1. ESL-156 Culture Studies Instructor: Lyra Riabov Presenters: Mohsen Badhdah Ruba Saqat Ali Almusa Nouf Alsharif ESL-156 Culture Studies Instructor: Lyra Riabov Presenters: Mohsen Badhdah Ruba Saqat Ali Almusa Nouf Alsharif

2. Introduction  Cities  Famous People  Tradition  Location  Geography  Size  Population

3. Location  South West Asia.  Surrounded by : - YEMEN. - OMAN. - U.A.E. - QATAR. - KUWAIT. - IRAQ. - JORDAN.

4. Geography  The Empty Quarter (Al- Rub Al Khali) desert.  The Western highlands.  The Northern Mountains and plateaus.  Widespread Mountain and desert valleys.  The Eastern plateaus and plains.  The "Najd" plateaus, Central Region.  The "Tihama" plains, South West region.

5. Size & Size & Population  2,149,690 square kilometers.  Population of 25,731,776

6. Cities

7. Riyadh  The capital city.  Population : close to 7 million people.  Riyadh is the place that most of headquarters of companies and government departments...etc

8. Jeddah  Population : over 3.4 million.  Most popular of Tourist place.

9. Holy cities

10. Makkah

11. Madinah

12. Famous People

13. Alwaleed Bin Talal  Business man.  World's 5th richest man, 2005.  He has held major investments in AOL Time Warner, Apple, Citigroup, MCI, Motorola, and News Corporation.

14. Hayat Sindi  Ph.D. in biotechnology from Cambridge University.  Hayat Sindi: First Arab woman to win PopTech fellowship.  PopTech, chose Sindi, a nanosecond technology researcher at Harvard University, to be its ambassador to the Middle East.

15. Tradition

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