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Articles of the author Khalaf Al Harbi
Economic reform need of the hour
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 (...)

04 - 10 - 2016
Cutting ministers' salaries
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 (...)

14 - 09 - 2016
Place of birth: Forklift
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 (...)

13 - 04 - 2016
Tribal loyalty in elections
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 (...)

21 - 12 - 2015
Why do we raise the flag of France?
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 (...)

21 - 11 - 2015
Why ministers evade media?
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 (...)

18 - 11 - 2015
Saudi Arabia: The country of a million videos
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 (...)

31 - 10 - 2015
A look at fatwas allowing bribery for restoring rights
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 (...)

14 - 05 - 2012
Why ties between Egypt and Saudi Arabia are so important
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 (...)

06 - 05 - 2012
What will happen to Hafiz?
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 (...)

02 - 05 - 2012
Egyptian lawyer must be tried like any criminal
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 (...)

29 - 04 - 2012
Under what authority does SIMAH come?
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 (...)

19 - 04 - 2012
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