Al-Jazirah
ON May 25, Harvard University conferred a honorary doctorate degree on Mark Zuckerberg, a former student (who did not complete his studies like Bill Gates) and founder of Facebook, which has more than two billion users. People use (...)
SAUDIS top the list of people using Twitter, Facebook and YouTube in the world. There are now other social media networks such as Instagram, Snapchat and WhatsApp. Increased use of social media has brought drastic changes in our conservative society (...)
STATISTICS show that about 900 Saudi girls run away from their homes every year. Although the figure looks meager compared to other countries but it should make us worry, especially when such cases go viral on the social media. Although the issue (...)
THE recent incident involving a 17-year-old Saudi girl who, while in Turkey, uploaded videos documenting alleged abuse she suffered at the hands of family, highlights how social media is being used to bring attention to social taboos such as (...)
NEWSPAPERS have been competing with one another in publishing news of our universities pointing out that they were seeking non-Saudi teaching staff.
According to one report, the number of academic visas issued for foreign teaching staff increased (...)
THE Kingdom's population has been growing at astronomical proportions over the past 12 years. It jumped from 22.6 million in 2004 to 23.3 million in 2005, showing an increase of 3.4 percent. In 2006, the number reached 24.1 million while in 2007, (...)
Years ago I was standing at the cashier at a large New York supermarket. The cashier asked me politely whether I wanted to buy plastic bags to carry the things I have bought.
The cashier's question surprised me because at Saudi supermarkets and (...)