MAKKAH, 3 September 2006 — Deputy Interior Minister Prince Ahmad will open today an exhibition on the history of education in the Kingdom in the King Fahd Hall of the Girls’ Education Administration in Makkah.
Prince Ahmad will also inaugurate the Makkah Museum for Archaeology and Heritage at the King Abdul Aziz Palace at Al-Zahir.
According to Education Minister Abdullah Bin-Obaid, the exhibition will showcase the most notable achievements and landmarks in education in the Kingdom since its founding by the late King Abdul Aziz until the present time of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah and Crown Prince Sultan.
“The Makkah Museum of Archaeology and Heritage will emphasize various stages in the brilliant cultural and historical progress of the Kingdom,” he said.
The education minister added that the exhibition would display rare historical documents and photographs in addition to the educational instruments from the age of kuttabs (preliminary Qur’anic schools), ancient models of pens, ink and other writing materials till the modern electronic age with particular stress on Makkah.
Muhammad Suleiman Al-Ruwaishid, chairman of the exhibition committee, said the exhibition was opened by the crown prince in Riyadh in 2001 and had since visited Abha, Najran, Jouf, Madinah, Tabuk, Arar, Buraidah, Baha, Hail, Dammam and Jizan.
Al-Ruwaishid said the expo in its past 12 displays had given people in various parts of the Kingdom the opportunity to view the various stages of development in the field of education.
Abdul Aziz ibn Ali Al-Aqla, director general of girls’ education in Makkah, told Arab News that Makkah was replete with landmarks and sites of educational history.
Bakr Ibrahim Basfar, director general of education in Makkah, told Arab News that the exhibition portrayed various phases in the development of Saudi society.
