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Should women cover their faces?
Abdo Khal A WOMAN’S face cannot be considered an intimate part of her body. This is what well-known Saudi poet Ahmad Otaif told Asharq Al-Awsat when he was asked about his new book “Covering a Woman’s Face.” The book primarily focuses ...
Jeddah mayoralty has lot to do!
Abdo Khal HOW many hours did the recent rain in Jeddah last? Let us say it lasted two hours and this is an exaggerated figure. Let us also calculate the period of rain in other Gulf states as well as Arab, ...
Fight against extremism
Abdo Khal Okaz We are like a person who had a horrific nightmare and continued his sleep to forget about that frightful dream. This is the right description of our ongoing efforts to fight extremism in our society. When the Education Ministry recently ...
Transport Ministry’s promises
Abdo Khal Okaz We have been successful in exposing the shortcomings of the Housing Ministry and its failure to realize the government’s dream of resolving the housing crisis. If we do the same exercise on other ministries we are likely to develop ...
Our banks have milked us
Abdo Khal Okaz I have written repeatedly about our commercial banks not shouldering their social responsibilities. There is no harm in revisiting the same subject with the hope that they would listen and care this time. Every year we read and hear about ...
A terrorist who turned his family's Eid into a sad one
Abdo Khal Okaz Last Thursday was a disastrous day in the life of a Saudi family because one of their members killed his uncle and then blew himself up near a checkpoint close to Al-Ha'er Prison in Riyadh. Everyone who read ...
The municipality’s war against restaurants
  Abdo Khal Okaz I commend the Jeddah Municipality for shutting down some restaurants that violated health and safety regulations and for naming and shaming these restaurants in the media. The municipality took the right step to end practices that have scant regard for ...
The municipality’s war against restaurants
  Abdo Khal Okaz     I commend the Jeddah Municipality for shutting down some restaurants that violated health and safety regulations and for naming and shaming these restaurants in the media. The municipality took the right step to end practices that have scant regard ...
The unnerving cars on our streets
  Abdo Khal Okaz     THE car noise, the traffic congestion and the narrow streets being blocked by the protracting development projects are playing on our nerves. The large number of cars and the subsequent traffic jams have made us wary and hesitant to ...
Responsibility in joblessness
  Abdo Khal Okaz     THE problem of unemployment has become a worrying headache for us all. In many areas there are human resources who have qualified in their specializations but have not been accommodated in any suitable jobs. There are hundreds of others whose ...
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