Al-Qasabi: Growing global adoption of digitization transforms trade into more efficient and reliable    89-day long winter season starts officially in Saudi Arabia on Saturday    20,159 illegal residents arrested in a week    Riyadh Season 5 draws record number of over 12 million visitors    GACA report: 928 complaints filed by passengers against airlines in November    Death toll in attack on Christmas market in Magdeburg rises to 5, with more than 200 injured Saudi Arabia had warned Germany about suspect's threatening social media posts, source says    Ukraine launches drone attacks deep into Russia, hitting Kazan in Tatarstan    Cyclone Chido leaves devastation in Mayotte as death toll rises and aid struggles to reach survivors    US halts $10 million bounty on HTS leader as Syria enters new chapter    UN Internet Governance Forum in Riyadh billed the largest ever in terms of attendance    ImpaQ 2024 concludes with a huge turnout    Salmaneyyah: Regaining national urban identity    Fury vs. Usyk: Anticipation builds ahead of Riyadh's boxing showdown    Saudi Arabia to compete in 2025 and 2027 CONCACAF Gold Cup tournaments    Marianne Jean-Baptiste on Oscars buzz for playing 'difficult' woman    Al Shabab announces departure of coach Vítor Pereira    My kids saw my pain on set, says Angelina Jolie    Saudi Arabia defeats Trinidad and Tobago 3-1 in friendly match    Legendary Indian tabla player Zakir Hussain dies at 73    Eminem sets Riyadh ablaze with unforgettable debut at MDLBEAST Soundstorm    Order vs. Morality: Lessons from New York's 1977 Blackout    India puts blockbuster Pakistani film on hold    The Vikings and the Islamic world    Filipino pilgrim's incredible evolution from an enemy of Islam to its staunch advocate    Exotic Taif Roses Simulation Performed at Taif Rose Festival    Asian shares mixed Tuesday    Weather Forecast for Tuesday    Saudi Tourism Authority Participates in Arabian Travel Market Exhibition in Dubai    Minister of Industry Announces 50 Investment Opportunities Worth over SAR 96 Billion in Machinery, Equipment Sector    HRH Crown Prince Offers Condolences to Crown Prince of Kuwait on Death of Sheikh Fawaz Salman Abdullah Al-Ali Al-Malek Al-Sabah    HRH Crown Prince Congratulates Santiago Peña on Winning Presidential Election in Paraguay    SDAIA Launches 1st Phase of 'Elevate Program' to Train 1,000 Women on Data, AI    41 Saudi Citizens and 171 Others from Brotherly and Friendly Countries Arrive in Saudi Arabia from Sudan    Saudi Arabia Hosts 1st Meeting of Arab Authorities Controlling Medicines    General Directorate of Narcotics Control Foils Attempt to Smuggle over 5 Million Amphetamine Pills    NAVI Javelins Crowned as Champions of Women's Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) Competitions    Saudi Karate Team Wins Four Medals in World Youth League Championship    Third Edition of FIFA Forward Program Kicks off in Riyadh    Evacuated from Sudan, 187 Nationals from Several Countries Arrive in Jeddah    SPA Documents Thajjud Prayer at Prophet's Mosque in Madinah    SFDA Recommends to Test Blood Sugar at Home Two or Three Hours after Meals    SFDA Offers Various Recommendations for Safe Food Frying    SFDA Provides Five Tips for Using Home Blood Pressure Monitor    SFDA: Instant Soup Contains Large Amounts of Salt    Mawani: New shipping service to connect Jubail Commercial Port to 11 global ports    Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Delivers Speech to Pilgrims, Citizens, Residents and Muslims around the World    Sheikh Al-Issa in Arafah's Sermon: Allaah Blessed You by Making It Easy for You to Carry out This Obligation. Thus, Ensure Following the Guidance of Your Prophet    Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques addresses citizens and all Muslims on the occasion of the Holy month of Ramadan    

Articles of the author Jihad el Khazen
Ayoon Wa Azan (Friends And Colleagues)
Life is friends, and paradise without people is unbearable. Al-Hayat's ceremony in celebration of the silver or 25th anniversary of its return to publication was thus an occasion to see friends, led by publisher Prince Khaled bin Sultan bin (...)

19 - 11 - 2013
Ayoon wa Azan (An Arab Nuclear Bomb)
It is no secret to anyone that Saudi Arabia possesses long-range missiles. Indeed, American spy satellites spotted Prince Khaled Ben Sultan, along a military delegation, in China, where they were purchasing missiles and the Kingdom purchased many (...)

17 - 11 - 2013
Ayoon Wa Azan (Al-Hayat In Its Anniversary)
Al-Hayat is celebrating these days the 25th anniversary of its return to publication. I hope we will see it one day celebrating its 50th anniversary, and that people after us would go on to celebrate its centenary. Al-Hayat – or The Life in Arabic – (...)

15 - 11 - 2013
Ayoon Wa Azan (Euro-Arab Dialogue)
"Euro-Arab dialogue in the Twenty-First Century: Towards a Common Vision," was the title of a conference held by the Foundation of Abdulaziz Saud Al-Babtain's Prize for Poetic Creativity in Brussels, attended by more than three hundred invitees from (...)

14 - 11 - 2013
Ayoon Wa Azan (Another Kind Of Race)
There is the one hundred meter race in the Olympics, and then longer races in marathons. Then there are horse races and bicycle races like the Tour de France and in many other countries, and swimming races, be they freestyle, chest stroke, back (...)

13 - 11 - 2013
Ayoon Wa Azan (The Hero And The Nazis)
Nazism is not dead. Hitler has sons, daughters, and grandchildren in the government of Israel. I did not need a Swiss medical report to tell me that Yasser Arafat was poisoned with radioactive polonium 210 to know this, having noted in this column, (...)

12 - 11 - 2013
Ayoon Wa Azan (Good Jews And Bad Jews)
I once said to Martin Indyk, as we were going to tape a program on Al-Jazeera in Doha, that I had a theory about the Jews. Perhaps he thought that I was going to say something anti-Semitic, as he asked me, with hesitation, "What is it?" I said, "A (...)

11 - 11 - 2013
Ayoon Wa Azan (Sweet Days in Bahrain)
There is a saying in English that the opera is not finished until the fat lady sings. The sarcastic phrase reflects the size of most opera singers. And so it was that I attended an opera in Bahrain, as the National Theatre celebrated its first (...)

08 - 11 - 2013
Ayoon Wa Azan (Egypt Without The Muslim Brotherhood)
The former Egyptian president found nothing else to say as he was on trial on charges of killing demonstrators other than: I am Dr. Mohamed Morsi. I am the president of the Republic. This would be like me saying (at a madhouse rather than a court): (...)

07 - 11 - 2013
Ayoon Wa Azan (Everyone Is Against Israel)
During a foreign policy panel discussion last month in the House of Commons, the former British foreign secretary, Jack Straw, said that unlimited funding available to the Israel lobby in the United States was being used to control American foreign (...)

05 - 11 - 2013
Ayoon Wa Azan (Don't Kill a Man Trying to Commit Suicide)
What I saw on television with the start of the trial of Mohamed Morsi was that there were dozens of protesters, or maybe a hundred or two, reflecting the decline in the popularity of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, in a way that does not need much (...)

05 - 11 - 2013
Ayoon wa Azan (The Americans are Walking Out)
The policy that America is currently adopting is a policy of disengagement in the Middle East and anyone who thinks otherwise is mistaken. Just as a reminder, the stated politics of George W. Bush in our region consisted of implementing the "freedom (...)

02 - 11 - 2013
Ayoon wa Azan (The Americans are Walking Out)
The policy that America is currently adopting is a policy of disengagement in the Middle East and anyone who thinks otherwise is mistaken. Just as a reminder, the stated politics of George W. Bush in our region consisted of implementing the "freedom (...)

02 - 11 - 2013
Ayoon Wa Azan (An Earth-Shattering Scandal)
The novel 1984 by British writer George Orwell, published in 1949, predicted a scary dystopian future where Britain becomes known as Airstrip 1 and is in a permanent state of war, and the government snoops on people and tries to control their (...)

01 - 11 - 2013
Ayoon Wa Azan (The Muslim Brotherhood And The Gulf)
There is a common mistake in the West that holds that the Muslim Brotherhood was once an ally of the Arabian Gulf states, before relations between the two soured. But the Arab reader knows more about this issue than any "posh" academic, so the (...)

30 - 10 - 2013
Ayoon Wa Azan (Women Have Excelled)
Numbers do not lie, especially if the numbers come from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that all countries around the world defer to. The numbers say that between 2008, the year the U.S. and global financial crisis hit, and 2012, the Saudi (...)

29 - 10 - 2013
Ayoon Wa Azan (Everyone Has Failed The Syrians)
If the Geneva 2 conference were held today on the basis of the results of the talks of the Friends of Syria group in London this week, it would end in abject failure, followed by escalation in military confrontations. This ultimately means one (...)

25 - 10 - 2013
Ayoon Wa Azan (Nasser But Without His Mistakes)
Egypt needs a president who has the charisma of Gamal Abdel Nasser, but without his mistakes. Charisma here is in the sense where a man who lost a war, ceding Jerusalem, the West Bank, Sinai, Gaza, and the Golan, dies and yet five million people (...)

23 - 10 - 2013
Ayoon Wa Azan (The Gulf Will Endure)
"After the Sheikhs: The Coming Collapse of the Gulf Monarchies," is a new book written by Professor Christopher Davidson, who teaches at the University of Durham in the north of England. A few days ago, he wrote an article in The New York Times (...)

22 - 10 - 2013
Ayoon wa Azan (The Worst People on Earth)
Last Monday, on October 14, the International Herald Tribune, the international publication of the New York Times, published its last issue. The newspaper was first issued in Paris in 1887. Its name then changed several times before it became (...)

20 - 10 - 2013
Ayoon Wa Azan (The Defeat Of The American Right)
After a political crisis in the United States that lasted 16 days, the right wing of the Republican Party has been dealt a resounding public defeat. Both houses of Congress have voted to end the U.S. government shutdown by a large margin. Even the (...)

18 - 10 - 2013
Ayoon Wa Azan (Rabbi Ovadia Yosef Has Died)
Rabbi Ovadia Yosef is dead. I say: Good riddance. When he was alive, I did not ask for as much as a flu to befall him, and my objection is limited to that: objection (I refuse to talk to them or shake hands with them). Yosef was the spiritual leader (...)

11 - 10 - 2013
Ayoon Wa Azan (A Reading List For Those Who Don't Read – 2)
I continue today reading on behalf of Arab officials. Yesterday, I chose articles that reflect what Israel wants from Iran, written by pro-Israel commentators who served in or around the U.S. administration. Today, I continue with another set of (...)

10 - 10 - 2013
Ayoon Wa Azan (A Reading List For Those Who Don't Read – 1)
Do Arab decision-makers read? I know some do, so I ask: Are there people who read on behalf of those decision-makers who don't read, because there are more important matters? Over the weekend, I ignored the American Likudnik media and websites such (...)

09 - 10 - 2013
Ayoon Wa Azan (The Business Of Exporting Citizens)
Recorded history tells us that the world is always divided. When we were young, we studied about the Greeks and the Romans, and before that, Athens and Sparta within Ancient Greece itself. We then lived to see the world split between the socialist (...)

08 - 10 - 2013
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