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Dr. Khaled M. Batarfi
Dr. Khaled M. Batarfi
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Viruses of racism and intolerance: How sickening!
Dr. Khaled M. Batarfi Sheikh Ibrahim Al-Harthi shocked his audience in his Friday prayer sermon by telling them that starting from next week, only Saudis are welcome. He explained that if he really did so most of us would find it ...
Social intruders: Mind your own business!
Dr. Khaled M. Batarfi THE man interviewed on Arabic TV Channel, MBC1, was explaining why women don’t need to drive. "Look around you; I have three cars in my garage: One for me, the other for my son, and a third ...
Arab Common Market? Why not?
Dr. Khaled M. Batarfi   MANY were surprised at the response of the American people to 9/11. I wasn’t. After living among them for five years, I realized how much Americans love their country. True they originally came from different parts of ...
Saudi-Sudanese investments and the bureaucratic jungle
Dr. Khaled M. Batarfi   I have received an invitation from Sheikh Mahfouz Bin Mahfouz, a Saudi businessman, to attend a Saudi-Sudanese conference in Riyadh next month. Its goal is to foster commerce and encourage investments in Sudan, especially in infrastructure and ...
United States of Arabia: Meeting old and new challenges
  Dr. Khaled M. Batarfi   ON the eve of the GCC summit in Bahrain last week, a journalist for Elaph asked me for my opinion about the challenges facing the Gulf countries.  I told him nothing was new. The same challenges ...
Our abandoned children: Mother of Sami
  Dr. Khaled M. Batarfi   TWO letters from abandoned foreign mothers with Saudi children, broke my heart this week. One mother is stuck with her son between her home country in South America and his birthplace in the United States, and ...
Name calling in Arab politics: Thank you Twitter!
Dr. Khaled M. Batarfi     How easy it is to end any discussion with name calling. I find it hard to debate any issue when the other party is armed and ready with classifications, like Liberal, Scholar, Shiite, Zionist or Islamist, Wahabi, ...
Egypt deserves a brand new system
Dr. Khaled M. Batarfi   “MAY all your days be interesting!” a Chinese proverb says. It is meant as a curse!  It seems our region has been living in interesting days since an unemployed Tunisian college graduate set himself on fire after his ...
Help for our abandoned children: Official neglect, individual initiative!
Dr. Khaled M. Batarfi   NONGOVERNMENTAL organizations are supposed to fill the gap left by state agencies and serve the unserved and underserved. These institutions normally are formed as a result of individual and group initiatives. Awasser and the human rights commissions ...
Our secret marriages: A Qatari story
  Dr. Khaled M. Batarfi     “I hope my daughters will marry Qatari or Arab Gulf (GCC) nationals, so maybe they can help their brothers when I die of my sickness,” an Italian-American woman who was married to a Qatari citizen wrote with ...
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