Faculty Handbook
COLLEGE OF NURSING FACULTY HANDBOOK كليـــــــة التمريـــــــﺾ COLLEGE of NURSING FACULTY HANDBOOK Eastern Province, FACUL TY HAND BOOK Saudi Arabia College of Nursing, Faculty A – Z Handbook, 2015 - 2016 Prepared by 0 Prof.M Hegazi 2014-2015 Dr.Omnia salem 7 College of Nursing, Faculty A – Z Handbook , 2015 - 2016 1 College of Nursing, Faculty A – Z Handbook , 2015 - 2016 2 History of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia & Eastern Region Saudi Arabia, officially known as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, is the largest Arab state in Western Asia by land area (approximately 2,150,000 km2), constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and the second-largest geographically in the Arab world. It is bordered by Jordan and Iraq to the north, Kuwait to the northeast, Qatar, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates to the east, Oman to the southeast, and Yemen in the south. It is the only nation with both a Red Sea coast and a Persian Gulf coast. The area of modern-day Saudi Arabia formerly consisted of four distinct regions: Hejaz, Najd, and parts of Eastern Arabia (Al-Ahsa) and Southern Arabia (Asir). The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was founded in 1932 by Abdul Aziz Bin Saud. He united the four regions into a single state through a series of conquests beginning in 1902 with the capture of Riyadh, the ancestral home of his family, the House of Saud. The country has since been a monarchy governed along Islamic lines. Saudi Arabia is sometimes called "the Land of the Two Holy College of Nursing, Faculty A – Z Handbook , 2015 - 2016 3 Mosques" in reference to Al-Masjid al-Haram (in Mecca), and Al-Masjid an- Nabawi (in Medina), the two holiest places in Islam.
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