OUR eloquent minister of foreign affairs, Adel Al-Jubeir, has a high place in the hearts of Saudi citizens. He is always sharp, quick and composed. He expresses his ideas very clearly in short words.
Jubeir came to the ministry to be the best (...)
SUDDENLY the moment of reality has appeared. The oil tap that has been providing us contracts, salaries, cars, air tickets and Asian workers has stopped working in an haphazard manner and the prestigious tap has entered into a new phase of (...)
Okaz
The search for the missing people or things is a work of charity for which Almighty Allah will reward Muslims. As you are all charitable people, I beg you to search for six missing things.
It is extremely vital to find these missing entities (...)
Okaz
Some traditional demagogues are trying to picture the campaign to eliminate male guardianship over rational women as a flagrant call for promiscuity of women. They consider it an open invitation for women to revolt against family laws.
Such (...)
IN a move, described only as symbolic, new Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahed has decided to cut the salaries of the ministers in his government by about 30 percent as a prelude to his austerity program in all fields due to his country's (...)
THE Ministry of Labor and Social Development is willing to upgrade the level of companies in the Nitaqat program if they paid a certain amount of money. The Ministry of Education is considering renting some of its buildings to private schools. The (...)
I do not know how the officials in charge of sports in the Kingdom, including Prince Abdullah Bin Masaad, head of the Presidency of Youth Welfare, and the other heads of the sports federations look at the unprecedented and scandalous failure of our (...)
NO doubt that the historic and gigantic development plan under the title " Vision 2030", which Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman announced its approval by the Council of Ministers and whose details were uncovered by Deputy Crown Prince (...)
Fifteen years after the 9/11 attacks, our beloved friends in American suddenly discovered that Saudi Arabia was responsible for the terrorist crime that changed the face of the world.
This astonishing discovery makes us ask a number of innocent (...)
ACCORDING to this very newspaper, the Civil Defense teams in a southern border village have rescued a pregnant woman from the floods which overflowed her home.
The teams took the woman in a forklift and dropped her on the other side of the valley (...)
Okaz
Tribal waves have swept away the results of the recent municipal council elections. It is quite natural for many reasons, most importantly the demographic structure of the constituencies.
In constituencies where the most of the residents were (...)
Okaz
The move to place the colors of the French flag on buildings in Riyadh was successful not only in showing solidarity with the French people, but also in confirming that we are part of this world as cities in the West and East raised the French (...)
WHAT worries me is the sarcasm that greeted the recent statements of the housing minister wherein he said the housing problem is a matter of thinking. It may scare other ministers from dealing with the media out of fear that if they make any (...)
Okaz
If Bahrain prides itself on being the country of a million palm trees and Mauritania brags about its million poets, Saudi Arabia has the right today to boast about being the country of a million videos.
Thanks to the digital and media (...)
Okaz
BEFORE we had a ministry for housing, the low-income citizen had a good chance of obtaining a home. He would take a land offered as a grant by the municipality and then wait in line at the Real Estate Development Fund (REDF) to obtain a loan to (...)
Okaz
We like to talk big in front of TV cameras on condition that what we say should never be translated on the real ground or put into practice. Let it forever remain only talk, no more.
For instance, we love to appear before the world that we (...)
Okaz newspaper
NOTHING is more dangerous than the fatwas that some scholars issue without much thought. Such fatwas can set back a people (Ummah) centuries. Perhaps one of the most infamous fatwas was the one given by the scholars of the Ottoman (...)
Okaz/Saudi Gazette
IT'S over. Our diplomatic spat with our Egyptian friends has been solved. For instigators who were trying to fish in troubled waters, I say go fish somewhere else! Diplomatic relations have been reestablished and everything is (...)
Okaz/Saudi Gazette
THE Ministry of Labor has recently announced new requirements for the Hafiz Program beneficiaries to comply with in order to continue to be eligible for the compensation of SR2,000. This program began paying the monthly (...)
Okaz newspaper
THE relationship between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Egypt doesn't need flowery words simply because there are more than one million Egyptians living in the Kingdom and hundreds of thousands of Saudis residing in Egypt.
This (...)
Okaz newspaper
THE Saudi Credit Bureau (SIMAH) reminds me of movies about invisible creatures, because they are existent and nonexistent at the same time.
SIMAH can be likened to the invisible female jinn that enters the body of a middle class (...)
Habtoor, chairman of Dubai's giant conglomerate Al-Habtoor Group, unveiled plans to replace its Metropolitan Hotel for a new hotel project, Arabian Business reported.
He said that the group mulls including a museum, theatre or mall on the site of (...)