High-profile guests join Comic Con tomorrow in Riyadh

Updated 27 November 2017
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High-profile guests join Comic Con tomorrow in Riyadh

JEDDAH: New celebrities and artists will join Comic Con Arabia event slated for Thursday in Riyadh, according to an official announcement on Tuesday.
The new guests include Keven Sussman, Kris Holen-Ried, Patricia Summerset and Samantha Inoue Harte.
Keven Sussman is an American artist known for his roles in The Big Bang Theory, Burn After Reading and A.I. Artificial intelligence.
Kris Holen-Ride, a Canadian actor known for his roles in Lost Girl, The Tudors, and Underworld: Awakening, is also going to join the fifth season of Vikings next month.
American-Canadian actress Patricia Summerset has given the voiceover for Princess Zelda from The Legend of Zelda. She will also act with Jennifer Lawrence in her new movie “Mother!”
Samantha Inoue Harte is a voiceover artist and founder of Saiko Studios. She is famous for giving the voiceover for Chocobo in Final Fantasy: Unlimited, and Kohran Li in Sakura Wars. She has also acted in a number of series like Sin City and No Pain, No Gain.
Comic Con Arabia is an annual family festival. It was first organized in Jeddah in February. It is brought to Riyadh by Events Oasis and Panache Middle East. The festival will run from Nov. 23 to Nov. 25.


Saudi leadership sends cables of condolences after passing of former Jordanian prime minister 

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. (File/SPA)
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Saudi leadership sends cables of condolences after passing of former Jordanian prime minister 

  • Obeidat was prime minister and minister of defense from 1984 to 1985, minister of interior between 1982 and 1984, and director of the General Intelligence Directorate between 1974 and 1982

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman sent separate cables of condolence to Jordan’s King Abdullah II after the passing of former prime minister Ahmad Obeidat.

Obeidat was prime minister and minister of defense from 1984 to 1985, minister of interior between 1982 and 1984, and director of the General Intelligence Directorate between 1974 and 1982. He died on Monday at the age of 88. 

King Salman extended his “deepest condolences” to King Abdullah and the family of the deceased, praying that God grant Obeidat forgiveness and have mercy on him.

The crown prince sent a similar cable to King Abdullah.