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Tunisia’s new president
Tunisians have become so fed up with the bickering politicians that they have elected since they triggered the so-called Arab Spring in 2011, that they have just chosen a president who is the complete antithesis of a political animal.Indeed the country’s new head of state, Kais Saied, a 61-year-old retired constitutional law professor, is so lacking in charisma and charm that even loyal supporters happily describe him variously as “Robot” and “Robocop”. The dour-faced president-elect’s victory - he stood as an independent - was based on widespread disgust with the existing political establishment and its failure to grapple with an ailing economy and rising joblessness. Though predictably, they all protested to the contrary, too few politicians, even within some of the leading...
October 14, 2019

Tunisia’s new president

Saudi Arabia’s pride in Gitex Dubai 2019 Exhibition
With its presence in the Gitex Dubai 2019 Exhibition, the Saudi Ministry of Interior was keen to make the optimum use of the media to highlight the Kingdom’s various hi-tech accomplishments, especially in protecting its security and facilitating the services being provided to citizens and expatriates.The Interior Ministry’s pavilion at the Gitex Dubai 2019 Exhibition attracted visitors from different countries of the world. Some were amazed at the modern technology they saw and the methods used to serve citizens. Others took the opportunity to apply for a tourist visa to the Kingdom, as it was easy to submit an application and complete procedures in a short time. The applicant only had to wait for a short while to receive an email approving his visa application.The pavilion attracted...
October 14, 2019

Saudi Arabia’s pride in Gitex Dubai 2019 Exhibition

Lebanon between two projects!
Followers of the popular movement in Lebanon know who the enemies of the country are. It is the same team that kidnapped the civilian state at gunpoint, the same team that pledged allegiance to a non-Lebanese imam and leader and declared its absolute loyalty to him.It is the same team that distributed pictures of non-Lebanese figures and flags that you see outside Rafik Hariri International Airport, as if this were a sign of the death of Hariri’s national nonsectarian project and the end of Lebanese independence as Iranian sectarian domination returns the country to a black and ignorant era.This is responsible for social fragmentation, violent economic recession, deterioration of the value of the national currency, rampant unemployment, uncontrolled inflation, lack of investment, arms...
October 14, 2019

Lebanon between two projects!

Dealing with terror
THE murderous assault on a synagogue and a Turkish-owned eatery in the German city of Halle are both being blamed on a far-right extremist. Two people died in a hail of gunfire. It comes in a week that a suspected Syrian terrorist hijacked a truck in Limburg, near Frankfurt and plowed it into a line of motorists, seriously injuring nine people. Both these crimes were acts of terror, like all such enormities the deeds of ignorant and hate-filled bigots. In their warped view of the world, they somehow imagined that killing and maiming complete strangers were going to advance the cause that they espouse. They doubtless saw themselves in some perverse way as heroes. They were striking a blow against enemies, who in their pathetic estimation, were so wicked, they did not deserve the slightest...
October 11, 2019

Dealing with terror

Bringing down the president
THE cacophony of hatred and vilification launched against President Donald Trump by the US political elite began even before the man sat down for the first time in the Oval Office. And it has not ceased since then, even for a moment. Many of the inhabitants of the Capitol Hill “swamp” that Trump promised to drain loathe their elected president, to the point of distraction. The boom box of social media produces an endless litany of often-violent abuse condemning every little thing Trump says or does. But how substantial is this self-appointed jury? Does its constant screaming hubbub really represent the feelings of the majority of Americans? For sure Trump is boorish, unsubtle and undiplomatic. He refuses to play by Washington’s long-standing political rules. Some of his more inept...
October 09, 2019

Bringing down the president

The importance of Putin’s visit
OkazThe visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to Riyadh next week underlines the steps taken by Saudi Arabia to strengthen its relations with Russia after the boycott following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. These relations are important in light of the fact that the commitments of Western countries that are allies of the Kingdom are sometimes affected due to the war in Yemen or some rights issues on whose definitions they differ.The Kingdom, which faces regional challenges related to the safety and security of its citizens and territory, cannot remain at the mercy of the moods and whims of Western governments that affect its interests and must instead defend its sovereignty, interests and security.For this reason, openness to countries like Russia, China and South Korea...
October 09, 2019

The importance of Putin’s visit

Abdul Mahdi’s savage response to protest
More than 16 years ago, US President George W. Bush, relying on entirely phony evidence that Saddam Hussein still possessed weapons of mass destruction, led the invasion of Iraq and Saddam’s ouster. The consequences of this regime change have proved utterly disastrous. Regional peace was undermined by Al-Qaeda and Daesh (the self-proclaimed IS) terrorists’ campaigns which sprang into being amidst the wreckage of the old regime. Regional stability was overthrown as the chaos in Iraq gave the ayatollahs in Tehran the opportunity to exploit the country’s divisions and long-simmering rivalries. And most important of all, ordinary Iraqis were plunged into a world of murderous mayhem, from which the US-imposed trappings of a democracy have signally failed to delver them.The latest wave of...
October 08, 2019

Abdul Mahdi’s savage response to protest

Benefits of entertainment
OkazYesterday, I went through the Riyadh Season programs, whose events are organized by the General Entertainment Authority (GEA) and are set to begin soon. Truly speaking, I never expected the programs to be so comprehensive and diverse, not to speak of the seriousness, care and attention that took place in making preparations.The Jeddah Season was also a very positive beginning compared to the gloomy situation that characterized entertainment before the creation of the GEA and prior to “breaking the chains that imprisoned the birds of happiness in people’s hearts for so long”.The residents of a city like Riyadh, which is located in the heart of the desert, used to look for entertainment in other regions of the country that were of a different nature.The reason for this was the lack...
October 08, 2019

Benefits of entertainment

The abuse of prayer breaks
While having early morning breakfast at a cafe yesterday, my wife asked me what the theme of this week’s column was going to be. I told her that I hadn’t started on one, and neither had I zeroed in on a topic yet. In the back of my mind, I had been mulling over the outlines of a column on the continuing illegal and immoral siege of Kashmir at the hands of the Indian armed forces, eight million or more innocent Kashmiris to be exact, but that needed a bit more time and research to put together. And time is a luxury, as deadlines are often a writer’s greatest dilemma.“Why not write about the break times?” she volunteered helpfully as she often does when I present her with a blank look. “Why don’t you highlight the issue of the extraordinary number of break times business...
October 08, 2019

The abuse of prayer breaks

Turkey welshes on EU asylum deal
IN March 2016, Turkey made a deal with the European Union. It would curtail the flow of migrants to Greece, which by 2015 had passed one million. In return Ankara accepted $3.3 billion from Brussels, which it was supposed to be devoting to the care of the 3.5 million largely Syrian migrants it was hosting. The EU also agreed to allow Turkish citizens free movement within the borderless Schengen area and promised to “reenergize” stalled talks on Turkey’s accession to the Union.One of the scandalous details of the deal was that the Turkey would accept back Syrians who were deemed by EU officials, specially drafted into Greece, not to have a valid claim for asylum. However, Brussels also agreed to grant entry to one Syrian migrant for every other Syrian sent back. Such was the relief at...
October 08, 2019

Turkey welshes on EU asylum deal

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