 It belongs to Saudi, but due to its importance as crossways in the sea, the Saudis gave control of it to Egypt because of the war with Israel, ever since the Saudi government pushed the Egyptians to get it back, with no end. until 2016. it's now important due to the Giga project NEOM which is in the northwest of Saudi Arabia and contains parts of Egypt and Jordan, it's an economical zone with huge ambitions (500$ billion budget), and it will have a bridge connecting Saudi with Egypt to export gulf goods to Europe through Egypt.
@Revolutionary Man in the past it was important due to the war with Israel, now its important due to the NEOM project which has a bridge connecting both countries.
I send my love and peace to all of my Arabs brothers and sisters, especially Saudis from Iran❤ love is wise and hatred is foolish. If we want to live together and not die together, we need to respect our differences. All Europeans have come together and have made a powerful Union without saying "oh, you're a catholic, you're a protestant, you're a French or you're a German", but we muslims are still fighting over our minor differences. There's nothing more humane and Islamic than to create friendship and love among people. I'm Persian and honestly speaking I love all Arabs. May peace be with you❤❤🙏
We Saudis really admire the Filipino community here because unlike any other expat community they give back to the country by doing community service (volunteering to clean beaches) or celebrating Saudi National days , in the last Riyadh entertainment season it organizers hosted a Filipino night where they invited a famous Filipino singer to preform which was attended by a lot of Filipinos here , much love to the Philippine
@@ezix3753 replace filipino with india or to be more specific(kerala,india) other than just cleaning beaches and celebrating ksa national day(along with most of pakistanis and almost all indian states) add volunteering during hajj and ofcourse social services along the years. not undermining the participation of other countries but keralites are just more in number though being a small south indian state.(35million population) more over, last january Media One tv hosted their annual pravasi festival with iconic movie celebrities music artists(singers/vocalists ,music instrumentalist,famous tv show comedy actors of kerala, it was one big program.which was of course attended by about 9,000 or may be more keralites and ofcourse some prominent saudi figures. btw relationship with kerala started during the chinese silk route era,at the time prophet and it was the centre of trade for spice,and the first indian etc..etc..
Our family lives in Saudi, my dad (an American) works for Saudi Aramco, and last christmas he took me and my sister to the King AbdulaAziz center of world culture, inside they actually have a museum of the oil there in Saudi with an oil-rig-simulator thing, Its really cool.
Hey!! that center is actually really really close to where i live lol, and with all due honesty when i went there for the first time i was like “daamn ! my people are showing off 😂”
Dang, I only passed through it when I was doing pilgrimage to makkah! We always thought it was under construction. Maybe we can visit it next time I go .
@@brenobacci Why are you so interested in stuff that happened over a year ago? I mean in Turkey, the very country that Khashoggi's death took place, soldiers and civilians involved in a coup against Erdogan were left to be tortured till death in the streets by pro-Erdogan Turks, yet nobody talked about them... Meanwhile in Yemen, a militia backed by Saudi's nemesis Iran have been bombing and shooting Saudi Arabia with rockets and sending armed men in there who caused many homicides in the southern regions, and the Yemeni elected government weren't able to contain them. You want the Saudis to keep watching and not protect their own people?
@@brenobacci You're mostly welcome, but just a word of advice, never rely on one side when getting your news, always look at a situation from all sides. As for this Chanel, they always tend to stir away from politics, mainly because they know how debates could get carried away and become hateful and violent in the comments section, and this is not really what this channel is about.
i know another really cool fun fact Ali Hussain Sibat is a Lebanese national and former host of the popular call-in show that aired on satellite TV across the Middle East. On the show - described as "a Middle Eastern psychic hot line" by one source - he made predictions and gave advice to the audience. He is perhaps most famous outside of Lebanon for his arrest in Saudi Arabia on charges of "sorcery" in May 2008 while traveling to perform the Umrah pilgrimage. Sibat was sentenced to death by beheading. Following pressure on the Saudi government by the Lebanese government and human rights groups, he was released by the Saudi Supreme Court.
"The process took forever, like a month." (Meanwhile, Moroccans wait 2 months just to get a visa appointment to Spain, and the visa will most likely be denied)
An appointment? That's crazy. Usually I you gotta do is go online and order one from whatever country your going to. Takes a couple min and its ready the next day.
honestly, unless you look them your self, you didn't know most of them and didn't care much. so it's fair to just see glimpse of them, unless it's name of president or some kind of big leader.
As a German person who visited Saudi Arabia last year, I really liked it there and it is very different that I thought 1- the politics made me think that it is a dangerous place but in fact it is one of the safest countries i have visited + the people there are very friendly and most of are open minded unlike what I was expecting. 2- You can visit Mecca city but not the mosque area, usually they don't ask about your religion when you go to the mosque too ( this is what I heard) 3- The country is modern and better than many other countries and it has a lot of things you can do ( I stayed 14 days ) 4- Overall I liked it a lot but the only problem is that so crowded in the big cities ( unless you like big crowded cities ) + visit it in the winter the summer is like the hell and camping in the desert is very great experience ( I regret that I didn't camp there, I just stayed for a few hours )
I have lived there and worked for Aramco company from 2012 to 2016 In Ad Dammam you are right about that the country is way different than what media shows and the quality of live there is better than the US I'm planning to go there and work in Sabic company.
@@Route-cy6cx sooooooo yeah but don't let anyone know.. They won't hurt you but they won't like it, cuz obviously it's against our beliefs 😅 However u r welcome 👍🏾 and may Allah guide us all Edit : asuming u're talking about yourself oc
A Fact about pilgrim: so when people come here and they got sick with any condition their treatment and surgeries are all free actually last year the hospitals in makkah broke their own records with cardiac surgeries for pilgrims. And I as a medical volunteer in Medinah I and my team helped alot of people and we assigned the people who needed special treatment to the hospital to get their treatment and/ or surgeries for free. God bless our lands and souls🇸🇦❤️ I wish the world take the wahabi picture which is shown in the media and see the real people the proud Saudi ♥️♥️🇸🇦🇸🇦🇸🇦
But let's be honest. the whole 'Hajj' process is messed up, it clearly lacks organisation and thorough safety assessments and inspections. This is no different to other big gatherings, e.g. concerts, it just needs better instructions and good utilisation of the funding to improve services instead of monopolising services and bribing officials.
@@Siwahib Gee, I suppose if you ran the Saudi government (or any government, for that matter) you wouldn't be able to control three times your own population perfectly. If you're such an angel go ahead and prove it.
@@bdz3972 way gust you say that, if you come to saudi before you will know they will appreciate everyone of their visit and show him all part of country free they take him like one of themselves. And I apologize for my writing and English.
Yeah as a Saudi I really like the food here but Guatemalan food is pretty amazing too,also who ever invented Pepian is an angel sent from the heavens above
@@Omar-uk1dq Really Do you taste Pepian? We have another sauces called recados like estofado, hilachas, pulique, amarillo, subanik, chicken broth, meat broth and cack ik you really have to prove these meals they are very delicious, never mind if they go with tortillas or tamalitos, greetings from Jalapa, Guatemala.
I visited saudi like 8 years ago and I can remember there’s a man using his feet to drive his cars in highway. I was so shocked. He was so chilled & laid back 😱
@@emp437 ironically, until 2018 women couldn't drive but you could see 12 year olds and even younger boys driving with no problems 😂 (without license of course but no one cares)
@@EspeonMistress00 That's a stark contrast to the massive man-made starvation in Yemen caused by the Saudi-imposed blockade of the country. Hundreds of thousands of people have died as a result of the war.
@@mhhakeem No dude, we don't have any hate towards the religion Islam. We Indians have learned since idk when to accept people of different cultures as our own family. Muslims are some of them. Explains the cultural diversity here now, doesn't it?
I find the entire passage of Isaiah 42 interesting although admittedly I am reading the New International Version English translation. Isaiah 42:1-4* 1 “Here is my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen one in whom I delight; 2 I will put my Spirit on him, and he will bring justice to the nations. He will not shout or cry out, or raise his voice in the streets. 3 A bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out. In faithfulness he will bring forth justice; 4 he will not falter or be discouraged till he establishes justice on earth. In his teaching the islands will put their hope.” The Arabian Peninsula in Arabic is called الجزيرة العربية Al-Jazeera Al-Arabiya which means the Arabian island. Because it is inaccessible due to the desert and water on three sides. Also the oases and towns scattered across the desert are like islands, as the Arabs would call camels 'the ship of the desert'. I have also seen the world "islands" translated as "coastlands" like in the Common English Bible or the Complete Jewish Bible. Isaiah 42:10-12 10 Sing to the Lord a new song, his praise from the ends of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and all that is in it, you islands, and all who live in them. 11 Let the wilderness and its towns raise their voices; let the settlements where Kedar lives rejoice. Let the people of Sela sing for joy; let them shout from the mountaintops. 12 Let them give glory to the Lord and proclaim his praise in the islands. In other translations "the wilderness and its towns" is translated as "the desert and its towns". Kedar is an ancestor of the Arabs who is named in the Bible and the people of Kedar are the Arabs (definition of Kedar). Additionally the verse which mentions Sela mentions mountaintops. Here is the Complete Jewish Bible translation of Isaiah 42:11-12 Let the desert and its cities raise their voices, the villages where Kedar lives; let those living in Sela shout for joy; let them cry out from the mountaintops! I'm just assuming this translation represents a Jewish understanding of the text because of the name, but I could be wrong. Isaiah 42:20 You have seen many things, but you pay no attention; your ears are open, but you do not listen. The book of Deuteronomy did so as well. I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. And I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him. [Deuteronomy 18:18] This is God speaking to Moses. The Jews said that the Prophet will be from the children of Israel, but when you read further, “No prophet ever rose again in Israel like Moses, whom the Lord knew with such great intimacy” [Deuteronomy 34:10]" The Prophet could not have been from the children of Israel. He must have been a gentile. Because otherwise, this would be a clear contradiction in the book of Deuteronomy. It can only be removed when assuming that the said Prophet was a gentile. The 'whom i uphold' part is actually said to be intentionally falsified. The original hebrew word used there was the name Ahmad, which basically has the same meaning as Muhammad. But if you change it just a little bit, you get 'whom i uphold'. some as the southmost part of the Desert of Paran (which scholars linked or identified with the Sinai Desert) or the entire desert, and others said that it is a collective name of a mountain range between the Zin Desert and the Sinai Desert. I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. And I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him. [Deuteronomy 18:18] There are some important details provided in this short prophecy. We are told that this future Prophet will be similar to Moses (“a prophet like you”). We are also told that he will be a mouthpiece for God as he will faithfully relay all of God’s commands (“he shall speak to them all that I command him”). This verse also reveals the people from which the Prophet will arise, “from among their brothers”. An important question we must consider is which people does “brothers” refer to here? The prophet was a gentile. And the Prophet referred to here is Muhammad(Saw). It’s important to note that biblical geographers differ as to the exact location of Paran. However, they are unanimous that Paran is somewhere within Arabia. From Clarke’s Commentary on the Bible: He dwelt in the wilderness of Paran - This is generally allowed to have been a part of the desert belonging to Arabia Petraea, in the vicinity of Mount Sinai; and this seems to be its uniform meaning in the sacred writings. Strong’s Bible Dictionary also tells us that Paran is a desert of Arabia: H6290 pâ’rân From H6286; ornamental; Paran, a desert of Arabia: - Paran. Sebeos, a seventh century Armenian bishop and historian, when describing the Arab conquest of his time, wrote that the Arabs “assembled and came out from Paran” [5]. Encyclopaedia Biblica, edited by Reverend T. K. Cheyne, asserts: “Paran refers to the Arab tribal names, farran or faran.” The Bible tells us that Paran is the very place where Ishmael dwelt: “While he (Ishmael) was living in the Desert of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from Egypt” [Genesis 21:21] The dwelling place of Ishmael was none other than Arabia. The Dead Sea Scrolls, which are dated to the second century BCE and represent the oldest surviving manuscript evidence for the Old Testament along with other apocryphal books, link Ishmael, his descendants and Paran to Arabia: "And Ishmael and his sons, and the sons of Keturah and their sons, went together and dwelt from Paran to the entering in of Babylon in all the land which is towards the East facing the desert. And these mingled with each other, and their name was called Arabs, and Ishmaelite." Hence, the Paran (or Pharan) of Ishmael was certainly in the Arabian Peninsula. In fact, we can narrow this location down further. Modern academic research supports the claim that Ishmael’s Paran was indeed in a specific part of Arabia known as Hijaz, modern-day Western Saudi Arabia. Irfan Shahid, one of the world’s most renowned authorities on pre-Islamic, ancient Arabian geography/history, stated that there was a place called Pharan in Hijaz, which belonged to the Sulaym tribe . Professor Haseeb Shehada, an Israeli scholar and professor, in his translation of the Samaritan version of the Torah suggested an identification of the wilderness of Paran with the desert of Western Arabia which is known today as Hijaz and when the Jews went to the Christ and asked for a sign he said children of men there shall be no sign except Jonah sign which is living three times when he was supposed to die each in the sea a whale sallowed him In the whale belly he was spat into the island On the Island a pumpkin grew on him So Jesus was seen eating fish and honeycomb after his crossing by the disciples seen walking after being buried and a rock was put on his grave by a women and a third which he will comeback on "The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh comes, and unto him shall the gathering of the people be." (Genesis 49:10). This means the Shiloh cannot be from Judah. In the interruption of 4:159 ibn abbas said every jew will believe in the christ before he die even if he was falling from a cliff while he fall he will believe (that does contain believing in muahmmed which wont help him at time of death also the prophet talked said 12 jewish scholar enter islam and all jews will be muslims) Lastly John 16 He promised a comforter priests say its the Holy spirit but the Holy spirit was with Peter with Elizabeth with John with Mary and it was described to be a man eight times "for He will come" a spirit is also a name for mercy that is a name of Muhammed names Some of you might say Muhammed changed the rules yet the Christ says if some one slap you on a cheek turn the other and in another verse it is said an eye for an eye and a teeth for a teeth Also its mentioned in Songs of Solomon Muhammad (PBUH) in the Bible. In the Song of Solomon, chapter 5 verse 16, we read in Hebrew: "Hikko Mamittakim we kullo Muhammadim Zehdoodeh wa Zehraee Bayna Jerusalem." It means "His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem where "im" is a plural form used by hebrew and Arabic for Glorifying
B.B .بكل بساطة التاريخ و المواقف تثبت كلامي السعودية ليست ولم تكن ولن تصبح دولة إسلامية وجود المسلمين فيها لا يعني أنها دولة إسلامية بل هي دولة شعبها يدين بالإسلام
@@theplant4046 yes obviously and beside iraq belong to iran for century and the people were arab languge i mean iraghian are pars and speak arabi understood?
@@uliun2344 is not shitty education. basically given people a chance to get uni dgree no matter of your and family standard of living. And making sure of focus on studying. Not worrying about money Basically the government is encouraging people to learn and have higher education. Also government give scholarship to any uni in the world based couple of things. Also they pay the uni fees and give the student monthly $1000, and flying tickets
Ali I while simultaneously not adjusting for inflation for decades and milking their people every chance they got. Giving scholarships costs nothing to the government compared to the spikes in prices the population suffers from every other month. Who increases taxes by 10% on a whim? Also a lot of goods have seen increases by 50-200% in this year alone. Stop talking about gimmicks and address the real issues.
As a native I would recommend visiting Riyadh or Jeddah if you want something modern, and Jeddah old district and Madain Saleh in Al Ula if you like history
@@mhhakeem bro you will find extremists in all over world who destroy image of a country India is 3rd largest Muslim Populated country and has largest number of Mosque in World
I'm American-Mexican but people sometimes tell me I look Egyptian-Arabian. I always take it as a compliment since I always loved and admired the Arabian culture. As I have with all other world cultures.
Saudi Arabia seems like such a beautiful country with awesome customs and traditions. Love from the US 🇺🇸 or more specifically, Arizona which pretty much looks like Saudi Arabia because of the desert climate xD
@Pedro Hassan I believe so, yes. Infact you can even get some privileges and connections because you belong to the same tribe as theirs; especially in the military and security sectors since Bedouins dominant these sectors.
