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The cry for help to save Arabic
Al JazirahIN an article titled “The core of Arabic language”, Dr. Ziad Al-Drees gave ideas on how to preserve the Arabic language.He asks what threatens the Arabic language most — foreign languages or the vernacular dialects?Al-Drees put the dialects and foreign languages in the same context as for their relationship with the Arabic language. Perhaps he was talking about the classical Arabic, which used to be the colloquial language at one point of time, meaning it became the standard Arabic that we are proud of now much later.Because the Qur’an was sent down in Arabic, it became the language of Islam and Muslims. However, as many researchers have mentioned and some of us might know, the Qur’an has many words adapted from other languages of the world.The colloquial Arabic...
February 14, 2019

The cry for help to save Arabic

The dangers of social media ads
Al-RiyadhTO what extent does an advertising company bear the responsibility for published promotion material? What if a newspaper or TV channel placed an advertisement that is harmful to the consumer or society in general?Who is responsible for the content of such advertisements, and whom the consumers can refer to?It is impossible for any advertisement platform, whether a newspaper or a TV channel, to authenticate the validity of the content in an advertisement, so the responsibility falls on more than one department.Newspapers, as a platform for publishing advertisements, follow the rules and regulations of the Ministry of Media. Since the advertiser is a businessman, he or she comes under the purview of the Ministry of Commerce. Since the consumer may be exposed to some danger by using...
February 13, 2019

The dangers of social media ads

The wage gap
OkazTHE social pressure increases whenever the topic of high salaries earned by company CEOs, bank managers, heads of public utilities and consultants of government departments is brought to light.Do their salaries match the pay scale in advanced countries? Do our salaries fall within the global average? Before we address these questions, we need to realize that high salaries are a worldwide phenomenon and they keep on increasing.However, what needs further elaboration is the gaping difference between the salaries of executives and ordinary workers.American researcher Sam Pizzigati pointed out that the salary gap between workers and executives in the United States widened five times since the 1980s.In his book “The Case for Maximum Wage,” which was released last May, Pizzigati pointed...
February 12, 2019

The wage gap

Keep the door open for runaway girls to return home
Al-JazirahWhat will be the fate of these girls when they discover that they have been lied to and exploited to turn them against their religion, country and society? Do we close our door before them forever?I SUGGEST that we keep our door wide open before the young Saudi girls who have escaped from the country to return home.These girls were tricked into fleeing their homeland by enemy countries. They found themselves being used as tools to defame Saudi Arabia and Saudi society. I call for opening the door for them to return home the same way we did to young Saudis who had been recruited by extremist groups.I also call for opening the door for the opposition figures to return to the country and reintegrate in society, of course after they attend rehabilitation and education programs to...
February 11, 2019

Keep the door open for runaway girls to return home

Saudi women and weightlifting
OkazTHE number of Saudi girls practicing weightlifting has increased lately, whether at homes or in specialized gyms. This is after many years of fear and superstition in our society that practicing weightlifting will make the girls aggressive.Through personal observation and research, I discerned that those who were against the idea were not objecting to weightlifting alone but to women sports in general.These people were indeed promoting obesity. This is how women in the previous generation were raised, separated from the concept of fitness and health.These women lived under an illusion. Men who once praised them did not hesitate to marry other woman once they lost their fitness and shape and gained weight after giving births. These men had no compunction in searching for the fit and...
February 10, 2019

Saudi women and weightlifting

Will my mother survive your racism?
OkazIn the views of this racist man, my beautiful Bedouin mother must be deprived of her nationality simply because she pronounces certain Arabic words differently from him. He sees anyone who speaks a dialect other than the one spoken in his village as a non-Saudi.WILL my mother survive the racist discrimination against her?My mother is a Bedouin who has never stepped outside of the boundaries of her extended tribe. My mother is an elderly Saudi national, and she pronounces certain letters and words differently like many others who live in the Arab Gulf countries do. Is this enough evidence to raise questions about her roots and the legitimacy of her Saudi citizenship?A while ago, I read on the Twitter account of an old man who questioned the lineage of people who spoke a dialect...
February 07, 2019

Will my mother survive your racism?

Teresa’s coffee and the winter nights of Riyadh
Al-JazirahIT was a cool and wet Saturday morning in the winter of 2030. It was the end of a long and exhausting work week. I took the train across the blue lane from my house to the downtown, which is something I do every weekend.The train station was packed with children, men and women, locals, visitors and passersby. Everyone had own destinations to go. The echo of the departure announcements filled the place. When the train arrived, I hopped on to a car and was barely able to find a place to stand.I held on tightly to the metal bar to keep balance and catch my breath. The train was going so fast and the sound of the breeze outside was like a musical note to my ear. It blended with its echo as the train passed through the tunnel with interludes of silent clips when it crossed another...
February 06, 2019

Teresa’s coffee and the winter nights of Riyadh

Is the Labor Ministry against the interest of Saudi citizens?
Al-MadinaMANY citizens have failed to recruit domestic workers including housemaids and drivers to help their families. So they started hiring domestic workers who live in the country illegally, instead.Each year during the month of Ramadan, the demand for domestic helps increases because of the huge family gatherings, and the variety of food and beverages required to be on the fast-breaking table. This becomes a golden opportunity for the illegal workers who live in the Kingdom in violation of the country’s residency system to raise their wages, which go up more than SR3,000 in the month of Ramadan. This is more than the salary earned by some school teachers.Why do citizens fail at hiring domestic help from abroad? Why do they have to hire the ones that live in the country violating the...
February 05, 2019

Is the Labor Ministry against the interest of Saudi citizens?

Newspapers that never die
Al-MadinaIF you have traveled on London’s Metro, then you might have noticed the colorful newspaper in glossy print and with no less than 50 pages, which is distributed free of charge at all metro stations.Readers are attracted to this newspaper. The first thing a person will notice in this newspaper is its rich and diverse content. This disproves the common belief that the end of the print media is close by.Not many print newspapers suffer these days the way many people tend to claim. There are powerful newspapers that will definitely last for a lot more time to come.The idea is not in distributing the print newspaper for free. Most of the newspapers in Europe and in the UK offer their printed editions to the readers for free anyway. The real attraction is in the newspaper’s powerful...
February 04, 2019

Newspapers that never die

Does university education enrich life or career?
Al-JazirahIt has been argued that some of our university graduates cannot find jobs and hence they start laying the blame on others.Many of them will have to blame themselves for choosing a useless major, which has no future. A second group will blame the university for not providing any guidance to the students before they start their five-year journey in the institution, with the hope of leaving it the next year ready to join the job market.A third group will blame their families and friends for making them enroll in certain majors that have no functional advantage or career future.There are those who stand with the unemployed graduates and blame the related government departments for not setting a clear direction the university students need to take before it is too late.Then comes the...
February 03, 2019

Does university education enrich life or career?

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