How To Use Jidda In A Sentence
- Perkins & Will's foreign projects include building a 34,000-student university in Jidda, Saudi Arabia (the plans have proceeded despite the gulf war). Back To The Drawing Board
- In the air in Riyadh and Jidda is the conviction that oil money has corrupted the ruling family beyond redemption, even as the general population has grown and gotten poorer; that the country's leaders have failed to protect fellow Muslims in Palestine and elsewhere; and that the House of Saud has let Islam be humiliated — that, in short, the country needs a radical "purification. The Fall of the House of Saud
- The pashalik of Djidda was reduced to perfect insignificance by the power of the sherif of Mekka; and the title had become merely an honorary distinction, enjoyed by the individual on whom it had been bestowed, while he resided in some provincial town of Turkey or at Constantinople, without ever attempting to take possession of his government. Travels in Arabia
- That story places Eve, Hawwa in Arabic, in the vicinity of Jiddah, which is the entry point for Muslim pilgrims to Mecca. Archive 2008-09-01
- A video posted on YouTube appeared to show several hundred protesters gathering in Riyadh, outside the capital's al-Rajhi mosque, and activists said a demonstration also took place in the coastal city of Jiddah. Protesters killed in Libya, Yemen as wave of Arab unrest continues
- Very extensive woodlands of Acacia tortilis and Prosopis cineraria grow in the large wadis on the southwest borders of the Jidda '. Arabian Oryx Sanctuary, Oman
- Islamic militants threw explosives at the gate of the heavily guarded U.S. consulate in Jiddah, then forced their way into the building, prompting a gunbattle in a bold assault that left seven people dead and several injured before the three-hour long crisis was brought under control. 12/06/2004
- Most part of their provisions are brought from Cairo in Egypt, by the Red Sea, or _Mare Erythreum_ of the ancients, and is landed at the port of _Gida_, Joddah or Jiddah, which is about forty miles from Mecca. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07
- The night of September 11, 2001, had come and gone in Saudi Arabia, and the dawn prayers had been said in Jidda. The Monarch Who Declared His Own Revolution
- It was also the ancient Bedouin lifestyle and the stories he heard from his grandmother, Jidda, who passed away in 2005 at the age of 96. David Suissa: Shepherd on a Mission
