Saudi Arabia offers condolences to Azerbaijan over plane crash    Interior minister emphasizes enhancing Saudi-Qatari security cooperation    176 teams carry out 1.4 million volunteer hours at Prophet's Mosque in 2024    RCU launches women's football development project    RDIA launches 2025 Research Grants on National Priorities    Damac appoints Portuguese coach Nuno Almeida    GASTAT: Protected land areas grow 7.1% in 2023, making up 18.1% of Kingdom's total land area    Kuwait and Oman secure dramatic wins in Khaleeji Zain 26 Group A action    South Korea becomes 'super-aged' society, new data shows    Trump criticizes Biden for commuting death sentences    Russian ballistic missile attack hits Kryvyi Rih on Christmas Eve    Financial gain: Saudi Arabia's banking transformation is delivering a wealth of benefits, to the Kingdom and beyond    Four given jail terms for Amsterdam violence against football fans    Blake Lively's claims put spotlight on 'hostile' Hollywood tactics    Saudi Awwal Bank inaugurates Prince Faisal bin Mishaal Centre for Native Plant Conservation and Propagation in partnership with Environmental Awareness Society    Five things everyone should know about smoking    Saudi Arabia starts Gulf Cup 26 campaign with a disappointing loss to Bahrain    Gulf Cup: Hervé Renard calls for Saudi players to show pride    Do cigarettes belong in a museum    Marianne Jean-Baptiste on Oscars buzz for playing 'difficult' woman    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 Nawar Fakhry Ezzi
Dying well
In Saudi Arabia, there is an abundance of religious books and lectures about the way we should live our lives in order to save our souls in the Hereafter. However, there is a surprising scarcity of education and awareness regarding end-of-life (...)

25 - 05 - 2017
A man's world
"How are the boys?" is a question that I am asked in Arabic all the time even though I am a proud mother of girls! Arabic like many other languages is a "gendered" language where all nouns are either masculine or feminine, and the grammatical gender (...)

27 - 04 - 2017
Through different lenses
"Insiders" in any community seem to be the best qualified to research and write about their community's history because they have the advantage of better understanding the intricate cultural and linguistic context necessary to validate the accuracy (...)

30 - 03 - 2017
Having faith in humanity
Simple acts of kindness toward others, such as smiling or holding the door open for the person behind you, are most of the time spontaneous and do not require much consideration. However, the more complicated performing the action becomes, the more (...)

02 - 03 - 2017
The ‘Trumps' of the world
The "Trumps" of the world reveal themselves in all of their shapes, colors and sizes speaking in different tongues and raising different faith flags. They live in packs with their own "kind" and believe that anybody who does not look like them, (...)

10 - 11 - 2016
Arabs and philosophy
TO many Muslims, philosophy is an evil that should be avoided as much as possible because of its alleged inherent incompatibility with Islamic teachings. Recently, some Arab writers and scholars have been trying to break this taboo and are (...)

13 - 10 - 2016
Contented yet ambitious
Endings and new beginnings usually provide some people with a sense of closure and a hope for a "fresh start," which could give them the necessary motivation to change and develop. As the Hijri year is coming to an end and we get prepared to (...)

29 - 09 - 2016
Paving our path to empowerment
Two groups of Saudi women have made news headlines this month and they could not have been more different. The first group is the female Olympic team representing Saudi Arabia in Rio de Janeiro taking us a step further in the development of Saudi (...)

18 - 08 - 2016
‘For what sin she was killed'
It seems like the "sin" of bringing "shame" to one's family has become a "legitimate" reason for killing women around the world. The recent murder of Qandeel Baloch, a Pakistani social media celebrity, by her brother made international headlines (...)

04 - 08 - 2016
Hoping for Heaven for the wrong reasons
"O my Lord, if I worship You for fear of Hell, burn me in Hell; and if I worship You for hope of Heaven, exclude me from Heaven. But if I worship You for Your Own sake, do not withhold Your eternal beauty from me." This is a famous prayer and a (...)

21 - 07 - 2016
Count your blessings
After a long day of fasting in Ramadan, breaking our fast at sunset allows us to reflect on our blessed life when we can satisfy our hunger and thirst and sometimes even overindulge realizing that some people live in constant starvation and (...)

23 - 06 - 2016
We are one family
Ramadan is the month of finding and cultivating love, peace and tranquility in ourselves and in our relationship with God as well as with other people. Thus, it was only befitting that we welcomed it in Saudi Arabia with the awareness campaign Ehna (...)

09 - 06 - 2016
Yin and yang: Racism and tolerance
Many of us wish for a compassionate and peaceful world free of racism, discrimination and war. However, this will always remain an unfulfilled wish because such a world will never exist and whether we like it or not, we cannot achieve or even (...)

26 - 05 - 2016
Choosing to be inspired
After seven years of the failed attempts of the non-Muslims to kill Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) or to stop him from calling people for Islam, a social boycott and an economic sanction was imposed on his whole clan for about three years in (...)

12 - 05 - 2016
Changing our attitude toward people with disabilities
One of my first interactions with a person with mental and physical disability occurred several years ago during one of my trips to a play area with my kids. While I was playing peek-a-boo with my eight-month-old daughter, a child in a wheelchair (...)

28 - 04 - 2016
Finding the right key
Looking back in history, we find that scientific and economic development in the West did not happen overnight, but that it was rather a gradual process, which took Europe out of the Dark Ages into the Renaissance and then the Enlightenment paving (...)

10 - 03 - 2016
Do we have a choice?
I was born into a family who happened to be Sunni Muslim Saudis; hence, I grew up by default to be a Sunni Muslim Saudi influenced while growing up by my parents' religious, educational, intellectual, cultural and ethnic backgrounds. As an adult, I (...)

18 - 02 - 2016
Conflicted allegiances
Belonging to a group provides a unique sense of security where individuals give their allegiance to the group they belong to and trust in return that they will be protected by the group they pledged their loyalty to. However, as countries transform (...)

28 - 01 - 2016
Why does Daesh recruit women?
Regardless of how chauvinistic a totalitarian theocracy can be toward women, they cannot live without them because of women's obvious role in reproduction and the domestic support they provide for a family as wives and mothers. Daesh (the (...)

14 - 01 - 2016
‘Witches' are always the first to burn
The Taliban used to be the most prominent example of women's oppression in modern times, but Daesh (the self-proclaimed IS) seems to have surpassed their level of viciousness and exceeded all expectations. Sex slavery has been the highlight of the (...)

31 - 12 - 2015
A nation in an identity crisis
Many researchers have found that our native language connects us to our culture, heritage and sometimes even to our religion, as is the case with Muslims and Jews all over the world who usually teach their children Arabic and Hebrew, respectively, (...)

17 - 12 - 2015
The road to appreciating expats
In 2003, the Saudi Manpower Council mandated that the number of foreign workers and their families in Saudi Arabia should not exceed 20 percent of the total population by 2013. It is almost 2016 and expats still account for about third of Saudi (...)

03 - 12 - 2015
Let us grieve for all victims
Daesh, (the self-proclaimed IS), has been killing innocent people indiscriminately regardless of their religious or ethnic background demonstrating that their only religion is terrorism and inhumanness. Saudi Arabia alone has suffered from eight (...)

19 - 11 - 2015
The true meaning of ‘jihad'
Words are powerful tools that contribute to shaping our beliefs, behavior and way of communication. As Muslims, we believe that a word has the power to get us to Heaven or could lead us straight to Hell, and some of us have created a hell on earth (...)

29 - 10 - 2015
Obscured in news headlines
Negativity in the news was discussed in my previous article along with how it psychologically affects people as well as their perception of the groups the news is about. Muslims, Palestinians and Africans are some of the many groups who seem to have (...)

15 - 10 - 2015
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