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Electrical power outages affect everyone
Okaz newspaperIn the past, having lanterns in the desert was a sign of civilization. In fact, it has been more than 100 years since electricity was introduced in Makkah, but without any electricity commission regulating it. Volunteers set up lights in the Grand Mosque and eventually electricity was connected to every house, street and factory.I have written about the problems involved with electrical power for almost 50 years. In the beginning, one company was responsible for electricity in Taif, Makkah and Jeddah, charging high rates and with the service continuously disrupted. This company did not have any intention to connect electricity to other areas and concentrated on only these three cities.In a speech in Madinah, King Faisal said that if the electricity company did not provide...
November 05, 2018

Electrical power outages affect everyone

Pondering a post-Merkel Europe
One of the world’s most famed political cartoons is John Tenniel’s “Dropping the Pilot.” Published by Punch in 1890, it depicts the dismissal of Otto von Bismarck as chancellor of the German empire by portraying him, in the uniform of a ship’s pilot, descending into a small boat as Kaiser Wilhelm II watches unconcernedly from a liner’s railings. Bismarck was the statesman who established the country as the pre-eminent political and industrial power of 19th-century Europe. Wilhelm, impatient with a cautious policy which had largely preserved peace in a turbulent continent, used his power as emperor to dispense with him.Now Angela Merkel too has been dropped. The 21st-century chancellor said Monday that she would leave her position in 2021 and also would not seek re-election as...
November 04, 2018

Pondering a post-Merkel Europe

The misuse of authority in the workplace
Okaz newspaperThe directive of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman to urgently restructure the general intelligence service has come at the right time. There is a need to update its regulations, to identify its authority, to evaluate the procedures, methods and authority that regulate its work, to ensure the improvement of the workflow and to identify responsibility and form a special committee to ensure that this will take place.This directive aims at many things, most importantly identifying responsibility and authority and the administrative hierarchy.There is, in fact, a need to restructure many departments that are related to citizens’ services, so that we can avoid the abuse of power at many different levels.The misuse of power and authority takes place because the...
November 04, 2018

The misuse of authority in the workplace

Turning Saudi Arabia into an economic powerhouse
THE global economy plays a major role in politics and international relations, as it is the interchange of politics and economics in world affairs. It has been an essential subject of international relations since the 1970s. The influence and strength of Saudi Arabia’s economy in the global marketplace have grown exponentially in the past few decades.Economics is the driving motivation behind the political activities of countries. Saudi Arabia is the only Arab country among the members of the G20. As such, the Kingdom’s role is to efficiently use the great resources of the Middle East. Saudi Arabia seeks to be one of the first countries worldwide to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals by creating development policies and building statistical indicators.Regardless...
November 01, 2018

Turning Saudi Arabia into an economic powerhouse

Nature’s fury brings neighbors together
The national capital region of Canada is no stranger to the vagaries of harsh weather - fierce ice storms and blizzards, mountains of snow hurtling down from the skies, rains that adamantly refuse to desist, freezing rains that turn roads into skating rinks, bitter cold that freezes exposed people to death within minutes and even searing heat that makes people wonder whether they are in Canada or in the Sahara or Gobi deserts.Residents of the national capital embrace these challenges and adapt – skating and skiing in the winter, fishing, sailing, camping and swimming in the summer, relishing the beauty of the changing colors of leaves in autumn and marveling at the majesty of the shifting seasons. In the winter the adventurous build elaborate ice structures on frozen Dow’s Lake, which...
November 01, 2018

Nature’s fury brings neighbors together

Riyadh rescues French hostage, waives $6bn debt. Where is the media recognition?
At the peak of the “hysterical” media campaign against the Kingdom, as described by Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs Adel Al-Jubeir, Saudi Arabia succeeded in getting the French hostage Alain Goma released. Goma was kidnapped by Iranian-backed Houthi militias four months ago, but has now returned to his country a totally free person. However, French and international media have devoted all their time and effort to carrying out one attack after the other against the Kingdom. They have ignored the brave Saudi humanitarian act that ended the suffering of the French hostage and freed him from the clutches of the Houthi gangs.Do the French media know how much that operation cost the Kingdom? Do they know how it was carried out, how long it took, and how many died or were injured while...
October 31, 2018

Riyadh rescues French hostage, waives $6bn debt. Where is the media recognition?

To judge in haste is to err as quickly
A few months ago, an Indonesian housemaid working for a Saudi family in the US accused her female employer of turning her into “a virtual slave”, forcing her to clean, cook and care for their children while she was threatened and assaulted. The woman, it is alleged, was controlled by “a climate of fear and intimidation” that included physical abuse and the belief that she would “suffer serious harm” if she did not perform her tasks. After her rescue by the local authorities, she stated: “Even though I’m a servant, I don’t want to be hit.”Following the newsbreak of the story, a young woman from California sent me her take on the subject. She wrote: “Surely you must see the logic that these two people came from a society where this sort of semi-slavery is the norm, so...
October 31, 2018

To judge in haste is to err as quickly

Honoring our street cleaners
A number of print and electronic newspapers recently published a report about the honoring of street cleaner Muhammad Multazim, a Bangladeshi national, by the Mayor of the Eastern Province Fahd Bin Mohammed Al-Jubeir. The cleaning worker was honored for his noble act of raising the Kingdom’s flag when it fell down during the strong winds accompanied by heavy rain that hit Dammam. The Bangladeshi worker saw the flag touch the ground while he was engaged in carrying out cleaning work on a street in the city. He immediately rushed to raise the flag and put it on his shoulder to show his love for the Kingdom as well as his awe and respect for the flag, which carries the lofty words denoting the Oneness of God: “There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is His Messenger.”When the mayor saw...
October 31, 2018

Honoring our street cleaners

Dream of a new Europe in the Middle East
OkazIn his speech at the Future Investment Initiative (FII) forum held recently in Riyadh, Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman, deputy premier and minister of defense, predicted that the Middle East region would turn into a new Europe. This is in terms of the strength of its economy as well as its development, modernization, production and all other aspects that make it an outstanding competitive force with a global presence.Is there any possibility of this dream coming true? Talk of such a dream comes at a difficult time, which is characterized by a degree of Arab despair over the shortcomings and problems of the Arab world.However, successive generations of Arab citizens know well that the Arab nation is situated in a prime geographical location on the world map and that these states are...
October 31, 2018

Dream of a new Europe in the Middle East

Saudi women: Time to speak up!
Why are most advocates of women’s rights men? And as we enter a new phase of more freedoms and rights, why are most of our women not taking them up or demanding more?I was on a live Panorama FM program, where the issue was women driving. Most callers were men. Some were pointing out how most women have not taken up their right to drive in order to argue that it was not what they wanted. The interviewer and I were reminding women to please call in — we need to hear your voice. None did!After the program, we discussed why so many women were either passive about or against women’s rights. I told my colleagues of a childhood experience.Once my family had pigeons in a large wooden cage. I felt that that was imprisonment. Pigeons were created as birds, so they could fly. They were made...
October 30, 2018

Saudi women: Time to speak up!

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