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The case of the 19 imprisoned fishermen
  Tariq A. Al-Maeena     Some nine months ago in the waters of the Gulf of the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, 19 Indian fishermen did not realize that their vessels had drifted into Iranian waters. They were rounded up by the ...
A proper response to an inflammatory act
  Tariq A. Al-Maeena     REMEMBER the contentious Pastor Terry Jones out of Florida, who rose to fame back in 2010 with his controversial declaration of burning a copy of the Qur’an, an act that was surely meant to inflame passions within Muslims ...
Sri Lanka’s recipe for renewed failure
Tariq A. Al-Maeena A mistake once committed is rarely repeated by a rational entity.  However such is not the case with the government of Sri Lanka.  It is becoming increasingly obvious that following the 30-year war with the Tamil minority, ...
A trip down memory lane
  Tariq A. Al-Maeena     In the last few years, information technology has grown so rapidly that it often blurs our memory of just how things were in the not so distant past.  Some claim that change never happens here in Jeddah, but ...
If a housewife can figure it out, why can’t the Municipality?
  Tariq A. Al-Maeena     Jeddah Municipality has come to be known by the residents of the city as a lot of things.  Unfortunately most of them are not very flattering.  That is not to say that the reputation earned has been unjust.  ...
In search of the true meaning of Ramadan
  Tariq A. Al-Maeena     How does Ramadan in this country appear to a female expatriate who is a first-time visitor from a Nordic country and who had no inkling of what the essence of Ramadan was until she set foot on this ...
Remittances can get off track
Tariq A. Al-Maeena     The Kingdom is among the leading countries in the world in the amount of remittances sent abroad.  This is primarily due to the large expatriate workforce that has been helping the Kingdom forge its present destiny.  Most ...
Egypt and Muslim Brotherhood do not mix
Ghada Aboud Saudi Gazette CAIRO — Interviews conducted just hours of the 48-hour military deadline to Islamist President Mohamed Morsi, Saudi Gazette spoke to a cross -section of the people who were watching the unfolding drama in Egypt with bated breath, Among ...
Some things just don’t change
Tariq A. Al-Maeena I remember watching the visit of King Abdullah to the Jeddah Airport directorate a few years ago on state TV. He was there to review the plans in progress to turn this pitiful airport into a state-of-the-art ...
News organs in Pakistan under fire
  Tariq A. Al-Maeena     A country that has been in the news for often the wrong reasons, Pakistan is easy to dismiss as a nation headed for trouble. Yet in spite of daily sectarian violence and bloodshed that often dominates the headlines, ...
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