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Of Nitaqat, expats and labor woes
Khaled Almaeena A news item that appeared in Al-Hayat daily caught my attention. It stated that the National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) has signed an agreement with several recruitment committees in the Kingdom to follow up on the cases of ...
What can we do for our country?
  Khaled Almaeena Editor-in-Chief, Saudi Gazette   Today is Saudi Arabia’s National Day. It is only recently that this event is being publicly celebrated across the land in the form of a nationwide holiday. But what does National Day actually mean to the people ...
Poison pen letters cause immense harm
Khaled Almaeena   English language newspaper editors in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf receive many letters from expatriates who give vent to their feelings and frustrations. These people have no access to the authorities due to language barriers and other difficulties. At ...
Freedom: A universal trait
Khaled Almaeena   I was talking to an American friend of mine who asked me about the Arab and Islamic concept of freedom. The general feeling in the West these days is that freedom of expression and thought are alien to our ...
Summit: Abdullah offers vision and action plan
    Khaled Almaeena The two-day extraordinary Islamic summit concluded early Thursday morning with a call for more unity among Muslim countries and the need to fight divisive tendencies. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, Secretary-General of the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC), urged all member states ...
Saudi women can achieve any goal
Khaled AlMaeena   I read an article in a European magazine the other day about the changing pattern in the attitude of parents toward their first-born. Previous surveys, especially in the developing world, showed that parents preferred to have a boy rather ...
Leading from the front
Khaled AlMaeena   I read an article recently about how over 50 percent of employees in government offices are either late or do not turn up for work and that their productivity leaves much to be desired. I am not surprised, because ...
Stop wasting time! Start being productive
Khaled AlMaeena   A couple of days ago I read on an Arabic website about a new study published in the medical journal The Lancet which quoted data from the World Health Organization. The study found that over 68 percent of Saudi ...
No more SRO excuses!
KHALED ALMAEENA   The derailment of a Dammam–Riyadh train on Wednesday injuring about 52 people once again brought the Saudi Railways Organization (SRO) into the news. Over the years I have read about trains stopping midway, or hitting a camel or a truck. ...
We need a world-class education system
  Khaled Almaeena     A recent report by the Korean Institute for Development highlighted the state of the Saudi economy and its future. It also focused on its strengths and weaknesses. It pointed out that Saudis, looking for job security, prefer to work in ...
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