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PEOPLE these days have nothing else to discuss but the heavy traffic fines suffocating a large number of them. The dreams have become their only way out of the predicament of paying the fines.
Because the pocket is empty, many people have (...)
Every day, the local market attracts thieves from around the globe who specialize in different activities. Each of them is intent on robbing us of our money and sanity until they get bored.
Imagine if the thieves of the world were to unite against (...)
THERE are circumstances that force people change their values and temperament and drive them to commit violence. I am not trying to justify crimes that take place every now and then, but I am trying to explain the unstable character that drives an (...)
A WOMAN'S face cannot be considered an intimate part of her body. This is what well-known Saudi poet Ahmad Otaif told Asharq Al-Awsat when he was asked about his new book "Covering a Woman's Face." The book primarily focuses on the unanimous opinion (...)
HOW many hours did the recent rain in Jeddah last? Let us say it lasted two hours and this is an exaggerated figure. Let us also calculate the period of rain in other Gulf states as well as Arab, African and European countries.
If we compare the (...)
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We are like a person who had a horrific nightmare and continued his sleep to forget about that frightful dream. This is the right description of our ongoing efforts to fight extremism in our society.
When the Education Ministry recently (...)
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We have been successful in exposing the shortcomings of the Housing Ministry and its failure to realize the government's dream of resolving the housing crisis. If we do the same exercise on other ministries we are likely to develop depression (...)
Majanah and is currently based in Jeddah. He has written a number of novels, including Cities Eating Grass (1998), Immorality, The Mud, Death Passes from Here, Days Don't Hide Anyone, and Barking as well as several collections of short stories. He (...)