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Status of foreign women married to Saudis
Al-Madina newspaperTHE Ministry of Labor and Social Development has been enforcing a decision that bans foreign wives of Saudi citizens from being employed in jobs allocated for Saudi women. Many columnists have written about this issue, criticizing the ministry’s policy.The ministry then changed the statement and described such women as Saudis’ wives who have given birth to citizens or mothers of citizens and were given the opportunity to work. After a few months, the ministry returned to its previous stand on citizens’ foreign wives.It also restricted newly Saudized jobs to Saudi women. As a result of this policy change, the happiness of foreign wives of citizens did not last long and pushed them to disappointment.I hope the ministry would excuse me for taking up this issue,...
February 19, 2018

Status of foreign women married to Saudis

Is the Saudi born only to become an employee?
Okaz newspaperI FEEL very sad when I hear statements by our brothers in the Ministry of Labor and Social Development and see the impact of the decisions emanating from their medieval mentality on the simple citizen, who is only dreaming of making a living for himself and his family.The geniuses in the ministry suffer from a chronic psychological condition, can be called «the job syndrome». They believe that Allah has created the Saudi to be an employee living on leftovers from a lowly job that is not enough even to fill an empty stomach or dress up a naked body.Helping the Saudi to become a businessman is a secondary matter in the minds of these geniuses. Some of them may consider it a luxury or a crime.A few months back I wrote an article under the title «The Saudization madness» in...
February 18, 2018

Is the Saudi born only to become an employee?

Saudization needs to be done gradually
Al-Riyadh newspaperSolving unemployment is a high priority strategic goal of this country. Our economy suffers from many problems, including tasattur (the process of non-Saudis running businesses in the names of Saudis), huge numbers of foreign workers and the exaggerated prevalence of retail stores.Dealing with unemployment by introducing a 100 percent policy of Saudization needs to be reconsidered. Saudization needs to be done gradually until it eventually reaches 100 percent.We also do not need to have 40 restaurants in a single street, as is the case across the Kingdom. I have previously written about the importance of limiting retail stores and restaurants to enable a few to be successful.In my opinion, we do not need so many malls, as this results in the need for large numbers of...
February 17, 2018

Saudization needs to be done gradually

We need to be guided by good manners
Okaz newspaperThere is a suitable punishment in law for each crime and misdemeanor that a person commits. However, what about violations that are not considered serious? There are violations that disturb the harmony of society but there is no punishment in law for them.If you were to look closely at the violations that a member of the Shoura Council suggested punishments for, you would find that some of these violations have to do with personal choices, but there are also others that cross the line. This reminds me of the story of a man who stretched his arms while on a bus and accidentally hit the person sitting next to him on the nose. The person got mad and the man said he was free to stretch his arms. The person replied that yes, you are free to stretch all you want as long as you do...
February 17, 2018

We need to be guided by good manners

Don’t train Saudi youth for nonexistent jobs
Al-Jazirah newspaperIn the past, several governmental and private organizations announced training programs for young people that would eventually lead to employment. The announcements were made to motivate young Saudis to apply. However, once the programs ended it became clear that these groups had given these young people false hopes. Most of them did not even give the participants work experience certificates. Is there any authority that is responsible for ensuring that institutions commit to what they announce?There is one such organization that intervened, and that was the Ministry of Labor and Social Development that declared that the bodies that manipulated the hopes of young people in this way would be severely punished. The same goes for false employment adverts that state that...
February 17, 2018

Don’t train Saudi youth for nonexistent jobs

Admit your mistakes and accept the consequences
Al-Madina newspaper“For anyone who has ever arrived late to work, an apology will usually suffice. But for one British lord, it was too late to just say sorry. It took less than 60 seconds for Michael Bates to arrive late, apologize profusely, offer his resignation and then leave the House of Lords,” the Washington Post reported last month.The House of Lords - one of the two Houses of the British Parliament - convened to discuss issues and government accountability on behalf of British citizens. Prime Minister Theresa May was supposed to attend the session to answer questions, but because she was on an official trip to China, the International Development Minister Lord Michael Bates was given the responsibility of attending on behalf of the prime minister and the government to answer...
February 16, 2018

Admit your mistakes and accept the consequences

End the trade in low-quality medical supplies
Al-Jazirah newspaperThe wholesale market for medical supplies continues trading despite the poor quality of the goods that are sold. It has been like this for around 10 years, which is wrong. Those involved in the medical supply sector lack experience and care only about making money. We cannot ignore this fact, as it is an important sector that affects all of us.These traders sell products that are similar to good quality products, and members of the public are unable to distinguish between what is good quality and what is not. In the 1990s, some Arabs would lead you to pharmacies that had been opened by people who had some “knowledge” about medicine because they had been guards at a warehouse where medicines were stored. These people lacked medical expertise and English language...
February 16, 2018

End the trade in low-quality medical supplies

A professor apologizes to his student
Al-Madina newspaperI recently published an article entitled “Taboo” in which I wrote about the behavior of some professors. As a result, one of my readers contacted me to say that his daughter who studies abroad at University College London (UCL), which incidentally is ranked seventh globally, received a letter from her professor apologizing because he was unable to mark her exam paper on time due to some circumstances and promising her that she would receive her results by the beginning of the following week.It is tutors like this who really appreciate science, time and people. They treat their students with the conviction that they are the future. It is this sort of treatment that is lacking in the Kingdom. Many of our professors and teachers treat their students as inferiors, as if...
February 16, 2018

A professor apologizes to his student

How to raise a university's ranking
Makkah newspaperEACH year some specialized centers publish their annual reports on the academic ranking of world universities. One of them is the Shanghai Ranking Consultancy.These centers publish a short list of the most famous universities, which do not need their certification. They then publish the list other universities, which eagerly await the reports of these centers to know their standing.These specialized centers offer their services at to various universities. Many universities in the Third World seek the assistance of these centers and their employees to improve their academic standard and enhance their global ranking.On the other hand, universities that are confident about their academic performance do not approach these centers in Shanghai, Madrid and other places. On the...
February 15, 2018

How to raise a university's ranking

Need to expand home healthcare
Al-Watan newspaperGOVERNMENT and private hospitals vary in size and capacity, cleanliness, quality of services, excellence of their doctors, and efficiency of their nursing staff, technicians and other employees.No matter how different the hospitals are, they will provide the minimum required care, including repeated medical examinations, timely treatment, attention to the patient's personal hygiene and basic needs, thus realizing satisfaction of patients and their relatives.The existence of advanced facilities often provides moral and psychological support to the patient and his/her relatives. But what will happen when the patient leaves the hospital?We agree that hospitals cannot keep most patients until they fully recover, except in rare cases. When adult patients leave ICUs and...
February 14, 2018

Need to expand home healthcare

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