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A barrier that needs to be removed
Tariq A. Al-Maeena The SUV ahead of me was weaving dangerously into heavy merging traffic.  Initially keeping a safe distance behind, I finally managed to pull up to the driver’s side to give him a piece of my mind.  Lowering ...
This is not the time for apathy
Tariq A. Al-Maeena Saudi Arabia has been maligned by some critics for being an autocratic state with non-existent democratic principles and for being short on human rights. This criticism gathered steam following the Sep. 11 attacks.  But reality is often ...
Jeddah Municipality cracking down on land robbers
Tariq A. Al-Maeena Earlier this year Jeddah Municipality launched a major crackdown on land encroachers.  They started by bulldozing the many walled plots of land that belong to the state and that have been illegally seized by land thieves. According to ...
India’s risk of adopting anti-secularism
  Tariq A. Al-Maeena     Ever since the current prime minister of India Narendra Modi came to power in May 2014, there has been a perceptible shift of Hindu nationalism that has blossomed into spoken threats against India’s largest minorities, Muslims and Christians. ...
India’s risk of adopting anti-secularism
  Tariq A. Al-Maeena     Ever since the current prime minister of India Narendra Modi came to power in May 2014, there has been a perceptible shift of Hindu nationalism that has blossomed into spoken threats against India’s largest minorities, Muslims and Christians. ...
A city in search of records
  Tariq A. Al-Maeena     RECENTLY, a Jeddah businessman and personality suggested that the city be entered in the Guinness Book of World Records and crowned as the international ‘city of festivals’.  He was alluding to the number of festivals held throughout ...
Defending the fairer sex
  Tariq A. Al-Maeena     TWO girls, out for a stroll on the Corniche waterfront in Jeddah during the Eid holidays found themselves quickly surrounded and hounded by a crowd of pestering youth. The terrifying ordeal the girls went through was captured on ...
Legislation required against diploma mill degree holders
  Tariq A. Al-Maeena     A few days ago I received a disturbing email that set of alarm bells and signals of concern. In a limited but analytical study, Dean Hoke, the founder of Edu Alliance, an education management-consulting firm based in ...
United Voices for America
  Tariq A. Al-Maeena     The United States of America recently celebrated its 239th birthday on July 4.  What is not so well known is that Muslims have been an integral part of American heritage. With the declaration of American independence on July ...
Uighur Muslims face Ramadan trials
  Tariq A. Al-Maeena     Many of us are blessed to live in countries that allow a degree of religious freedom, one that enables us to practice our faith.  But for the Uighur Muslims living in the far western Xinjiang region of China ...
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