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In "Opinion / OP-ED"
August 08, 2017
For Iraq: ‘Free Iran’ and we shall all be free!
August 08, 2017
Reducing Middle East to a videogame
August 07, 2017
We lost India!
August 03, 2017
Challenges facing NATO in its fight against Daesh
August 02, 2017
Brazil faces lost generation of young workers after recession
August 02, 2017
Stop the ethnic cleansing in Myanmar
August 02, 2017
A rogue remains loose in the Middle East
IN the passing of Jack Shaheen, the distinguished Arab American author, academic and lifelong crusader for truth, the Arab world has lost a true champion and voice of reason. Born to Lebanese Christian immigrant parents in Pittsburgh, Shaheen dedicated his life to fighting what looked like a lost cause — clearing the cobwebs clouding the image of Arabs and Muslims in the popular Western culture, especially in Hollywood movies, television and the media. Shaheen, who died on July 9 at the age of 81, confronted the dangerous stereotyping of Arabs and Muslims in film and television, depicting them as “billionaires, bombers and belly dancers.” As his research revealed, of about a thousand films with Arab or Muslim characters made between 1896 and 2000, only 12 portrayed them...
August 01, 2017
Jack Shaheen and Hollywood Arabs
EVERY now and then, regulations are issued without justification and interpretation, and it is difficult for us, as commentators and writers, to explain them to the public. One of those is the new residency system, and the raising of fees for residents and their families every year, until 2020. Similar increases were leveled on companies, as well.As a consequence, a high percentage of expatriates have decided either to resign and leave the country, or to send away their families and remain single. Companies already suffering from low liquidity, purchasing power and squeezed market, in addition to other economic pressures, have resorted to deep restructuring and reduction of their workforce — Saudis and non-Saudis.In defense of these regulations, some calculate that the public treasury...
August 01, 2017
Residency regulations revisited!
July 31, 2017
The African secret!
