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Abdullah Aljumah
This is the online home of Abdullah Aljumah, from Al-Ahsa, a city located in the Eastern Province of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. I have been living and working in Jubail Industrial City for over six years. Here, I hope, you can find some information about me as well as some cool stuff. For professional information such as qualifications and achievements, a detailed autobiography can be accessed by clicking here. For informal information, click here.

Selected Publication

PublicationPhonology:
  • Al-Ahsa Dialect: An OT Perspective, 

Published at Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics in June 2008, volume 44, issue 2. An electronic version can be downloaded from their partner by clicking here.

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Vote for King Abdullah for a Nobel Peace Prize

You are all cordially invited to vote for King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud for a Nobel Peace Prize. In unprecedented initiative, the king -- we all admit -- has endeavored to bring together Islam, Judaism, Christianity and other faiths in an Interfaith Dialogue that opens a new page of humanity in the twenty-first century -- and and he continues to do so. I think every one should vote in favour of our great kingat the following website:  http://www.votefornobelprize.com/

Obama tells Arabic network US is 'not your enemy'

CAIRO, Egypt – President Barack Obama chose an Arabic-language satellite TV network for his first formal television interview as president, delivering a message Tuesday to the Muslim world that "Ameri

Obama pledges new start with Muslims

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama promised to improve U.S. ties with the Muslim world in his inauguration address on Tuesday, after tensions that followed the September 11 attacks and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Home Burglaries Worry Inhabitants of Jubail Industrial City

Home robberies are rising in Industrial Jubail districts and burglars who are ostensibly arrested are apparently still on the run. In the past two years, Jubail dwellers had undergone a spate of home robberies that amounted to 250 incidents according to several local Arabic newspapers. Despite the public announcement from the local police authority in the area that burglars were captured and brought to justice, home burglaries are still on the rise, and there does not seem to be an indication to its end.

Shoura rejects a proposal to simplify Saudi marriages to foreigners

The Shoura Council rejected the recommendation to ease regulations that govern Saudis marrying non-Saudis. However, the council approved other recommendations submitted by the chairman of the council’s Committee for Social, Family and Youth Affairs.The detail of the the article is cited below as follows:

Great expectations: Obama will have to deliver

WASHINGTON – Over and over, Barack Obama told voters if they stuck with him "we will change this country and change the world." They did, and now their expectations for him to deliver are firmly plant

Is there something wrong with being a Muslim, asks Powell

WASHINGTON: Colin Powell, America’s former top military commander and President Bush’s former secretary of state who crossed party lines and endorsed the Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Sunday, has lambasted American attitude toward Muslims.

Saudi Recipes

Here are some Saudi recipes.

BAHARAT (Saudi Mixed Spices) Recipe By : Tastes of Jubail

1/3 cup black pepper 1/4 cup coriander powder 1/4 scant cup cinnamon 1/4 scant cup clove -- ground 1/3 cup cumin 2 teaspoons cardamom -- ground 1/4 cup nutmeg -- ground 1/2 cup paprika -- ground 1/3 cup curry powder 1/4 scant cup dried limes -- ground Mix all ingredients. Store in a tightly sealed jar. Makes about 2 cups. I suggest adding a small amount of allspice and ginger, also use garam masala instead of curry powder.

Ramadan

When It Happens- Ramadan is the ninth month of the Muslim calendar, which is based on the moon. The western dates of the holiday move up about 10 days every year. In 2008, Ramadan is predicted to begin on August 31st or September 1st and end on September 29th or 30th.

US soldiers and Iraqi Kids

Trustworthiness is defined as honesty and/or truthfulness and is a moral value considered to be a virtue not only in Islam but also in Christianity. In fact, it is a virtue in every religion. From this it follows that a trustworthy person is someone in whom we can place our trust and can rest assured that the trust will not be betrayed. The person can prove his/her trustworthiness by fulfilling an assigned responsibility, duty or job -- and as an extension of that, to not let down our expectations. The responsibility can be either materialistic, such as delivering a mail package on time, or it can be a non-materialistic such as keeping a promise or keeping an important secret to oneself. For instance, the brutal and war criminal Sadam Hussain was not trustworthy and this is obvious to the whole world and needs no evidence. It is quite enough to know that Sadam killed his own people with biological weapons. Sadly, the new promising American policy was no exception. Some American soldiers were not trustworthy in taking care of Iraqi people and of Iraqi kids in particular. They (some American soldiers; I am not saying all!) proved to be untrustworthy for a couple of reasons.

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