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The irony of social media nowadays is that instead of bringing us together, it seems to be doing quite the opposite. Moreover, the way in which the younger generation, especially, is using it breeds plenty of problems on both the behavioral and psychological levels. At the end of the day, social media is a tool, and tools are neither good nor bad in and of themselves. On the contrary, it is the way that we use these tools which determines whether they result in beneficial or harmful consequences. Unfortunately, in the case of young people’s use of social media, the negative outcomes tend to outweigh the positive.One of the intriguing effects of the use of social media is the new twist on existentialism that this generation seems to have developed. The famous existential question of the...
August 02, 2018

A post on posting

Abdulrahman Saleh Alotaibi
Supporting Saudi businesses to go global
Going global is a strategic goal for businesses to achieve growth and sustainability. It helps in diversifying markets which lowers business risks and provides advantages to economies. Thus, governments worldwide are encouraging businesses to trade internationally. In the case of Saudi Arabia, Vision 2030 clearly puts forth the goal of increasing the share of the Kingdom’s non-oil exports. Saudi Arabian non-oil exports increased in value by 8 percent in 2017 in comparison with 2016. Non-oil exports reached 193 billion riyals in 2017 which represents 23 percent of total exports.Today, national and international regulators as well as business support organizations provide a number initiatives and reforms to enable businesses to fulfill global demand and to create economic surplus. From...
July 19, 2018

Supporting Saudi businesses to go global

Change is inevitable
Thinking back. Pondering life. How it was. How it is. How much you have been through. Who you were. And who you are now. How everything and anything could change in a split second. One thought, one notion, one piece of advice, one motive, and one decision can change a lot. One day you’re this and the other you’re that. One day you’re on top of the world and the other you’re at rock bottom. How much can we take and how much are we actually able to adjust to? How much is a human being really designed to handle? How much capacity do we actually have before we crack, before we go insane and mad? When can we let ourselves just “be” without controlling our emotions and keeping them in? When is it crucial to do so?They say: “To really Live you have to learn to Ignore”, i.e. to...
June 30, 2018

Change is inevitable

Academia and business toward one vision
Scientific research has always been one of the primary and most valuable contributors to the development of science, economics and human life in general. In Saudi Arabia, scientific research plays an important role with regard to the Kingdom’s Vision 2030, which seeks to shape the future of the country and transform it into a knowledge-based economy.In the Kingdom, scientific research relies primarily on government support. Meanwhile, there is an unexploited opportunity and gap between industry and academia. This is not the same as the gap between what a student learns as part of academic study and what work constitutes in reality; instead, this is the gap existing between the needs of academic research and those of industry research.This article aims to draw attention to the challenges...
June 29, 2018

Academia and business toward one vision

A defense of the humanities
The arts are one measure of a nation’s progress and are an indicator of a flourishing cultural scene. Ironically, the study of liberal arts, especially the humanities, is still misrepresented and underrepresented in Saudi Arabia, with the majority echoing a belief that has been ingrained is us for far too long: that the humanities are not practical.Indeed, the field has long been described to me as a path with no future, or else, as a path for the “less talented” people, aka losers. To this day, many people complain about how unfortunate it is to lose brilliant minds to the humanities; little do they know that the humanities actually nurture minds rather than bury them.Despite being the epitome of a society’s (and an individual’s) development, it may still not be clear how fields...
June 29, 2018

A defense of the humanities

Safi H. Jannaty
Indian education system: A sigh of relief
At last the Ministry of Human Resources Development (HRD) of India realized the burden of studies on students and cut the syllabus by half from academic year 2019. The HRD Minister, Prakash Javadekar rightly admitted that the syllabus of some subjects was equivalent to what should be taught in graduate level classes. He said: “At the stage of development of cognitive skills, students need to be given full freedom.” There will be some other changes in the examination system and students will be given one more chance to pass exams before being forced to repeat the year.I always wondered what was making my daughter who is in the ninth grade keep her head in books and notes of social studies subjects for days and days on end. When she showed me the syllabus that was set for final exams, I...
June 22, 2018

Indian education system: A sigh of relief

Saad Algraini
Life challenges from a different perspective
Life challenges can be terrifying. When going through a big life challenge, I usually feel like someone driving his car the wrong way: I expect to crash at any moment. I feel as if there is a force inside trying to make me change direction and go back to my comfort zone.To show how difficult it is for me to overcome this kind of fear, I will tell you a personal story. I joined a public speaking club a few years ago while studying in Australia. The first time I went to a meeting, I found the club to be different than what I had expected. It turned out that we would be learning by practice, and I would have to give many speeches. Therefore, my first assignment was to give an icebreaker speech.On the day of my first speech, I wore my best shirt and came to the meeting on time. To my surprise,...
June 01, 2018

Life challenges from a different perspective

Abdulrahman Saleh Alotaibi
A way to achieve financial independence
During the course of our lives, we explore various methods to make a decent income. Most people undergo the route of employment where they start at a certain pay level and try to make their way through the pay scale. Their wages determine their lifestyle and can contribute to their prosperity. With this conviction, some will exert every possible effort to put their best foot forward to do what they believe is right, that is to work harder.In the process they might lose sight of other important aspects of life and, more sadly, after some time, they might realize that they were in a rat race that got them nowhere and did not achieve their aspirations. Apart from hard work, there are other circumstances beyond the control of individuals that could prevent them from reaching their career...
May 31, 2018

A way to achieve financial independence

Watering down our righteousness
Is the world an objective phenomenon that exists independently of our ideas? According to the philosopher George Berkeley, it isn’t. Though his controversial idea is often ridiculed, it is because it has been widely misinterpreted to mean “no object is real” or “the world does not really exist without us”, whereas his intention was quite different: he was proposing that our ideas are our reality. He illustrated this through a thought experiment that can be argued to have far-reaching implications on our thought process and on how we interact with others around us.Briefly put, the experiment illustrates that if you immerse a cold hand and a warm hand in water of intermediate temperature, the water would feel warm to the cold hand and cold to the warm hand. Does that make the water...
May 25, 2018

Watering down our righteousness

Was the previous generation better at parenting?
It is an obvious and undeniable truth that today the world is changing at a rapid pace. There seems to have been a revolution in everything we do and everything we believe in the past decade or so. Ideas, ideals, morals, ethics and general human behavior and attitude toward everything have rapidly been modified by the changes all around us. Our lifestyle, habits, hobbies and day-to-day activities have all experienced a change.There is no doubt that with everything around us happening so fast, we are left with too little time to accomplish all the tasks that need to be completed. Life is now more demanding than ever. Economic crises, the sky-high prices of just about everything and inflation make jobs or working around the clock for some not a choice, but a necessity. Due to all this, it...
May 18, 2018

Was the previous generation better at parenting?

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