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Saudis love their country
Okaz newspaperWhy do we Saudis have to explain our love for our country? Why is it that every time we talk about our love for our country we find those who ask us what our country has done for us? Why do some people seem to go crazy when we talk about our love for our country? Such people are nothing more than a pack of thieves trying to steal our honorable love for our homeland.When we talk about our love we don’t mean to offend anyone. We know best about what we need, our dreams, our desires, our goals and what may be missing. We are also the ones who live with our reality. So what is it that drives some people crazy? Home in the eyes of a truthful philosophy is not a big salary, not skyscrapers and not luxuries but is something dear to the heart like a mother that you spend your whole...
September 26, 2018

Saudis love their country

Companies that always run at a loss
While going through a collection of old newspapers, I found an article by Dr. Abdul Wahid Al-Hamid published by Riyadh newspaper more than 20 years ago, precisely on 2 Jumada Al Thani 1419, corresponding to 22 September 1998. In the article titled “Losing”, he wrote sarcastically: “With joy and delight, a Saudi joint stock company announced this summer that its loss during the first six months of this year was only 6.5 million riyals.”He added: “A result, worthy of admiration, at least from the point of view of the officials of that company... True, they receive their salaries regularly, but their hearts are with the shareholders... The shareholders are people who have not tasted the flavor of profit since the establishment of the company more than 10 years ago. The company has...
September 26, 2018

Companies that always run at a loss

Finding solutions to the domestic labor problem
There are growing concerns about the problems faced by Saudi employers of domestic help and by the domestic workers themselves. Tales of abuse and inhumane treatment from errant employers have resulted in negative publicity. On the other hand, many employers are quick to point out the unethical practices of some of their staff. There have also been enough individual situations publicized in our press to drive the point home that not all is well in the field of domestic help.On the heels of the current domestic labor disagreement between labor agencies here and their counterparts in Indonesia, the Philippines and elsewhere, the issue of having a domestic helper or housemaid has moved beyond the idea of employing one just for the sake of doing so. Today, housemaids are not merely a privilege...
September 26, 2018

Finding solutions to the domestic labor problem

Six telegrams on Saudi National Day
“If you were to send telegrams to whomever you wished on our 88th National Day, what would they be?” I was asked by MBC FM. I was not prepared, so I gave some offhand answers. Later, I thought of more, and here they are:I’d send my first telegram to every Saudi - young and old, male and female, rich and poor, strong and weak. Before we ask what our country has given us, and what more we expect, let’s start by listing what we could have done and what more we can do to make it the greatest.I could list many things. I could have done more, and I should do even more. A family’s legacy is the totality of the accomplishments of each of its members. A society is only as good as those who live in it. A nation is the collective achievements of its people - families, societies and leaders....
September 25, 2018

Six telegrams on Saudi National Day

Saudi Arabia: Ready!
Saudis followed with joy the appointment of three women to key leadership positions in different municipalities in Jeddah.It is a symbolic and important step to correct misconceptions about women.A series of decisions empowered Saudi women: The Shoura Council membership, appointment as deputy minister and on other leadership positions and allowing them to drive cars.Whenever the issue of women driving came, the general refrain was: the society is not yet ready.Political will is the strongest and most effective in these decisions. If we were to “agree” with society, we would have no education for girls, no television, no radio, no foreign scholarship, because all these and other topics were “socially rejected.”But political decision took into account public interest.Today there is a...
September 24, 2018

Saudi Arabia: Ready!

International Literacy Day and motto of literacy campaign
The world recently celebrated International Literacy Day, which falls on Sept. 8. The United Nations has decided that there will be an international day for literacy to remind all countries and institutions around the world of the importance of literacy. As everybody knows, illiteracy means the inability to read and write.The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has exerted great efforts, together with the participation of all countries, especially developing countries, to eradicate illiteracy and worked to make all members of the society to have proficiency in reading and writing.The idea of dedicating this day to literacy had its origin at the 14th session of UNESCO’s General Conference held in 1965, and subsequently the United Nations adopted this...
September 19, 2018

International Literacy Day and motto of literacy campaign

If it isn’t one thing, it’s another
The past ten days were ones I suffered in misery. Maybe the weather or the prolonging of this dreadful summer, but whatever it was it just did not bode well to my being. It started with a niggling head cold and a wet cough. One that you would ordinarily treat with some hot tea and lemon, along with the prescribed bed rest. By the end of the second day, other symptoms started manifesting themselves that perked up my anxiety levels. Was that an irregular heartbeat I felt? Was I sweating abnormally? Was I really dizzy, or simply imagining such spells?One not receptive to doctor visits for routine ailments, I finally gave in to ever mounting visions of dread and made my way to see the doctor. The attending nurse took my temperature and blood pressure. Nothing abnormal, although both slightly...
September 19, 2018

If it isn’t one thing, it’s another

Ethiopian-Eritrean peace agreement — how and why?
I was questioned by curious international media: Why would Saudi Arabia care so much about Africa to sponsor the peace agreement signed in Jeddah on Sunday, between the Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali, under the patronage of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman and in the presence of Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman?What are the benefits, if any, for Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, to engage in conflict resolution that should have been taken up by African nations, African Union or the UN? Are there hidden agendas, political gains or economic interests newly found in the Horn of Africa? Does the matter relate to the Yemeni conflict? Or is it a new political and economic strategy to compete with China and the West in the...
September 18, 2018

Ethiopian-Eritrean peace agreement — how and why?

Fifty years after the Prague Spring!
A few weeks ago, was the 50th anniversary of the Prague Spring, the phase that marked the violent attack of Soviet military forces to suppress all the manifestations of freedom demanded by Czechoslovakia. This incident was considered the most important gap that led to the fall of the entire Soviet Union later because it showed the world that the ideal situation offered by the Soviet Union and its satellites was just the opposite. All this was confirmed by the thunderous fall of the Soviet Union itself in a blink of an eye, like scattering papers in the air.Czechoslovakia enjoyed its freedom in a smooth and civilized manner; whereas the name of "Velvet Revolution" was given to the movement at the time, because of the great peaceful movement of the people at the time, in which not...
September 17, 2018

Fifty years after the Prague Spring!

Reference of the Political Solution in Yemen
On Monday, Aug. 13, a high-level conference on the Reference of the Political Solution in Yemen was held at the headquarters of the General Secretariat of the GCC in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The conference was co-chaired by Dr. Ahmed Bin Daghar, prime mMinister of the Republic of Yemen and Dr. Abdullatif Bin Rashid Al-Zayani, GCC Secretary General. It was attended by ambassadors and representatives of more than 40 countries including the G19 group, the Friends of Yemen, the coalition supporting legitimacy in Yemen, the United Nations, and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).The conference discussed references for the political solution in Yemen comprising the GCC Initiative and its mechanism of implementation, the merits of the peaceful transfer of power, outcomes of the...
September 13, 2018

Reference of the Political Solution in Yemen

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