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The media war!
Soft Power is no less powerful than Hard Power. Cultural influence, in fact, is more effective than military use. American pop culture has taken the world by storm, for ages. BBC radio, then CNN satellite TV, dominated global airwaves for most of the last century. Now, they have competition.Silence is a language, and in some instances, silence is an answer. But we are at a stage that requires a lot of talk and less humbleness. Our opponents, ladies and gentlemen, are filling world theaters with deafening chatters. The audience awaits our response and clarification.It is true that some situations require letting deeds do the talking. But this does not excuse us from speaking up when truth is being kidnapped and deception takes its place. Masses need both a heartfelt speech, and a language...
February 04, 2020

The media war!

KAUST between two epochs
OkazWHILE on a visit to King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), I recalled the days of its establishment. In those days, the hardliners trained their guns to this fledgling university, openly raising their objection to setting up of such a world-class university. The hardline faction launched verbal salvos and unleashed a campaign of accusations against everyone who supported the establishment of such a premier institution. Those days were the beginning of the end of radicalism, and the state was insistent on moving vigorously toward the future, irrespective of the objections raised by the hardcore elements. The move to establish KAUST was considered to be a historic and social blueprint to proceed toward the openness of society, keeping pace with the changes of the...
February 02, 2020

KAUST between two epochs

May God have mercy on Sadat
OkazAS I write this article, the US Administration unveiled its Middle East peace plan and therefore, it’s not possible for me to comment on the proposal before thoroughly reviewing the 181-page document. If I did so, I would be making the same mistake, the Palestinians made, when they rejected the plan even before seeing it.Irrespective of the details of the initiative, it is now the time to remember an unparalleled leader, the late Egyptian President Muhammad Anwar Sadat, may God have mercy on him. In 1977, Sadat presented a political vision for the Arab-Israeli conflict and the Egyptian-Israeli conflict — a vision that is ahead of all visions of the parties to the conflict.In 2018, Hezbollah’s Al-Akhbar newspaper published an article detailing what transpired between the late...
February 02, 2020

May God have mercy on Sadat

Globalization of viruses!
CHINA is famous for exporting clothes, home appliances, electronic gadgets and, of course, deadly viruses. The last named item gains credibility now after the outbreak of the lethal Coronavirus in that country, just as it has death-dealing viruses such as SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) and bird flu.Today there are very shocking numbers; as a precautionary measure China has isolated areas with 45 million of its citizens, after the number of infections exceeded 1,5000 cases, and the number of deaths crossed the 300 mark, and emergence of infected cases in Australia, Japan, South Korea, France, Thailand, US, India and the UAE.There is fear that the virus will reach other countries very soon, in addition to other reports that the number of infected people is much more than what has...
February 02, 2020

Globalization of viruses!

Hezbollah in world’s court
As Lebanese get beaten up in streets by Hezbollah and Amal militants, including fellow Shiite demonstrators, they find out more and more about the true nature of Iran’s militias.The problem with the Arab mindset is that we tend to forget and forgive too often. Hezbollah is a case in point.When the “Party of God” raised the resistance flag and achieved some victories against Israel that forced it to withdraw from South Lebanon in 2000, we celebrated the achievement and forgot and forgave the party’s crimes since its inception in 1982.Since then, they built their reputation on plain terrorism: Mass murdering Palestinian refugees during the Civil War; bombing public places in Kuwait and attempting to assassinate its Emir (1983); hijacking TWA (1985), and Kuwait airliner (1988), and...
January 28, 2020

Hezbollah in world’s court

Tariq Al-Homayed
Khomeini and 2030
The Iranian leader Ali Khamenei delivered a Friday sermon after a hiatus of eight years, and that was following the killing of Qasem Soleimani by the American forces. In that sermon, he said: “The country’s economy should be strengthened; the dependence on oil must be ended, and the scientific and technological leap should be continued!”The question here is how can Iran end its dependence on oil that it cannot sell at all due to the US sanctions? And how can a country, which officially admitted the shooting down of the Ukrainian plane by mistake, continue with the scientific and technological leap?On the other hand, who launched a vision that not relies on oil, and who asserted that it is an idea of the youth? Simply, the answer is that the vision in the region is the Saudi Vision...
January 24, 2020

Khomeini and 2030

Canadian PM tackling challenges with competence
PRIME Minister Justin Trudeau won re-election in last year’s election, but he lost his majority and must now get help from another party, logically the New Democratic party, if his Liberals are to remain in power.But his main challenge currently comes in the field of foreign affairs — relations with China and with Iran.China and the US, though worlds apart in their political systems and foreign relations, have signed a trade deal that involves the end of tariffs on Chinese goods’ entry into the US in exchange for major agricultural imports from the US into China. Canada fears that the US will supply China with agricultural goods that came from Canada, hurting Canadian farmers.Canada’s relations with China had already suffered when it was caught between the US and China. Canada...
January 22, 2020

Canadian PM tackling challenges with competence

Iran loses two most prominent guys!
OkazThe killing of Qasem Soleimani implies that Iran has lost two most prominent persons. One of them is an Iranian — Soleimani, the leader of the armed militias, which have contributed to Iran’s expansion in the region, through violence and sectarian strife, from Lebanon to Iraq, through Syria and even Yemen and Bahrain.The other person that Iran has lost is former US President Barack Obama. Yes, it is Obama, and this is not an exaggeration. The Iranian supreme leader said in his sermon last Friday that his country could negotiate with anyone, except America.But Iran negotiated with America during the reign of Obama. And there had been telephone conversation between the current Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Obama.I would like to say Iran lost Obama because the former US...
January 22, 2020

Iran loses two most prominent guys!

Act now on Iran, Hezbollah and Daesh or pay later!
It is becoming a common theme for many political analysts to maintain that Iran has helped with the war on Daesh. Fake news! Let’s go back to before the birth of the terrorist organization in 2014. After they led the insurgency against US forces that invaded Iraq in 2003, Al-Qaeda was on the run after the US Army organized a military campaign against them of Sunni tribes from Al-Anbar region in western Iraq. Within a few years, the new force managed to clean all the terrorists out of their midst and handed hundreds of captured jihadists to US forces. Such success did not go down well with Iran and its agent in Iraq, Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki (2006-2014), who also held the positions of acting Interior Minister, acting Defense Minister and acting National Security Minister—all at...
January 20, 2020

Act now on Iran, Hezbollah and Daesh or pay later!

Africa's time!
The year 2020 is the start of a new decade in which geographic factors may play an important role. There are undeniably important indications that this decade and the coming era are going to be distinctly African.A few days ago, I returned from South Africa, the most important and largest economy in the continent. The country is the miracle of Mandela, the great man who left behind one of the most important political and human legacies of the modern era. This is reflected positively in the political stability and economic investment in the country which has become a democratic model for the entire continent and a role model for other countries with the tireless work it has undertaken to preserve the independence of the judiciary and the freedom of the media as pillars of institutional...
January 20, 2020

Africa's time!

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