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At what price a PhD degree?
A video clip making the rounds on social media highlights the disparity in the ratio of PhDs among the members of the Shoura councils of GCC countries. It even notes the numbers of PhDs in the US Senate and House of Representative. Saudi Arabia has by far the largest proportion of PhDs among the lawmakers, with some 100 members of the Shoura Council holding PhDs according to the clip. If that is indeed true, then is it perhaps not overkill?And does it not encourage those who want to obtain such a degree to look for an easy option? A finding of the Ministry of Higher Education identified 110 offices selling forged degrees from non-Saudi universities. The agencies had been supplying these bogus degrees for several years, and the recent finding was just the tip of the iceberg.The degrees...
November 06, 2019

At what price a PhD degree?

Trump trashes climate deal
THERE are no surprises to any aspect of the withdrawal of the United States from the UN’s Paris climate agreement. On his way to the White House, President Donald Trump promised voters he would quit the deal. This week was the earliest under the agreement’s rules that Washington could serve formal notice. The actual end to its involvement in the Paris Agreement will be in a year’s time, exactly one day after the US presidential election.Nor has the reaction been surprising. While other governments have been restrained in their expressions of disappointment at the American move, Trump’s many detractors, including the vocal and well-organized environmentalist campaigners, have howled with anger and damned him in the most vituperative and indeed violent terms.Yet the one thing of...
November 06, 2019

Trump trashes climate deal

Healing the market’s wounds
OkazI have long called, via this column, for creating sufficient national manpower, because it is impossible for any country to reach an advanced stage of industrial or services development without national manpower at all levels. Such manpower provides a foundation for the country. It can be likened to a ship’s rudder, as setting sail in deep waters requires a fully functional ship.As we are still in need of non-Saudi workers in low-level and some medium-level jobs, we find that the Ministry of Labor and Social Development has issued many decisions, most of which have been implemented. The ministry has made sure that its decisions are being implemented and that they remain in place via continuous monitoring and follow-up.However, the ministry has not studied the negative impacts on the...
November 05, 2019

Healing the market’s wounds

Canada: The blessings, and pitfalls, of democracy in action
Canada is a diverse country with its Aboriginal people (who themselves are divided into different tribes), French and British founding nations and immigrants from all over the world, who have flocked to this cold country in search of a better life and have done well. Today all Canadians are equal in the eyes of the law and almost all of them enjoy full human rights.Given the vastness of the land - it is the world’s second largest country in terms of area - and the diversity of its peoples, democracy here seems to work somewhat erratically. But it does work and that helps to make Canada a model country, where people differ on policies but also make compromises in order to maintain the country’s unity and stability.There was a time when Canadian immigration policy was based on race and...
November 05, 2019

Canada: The blessings, and pitfalls, of democracy in action

Why Tehran fears growing Iraqi protests
As public protest in Iraq continues to snowball, there is one very good reason why Iranian-backed Iraqi militiamen are shooting demonstrators. The ayatollahs in Iran fear that the contagion of anger and unrest that has erupted in their neighbor could well spread across the border and infect their own long-suffering citizens.Iran has long been a byword for corruption and incompetence. The economic illiteracy of the regime’s leaders has been staggering. The patience of ordinary Iranians has already been severely tried, resulting in a series of huge, nationwide protests, the last of which between 2017 and 2018 were only suppressed with extreme brutality by the ayatollahs’ enforcers, the Revolutionary Guard. Even without the original sanctions that drove it to the nuclear negotiating...
November 05, 2019

Why Tehran fears growing Iraqi protests

Terrorism, extremism two eyes of global threat, and Saudi Arabia role
Saudi Arabia is a main target of Daesh (the self-proclaimed IS) and other terror organizations, as it is the home of the Islamic religion and attracts millions of Muslims, providing them with a safe and secure environment. The Kingdom continues to expand and intensify its counter-terrorism initiatives, as both terrorism and extremism remain a major threat to the safety and security of the global community. Not all terrorists are extremists and some types of extremism have nothing to do with terrorism. Extremism is adhering to an extreme ideology, while terrorism is political violence that includes the planned targeting of non-combatants and distinguishing between direct victims and the audience that terrorists want to affect.In order to understand the War on Terror, both terrorism and...
November 04, 2019

Terrorism, extremism two eyes of global threat, and Saudi Arabia role

New world order?
There seems to be a new world order being formed these days that is an alternative to that which arose after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The most important feature of this new order is Brexit, which was developed in decision-making centers of major British universities to prepare the British public to focus on the harm of staying in the European market.Brexit proponents highlight the fact that while America recovered from the global financial crisis relatively quickly, Europe continues to suffer from it due to bureaucratic complexities and conflicts of fiscal policy that have damaged Britain’s strong economy.Another issue emphasized by those who want Britain to leave Europe is the enormous damage caused by the migration of European labor to the British market, which has contributed to...
November 04, 2019

New world order?

National Song Festival
Throughout its long human history and the various names it has been given, the national song has been considered the most sincere and true societal expression of love of the homeland. It is distinguished from other kinds of songs by the positive feelings it embodies. It is full of the pride, zeal and commitment to their homeland that people carry deep in their hearts.Since the emergence of human societies, national songs and lyrics have been used to uplift the communal spirit and spread enthusiasm. Some of these national songs are like military marches with a fast tempo while others quietly reflect love for the country that is deep rooted in man.The Kingdom’s local heritage is immensely rich in artistic expression and music varies from one region to another depending on its heritage and...
November 03, 2019

National Song Festival

Saudi Arabia and the big tourist cake
ACCORDING to 2018 World Tourism Organization (WTO) data, the contribution of the tourist sector to global GDP was about 10.4 percent representing more than eight trillion dollars. At the level of labor markets, the contribution of tourism in the world was 9.9 percent representing about 313.2 million job opportunities.The WTO report said the expenditure of travelers around the world in 2019 was $1.49 trillion representing about 6.5 percent of total global exports.It said that tourism investments in the world reached $882.4 billion representing about 4.5 percent of total global investments during the year 2017.The report expected the number of international visitors in the world to reach 2.09 billion and said the contribution of the tourist sector would increase by about $12.5 trillion in...
November 02, 2019

Saudi Arabia and the big tourist cake

Lebanese seek big changes
WITHIN 24 hours of resigning, former Lebanese prime minister, Saad Al-Hariri was asked by President Michel Aoun to form a caretaker government, which is supposed to be of technocrats rather than the country’s widely-discredited crew of politicians.Hariri had quit in the face of unprecedented protests by tens of thousands who took to the streets to demand an end to corruption at the highest levels and collapsing public services as well as root and branch financial reform which would stop to country’s descent into a serious debt crisis. Ten days into the protests he agreed a modest raft of changes, which included cutting the generous salaries of politicians. These concessions were not enough and came too late. The public mood is one of burning anger at the venality and incompetence of...
November 01, 2019

Lebanese seek big changes

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