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Dr. Khaled M. Batarfi
Dr. Khaled M. Batarfi
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Simah: A good concept turns ugly
Dr. Khaled M. Batarfi Simah (Saudi Credit Bureau) is the brainchild of the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency and saudi banks. In 2004, it started offering consumer and commercial credit information services. This means that local banks and lending agencies looks ...
Business ethics in Islam
Dr. Khaled M. Batarfi “IT was Ramadan, the summer of 1960. The days were long and heavy with classes and school work in Leister university, England.” Sheikh Abdullah Makki told my “Business Ethics" class, in Prince Sultan College, Alfaisal University. He ...
Mandating pre-marriage orientation courses
Dr. Khaled M. Batarfi Mandating pre-marriage orientation coursesMY last article “How to reduce divorce rate?“ triggered some enlightening responses. Dr. Estabraq Alhachim, King Abdulaziz University, tells me about the existence of local initiatives for pre-marriage courses. She says that the mentioned Malaysian ...
How to reduce divorce rate
Dr. Khaled M. Batarfi “MY name is Fauwaz Hasbullah, from Malaysia. I read you article in Saudi Gazette on my flight from Riyadh to Madina, yesterday. I work with Family Development Division in Malaysian National Population and Family Development Agency, under ...
Why some girls are avoiding marriage?
Dr. Khaled M. Batarfi Lian is 34 years old, 4 years younger than her older sister, and two less than her other one. Like them, she is not married yet. She explains: “Most young men are shallow. They are not intellectual ...
Religious intolerance: Al-Ahsa wake-up call!
Dr. Khaled M. Batarfi Sometimes we need a wake-up call to realize the dangers we are facing. For many years now, the extremists among us have been inciting hate and animosity. They used religion, ethnicity and gender to divide us — ...
The dilemma of education and job market
Dr. Khaled M. Batarfi We had a workshop in Prince Sultan College, Alfaisal University, last week. A colleague spoke of how to raise our college education standards to match that of top world universities and to coordinate our schooling products to ...
Thanks and suggestions from Hajis
Dr. Khaled M. Batarfi Doing one’s duty is a thankless task. But it does feel good to be appreciated. Saudis have taken Haj hosting very seriously since King Abdulaziz bin Saud called for the first Islamic conference in modern history four years ...
Cool sheikh in Haj
Dr. Khaled M. Batarfi When Black American civil-right leader, Malcolm X, came for Haj in the early 1960s, he was impressed most with one phenomenon: Islam is truly a global religion. It is ethnic and color blind. Millions of people, ...
'Haia' cool sheikh!
Dr. Khaled M. Batarfi The American family was going around the shopping mall, when approached by a young sheikh from the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (Haia). The handsome, well-dressed man was smiling as ...
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