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The wall of censorship has fallen
OkazThe Court of Appeals of Kuwait has canceled the decision of the Kuwaiti ministry of information to prevent the circulation of a number of books. The court justified its decision by stating that censorship was no longer feasible in these changing times and this open world!In my opinion, the Kuwaiti court based its decision on the current reality in dealing with the issue of banned books. The traditional tools used to ban published opinion no longer work, as the barriers between countries are eliminated because of the Internet and developments in technology and communication.Today, all decisions issued by supervisory departments to ban material are useless. Readers are now able to access any content that is published and to easily go around all forms of barriers by using the Internet....
November 27, 2018

The wall of censorship has fallen

Short-lived smiles in Brussels?
The weekend was clearly a good one for the European Union. British Prime Minister Theresa May inked a Brexit deal which the European Commission is privately celebrating as humiliating for the UK. Moreover, at the EU summit where May put her name to an agreement that is highly controversial back home, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte indicated that his government was prepared to back away from confrontation with Brussels over its planned high-spending budget.Conte had had a meeting with EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker before he suggested that his administration would look again at the budget which envisaged a deficit of 2.4 percent of GDP. Brussels had ordered Rome to redo the budget because of Italy’s high debt burden, which is 132 percent of GDP. The Commission ruled...
November 27, 2018

Short-lived smiles in Brussels?

The Turkish cat and Qatari mouse game
“A cat and mouse game” is how we can describe what has transpired since the murder of Saudi citizen Jamal Khashoggi, after attempts by politicians, media outlets and organizations hostile to Saudi Arabia to politicize the case and use it to undermine the Kingdom’s security, stability and sovereignty.In doing so, they have attempted to infringe upon the Kingdom’s sovereignty, which is a red line Saudi Arabia will not allow anyone to cross at whatever cost.This has led observers to say that the Turkish side in the game is claiming to possess tapes. They (the observers) stress that these claims will backfire on the Turkish government.If these tapes exist, they will confirm that the Turkish authorities are eavesdropping on diplomatic missions and representative offices in Turkey, most...
November 26, 2018

The Turkish cat and Qatari mouse game

Children on the streets
Okaz newspaperCHILDREN's Day was marked around the world on Nov. 20 last with the theme "Children call for peace."The United Nations International Children›s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) called for using all means of media to express support for millions of homeless children around the world, who are deprived of education and who live in abject poverty. It is a message to the leaders of the world and heads of companies and institutions and for the rich to participate in supporting the poor children who cannot find education, medical care and shelter. This is a humanitarian message to carry out their humanitarian duties toward children around the world and to apply the agreement of International Labor Organization to prevent child labor and to protect children from its negative...
November 26, 2018

Children on the streets

For governments right and left, a season of discontent
Democratic governments are rarely popular for extended periods, and often have to scrape by with low polls, noisy demonstrations and constant pressure from the media. And though authoritarian regimes can squash dissent and muzzle the news, they too face rising discontent. These patterns aren’t new, but now they happen as administrations of every kind are under increasing, and new, pressures - and the challenge of recession looms.In the democratic world, France is the present exhibit A. Some 300,000 of its citizens wearing yellow safety jackets came out in force last weekend to protest quite hefty fuel price rises. The numbers went down to around 10,000 after several days of demonstrations, but a planned blockade of Paris will show if the protests are deeply felt enough to last, or have...
November 26, 2018

For governments right and left, a season of discontent

Paris, Act Two
It was only a couple of weeks ago that French President Emmanuel Macron was joined by 70 world leaders at the Champs-Élysées to commemorate the centenary of the end of World War I. But these days those same leaders would not want to be anywhere near this most iconic of streets where police have been battling protesters for what could be prolonged chaos.The protest was initially sparked by rises in fuel taxes, but since it is not uncommon for a protest to originally target one problem but then morph into a wider demonstration, this, too, has turned into a more general expression of grievances against Macron, who is seen as out of touch with the daily concerns of ordinary French people outside the capital. So, to the capital thousands decided to take their grievances, traveling from across...
November 26, 2018

Paris, Act Two

Should volunteers be paid?
Okaz newspaperIn an animated discussion session with my students on the subject of opinion writing, one of them chose the subject of volunteerism to be the topic of her opinion article. Discussion then began over the idea of volunteerism and its goals.Opinions differed and that sparked a heated debate with some saying that they see volunteerism as a way to exploit youth energy by institutions that are earning large amounts of money when, at times, the volunteers themselves are getting nothing. They refuse to be exploited in this way and ask for money to compensate their volunteering efforts.Others see volunteerism as a great opportunity to acquire needed skills for the job market. They see themselves as too young and with very little experience and, therefore, unable to ask for financial...
November 26, 2018

Should volunteers be paid?

Economics of the new toilet!
I have met Bill Gates on three different occasions. The first was in Arizona in 1987 when he gave a speech at a closed-door technology conference. At that time his company had had limited success and I talked to him extensively about the expected trends in technology. I met him again on his first visit to Saudi Arabia when I had an exclusive television interview with him about a number of topics. I then met him at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland and I will meet him again at a conference in Ethiopia in the coming two months. I admire this man and respect him.Bill Gates is a modest man who donates a lot of money for the benefit of humanity. The charity he has established funds projects to fight malaria, cholera and AIDS in Africa and Asia.Every new step that he takes receives...
November 26, 2018

Economics of the new toilet!

Muslim women in the US Congress
Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib were not elected to serve in the US Congress because they are Muslims but even before January’s swearing-in ceremony, their political leanings, which are claimed to emanate from their Islamic faith, are already in the spotlight.Reportedly, the first two Muslim women ever in Congress deceived voters about their positions on Israel. It is claimed that both women, at some point during their rise in electoral politics, led voters — especially Jewish voters — to believe that they held moderate views on Israel. After being elected, both women supposedly reversed their positions.These reports are false. From day one to the day of the elections on Nov. 6, Omar of Minnesota and Tlaib of Michigan never changed course. They have always supported the anti-Israel...
November 25, 2018

Muslim women in the US Congress

Monitor website services to protect society
Okaz newspaperThe business of selling illusion is an open market that sells different products, including those promoted by some who claim to be experts in beauty, nutrition, medicine, economy, psychology and many other fields. This is widespread in social media because it provides a large audience in which those who are selling illusion can make profit, taking advantage of people’s need to find a solution to their problems.We may acquire a lot of knowledge based on our experience in life. However, this acquired knowledge does not necessarily qualify us to market it without reference to those who are experts. Basic acquired knowledge does not make a person a specialist who is capable of giving advice to people about something that he learned about through experience but in which he is...
November 25, 2018

Monitor website services to protect society

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