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In "Opinion / Voices"
July 28, 2017
Compliance or defiance? A Saudi woman’s point of view
July 21, 2017
Your inner paradise
July 21, 2017
Expats add diversity to the Saudi economy
July 21, 2017
Media as ‘soft power’
One cold, dark night, I went to bed while I wasn’t sleepy. I lay there bored, doing nothing. I started to wonder what I could do. For more than an hour, I roamed around my room and walked on my bed. Finally, a weird idea struck me. I thought about inventing a super gadget, and I believed that I was smart enough to make it. I could visualize the whole thing that I wanted to invent, and it looked perfect and amazing in my imagination. It was an awesome machine that could change your pillow into an electrical one able to memorize all of your dreams, and then when you wake up, you could plug its HDMI into your laptop and watch all your dreams. I was completely overtaken by this idea, and I was anxiously looking forward to making such a machine.I checked the time, and it was very late, 2:00...
July 14, 2017
The incredible machine
July 07, 2017
A few thoughts on dieting
June 16, 2017
Beef ban is not a Muslim issue at all
April 24, 2017
Delay increasing electricity prices
April 22, 2017
Why some Saudi women prefer to remain unmarried
IN earlier days, say 50 or 60 years ago, in Saudi Arabia, Asia and many countries of the world, people in their old age would be looked after by their children and their family in their own homes. In Asia, generally speaking, elderly people were regarded as wise and would wield power over other members of the family, especially the newly wedded wives.
It was part of the culture that older people would do less physical work, in an age when life was labor intensive, and would command more power and respect from the junior members of the family. The elderly would make important decisions and would be consulted on many issues and in return they would bless all the members of the family and would guide them with their wisdom and experience.
After the 1950s and especially the 1960s, incomes...
April 21, 2017
Relations between parents and their children
