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Word: naziriyah (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1961-1961
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...Saudi standards is being made in education. The school population has quadrupled in ten years to 100,000, and the education budget has gone up tenfold. Saud has donated at least ten of his 24 palaces for schools. At King Saud's Sons' Institute, inside the Naziriyah compound, children of slaves sit next to young princes. Risking the displeasure of the austere Wahabi sect of Islam, which believes that woman's place is in the harem and behind the veil, Tariki has put several thousand girls in school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saudi Arabia: Easing the Code | 5/19/1961 | See Source »

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