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 (...)
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 (...)
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 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 (...)