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Electrical power outages affect everyone
Okaz newspaperIn the past, having lanterns in the desert was a sign of civilization. In fact, it has been more than 100 years since electricity was introduced in Makkah, but without any electricity commission regulating it. Volunteers set up lights in the Grand Mosque and eventually electricity was connected to every house, street and factory.I have written about the problems involved with electrical power for almost 50 years. In the beginning, one company was responsible for electricity in Taif, Makkah and Jeddah, charging high rates and with the service continuously disrupted. This company did not have any intention to connect electricity to other areas and concentrated on only these three cities.In a speech in Madinah, King Faisal said that if the electricity company did not provide...
November 05, 2018

Electrical power outages affect everyone

Street cleaners deserve charity
Okaz newspaperSOME street cleaners are seen standing in locations near shopping centers and traffic lights. They greet each passing pedestrian with a broad smile, although it is for the ones who pass to initiate the greeting according to the teachings of Islam.Some of these workers greet people in a way as if they are looking for charity. Many people thankfully hand them something while others criticize those who do this.Those who oppose giving charity to street cleaners claim that these expatriates earn hundreds of riyals every day from begging. They ask the alms givers to stop the habit because these street cleaners are not in real need and they are actually fooling do-gooders who show sympathy to them.I have read many debates on this issue in published articles and on social media. Some...
November 04, 2018

Street cleaners deserve charity

Pondering a post-Merkel Europe
One of the world’s most famed political cartoons is John Tenniel’s “Dropping the Pilot.” Published by Punch in 1890, it depicts the dismissal of Otto von Bismarck as chancellor of the German empire by portraying him, in the uniform of a ship’s pilot, descending into a small boat as Kaiser Wilhelm II watches unconcernedly from a liner’s railings. Bismarck was the statesman who established the country as the pre-eminent political and industrial power of 19th-century Europe. Wilhelm, impatient with a cautious policy which had largely preserved peace in a turbulent continent, used his power as emperor to dispense with him.Now Angela Merkel too has been dropped. The 21st-century chancellor said Monday that she would leave her position in 2021 and also would not seek re-election as...
November 04, 2018

Pondering a post-Merkel Europe

Right-wing populist nationalism
It is odd that for the first time since the return of democracy in 1985, Brazilians have elected a far-right president. But Jair Bolsonaro is not just the choice of the Brazilian majority but the latest example of right-wing nationalist and anti-immigrant political leaders and their parties taking or consolidating power, or who have made major gains in elections, especially across Europe.The political situation in Europe serves as a good case in point of this wider phenomenon. In recent years, right-wing populist parties have grown in strength in nearly all the countries on the continent. In Austria, Germany, Italy, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland, it feels like every time there is an election somewhere in Europe, a xenophobic populist party makes electoral gains. The post-war...
November 04, 2018

Right-wing populist nationalism

The misuse of authority in the workplace
Okaz newspaperThe directive of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman to urgently restructure the general intelligence service has come at the right time. There is a need to update its regulations, to identify its authority, to evaluate the procedures, methods and authority that regulate its work, to ensure the improvement of the workflow and to identify responsibility and form a special committee to ensure that this will take place.This directive aims at many things, most importantly identifying responsibility and authority and the administrative hierarchy.There is, in fact, a need to restructure many departments that are related to citizens’ services, so that we can avoid the abuse of power at many different levels.The misuse of power and authority takes place because the...
November 04, 2018

The misuse of authority in the workplace

Born in the USA
WHEN President Donald Trump says US birthright citizenship “will be ended one way or the other” it is all but certain it will not end the way he wants, which is revoking the right by executive order. Birthright citizenship is a 150-year-old principle that says anyone born on US soil is automatically an American citizen. Even though Trump’s comments have ignited a heated debate about whether the president has the unilateral power to end birthright citizenship in the US by executive order, the first sentence of the 14th amendment to the US constitution establishes the principle of birthright citizenship: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.” So...
November 03, 2018

Born in the USA

Termagant Trump
NEXT week in their mid-term elections, US voters will have a chance to show what they really think of their termagant President Donald Trump. On the stump on Florida, Trump launched his latest attack on the American media asserting that a third of it constituted “an enemy of the people”. The president was particularly stung by what he claimed was a refusal of editors to report that he had forcefully condemned hatred and bigotry. In the wake of the murderous weekend attack on a Pennsylvania synagogue, in which 11 Jewish worshippers were killed by a white racist gunman, much of the media actually blamed Trump for encouraging such outrages. The fact that good-buddy Rednecks are among the president’s most devoted supporters was used by many media outlets as a cudgel with which to beat...
November 02, 2018

Termagant Trump

Turning Saudi Arabia into an economic powerhouse
THE global economy plays a major role in politics and international relations, as it is the interchange of politics and economics in world affairs. It has been an essential subject of international relations since the 1970s. The influence and strength of Saudi Arabia’s economy in the global marketplace have grown exponentially in the past few decades.Economics is the driving motivation behind the political activities of countries. Saudi Arabia is the only Arab country among the members of the G20. As such, the Kingdom’s role is to efficiently use the great resources of the Middle East. Saudi Arabia seeks to be one of the first countries worldwide to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals by creating development policies and building statistical indicators.Regardless...
November 01, 2018

Turning Saudi Arabia into an economic powerhouse

Saad Al-Faqih’s new version
Okaz newspaperWhat I do not understand is why Saad Al-Faqih agreed to be a tool of the Qatari regime although the country’s ruling system is very similar to that of Saudi Arabia.SUDDENLY Saudi dissident Saad Al-Faqih reappeared on the Qatari channel Al-Jazeera for an interview. I thought the Qataris would be bored with Al-Faqih and his anonymous Twitter accounts because he has nothing new to offer.The disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi confused the Qataris and they decided to rehabilitate Al-Faqih and host him again in order to complete their plot against Saudi Arabia. Can Al-Faqih stand his ground or is he going to start cursing, spread lies and hurl false accusations on air or through his Twitter accounts?In the mid-1990s, Al-Faqih was the first Saudi dissident to be...
November 01, 2018

Saad Al-Faqih’s new version

The psychology of modern psychology
As someone with an academic background in psychology, I am fascinated by the turn that this field has taken in people’s eyes. During my studies, people in Saudi Arabia normally frowned upon my choice, and often commented with something along the lines of: “So, you basically want to work with crazy people?” Few people viewed it as a valid field to study let alone build a career out of, and there was a general lack of sympathy and understanding of other people’s problems.However, with the proliferation of self-help books and talks in recent years, I find that this major, while still misunderstood, is misunderstood in a different way.Nowadays, psychology is the “trend”. Unfortunately, that usually entails it being stripped of many of its fundamental principles, becoming...
November 01, 2018

The psychology of modern psychology

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