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If our rich sharks follow the footsteps of Bill Gates
  Abdullah Al-Jamili Al-Madinah     Through his charity foundation, Bill Gates recently announced a donation of $50 million to combat Ebola. Before that he donated $10 million to finance scientific research aimed at finding a treatment for this fatal epidemic. Whenever I read or hear ...
Fake Haj campaigns
  Abdullah Al-Jamili Al-Madina     A RECENT official announcement warned citizens and expatriates against fake Haj campaigns. This is an annual exercise but it has never stopped pilgrims from falling prey to these bogus companies. The fraud against domestic pilgrims is continuing. Some so-called Haj ...
Why can’t we be a tourist country?
  Abdullah Al-Jamili Al-Madinah     ACCORDING to statistics, more than 200,000 Saudis visited the United States this summer and more than 132,000 visited Dubai during the Eid Al-Fitr holidays. Despite the unstable political and security conditions in Egypt, a total of 29,323 Saudis visited the ...
Investing to enlighten pilgrims
  Abdullah Al-Jamili Al-Madinah     IN a group discussion, we talked the other day about the significance of investing in the Haj and Umrah seasons to enlighten the guests of God about the correct Islamic tenets. We agreed that text messages should be sent ...
A Saudi 911 Rescue Team?
Abdullah Al-Jamili Al-Madinah The other day I was traveling from Madinah to Al-Qassim by car when I saw on the other side of the road a Saudi Red Crescent ambulance driving at a high speed. It might have been on its way ...
Women themselves are responsible for their failure
  Abdullah Al-Jamili Al-Madinah     WOMEN candidates in the recent elections to choose members for the Eastern Province Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s board of directors failed to win even a single seat. There are 15,000 women members in the chamber, representing about half the ...
Sigmund Freud of Saudi Arabia
Abdullah Al-Jamili Al-Madina I do not claim that we are a society of angels for we have shortcomings like any other society, but what I have noticed is that there is a semi-organized campaign to distort the image of our society. There ...
Catch a single corrupt shark
  Abdullah Al-Jamili Al-Madinah     LAST week I made my first visit to the Commission of Saudi Journalists headquarters in Riyadh. The building looked magnificent and impressive from outside but inside it was dreary and deserted. There was nothing that could draw attention inside the ...
Who killed Lama?
Abdullah Al-Jamili Al-Madinah Before anyone opens the door for speculations and misinterpretations, I want to state clearly that I strongly believe in destiny. I also appreciate the efforts of the Civil Defense despite their limited resources. However, the bleeding wound makes us ...
The busing of schoolchildren
  Abdullah Al-Jamili Al-Madinah     A REPORT published by Al-Hayat newspaper recently said the cost of school transport would increase by about 60 percent starting this new academic year. The reason given is the scarcity of drivers caused by the rising cost of recruitment ...
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