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 Editorial
Dear
member of SGBGJ,
Dear member of
SGBGJ,
I would like to inform you that by the
end of June 2008 Mrs. Renate Husseini resigned from her job as
coordinator of SGBG
activities.
Mrs. Renate Husseini:
I am happy to say that it was a very stimulating and
interesting time. I took this decision because I will be quite a lot
out of the country in autumn and next winter and carrying on with SGBG
would give me quite an organisational headache. In fact, I am also
quite looking forward to being an ordinary member of the Group,
attending pleasant functions without any responsability in their
preparation. So I do bid you good bye as your coordinator, website
editor, newsletter editor and many more, but hope to meet you as
frequently and regularly as before during the SGBG events. Our planned
lecture/social gathering on Wednesday 18th of June will be somehow my
farewell "party" and I hope to meet many of our members there. Good
luck and long life to the Saudi German Business Group!
Future Events
Social gathering
with a lecture by Stefan Maack on brands and advertising "The
future is now". Wednesday, 18th of June 2008, Garden of the German
Residence.
Stefan Maack will tell us some interesting
things about his branch of activity and give some explanations on the
relationsship of brands, marketing and advertising. It is a fascinating
universe between creative art and hard financial realities.
<> Highlights of the Past
Visit :
Under the
leadership of our member, Mr. Bernd Moeller, a group of 6 cars set out
early morning to an immensely pleasurable week-end trip. We arrived in
Tayma in the afternoon having had our picnic lunch by the impressive
Khaibar Dam and were received very kindly by Dr. Hausleiter, the head
of the onsite archaeological team in Tayma. He had organised everything
for us: Hotel rooms were booked, we had our meals with the
archaeologists and the next day, he spent the whole morning leading us
around the excavation sites and explaining all of it. In the afternoon
we first had a visit to the storage room, where all the findings are
kept, and then set out with Dr. Hausleiter and even Prof. Eichmann, who
had arrived in the meantime, to visit different places in Tayma: A huge
well (said to be the biggest in Saudi Arabia) where more than 70 camels
could draw water in the same time, a mudbrick castle with crenellated
walls, and finally we watched a beautiful sunset from some antique
ruins on a rocky outcrop overlooking the now dried out salt lake
(sabkha) which still had water in antiquity.
Lecture:
Social gathering
with a lecture by Prof. Dr. Ricardo Eichmann on the latest excavation
findings in Tayma. 16.04.2008
We were very happy to have Prof. Eichmann
again here in Jeddah and - especially for the Tayma party - his lecture
was nicely complementary to what we had seen and heard on the
excavation site.
Concert:
Artis Piano Quartet. Concert of classical music. 01.05.2008
This marvelous
concert of three piano quartets (Mozart, Paul Juon and J. Brahms) by a
highly
professional chamber music ensemble from Germany has
been the highlight of Jeddah's cultural events this year. The members
of the Quartet are not only outstanding musicians but also extremely
nice people and it was a pleasure spending some time with them. You
might have heard of their concert in Riyadh, where for the first time
ever a classical music concert performed by a mixed ensemble was
attended by a mixed audience in a public auditorium in Saudi Arabia.
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Members'
Corner:
I still have quite a few membership cards
which I will bring to the event on the 18th. of June. Please remind me
of handing them out to you if you haven't yet got yours.
Discounts: Since the beginning of the year we have been trying with the
kind help of our Board member, Mr. Mangera, to obtain a discount
from Lufthansa for SGBG members, hopefully it will be granted soon.
Business News
Sorry, no big
exhibition shows in the near future.
German
Language Center
DEUTSCHE SPRACHKURSE GERMAN LANGUAGE COURSES
Sprechen
Sie Deutsch?
Enrolment
and
information :
Please contact the office at the German International School in
Jeddah.
Phone : 02 691 35
84
E-mail :
office@German-School-Jeddah.org
Office
hours: Saturday to
Wednesday from 8.00 a.m. to 1.00
p.m
School is actually on spring vacation, opens again on 5th of April 2008
Miscellaneous: Found on the Internet
http://www.arabnews.com/
Arab News ? Everybody
knows it, but did you know
that they have quite a nice website ?Let's have a closer look into it.
The homepage
gives immediately access to the articles of the day arranged under 9
headings like Kingdom, Gulf, World, Islam, Business etc. Several of
these headings have one or more subdivisions. Let's take for instance
'Kingdom', which is divided into :Local Press, Community News, The law
& you, Art & Culture, Review. Most of the articles are
additionally accessible by icons, representing most of the principal
headings. You may find the Saudi 'logo' for 'Kingdom', a globe for
'World' etc. The access to the articles of the day is free, the search
engine works quite well and sorts the articles found for your search
chronologically, newest first. The search by date of edition in the
archives on the contrary does not seem to work. All in all a pleasant
website ensuring you will not miss your favourite Newspaper when out of
the country.
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