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23-633: Nadwa ('forum') may refer to: Al Nadwa , a daily newspaper in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, between 1958 and 2013 Al-Nadwa , a defunct Urdu magazine Nadwa University , an Islamic seminary in Lucknow See also [ edit ] All pages with titles containing Nadwa Nadwan, Patna , India Nadwasarai , a village in Mau district, Uttar Pradesh, India Nadwi (disambiguation) Nadvi Topics referred to by

46-577: A diplomatic crisis between Saudi Arabia and the Imperial Iran due to the fact that they were described by the paper as Arab thinkers. The U.S. diplomatic cables reported that Al Nadwa was the only paper condemned the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990 before the Saudi government displayed a clear official position concerning this event. Additionally, in the 1990s, a series of articles, criticising extremist views,

69-418: A room on the top floor, apparently caused by an unattended cigarette. As a result of the fire and ensuing rush to escape, more than 50 young girls were injured, and 15 died. Nine of the dead girls were Saudis; the rest were from Chad , Egypt , Guinea , Niger , and Nigeria . The majority of the deaths occurred when a staircase collapsed as the girls fled the building. The residential property upon which

92-602: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Al Nadwa (newspaper) Al Nadwa ( Arabic : الندوة The Forum ) was a Mecca -based daily newspaper published in Saudi Arabia. The daily was in circulation until 2013 when it was renamed Makkah . Al Nadwa was founded in 1958 in Mecca. Its founder was Ahmad Al Subaii. In fact, Al Nadwa incorporated with another paper, Hera (a name of holy mountain in Islam ). The paper

115-568: Is in close proximity to Masjid Al Haram , it seriously suffers from lack of electricity and water facilities as well as sewerage problems. 2002 Mecca girls%27 school fire A fire on 11 March 2002 at a girls' school in Mecca , Saudi Arabia , killed fifteen people, all young girls. Complaints were made that Saudi Arabia's " religious police ", specifically the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and

138-588: The Middle East division of Human Rights Watch , stated "women and girls may have died unnecessarily because of extreme interpretations of the Islamic dress code. State authorities with direct and indirect responsibility for this tragedy must be held accountable." An inquiry was launched by the Saudi government in wake of the deaths. The investigation was led by Abdul Majeed , the governor of Mecca. The Interior Minister , Prince Nayef , promised that those responsible for

161-453: The Prevention of Vice , had prevented schoolgirls from leaving the burning building and hindered emergency services personnel because the students were not wearing modest clothing. The actions of the religious police were condemned both inside the country and internationally. A Saudi government inquiry concluded that religious educational authorities were responsible for neglecting fire safety of

184-477: The cleric in charge of the school was fired, and his office was merged with the Ministry of Education. The report dismissed allegations that the mutaween (of CPVPV) had prevented the girls from fleeing or made the death toll worse. Many newspapers welcomed the merger of the agency responsible for girls' education with the Ministry of Education. Previously, the agencies had been separate and girls' education had been in

207-418: The control of a separate administration dominated by conservatives as "a compromise to calm public opposition to allowing (not requiring) girls to attend western style school". There was another similar incident in 2014; according to a report, a female student at a Saudi university died of a heart attack after being denied access to advanced medical assistance because the paramedics were male. Senior members of

230-407: The deaths would be held accountable. Nayef, at the time, stated that the deaths did not happen as a result of the fire, but rather the stampede caused by the panic. He acknowledged the presence of two mutaween and that they went there to prevent "mistreatment" of the girls. He said that they did not interfere with the rescue efforts and only arrived after everyone had left the building. On 25 March,

253-459: The faculty reportedly prevented the paramedics from entering primarily because the student was not fully covered and they did not want to get into trouble for having men in close proximity to her. This caused many Saudis to vent their anger and question the University's policies. However, the rector of the university denied this and said that they did all they could. An anonymous staff member said that

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276-418: The girls and the civil defense forces for fear of sexual enticement, and variously that the girls were locked in by the police, or forced back into the building. Civil Defense stated that the fire had extinguished itself before they arrived on the scene. CPVPV officers did appear to object to Civil Defense workers going into the building—Human Rights Watch quoted a Civil Defense officer as saying, "Whenever

299-482: The girls got out through the main gate, these people forced them to return via another. Instead of extending a helping hand for the rescue work, they were using their hands to beat us." The CPVPV denied the charges of beating or locking the gates but the incident and the accounts of witnesses were reported in Saudi newspapers such as the Saudi Gazette and Al-Iqtisaddiyya . The result was a very rare public criticism of

322-471: The group. Also criticized was the General Presidency for Girls' Education (GPGE), which administers girls' schools in Saudi Arabia. The behavior of the religious police was widely criticized both inside the country and internationally. In a rare instance of public criticism of the organization, Saudi media accused them of hindering the attempts to save the girls. Hanny Megally, Executive Director of

345-510: The hands of the religious establishment. The newspapers saw the merger as a step towards "reform". In the outrage over the deaths that followed, Crown Prince Abdullah removed girls' schools from the administration of the "General Presidency for Girls' Education"—an "autonomous government agency long controlled by conservative clerics" —and put it under the Ministry of Education, which already controlled boys' schools. In 1960, when girls' schools were first created in Saudi Arabia, they were put under

368-506: The incident of fire in girls' school in Mecca in 2002, killing fifteen female students as a result of the muttawa 's curtailing the attempts of rescue workers. Furthermore, then-editor-in-chief of the paper, Abdul Rahman Saad Alorabi, employed women reporters to interview with the women in the family of victims and surviving female students. The paper openly reported the negative physical conditions experienced in Mecca. For instance, it reported in 2007 that although Al Bayary, an old street,

391-402: The inquiry concluded that while the fire had been caused by a stray cigarette, the religious educational authorities responsible for the school had neglected the safety of the pupils. The inquiry found that the clerics had ignored warnings that overcrowding of the school could cause a fatal stampede. It also found that there was a lack of fire extinguishers and alarms in the building. Accordingly,

414-407: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Nadwa . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nadwa&oldid=1259389064 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

437-481: The school was built was overcrowded with 800 pupils. In addition, the building may have lacked proper safety infrastructure and equipment, such as fire stairs and alarms. According to at least two reports, members of the CPVPV, also known as Mutaween , would not allow the girls to escape or to be saved from the fire because they were "not properly covered", and the mutaween did not want physical contact to take place between

460-528: The school, but rejected the accusation that the actions of religious police contributed to the deaths and that they stopped anyone from leaving because of modest clothing. In the aftermath, the General Presidency for Girls' Education was dissolved and merged with the Ministry of Education . According to Saudi press reports, the blaze at Mecca Intermediate School No. 31 started at about 8am. The blaze began in

483-472: Was closed down due to unpaid financial dues. The paper was considered as pro-government. Al Nadwa sold 7,000 copies in 1962 and 15,000 copies in 1975. Its 2003 circulation was 30,000 copies. Although the paper had no high circulation levels, it enjoyed a special status as a result of being Mecca's hometown paper and of having good editorial writings. Al Nadwa 's article about Avicenna , Zakaria Razi and Abu Reyhan Birouni dated 1964 caused

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506-448: Was published in the paper. The target of these criticisms were initially non-Saudi Islamic figures such as Sudanese Hasan Al Turabi . However, later the paper began to criticise Safar Al Hawali and Ayidh Al Qarni . The criticism against these two Saudi Islamic figures led to public anger. As a result, columnist Yousuf Damanhouri was removed from the paper's board of editors. The paper, unlike many other Saudi daily papers, also reported

529-521: Was started as a weekly newspaper, and in 1960 it became a daily publication. The publisher of the paper was Makkah Printing and Information Establishment. Abdulaziz bin Mohieddin Khoja was the chairman of the general assembly of Makkah Establishment for Publishing and Printing. Its editor-in-chief was Ahmad bin Saleh. In 2003, the paper experienced serious financial difficulty. In February 2013, it

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