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Abdu Khal
Sue them for your rights
OkazA news report was circulating on social media recently. Unfortunately, the news items did not get the attention of many people, unlike other reports.The report said a court in Riyadh forced a local airline company to pay SR60,000 in compensation to a citizen and his family because their flight to New York was delayed by 21 hours and their seats were changed on the return flight without their approval.How many events like the one mentioned above happened to people without the airline even apologizing?How many people›s flights were canceled without an apology? How many harassment passengers faced during their flights? There were tens of situations like this.I want to emphasize here that there are administrative courts in this country where the citizens can claim their rights back and...
March 31, 2019

Sue them for your rights

Brexit Bedlam
FOR all the talk of British politicians messing up the United Kingdom’s departure from the European Union, it is now emerging that leaders in Brussels have also been miscalculating. Business Europe, an umbrella body for business groups in all EU countries, is expressing urgent concerns the EU has not made adequate preparations if Britain crashes out of the Union without an agreed deal. Unless UK legislators have a sudden outbreak of sanity and agree to work together, there is no obvious hope of agreement in parliament on the terms on which the British exit (Brexit) should take place. Given that negotiations between London and Brussels have been going on for two years, this is little short of incredible. The problem has partly been that EU negotiators played hardball, seeking to impose...
March 28, 2019

Brexit Bedlam

VOICES MOHAMMED TARJIM
Traditional media: An industry disrupted
CONSUMERS are enjoying an unprecedented era of choice. That means that there is more competition than ever in the age of Digital Relativity where there is endless content across online platforms vying for the limited time and attention of consumers. These limits are now being fortified by consumers who curate the content that reaches them as much as possible while carefully allowing new content to get a glance.Indeed, the “free media covenant” has now been smashed into a corner; where all the other old rules lie waiting for their chance at rebirth or simply to wither away with their diminishing audience.This covenant seems quaint nowadays, but not so long ago consumers accepted the interruption of advertising to their TV viewing or radio listening in exchange for getting content for...
March 28, 2019

Traditional media: An industry disrupted

Abdullah Al-Jamili
We must mobilize to fight terrorism
Al-MadinahAs many as 759 Saudis from all over the Kingdom joined the terror group Daesh. On average, they were 24 years old which means that they grew up after the events of 9/11 and during the military and intellectual war against terrorism. Despite that, they were attracted to extremism and recruited in large numbers.This is the result reached by Prince Dr. Abdullah Bin Khalid Bin Saud Al-Kabir, head of the security study unit at the Prince Faisal Center for Research and Islamic studies. He revealed the results of his studies recently in a lecture organized by the center under the title “Foreign Fighters in Leaked Daesh Documents”.The study points out that these documents reveal that most foreign fighters who joined the terrorist organization had only a basic knowledge of Shariah...
March 28, 2019

We must mobilize to fight terrorism

Tactical voting in Turkish election
IN one important respect, Turkey’s upcoming municipal elections do not matter. Even if the ruling Justice and Development (AKP) Party and its far right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) ally lose badly, as some commentators expect in a free and fair vote, it is unlikely to wobble President Recep Tayyip Erdogan who still has four years of his mandate to run.Since he drove through radical constitutional changes that created a powerful executive presidency, which he then won, Erdogan has been busy centralizing government powers. He will not regard defeat in local polls as in the least bit critical to his increasingly autocratic presidential rule. In parliament, the AK party does not have an outright majority and is having to work in coalition with the MHP. But since legislators have been...
March 28, 2019

Tactical voting in Turkish election

The weeks before Putin’s visit
OkazNEARLY a month before the expected visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to Saudi Arabia, the Middle East does not look at its best. Tehran and its allies, Doha and Ankara, are playing with the region because of the vacuum left behind by the former US President Barak Obama. Despite the efforts by current US President Donald Trump to reposition America in regions that serve its interests to restore the needed balance in terms of strategy and security, the damage done by Obama is heavy and difficult to deal with, especially with the wars the president is facing with the deep state.The symptoms in the Middle East show that Syria has not healed yet. The Russian concern is met by an Arab understanding, with the exception to Qatar and Turkey. Damascus is an important Arab capital and it...
March 28, 2019

The weeks before Putin’s visit

Terrorism has no religion
The way in which New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern dealt with the terrorist attack in which Muslims were killed by a racist Australian national demonstrated an admirable sense of responsibility by a world leader. The mosque shootings killed 50 people and injured a similar number of worshippers, some of them in critical condition, while they were praying in two mosques in the city of Christchurch in New Zealand.After the cowardly terrorist attack, Ardern appeared on television and addressed the New Zealand people, saying that a terrorist act had been perpetrated in their country, which had not been used to such acts. While condemning this terrorist act, her government pledged to protect mosques and change the laws that allowed anyone to carry arms, as a precautionary measure to...
March 27, 2019

Terrorism has no religion

This is how you do it
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand has shown the world how to react to a crisis and galvanize her nation. Following the Christchurch mosque attacks, she took charge and steered her country into taking humane action that has left many other world leaders looking pathetically inadequate.To elaborate on her efforts, Muslims worldwide genuinely appreciated the reaction of the people of New Zealand following Ms. Ardern’s public appeal.If any nation wants to learn how to treat a minority in time of need, please use New Zealand and its prime minister as a case study.‪Fifty Muslims were attacked and killed by an Australian-born terrorist while praying in a mosque. ‬‬‬‬‪How did New Zealand a tiny island of only four million people respond? ‬‬‬‬‪- Entire population...
March 27, 2019

This is how you do it

KHALID AL-SULIMAN
Minister of Health working to improve health services
OkazWhen I saw the name of the Minister of Health on the screen of my phone, I thought the minister was calling me because he wanted to refute what I had said in a recent article about the ministry. In that article, I called upon the ministry to think carefully before implementing the privatization plans for the education and health sectors. I stressed that there was no room for any miscalculated steps or adventures as these two sectors are among the most important and affect the present and future of each and every citizen. However, the minister, Dr. Tawfeeq Al-Rabea, thanked me for the article and even agreed with me that there should be well-calculated and solid plans for privatizing both sectors.I stressed over the phone that the ministry should not take any adventurous steps in this...
March 27, 2019

Minister of Health working to improve health services

Lindsey Graham’s volte-face
Al-JazirahSENATOR Lindsey Graham is an American politician and a senior member of the Republican Party. He has been a member of the US Senate from South Carolina since 2003. He was known for his good relationship with Saudi Arabia.Sen. Graham stood by Saudi Arabia on many occasions, notably in his positive stand about the Kingdom’s efforts restore legitimacy in Yemen. He supported Saudi efforts to curb the Iranian influence in the Middle East. In 2016, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman received at his office a Congressional delegation led by Sen. Graham. During this visit, Graham met with Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman, who was then deputy crown prince.Graham began his campaign against Saudi Arabia in the context of a criminal incident. He tried to politicize the murder of...
March 27, 2019

Lindsey Graham’s volte-face

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