The Kingdom’s first institute of higher education, King Saud University, is opened in Riyadh. Read more: Saudis look back on the dawn of broadcasting on Saudi National Day The first TV broadcast in Saudi Arabia is launched from the US Consulate in Dhahran “The Eye of the Desert” is broadcast in English and only to the Dhahran area. King Faisal (right) and US President Richard Nixon. The Department of Youth Welfare (previously the Department of Sport) creates four federations: volleyball, basketball, athletic and cycling.ġ965 - King Faisal approves the first national television broadcast, a reading of the Qur’an, amid protests from conservatives. The Council of Ministers approves a project to establish television in the Kingdom.
Read more: Saudi schooling goes back to the futureġ960 - Royal decree approves public education for girls schools are established in Riyadh, Makkah and other cities.ġ962 - The non-profit women’s organization, Al-Nahda, is established by Princess Effat and a number of prominent Saudi women. Under Vision 2030 and a flurry of life-altering developments – movies and concerts, greater freedom for women, fitness in schools, to name just a few – the Kingdom is on a trajectory back to the future.ġ955 - Saudi Arabia’s first private school for girls, Dar Al-Hanan, is founded in Jeddah by Princess Effat, with the support of her husband, Crown Prince Faisal bin Abdul Aziz, amid a social outcry. We only want to go back to what we were, the moderate Islam that is open to the world, open to all the religions … And quite frankly, we will not waste 30 years of our lives in dealing with extremist ideas … We want to live a normal life, a life that translates our moderate religion, our good customs.”Īnd that’s what has happened. Abbas, Editor-in-Chief, Arab News)Īs Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman told 2017’s Future Investment Initiative: “We were not like this in the past.
OPINION: Reconnecting with the past, reimagining the future (Faisal J. Saudi Arabia took a conservative turn, prompted by two events: the Iranian Revolution in February, which brought Ayatollah Khomeini to power, and the siege by religious extremists of the Grand Mosque in Makkah.
Saudi Arabia was on a roll in the 1970s, enjoying the social and cultural developments that had begun in the previous two decades, and buoyed by the rising price of oil and the Kingdom’s first Development Plan.īut 1979 changed everything.
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