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Articles of the author AL HAYAT
Illusions of Empire
Two feminine voices, one British and one American, have been announcing the death of empires. The first is that of Polly Toynbee, a columnist for British newspaper The Guardian. The second is Rosa Brooks, former advisor at the US Department of State (...)

09 - 09 - 2013
Abdul Hakim Bashar: Political decentralization key to Syria stability after Assad.
Abdal Hakim Bashar the head of the Kurdish Syrian National Council (KNC), an umbrella group of 15 of the 17 total Kurdish parties in Syria, is confident of the fall of the Assad regime. A veteran dissident, Bashar came to Washington last week for (...)

22 - 05 - 2012
Abdul Hakim Bashar: Political decentralization key to Syria stability after Assad.
Abdal Hakim Bashar the head of the Kurdish Syrian National Council (KNC), an umbrella group of 15 of the 17 total Kurdish parties in Syria, is confident of the fall of the Assad regime. A veteran dissident, Bashar came to Washington last week for (...)

21 - 05 - 2012
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10 - 11 - 2011
Over 100,000 university degrees need to be verified
The Ministry of Higher Education has hired a top international company to verify 100,000 scientific degrees in engineering, accountancy, economics, medicine and other specializations. This comes after a number of private and public companies (...)

09 - 10 - 2011
Revolution and Wealth – the Banned and the Unlawful
The most widely circulated expressions in Egypt today regard the “remnants of the regime”, “NDP gangs” and “Hosni Mubarak's tails”, especially when discussing a counterrevolution that aims to discredit the January 25 Revolution, downplay its gains (...)

14 - 03 - 2011
Aspiring Hai'a members to sit aptitude tests
RIYADH: The Ministry of Higher Education's National Center for Assessment is set to begin testing aspiring members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (the Hai'a) to ensure they have at least the “minimal required (...)

07 - 03 - 2011
A glimpse of Saudi Arabia
CHURCHILL said that “success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm””, and that, perhaps, is what comes to mind when the anthropologist and specialist in oral history and Nabati poetry in the Arabian Peninsula, (...)

31 - 01 - 2011
The ‘father of invention'
Steve Jobs is routinely voted one of the most influential and powerful people in the world.WHEN the world awoke to the iPod revolution and the innovations that followed such as the iPhone and the iPad, it turned its attention to the creative mind (...)

18 - 01 - 2011
Hai'a completes dialogue training
The King Abdul Aziz Center for National Dialogue has finished its courses to certify as trainers members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (the Hai'a), Al-Hayat Arabic daily reported on Wednesday. The course to (...)

17 - 06 - 2010
Saudis can join int'l schools from next year
The Ministry of Education has given its approval for Saudis to be admitted to Saudi-owned international schools for foreign communities from the beginning of the next academic year. Al-Hayat Arabic daily reported Ibrahim Al-Salim, the chairman of (...)

07 - 06 - 2010
Guido Westerwelle, the German Foreign Minister, tells Al-Hayat Syria has moved forward but more constructive steps are needed
1. You are heading for a new visit to the Middle East. Can you tell us what you hope to achieve from this current visit to Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan and Syria? What are the main issues you are going to discuss with the leaders of these countries? My (...)

20 - 05 - 2010
3-year waiting list for sex correction
Yasser Jamal, head of the Sex Correction Center at King Abdulaziz University Hospital, has said that he has a three-year waiting list for sex correction surgery. Speaking to Al-Hayat last Friday, Jamal added that he had conducted approximately 400 (...)

05 - 04 - 2010
One year's jail for harassing female TV presenter
The Penal Court in Jeddah has sentenced a man to one year in prison and 300 lashes of the whip for “sexually harassing a female Saudi Television presenter at a shopping mall”, Al-Hayat international daily has reported. The plaintiff said that the (...)

24 - 10 - 2009
Arabic press: French liberty
THE French President Nicolas Sarkozy believes “the niqab is not a religious symbol, but a symbol of the debasement of women.” He said: “The burqa is not welcome on the territory of the French Republic, and we cannot accept in our country that women (...)

25 - 06 - 2009
ISLAMABAD, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Pakistan has put an Islamist charity regarded as a front for the Lashkar-e-Taiba group blamed by I
"All provincial governments as well as authorities in the Northern Areas have been ordered to keep the offices of Jamaat-ud-Dawa under monitoring and seal them if needed," Shahidullah Beg, the ministry's spokesman, told Reuters. He declined to say (...)

11 - 12 - 2008
30 shops robbed in one night
Owais markets in Riyadh were robbed Sunday morning. Burglars broke open the doors of the shops and stole electronic items, cash and other valuable items. Some shops' losses ranged between SR8,000 to SR10,000. An Abayas shop sustained SR20,000 loss (...)

02 - 09 - 2008
Female assesses masters thesis of male
For the first time in the history of higher education in Saudi Arabia, a female is taking part in an evaluation of a scientific thesis submitted by a male researcher. It was the norm at Saudi universities to exclude female academics from (...)

20 - 06 - 2008
Elwan: Culture has become prisoner of ‘the job'
MOHAMMAD Elwan, 61, was born in Abha in the southwest of Saudi Arabia. On graduation, he joined the Ministry of Information and worked there until his retirement. He is married, with three daughters and two sons. Elwan has penned three sets of short (...)

16 - 06 - 2008
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