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Destination KSA - Your Guide to Saudi
Naseema Shafi
Naseema Shafi

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Our Favorite 6 Winter Activities in Riyadh!

Winter has arrived after all the cliched GoT  ‘Winter is Coming’ memes flooded the internet. It did get quite annoying, no lies! places to visit in riyadh during winter But guess what never becomes a cliché for a Riyadhi skin? It’s winters! I don’t know about many others, but this happens to be my favorite […]

By Naseema Shafi
Our Favorite 6 Winter Activities in Riyadh!
Spirituality

Learning Wisdom and Morals, Lessons From Surah Hujurat

Self-help books have been great, yet the wisdom and teachings of the Qur’an remain the greatest lessons to have been revealed to the mankind. The Holy Book is a timeless Gift to the humanity given by God Himself, which is why it is perfect in all the ways. Surah Al-Hujurat is a gold mine of […]

By Naseema Shafi
Learning Wisdom and Morals, Lessons From Surah Hujurat
Foodie Corner

Where to Find Your Chill

Our top picks of places to go to, regardless if you’re a social butterfly, anti-social club member or a little bit of both. We are a bustling big city with all kinds of people. Where millions reside, tastes differ just as people do. So we’ve rounded up a few spots you can turn into your […]

By Naseema Shafi
Where to Find Your Chill
Healthy Living

Riyadhi Adventurer’s Guide to an Organic Lifestyle

We all need the greens to be green and reds to be red.  Organic farming is all about embracing nature, and weeding out chemicals and pesticides from the farming arena. There’s more to food that we buy than eating. It is a family affair y’all, so getting your kids involved in both buying and eating […]

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Riyadhi Adventurer’s Guide to an Organic Lifestyle
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Riyadhi Adventurer’s Guide to an Organic Lifestyle

We all need the greens to be green and the reds to be red. Vegetables: Food that usually makes children run the opposite direction of the dining room. What better way to encourage children to start accepting them, than by recruiting their help for the task of buying said fiendish foods. Here are some organic […]

By Naseema Shafi
Riyadhi Adventurer’s Guide to an Organic Lifestyle
Spirituality

How to Revive Your Dimmed Faith

The phase of having a low spirit after we have flunked in some element of our faith is never a pretty picture. The phase is sad, regretful, and the heart begins to cry because it seems to have become faithless. There are a couple of things you can do to revive your dimmed spirit. ‘’What […]

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How to Revive Your Dimmed Faith
About

5 Things About Saudi that You Should Know

They said curiosity kills a cat, so I wanted to know if it held any truth at all. My curiosity led me to search up for a few ‘interesting facts’ about Saudi, but turns out, sadly, the world sees the world as half glass empty, and never full. And yes, my curiosity killed a few […]

By Naseema Shafi
5 Things About Saudi that You Should Know
Book Review

8 Life-Changing Non-Fiction Books That You Should Read

Whether you’re a bookworm or not, to read these books is to be human- a better, stronger and a more successful one.  The love for books usually starts at a very young age, it may even be one of those genetically coded traits for some absolute book nerds. While bookworms may read anything they could […]

By Naseema Shafi
8 Life-Changing Non-Fiction Books That You Should Read
Offbeat

7 Kid-Friendly YouTube Channels that Moms and Dads Should Know!

You probably have got one of those typical households in which your kids love drawing on walls, and playing drums with the wooden spoons and stainless saucepans.  Or so you wish.   Well, this would have been the actual scene if this article was written a few years ago. But now, we all know where […]

By Naseema Shafi
7 Kid-Friendly YouTube Channels that Moms and Dads Should Know!
Spirituality

Fun and Spiritual Activities for Dhul-Hijjah!

The best days are here, so let’s dive into the ocean of blessings! The month of Dhul-Hijjah is quite a vibrant one for the residents of K.S.A. We’ve been blessed to witness the beauty of this massive congregation right in front of us while for many, it is merely a dream. Apart from the blessed […]

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Fun and Spiritual Activities for Dhul-Hijjah!
Business

THE MENTORS

Because we all need a master Yoda. Chris Myers, a contributor to Forbes magazine, hands-down claimed that procuring the right mentorship is the best path to having a successful career. In the evolving times when climbing the ladder of success has become the norm whether it be in the societal level, or the professional world, […]

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THE MENTORS
Activities

Where can your Kids go this Summer in Riyadh?

A mundane holiday? Craving newness? Here’s your guide!  Minopolis Saudi This is the weekend getaway that we all had been dreaming about since our childhood. In Minopolis, your kids can try out various professions, from being a doctor, fireman, engineer, an architect to a chef. With over thirty establishments here, your kids can rush to […]

By Naseema Shafi
Where can your Kids go this Summer in Riyadh?
Offbeat

Tips to become a Perfect Traveler

When you are in a locality, stay local. Vacationing is a bliss for a plethora of reasons, but what I find to be the absolute pleasure is the ‘me-time’ that we all get to savor. This doesn’t particularly mean to the time when you reside with your solitude; rather it has to do with the […]

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Tips to become a Perfect Traveler
Dining

Lip-smacking Recipes that you need to Try this Summer!

What’s better about the lazy summer days than eating to our hearts fill and finally putting our good old grill and oven to use? As much as summers are about tiring days, they are quite a fun time as we get to cuddle in our cozy places, lazing around and just having the time of […]

By Naseema Shafi
Lip-smacking Recipes that you need to Try this Summer!
Explore

Historical Fanatics, KSA calls you!

Saudi Arabia is a land of culture, history and heritage that seems to take us beyond the present realms of the world. How many times do we go through the pages of the past and wish that perhaps we could walk through the ruins of the nations succumbed to such a state, and have a […]

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Historical Fanatics, KSA calls you!
Eid

Eid-Al-Fitr, 2017- Festivals in Riyadh

The most awaited time of the month is here, and your nerves are on a frenzy as you decide to make the most out of this Eid-al-Fitr. Hence, planning time it is!  If you are on the lookout for intriguing ways and places to celebrate this Eid with your friends and family, then we are […]

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Eid-Al-Fitr, 2017- Festivals in Riyadh
Eid

How to make your Eid a Perfectly Memorable One?

Eid is the day when one simply has no room for that frown. As the good old ones say, it is just the right time for you to turn your frown upside down. Although we have been celebrating Eid according to our own tradition for decades, there are a few things that perhaps every tradition […]

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How to make your Eid a Perfectly Memorable One?
Offbeat

5 Weird Things That Are Super-Normal During Ramadan

Before we begin stating anything, it can be clearly established that there is anything barely normal about Ramadan to the part of the world that looks at this month with those I-am-judging-you goggles. People are going to judge you anyway, so why not give the world a glimpse of our revamped nightlife and the weird […]

By Naseema Shafi
5 Weird Things That Are Super-Normal During Ramadan
Ramadan

How to Ramp-Up for the last 10 nights of Ramadan?

Years roll on, only to halt at one place. At least, for many of us. We all bookmark Ramadan to be that go-to place, and perhaps the showstopper of it all. But even in Ramadan, we have got those last 10 days which seem to be showering His Mercy and Compassion. Without a doubt, the […]

By Naseema Shafi
How to Ramp-Up for the last 10 nights of Ramadan?
Ramadan

The Ramadan Takeaways

As much as Ramadan is one of the pillars of Islam, and holds a high regard in terms of religiosity, Ramadan is also a month that truly speaks for spirituality. While many might consider fasting to be easy, because after all it is about having a good suhoor and a big fat iftar, fasting isn’t […]

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The Ramadan Takeaways
Healthy Living

5 Ways To Survive Your Crappy Day

Emotions are meant to be felt. I mean, if you refrain from feeling what you’re supposed to feel, you’d obviously come off as someone who can’t necessarily empathize. But there are some of us who not merely feel, but we go overboard and let every other occurrence around us soak us in its negativity. While […]

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5 Ways To Survive Your Crappy Day
Dining

Gourmet Catering Food Truck

A merry summer morning in Riyadh calls for surprises, and that too mighty good ones. You see, summers make us grumpy, but when there’s good food, what can possibly go wrong? On a regular monotonous Monday, we sat expecting the catering food truck’s tootling, and sooner, we head out and there in all its glory, […]

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Gourmet Catering Food Truck
Fashion Trends

Hijab Hacks For The Heat

Summers can be a quite daunting period for all, and especially for the women in Saudi, where the sun burns through the hijab and abaya. None of us prefer to roast under the scorching heat, that is a given, so what can we possibly do to survive the summer heat with our cloaks on? Gathering information […]

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Hijab Hacks For The Heat
Dining

How To Have a Splendid Vacation And Stay In Shape?

It is the holiday season, and undoubtedly we are all pumped up for the term more than for anything else! Whether you are visiting your birth city or planning to revive those slumbering muscles by touring the hottest destinations of 2017, the excitement is real! But, there is something bothersome about this period of joy, […]

By Naseema Shafi
How To Have a Splendid Vacation And Stay In Shape?
Self Care

5 Tips to Protect your Gorgeous Face from the Grumpy Sun

As men and women, both alike, we all are equally concerned about this longest organ of our body aka our skin that tends to choose the most important phase of our lives to embarrass us. Me: I have got a major meeting tomorrow. Pimples: Yay! It is the perfect time for me to come over! […]

By Naseema Shafi
5 Tips to Protect your Gorgeous Face from the Grumpy Sun
Offbeat

Myths About Riyadh That Must Be Shattered

The thing about the humankind is that we are a bit too focused on viewing the surface. Sure, our ancestors have talked for hours about how judging a book by its cover could be a refined crime, but did we listen? Not really, in fact, we’ve always succumbed ourselves to this notion of judging people, […]

By Naseema Shafi
Myths About Riyadh That Must Be Shattered
Ramadan

5 Prep-tips to get the best of Ramadan

Call it aging or mere laziness, or this impending craving to shut down the world, wrap a plush blanket and sit in the corner of the room and do absolutely nothing. Tranquility changes its face as years pass by. Nothing truly ‘fun’ seems to excite many of us anymore. Months pass by, monotonously. And then […]

By Naseema Shafi
5 Prep-tips to get the best of Ramadan
Offbeat

Does Saying “No Make You Feel Guilty?

Welcome to the world of the can’t-say-no syndrome victims! If you are going to assume that I just made this up, nope, this syndrome is real and not so surprisingly, it can ruin our days, weeks, months, and basically the rest of our lives. The thing about being busy is not always about being a […]

By Naseema Shafi
Does Saying “No Make You Feel Guilty?