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Vision 2030: Our children must be ready to lead
Our children’s voices will be heard perhaps louder than any other generation Saudi Arabia has produced before - but how will they be perceived in business, in society and around the globe?And more importantly, how will we prepare our daughters, as well as our sons, to help shape and lead the country of the future?I think these are the key questions we need to ask ourselves as we prepare for a seismic shift, a massive change in how we live our lives, one, as a Saudi woman, I must admit, I never thought I’d experience.We need to prepare our children to be open-minded, accepting of other cultures and views and they must obtain the skills and qualifications that will help them to be the best they can be and the Kingdom the true world leader it aspires to become.The country will become...
September 23, 2019

Vision 2030: Our children must be ready to lead

West and East do not meet?!
With the world’s ongoing economic openness to Asia, some may think that there would be more curiosity on the part of those in our region about the intellectual and cultural aspects of the peoples of the Far East, rather than just a desire to trade with them.There has always been an interest in Western culture because the Levant and Egypt are located on the Mediterranean, leading to an openness to explore the culture of Greece and then Rome and France. Arab faculties of arts and sciences encourage specialization in Western studies, so it is not surprising to see that graduates know much more about Socrates, Plato and Aristotle than about Zoroaster, Buddha and Jain.They study the Iliad and the Odyssey while they know nothing about the Mahabharata and the Ramayana. They study the views of...
September 22, 2019

West and East do not meet?!

The sluggish eurozone
THE 19 countries of the eurozone present the odd spectacle of a single body, parts of which are well-muscled and healthy while others are flabby and sickly, if not indeed actually diseased. With the main exception of the non-eurozone UK destined, at some point or other, to cease to be the 28th member of the European Union, economic growth is not happening. At best, eurozone growth is expected to be 1.1 percent this year, with the hope of a minute increase to 1.2 percent in 2020.The European Central Bank, (ECB) the guardian of the single currency which has now been existence for over 20 years, has been seeking desperately to stimulate economic activity. Even Germany, the EU’s powerhouse slid into recession at the beginning of year with two successive quarters of negative growth. Part of...
September 19, 2019

The sluggish eurozone

Time for compromise in Hong Kong
Hong Kong has now been roiled in increasingly ugly protests for over 100 days. It is surely time for this to end. It should not be forgotten that it was thanks to massive peaceful demonstrations of some two million people that the territory’s leader Carrie Lam withdrew a controversial extradition bill from the Legislative Council.This proposal would have allowed suspects arrested in Hong Kong to be sent to mainland China for trial, where legal standards are different from those in this former UK colony which are based on British common law. However, the demonstrations continued because the extradition bill had only been withdrawn, not scrapped entirely. It took weeks of more protests, which were becoming increasingly violent, before Lam announced that the extradition plan had been...
September 17, 2019

Time for compromise in Hong Kong

The Israeli operatives in Washington
Israel’s Netanyahu publicly declares his intention of annexing Palestinian land for illegal Israeli settlers. He says it loudly and he does not fear retribution. Why? Because he is confident America will not object.To understand why US foreign policy toward the Middle East is held hostage by the whims of Israel, you have to be aware of the covert actions that dictate such policies through spying, lobbying and the distribution of money to fund policymakers.These spies are not your covert foreign agents. No indeed! These operatives are Americans who publicly proclaim their allegiance to the flag. They could be your next-door neighbors, mowing the lawn on a Saturday morning or throwing a couple of steaks on the barbecue. But deep down, they foster an unbending loyalty to Zionism and Zionism...
September 17, 2019

The Israeli operatives in Washington

Tunisians deserve better leaders
THE first round of Tunisia’s presidential election has passed off peacefully. Tunisians had the opportunity choose a replacement for the late Beji Caid Essebsi, their country’s first freely-elected leader since it triggered the so-called Arab Spring revolts in 2011. Unfortunately, less than half of the electorate bothered to take part. Moreover, the two candidates destined for the run-off to be held before November are both anti-establishment figures.These two factors combine to demonstrate that the majority of Tunisians have lost most of their faith in the political process and the personalities who have led their country since the ouster of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. Tunisians seized democratic government with both hands. But the problem from the outset was there were too many figures...
September 16, 2019

Tunisians deserve better leaders

Cyprus relations and Riyadh’s message
The expansion of Saudi Arabia’s relations with Cyprus is a clear message to Turkey, which is trying to extend its influence in the region and the Muslim world by attempting to bring back to life the Ottoman era which ended with World War I.Turkey is seeking success through the Muslim Brotherhood concept of abolishing the borders between countries and instituting the ideas of governance of the Brotherhood in their attempt to control the Islamic world and beyond.It is only natural that Saudi Arabia should strengthen its relations with the countries of this strategic region, given the obstacles that Turkey is attempting to place in the path of those countries wishing to develop a healthy relationship with the Kingdom.Riyadh has in particular chosen to strengthen relations with Cyprus, whose...
September 14, 2019

Cyprus relations and Riyadh’s message

Mugabe’s unheroic legacy
THE late Robert Mugabe was indeed a hero in resisting by force and then through statesmanship bringing an end in 1980 to white majority rule in what was then Rhodesia. But some 15 years into his almost forty years of rule, he ceased to be heroic.The sidelining of his fellow insurgency leader Joshua Nkomo led to massacres of Nkomo’s minority Matabele tribe. Mugabe’s Shona people came to dominate the new Zimbabwe’s politics and military. After seven years as prime minister, Mugabe won the presidency and became increasingly autocratic. It was always something of a mystery that the international community chose to overlook the killing of up to 30,000 members of the Matabele people in a five-year campaign — the so-called Gukurahundi massacres — by the Zimbabwean military. While these...
September 13, 2019

Mugabe’s unheroic legacy

A marriage of convenience
The misyar or marriage of convenience within the country’s borders became a popular variant of marriage after it was sanctioned by some of our religious sheikhs. Essentially a license to have multiple partners without much responsibility or expense, it was soon followed by the misfar and other variations as well.“Misfar” marriage refers to a union contracted so that a woman may cohabitate with her foreign “husband” for the period of time he is visiting a foreign country. These women are usually divorced after a short period which ranges from a week to a month. It is natural that most of these women who are married off come from deprived backgrounds, and for most of them, they have very little say in the matter.Reports in the Saudi press have spoken of growing concerns over the...
September 10, 2019

A marriage of convenience

Trump’s Afghan error
US President Donald Trump has announced that as far as he is concerned, his peace talks with the Taliban are “dead”. But his concern needs to go a lot further, because if the talks really are dead, then so too will be many more people, mostly Afghans, who are currently alive and dreaming only of peace.If this is Trump running a script from his seminal book “The Art of the Deal”, then hopefully he has a carefully formulated plan. What he has done is tear up a provisional agreement that had been worked out over nine tortuous bargaining sessions between the Taliban and US special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad. Hosted by Qatar, because clearly the Taliban feel safe in the emirate, the talks had led to an outline deal for Washington to withdraw its troops within 20 weeks. In return, the...
September 10, 2019

Trump’s Afghan error

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