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Students’ viewpoints
This is the second month in the school year in Saudi Arabia. Thousands of new students are enrolled in all higher education institutions across the nation. Newly accepted college students are settling down as they come across different aspects of university life. Students’ impressions of their college community are important indicators of how successful universities are in terms of providing the necessary tools for building good knowledge and doing well in life.Students who join English departments in Saudi Arabia are unique because they have decided to learn a foreign language with different literary and cultural implications. In a composition class, I asked my students at Umm Al-Qura University to write an essay about their first years’ experience in college and how that experience...
November 10, 2019

Students’ viewpoints

Deadly urban pollution
IN many of the world’s great cities, pollution is an unpleasant fact of life. Tragically it is also a fact of death. Statistics on the rates of mortality it causes in crowded urban areas can be hard to pin down. However, it stands the reason that anyone with an existing condition such as asthma, is in immediate danger. But the poisons carried by unseen particulates belched from engine exhausts, power stations and home fires have a more insidious effect on previously healthy individuals.Delhi is currently caught is a smog which has reduced visibility to just meters. The authorities blame the burning off of stubble in farms outside the capital. But though such activity is clearly contributing to these record levels of pollution, the underlying causes are far wider spread. According to the...
November 08, 2019

Deadly urban pollution

Ayatollah appeasement
FOR how much longer will the Europeans seek to appease the Iranian regime? Appeasement is the act of pacifying or placating someone by acceding to their demands. Notoriously in 1938 the French and British governments appeased Nazi Germany’s Adolf Hitler, allowing him to seize first part and then all of Czechoslovakia. Then British premier Neville Chamberlain spoke of the German’s demands on the Czechs as “a quarrel in a far away country between people of whom we know nothing”.Iran is not a far away country of which Europeans know nothing. Rather the opposite. Since the overthrow of the Shah 40 years ago, the ruling ayatollahs have made no secret of their determination to throw over the principles that govern international relations. The ordinary supporters of a revolution that...
November 07, 2019

Ayatollah appeasement

The great offers in my inbox
The use of email as a form of communication has become an important part of our lives. With a few clicks, messages are sent instantly all over the world. Yet, this powerful business and social driver is now flooded with unwanted marketing literature.To find intended messages, you have to navigate through hundreds of emails from people trying to sell you products and services that you don’t need, or even worse, scam artists trying to get you to “invest” with them to get rich quick. Something must be wrong if you have not received a weekly email about your unclaimed inheritance from one of your extended family members you never knew existed who wrote your name in his will and then died in a car crash in another part of the world!The “smart” features of email service providers are...
November 06, 2019

The great offers in my inbox

Aramco: Kingdom’s jewel in the hands of its people
OkazThe announcement of Aramco’s IPO through Saudi banks represents a great opportunity for safe investment presented on a gold platter. This simply means placing the most precious Saudi jewel in history into the hands of its people so that they can make direct gains. This also represents a clear indication that decision makers are keen that Saudi citizens, before anyone else, should benefit from the wealth of their country and be real partners in the Kingdom’s resources.There is no company of this size in the world with such high profitability and those who miss the train of investment will be missing a huge profit which they deserve more than anyone else.Aramco made it clear through the media that it intends to distribute dividends of $75 billion (SR281.25 billion) in 2020 after the...
November 06, 2019

Aramco: Kingdom’s jewel in the hands of its people

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

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