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Another tragedy in Bangladesh
The images have been heartbreaking. Families who had little enough already were pictured rummaging desperately through the burnt-out wreckage of their homes in a shanty town in Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh.They were looking for any items that might have survived a devastating blaze that swept through Chalantika late on Friday evening. Some 1,500 shacks were destroyed making, by some estimates, up to 50,000 people homeless and destroying everything they owned.Mercifully, it appears that this latest fire disaster killed no one, though some people were burned as they rushed to rescue a few of their possessions from the advancing blaze. Yet Bangladesh has an unacceptable history of conflagrations which in recent years have killed hundreds. Last February, the capital’s historic Chawkbazar...
August 19, 2019

Another tragedy in Bangladesh

Qatar and Somalia: Terrorism and appreciation!
I VISITED Somalia for the first time in 1986 on a business trip related to the Somali National Maritime Company that specialized in transporting livestock. Livestock was one of the most important sources of modest economic income for Somalia, in addition to the income from the export of small and sweet bananas, which the Somali government had given an Italian company the exclusive right to plant and export.The company used the same approach with the Somali government as American fruit companies used with Central American countries, leading to theses countries becoming known as banana republics.Somalia had the potential to be a “different” country with the largest seacoast in Africa (after South Africa), and there was at one time great interest in the exploitation of this coast by...
August 18, 2019

Qatar and Somalia: Terrorism and appreciation!

Asma Bu Zayan
Organizing Haj is a massive undertaking
Every year we witness new organizational experiments for the reception of Haj pilgrims. The Kingdom has benefited from these experiments over the years.In my discussion with an Arab deputy elected for a French political party in the French National Assembly, he said that the organization of Haj is much easier than the organization of the World Cup Championship. He cited the example of Russia which hosted the latest World Cup in 2018. He also said that many other countries have succeeded in the organization of this event without any serious problems.This deputy and some others simply do not have any idea about the challenge represented by the Umrah and Haj seasons for Muslims and for Saudi Arabia. They have no idea how a certain city in the Kingdom is a compass attracting Muslims from all...
August 17, 2019

Organizing Haj is a massive undertaking

The art of crowd management
My friend Ali Al-Alyani wrote on his Twitter account that Saudi Arabia is a school in the art of crowd management. He said those who hate the Kingdom or have grudges against it would be hit by this very fact that will fall on their heads like a solid rock.Crowd management, in general, is the process of achieving targeted goals through the ideal use of the available resources, according to an established pattern and in a delicately calculated environment.By this introduction I meant to say that crowd management is a social science with intricate specializations. This science is gaining maximum importance due to its impact on human lives.The management of large numbers of people is one of the difficult sciences that requires the collaboration of a number of parties including health, road...
August 16, 2019

The art of crowd management

Israel defies Trump … but why?
Given that he clearly prides himself on his no-nonsense approach to everything including foreign policy, international trade and immigration, President Donald Trump must be ruing his administration’s outstandingly slavish support for Israel.Thanks to the Zionists within his top team of advisers, among them his son-in-law Jared Kushner, Trump has defied international law and moved the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and effectively endorsed the expansion of illegal Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Jerusalem and cut financial aid to the Palestinians. He has also continued the standard US policy of giving Israel money, weapons and intelligence, even though Zionist spies have stolen what secrets that have not been given and the Israel military has attacked US warships.Trump...
August 15, 2019

Israel defies Trump … but why?

Argentina’s fumbled reforms
Since Monday, there has been a gaping hole in the floor of the handsome domed building of the Argentinian stock exchange in Buenos Aires. Through it plunged the value of leading shares and the country’s currency, the peso. Stocks fell by a record 30 percent and the peso collapsed fully 15 percent against the US dollar. This financial mayhem was caused by the shock result of the first round of Argentina’s presidential election. Against all expectation, including it appears of the left-wing victor, Alberto Fernández, sitting president Mauricio Macri is now facing defeat in the final vote in October. More than two centuries of Argentinian financial failure have produced endless chapters in economic textbooks. However, it seemed with the 2015 election of the free market supporting Macri,...
August 14, 2019

Argentina’s fumbled reforms

Madness of the ‘Brothers’ and the one trench
Some tendentious TV channels are trying to portray what is happening in Aden as something that is confusing the Arab Alliance under the leadership of Saudi Arabia. However, the matter is clear to everyone. All parts of the Arab Alliance to restore Yemeni legitimacy were represented in the statements of the Alliance.These media outlets deliberately twist the truth claiming that what has happened in Aden might disturb relations between the Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates and other countries of the Alliance. This is an incorrect analysis because it is based on inaccuracies that inevitably lead to wrong results.The relationship between the Kingdom and the UAE is strong and solid. It is based on cohesive historic foundations. This was further confirmed by the Crown Prince of Abu...
August 14, 2019

Madness of the ‘Brothers’ and the one trench

My visit to Paris of the ancient world
On 13 August 2018, I had the distinguished honor of visiting the Republic of Yemen. The fact that I was the first Saudi woman to officially visit Yemen since the country’s crisis began in 2011 triggered the curiosity of journalists. For a moment, I felt like a superstar, and as is common with superstar behavior, I began to avoid the cameras.Honestly, I was not visiting the country to show off; I was there to do my job and make sure I built up memories so as to absorb every second passing by. Indeed, those memories are as vivid to me today as they were a year ago. They are a mixture of pleasant and sad memories.Just after sunrise, we flew from Riyadh on a C-130 plane to cover a press conference of the Spokesman of the Coalition Forces which took place in Marib. It was when we touched down...
August 13, 2019

My visit to Paris of the ancient world

India’s road to fascism
What so-called democracy in the world invades a disputed territory that has enjoyed autonomy for decades with tens of thousands of heavily armed troops, arrests local leaders, enforces a complete communication blackout and begins the process of heinously dismantling decades-old international resolutions? It is India today under the BJP government that has done exactly that.The recent invasion of Kashmir and the abrogation of several charters of the Indian constitution spells danger to a democracy already fraught with creeping fascism, as the Hindutva saffron brigade has been encouraged to set about making the lives of India’s minorities perilous. Reminiscent of Hitler’s Nazi-brigade, these Hindu extremists have gone so far as to murder people by lynching them for the crime of eating...
August 13, 2019

India’s road to fascism

Hong Kong warned of an ‘abyss’
How much longer will Beijing’s patience last with riotous Hong Kong? What began as a peaceful protest against key legislative change that would have seen suspects deported from the territory for trial on the mainland has grown over the last three months into major confrontations with the police and a general strike that has severely affected the airport and urban transportation.At issue has been the proposal of Hong Kong’s pro-Beijing leader Carrie Lam to revoke one of the key terms of the “one country, two systems” agreement when Britain returned its former colony to Chinese rule in 1997. This deal granted Hong Kong citizens a range of freedoms that are not available on the mainland. This high degree of autonomy except in foreign and defense affairs is due to last for 50 years,...
August 13, 2019

Hong Kong warned of an ‘abyss’

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