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Articles of the author Tariq A Al Maeena
Yes, I want to be the second wife!!!
A FEW weeks ago, a column I wrote titled "Should I take another wife" drew a very moving reply which I am submitting below. It offers another perspective into the multi-wives quandary facing some members of society. The writer says: "Mr. Al-Maeena's (...)

07 - 04 - 2020
More than a game of cricket
Last week, a sporting event drew the attention of more than a billion and a half people across the globe. It was not just a sporting event. It was a war in the trenches, fought between two decades-long adversaries, each trying to pummel the other (...)

28 - 06 - 2017
Well done, Pakistan!
SINCE the eighteenth century, and until very recently in the ponderous cycle of history, Great Britain, when the misnomer "great" actually applied, held among its various possessions a very large colony to the East. In due time, a large portion of (...)

21 - 06 - 2017
Time for a rethink
If the Israeli government was harboring the notion that the Arab World was warming up to them and willing to accept them as partners with the existing status quo, then they better go back to their cabinet for a rethink. In spite of what covert (...)

14 - 06 - 2017
Victims of brain freeze
Some people claim that they often experience brain freeze during Ramadan, meaning that they just can't seem to think straight and get things done. Their symptoms can be perhaps explained by the absence of food and water for the major portion of the (...)

07 - 06 - 2017
Time to step up around the house
Trump is gone and Ramadan is here. And along with it come added household chores. Contrary to prevailing opinion, not all Saudis are slaves to the notion that a household remains incomplete without a domestic helper. There are homes that operate (...)

31 - 05 - 2017
The big question is ‘why'?
A HARRIED father rushes out of the house one late evening and sprints down the block to the nearest pharmacy. He barely makes it to the steps of the establishment when he notices the electric shutters from inside the pharmacy coming down. (...)

24 - 05 - 2017
A Ramadan homecoming
This year, the Ramadan season has merged with the holiday seasons in other foreign countries, although not by intention or design but by the parallel twist of the lunar and solar cycles. This integration has created a migratory pattern similar to (...)

17 - 05 - 2017
Ambassadors with the wrong message
With the reinstatement of benefits and bonuses that were recently announced by the government, many Saudi families have now revised their travel intentions and are busy gearing up for the summer holidays. Plans to visit Europe and the Americas are (...)

10 - 05 - 2017
What's in a word?
A carefully selected word dropped at the right time and in the right place can often create an illusion that all is well. It can serve as a soothing drug to over-extended and frayed nerves. I have long charged that the most abused four-letter word (...)

03 - 05 - 2017
Prudent financial judgment must emerge
A few months ago, the government, necessitated by the falling price of oil, began a series of cutbacks in spending. These included shelving some major projects with projected costs in the billions, reviewing financial returns on existing and (...)

26 - 04 - 2017
Vision 2030 and multiple wives
With the announcement of Vision 2030, a new age has dawned on the Saudi social scene. As economic austerity begins to grab hold and restrain us from wild splurges, so does it arrest the inclinations of some Don Juans to take on multiple wives. Until (...)

19 - 04 - 2017
Yearly vacations for expat workers must be mandatory
In a country such as ours where a third of the population is comprised of much-needed guest workers, it is essential that laws are implemented to protect and enhance the rights and well-being of our expatriate workforce. While salaries and other (...)

12 - 04 - 2017
Israel: A cruel, apartheid state
Israel is an apartheid state; make no mistake about that. And it is a tumor in the region. A tumor that had been incessantly bloating as it illegally feeds off Palestinians and their lands through murder, imprisonment and a host of other crimes. (...)

05 - 04 - 2017
From Hankook to Hyundai
Almost every other car you see on the road is a Hyundai and most vehicles in the Kingdom are being run on Hankook tires. These are observations as a motorist who frequently plies the country's roadways. Now what makes these two Korean giants so (...)

29 - 03 - 2017
Revelations of a public servant
In the past few decades our public sector has come under increasing fire from an irate public for failure to deliver on their promises. From the Ministry of Health to Education, from the Housing Ministry to our municipalities, none have been spared (...)

22 - 03 - 2017
Austerity has reined in excesses
THE period of austerity that many Saudis are facing today has helped arrest some of the excesses that had become the norm. One peculiar one that flourished in the oil boom era was the need for men to take on second wives. It had become fashionable (...)

15 - 03 - 2017
Scenes in our malls
The largest commercial city in the Kingdom is possibly well on its way to garner the dubious distinction of having the most shopping malls per inhabitants of any urban city in the world. Perhaps the city planners of Jeddah deem it worthwhile to be (...)

08 - 03 - 2017
A pain in the gut
Many of Jeddah's motorists and their passengers experience a nauseous feeling where it counts the most as they navigate through our city's streets — in their guts and buffeting pain in their behinds. And no matter how sophisticated the suspension (...)

01 - 03 - 2017
Corporate responsibilities to society
I was recently asked why many of the major companies in the Kingdom lacked a sense of corporate social responsibility. I was told that morality and wealth were intertwined. The less money a man has, the more his moral standing, and conversely the (...)

22 - 02 - 2017
Setting a proper path
At a recent forum, the issue of freethinking and independent behavior among our youth came up. Some parents were bemoaning the trend of robot-like behavior in the speech and thought processes of their young, especially as so much of this behavior (...)

15 - 02 - 2017
How not to get around
Recently, the family driver came down with a full-blown bout of chicken pox. At least that's what it seemed like with rashes all over his body. Staying as far away as I could from him, I told him to get to the nearest clinic and see a doctor. As (...)

08 - 02 - 2017
A perverted perception of faith
Islam allows the marriage of a male to multiple wives providing the number does not exceed four at one time. Muslims are often accused of being promiscuous because polygamy is legal in Islam. But there are stringent conditions for considering such a (...)

01 - 02 - 2017
Spread the happiness around
In today's uncertain times, it is refreshing to hear that there are a lot of happy people around. Their individual happiness may stem from personal or social reasons, but hey, they are happy. Who can argue with that? Those feelings were captured in (...)

25 - 01 - 2017
The Brits start the fire and then bail out
On the second of November 1917, a letter from the United Kingdom's Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour was delivered to Walter Rothschild, the 2nd Baron Rothschild and a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist (...)

18 - 01 - 2017
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