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Fighting in Tripoli
The battle for the Libyan capital Tripoli is currently stalled. Some 300 people have died and more than 1,000 have been injured. According to the World Heath Organization at least 20 of the dead are civilians caught up in crossfire or hit by apparently random shelling.Even one civilian casualty in such fighting is one too many but continued street fighting suggests more innocents will be caught up in the violence. The Libyan National Army (LNA) led by General Khalifa Haftar, which is seeking to wrest Tripoli from the lawless militias that have effectively run it since the Muslim Brotherhood coup in 2014, protests it is doing all it can to minimize civilian casualties.However, such claims from any side in this conflict need to be viewed in context. Training and discipline among the LNA is...
April 25, 2019

Fighting in Tripoli

Abdullah Al-Jamili
Working hours vs. productivity
Al-MadinaIN one of my trips to the US, I met with a number of Arabs who worked for a big American company. During the conversation, I asked them about their work hours. They told me that there were no fixed hours but the whole matter was decided by productivity and achievement.They said their office attendance was not governed by signing in in the morning and signing out in the afternoon but by the quantity of achievement they make during the work hours.They told me that every employee was expected to make at least a minimal achievement according to the nature of his or her job.They said when any employee makes a notable achievement, he or she will be rewarded in cash or kind.Since that day, I have been hoping that the same system would be applied by our government departments wherein the...
April 24, 2019

Working hours vs. productivity

Pakistan’s forgotten ghetto dwellers
Lost among the poor and oppressed of this world, including those in Palestine, Myanmar, Syria and other areas, are more than a quarter million ghetto dwellers in squalid camps in Bangladesh. These are the Biharis, forgotten remnants of the Indo-Pakistan partition and there are very few voices that bring their destitute conditions to the fore.While the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights states every person has a right to nationality, these “stranded Pakistanis” enjoy no such luxury. For the past 47 years, they have been spread across Bangladesh in 66 squalid camps, each no bigger than a football field, with poor sanitation and shortages of running water. Camp conditions are miserable, and large groups of families are often forced to share their living area with...
April 24, 2019

Pakistan’s forgotten ghetto dwellers

A comedian no more
For Ukraine’s president-elect Volodymyr Zelensky the laughter stops now. This popular TV comedian who shot to fame playing a fictional president now has the job for real. Moreover, he won Sunday’s election with an astonishing 73 percent of the popular vote. If he is wise, he probably already realizes that having such a massive proportion of the electorate place their faith in him is no laughing matter.There can be no doubt that what the voters rejected was the payola, corruption and cronyism that has deformed Ukrainian politics since the country left the former Soviet Union in 1991. Zelensky’s win was surely based on the belief that he could reprise his TV role in the series “Servant of the People” where he played an honest president who clamped down on a deeply criminal...
April 24, 2019

A comedian no more

Let us be soft on our children during exams
AL-MADINAABOUT 2.7 million of boys and girls of intermediate and secondary school started their final exams.The schools all over the Kingdom made tremendous preparations for annual exercise. The teachers and administrators were keen to prepare the examination halls to make them comfortable for the students who sit the exams. They were determined not to prevent any student from sitting the exam unless by a decision from the director of the department of education in his or her area.The school administrators made it imperative on the drivers of school buses to bring the students to their schools well in time so that they do not miss the examinations.They also asked the operators of school cafeterias to make sure that the food served to the students was healthy and clean so that none of them...
April 24, 2019

Let us be soft on our children during exams

Exam time: We need to talk!
It is exam time! Students, parents and teachers are back to the battlefield! I am both father and educator, so you can imagine the load! What makes it harder is the fact that we have to deal with a different generation than our own. Our high expectations might not always be realized. Whose fault is it? Ours? Theirs? Is it the flaws in modern society, culture and education? Or could it be more of the same in a different package? We weren’t perfect in the good old days!Abdullah was overwhelmed with apprehension as he approached me after submitting his exam in the lab. “My neighbor was looking over my shoulder, and I expect that he copied my answers,” he whispered.Since I have a well-known policy of failing students whose answers are identical, Abdullah was worried. I told him that I...
April 23, 2019

Exam time: We need to talk!

Sri Lankan security personnel inspect the debris of a car after it explodes when police tried to defuse a bomb near St. Anthony's Shrine in Colombo on Sunday. — AFP
Sri Lankans must unite against terror
The appalling carnage in Sri Lanka has shocked the world. This beautiful island has spent the last 10 years struggling to recover from the decades of unrelenting violence brought about by the Tamil Tiger rebellion. It might have been hoped the country could be enjoying a revival of its important tourist trade. The Sunday blasts that killed some 300 innocents and maimed at least 500 more have shattered those expectations.After an initial silence, during which there were also no gloating terrorist claims of responsibility, the authorities blamed an obscure local Jihadist group, the National Thowheed Jamath. At least a score of suspects have already been arrested. If this gang did indeed perpetrate these foul crimes, then there is evidence to suggest that they were not acting alone. Sri...
April 23, 2019

Sri Lankans must unite against terror

Anmar Mutawei
Dirty restaurants
OkazTHE societal culture of “eating out in the market” has changed drastically from what it used to be about a decade or two ago especially with the middle class people.“Eating out in the market” is a traditional phrase to describe all kinds of food taken outside away from home. This has become a cultural trend for every family whether through asking for delivery or going to the restaurants as part of the weekend outing.The restaurants are crowded with people of all ages on all weekdays. At the weekends you will have to wait in a queue for a long time to find a free table.Compared to this large number of clients, the service in most restaurants is acutely substandard especially when it comes to the quality of food to the point that the food you take may sometimes be...
April 23, 2019

Dirty restaurants

Sudanese people are true heroes!
I am following with great interest and passion what is happening in Sudan. I love that country and I love its people. They are a generous, authentic and hospitable people even in times of difficulty and hardship. This was clearly demonstrated during the events of the Syrian revolution when they hosted Syrians without conditions or restrictions and treated them just like Sudanese citizens.Sudan is a rich and diverse country that has now rejected the Bashir regime, which came to power in a military coup against an elected and democratic government. It was a regime that conducted a political circus show, with rapprochement with Iran against the Gulf states and rapprochement with the coup regime in Qatar and Turkey. During the era of this regime, Sudan lost its south, destroyed Darfur and...
April 22, 2019

Sudanese people are true heroes!

There was no collusion
US Special Counsel Robert Mueller has effectively cleared President Donald Trump and his 2016 campaign of collusion with Russia. While the report states that Russians clearly worked to elect Trump and that the Trump campaign viewed the release of hacked Democratic material by the Russians as beneficial, the investigation “did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities”. Indeed, no American was indicted in the special counsel investigation for collusion, coordination or conspiracy.By and large, then, Americans should be relieved that their president is not some sort of Russian agent. Despite identifying 10 troubling episodes that could be defined as acts of obstruction, Mueller could not...
April 22, 2019

There was no collusion

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