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Cinema halls to re-open after 35 years after Saudi Arabia lifts ban

In a significant move towards the Crown Pince Mohammad bin Salman’s vision 2030, Saudi Arabia has decided to allow re-opening of cinema halls after a span of more than 3 decades.

The ministry of culture and information said it would start issuing licenses quickly and that the main films were slated to open in March 2018. The preservationist Muslim kingdom had silver screens in the 1970s, however clerics induced the government to close them.

The move is a piece of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s Vision 2030, a methodology to open Saudi Arabia’s economy, diminish its reliance on oil and facilitate the social strictures forced on its younger population.

The announcement comes on the back of measures to enable women to drive vehicles in the desert kingdom.

“Opening silver screens will go about as an impetus for monetary development and enhancement,” the Saudi culture minister, Awwad bin Saleh Alawwad, said in the announcement. “By building up the more extensive social area, we will make new work and preparing openings, in addition to advancing the kingdom’s amusement alternatives.”

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