Jarir Street

The street emerged during the reign of King Saud bin Abdulaziz in the period 1958–1959, in the same timeline of the development of al-Malaz and al-Nasiriyah districts. The street is named after early Umayyad-era Arab poet Jarir ibn Atiyah.^[1]

The street hosts a number of private residential villas,^[2] and has lent its name to the neighborhood of Jarir, where it runs besides the al-Malaz district as well as the Jarir Bookstore, which originated as a small bookshop on the street 1974.^[3][4][5]