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Respect Saudi female flight attendants
OkazA few years ago, I read that Saudi Arabian Airlines had starting employing Saudi women in some of their internal departments, such as information technology and other divisions; jobs that have no direct contact with customers. At the time, I wondered why Saudi women were not being employed as attendants on domestic flights, since that is just like any other public job.A female flight attendant will leave home to go to her place of work. When she is inside the airplane, she is not isolated with men, but is in a place that is full of passengers and in a situation that is governed by rules and regulations. She will return to the airport, get into her car and drive home at the end of the day. If she happens to be forced to stay in another city for emergency reasons, she will stay in a...
January 13, 2019

Respect Saudi female flight attendants

Two exoduses
Israel is preparing to demand compensation totaling a reported $250 billion from seven Arab countries and Iran for property and assets left behind by Jews who left those countries following the establishment of Israel.On the flip side, however, there is the 1948 Palestinian exodus, the nakba, when more than 700,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled from their homes during the 1948 Palestine war after Israel was founded. Contrary to the Jewish narrative, there is no parallelism between the Jewish and Palestinian exoduses.For the past 18 months, the Israeli government has been researching the value of property and assets that Jews left behind. It is now moving toward finalizing claims as the Trump administration prepares to unveil its Palestinian-Israeli peace proposal. A 2010 Israeli law...
January 13, 2019

Two exoduses

The plight of our retirees
Al-MadinaIN the house of every retiree in Saudi Arabia, there can be a number of jobless males and females.In addition to their daily expenses amid the ever-rising cost of living, this retiree has to repay his loans and installments, and foot the many utility bills.The more the retiree grow old, the more his need for medical attention and treatment. The retiree will have to visit hospital back and forth.All this happens when the monthly pension of the retiree does not increase even by a single halala. The retiree is forced to live accepting this harsh reality. The retired person who loved his country so much, remained loyal to the rulers and worked hard every day serving the nation in his heyday, does not deserve to suffer like this following retirement.The retirees contributed to our...
January 13, 2019

The plight of our retirees

Expat feelings toward Saudization
Al-JazirahI AM surprised by people who ask whether the Saudis have the necessary experience to work in retail shops selling medical equipment, construction materials and car spare parts, which are some of the sectors that have been Saudized starting last week.Before giving my response to this question, I ask with all due respect to everyone, did any of the expats who left the market now have any experience when they started work in these shops. The answer is a big no.Then why do we doubt the abilities of the youth of our country to adapt and learn the essentials of the job after joining the work? We allowed the expats to work without any previous experience in many fields.In the past five months, sales jobs in 12 sectors were Saudized and the last ones were sweet shops and carpet...
January 13, 2019

Expat feelings toward Saudization

Denying marriage choices!
OUR Arabic literature is full of romantic stories which did not end happily because of family intervention and rejection of couples’ choices. Qais ibn Almulwaah couldn’t marry Lila Alamria because her father says no — for no apparent reason. Over a thousand and hundreds of years later, his poems of love and pain tell us tales of generations of lovers who were denied their basic right: to decide who to marry.The pretty girl was accepting her fate. She simply told the love of her life, with broken heart and voice: “My family said no!”He, too, seemed to understand. Such is life! But both didn’t really absorb why couldn’t two young hearts be able to unite, if that was what they very much wanted?The young man is what Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) describes as the best...
January 11, 2019

Denying marriage choices!

Russian sport on trial
RUSSIAN athletics has been humiliated by the doping scandal which has seen many of its competitors banned from the 2016 summer Olympics in Rio and the Winter Games in South Korea last February. Two years ago, after the Rio Games, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) reported that as many as a thousand Russian athletes had cheated, among other ways, by taking performance enhancing drugs and having blood transfusions. WADA accused the sporting authorities in Moscow of being involved in this cheating, with the alteration or plain deliberate loss of samples taken from the country’s athletes during the Sochi Games. Russia has form on cheating in sport. The-then Soviet Union and its Communist allies in the Eastern Bloc saw sporting victories as a way of enhancing the prestige for their...
January 10, 2019

Russian sport on trial

War on Hezbollah is near
OkazALL of a sudden Hassan Nasrallah appeared on Al-Manar TV, which is owned by Hezbollah, wearing his overcoat and, in a shaking voice, he called for help from Saudi Arabia, specifically from King Abdullah, saying, “Had I known about the repercussions of what happened, we would not have carried out the operation.”Before that Nasrallah appeared bragging about his daring operation of July 2006, in which they breached the Lebanese-Israeli border, kidnapped soldiers and killed some of them, while the remains of one of the were held for ransom.Is Nasrallah going to appear on the Hezbollah TV again calling for help to find an escape route?After a week of heavy air strikes by Israeli warplanes on every civilian and military target from Beirut to the country’s southern border and Israeli...
January 10, 2019

War on Hezbollah is near

The myth of disappearance
PEOPLE in the Kingdom are no strangers to environmentalists heralding a global warming doomsday; in fact, most of them are likely to respond with a casual rolling of the eyes, to say the least. The primary reaction to environmental issues in our society seems to be indifference, if not disdain. After all, we tend to live along the lines of “out of sight, out of mind.” However, this does not change the fact that we live in one ecosystem, and what goes around will come around, at one point or another. And the ones who will suffer most are not even the ones who caused the problem in the first place.To clarify, places that produce the lowest fossil fuel emissions are the most prone to environmental catastrophes and the least able to cope with them. A report from 2013 identifies...
January 10, 2019

The myth of disappearance

The Haramain Train: My experience
FIRSTLY, hearty congratulations to King Salman Bin Abdulaziz, Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman, citizens and expats in Saudi Arabia on the launch of the Kingdom’s first high-speed train.Being born and brought up in Saudi Arabia, we hardly ever had a train ride in our lives. The inauguration of the Haramain Railway this month was very exciting.After a lot of hustle-bustle due to pre-booking by passengers, my husband finally managed to book two business class tickets to Makkah.We were expecting a casual railway station and a pleasant train ride. To our surprise, from the moment we stepped through the gates of the station, the vibes were fascinating. The infrastructure was lit. The station was ginormous. Songs were being played; men in fancy costumes entertained people and tea, ice cream...
January 10, 2019

The Haramain Train: My experience

Nosy people are sick!
Al-YaumEvery time I think that we no longer have any nosy people in our society who try to dictate what other people should and should not do, I discover that we actually still have a lot of them. We all know that the freedom of one person ends where the freedom of others begins. This means that as long as people are dealing with themselves or their family, dealing with their own money and do not abuse the rights of others, then no one has the right to criticize them or to dictate what they should do, even if it comes in the form of advice.Not long ago, I read very negative comments that were directed as a famous social figure in our society, just because he posted a picture of himself standing with his granddaughter at her graduation ceremony. I have read many similar comments with regard...
January 10, 2019

Nosy people are sick!

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