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Khaled Al-Suleiman
The right of travel
OkazI DO not blame the airline company for banning passengers with special needs from boarding aircraft, especially when there are no one traveling with them to provide necessary assistance.The regulations of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) state that the maximum number of passengers with special needs is determined according to the ratio of the number of service hosts on board an aircraft.The passenger with special needs should explain his condition and his need for assistance when he or she makes the reservation and demand the service in advance.In airlines all over the world, the passenger with special needs demands services when making a reservation, in this case passengers on wheelchair.Most of the complaints by passengers with special needs are about the...
April 17, 2019

The right of travel

Fahd bin Jileid
Dear handicapped, you are not allowed on board!
Al-JazirahI FELT shame when I watched the video clip published by Dr. Wajdi Wazzan, undersecretary for the affairs of students with special needs and a member of the faculty of engineering at King Abdulaziz University, in which he apologized for not being able to participate in the higher education conference, which concluded in Riyadh on Saturday.The reason he stated for his absence was that he was not allowed to board the airplane because he was wheelchair-bound and was not accompanied by an assistant.This is unfortunate because it reflected a negative image on our national carrier toward a precious segment of society that is supposed to receive the utmost care from us. They could have at least allowed a member of the airline staff to travel with him. Denying a handicapped person the...
April 16, 2019

Dear handicapped, you are not allowed on board!

Algeria and Sudan: Arab Spring? Again?
History tends to repeat itself, when people do not read it! It is also true that just because a story begins the same way as another, it doesn’t have to end the same.I understand why Arabs feel apprehensive about events in Sudan and Algeria. The resemblance is just too strong to the revolution of 2011 in neighboring Egypt. Likewise, Egyptians revolted against 60 years of military rule since the coup against King Farouk and his civilian, democratic government. They succeeded in firing President Mubarak who represented the army for 25 years, and his cabinet. The Military Transitional Council took over, for two years, and handed the reign to a democratically elected civilian government for a year. Then the army took back the government in 2013, after proving to the public how wrong it was...
April 16, 2019

Algeria and Sudan: Arab Spring? Again?

Ukraine’s comic election
Since embattled Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko is being challenged by a comedian, it was very probably meant to be a joke. His opponent TV comedy star Volodymyr Zelensky failed to turn up for a pre-election debate this weekend, so Poroshenko found himself arguing with an empty podium in front of an audience of thousands in Kiev’s Olympic stadium.Many of those watching are likely to have been highly-amused Zelensky supporters since in the first round of the presidential election, the actor, who has zero political experience, won more than 30 percent of the vote. By contrast Poroshenko garnered just under 16 percent. Both men now face the voters in this weekend’s runoff. All the polls indicate Zelensky is going to win.If they are right, a Zelensky triumph will be the more...
April 16, 2019

Ukraine’s comic election

Artificial intelligence and a disturbing choice!
“Break Free” is the name of a song from the first musical album produced entirely by artificial intelligence. The album was programmed by musicians and technical experts with artificial intelligence being left to do the remainder of the creative task.At the same time, the well-known auction house Sotheby’s has displayed paintings that were painted entirely by artificial intelligence. The Tommy Hilfiger fashion house has used artificial intelligence to design clothes and others in the industry are expected to follow suit. In the field of architectural design, there is a revolution in the use of artificial intelligence that is minimizing the role of humans in the field.Creative fields have been influenced by artificial intelligence, and IBM believes that it will also have an impact on...
April 15, 2019

Artificial intelligence and a disturbing choice!

Assange: The good and bad
Julian Assange, who was hauled out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London after nearly seven years of self-imposed confinement, is now in UK custody, charged by the US Justice Department with conspiring with a former American soldier in around 2010 to hack into a government computer. Assange may also have to face authorities in Sweden as it considers whether to reopen an investigation into rape and sexual assault allegations against him. But the US will have a much harder time of extraditing the founder of Wikileaks and trying him in court on charges of espionage. And therein lies the rub, the question that has always followed Assange: Is he a hero or a villain?The US knows that a charge of espionage will be difficult and so has gone for the lesser but surer charge of hacking. The US seeking...
April 15, 2019

Assange: The good and bad

محمد العصيمي
A verdict without precedents
Al-YaumTHE Criminal Court in Jeddah recently issued an unprecedented ruling that will be recorded in the history of the Saudi judicial system.This court ruling acquitted a Saudi citizen of the charges framed by the prosecution for publishing a video clip that negatively targeted Saudi society. He was also acquitted of defaming a number of officials, including the head of a university.The judgment pointed out that the man had directed his criticism to a certain group in a sarcastic style and he did not generalize society as a whole. The judge considered what the man did as part of his freedom of expression.Here I ask my readers to concentrate on two important things in this piece of news. The first is the logic of our courts in speaking in clear language about a matter that is concerned...
April 15, 2019

A verdict without precedents

Parallel paths
In only this month of April, two sitting Arab presidents have been forced out of office in the wake of popular uprisings. The common denominator of the two back-to-back revolts has been the call by the people of the two countries for a sea change in their governments, the interim takeover by the armies of both countries and the continuation of protests after their presidents left as people demanded to show the ruling elite the door.The departure of Sudan’s Omar Al-Bashir on April 11, after 16 weeks of demonstrations against him, was the second time this month that a leader in the region has been forced out after mass demonstrations. Algeria’s Abdelaziz Bouteflika stepped down on April 2 after six weeks of protests.In both cases, a hitherto hidden disconnect between the people and those...
April 14, 2019

Parallel paths

Emotional blackmail
OkazThis man believes that society owes him because he is poor and he decides to solve his problem through an illegal act. This is emotional blackmail, which is totally unacceptable.SOME people resort to emotional blackmail citing their difficult living conditions. They believe that such suffering is a free card for them to break the law and subject society to their whims and wishes.For example, I will tell you of an incident that I witnessed recently. A man complained to me about injustice he was subjected to by a government department, which seized equipment that was his only source of living.How did that happen? The man was cooking food for distribution at a very dirty place. When authorities discovered this illegal activity that put the health of the public in risk, they seized his...
April 14, 2019

Emotional blackmail

Losing the bug battle
GREED and stupidity are contributing to a potentially disastrous global health crisis. Beginning with penicillin, a family of antibiotic drugs was created capable a combating a wide range of conditions that would once have been deadly to the majority of those infected. But the challenge has always been that bugs gradually build up resistance to antibiotics that were once able to check them. This is an inevitable and natural process. Medical scientists need to deploy different, often more powerful antibiotics. The urgent concern now is that the armory of different drugs, is almost exhausted. There are already bugs, such as Acinetobacter baumannii in Iraq, which cannot be knocked out by any antibiotic. Thus, surviving infection depends on the age and strength of the patient, the quality of...
April 11, 2019

Losing the bug battle

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