Naseej is the first Arabic portal site on the Internet, launched in early 1997 to serve the growing number of Arabs on the Internet. Widely recognized as the premier Arabic portal site, Nasee.com was the first site to publish using Arabic text characters. Naseej.com was also the first site to provide BI-lingual (Arabic/English) webmail service. And lately Naseej.com was the first to develop an Arabic instant messenger. Naseej offers a large number of Internet services such as extensive Information and News coverage, webmail, Internet directory, calendar, chat, forums, women's special and many more.