Opinion

The ‘culture shock’ many scholarship students face abroad

2013-06-10 00:07
Every time I hear a story of a scholarship student gone astray, the issue of cultural shock just pops to mind. It is a universal reality; anyone who leaves his or her usual environment to a newer and...

A Hologram for the King

2013-06-10 00:09
A vague and unclear image has surrounded one of the biggest economic projects in the 21st century. King Abdullah Economic City has created an impression among many that this tremendous city project fa...

Keeping culture in tourism

2013-06-10 00:08
An interesting thing happens when a country’s tourism industry begins to expand and bring in some real money — the inherent characteristics of that place, whether natural or cultural, are...

Do we say ‘the house is unclean’ or ‘the owners of the house are unclean’?

2013-06-10 00:06
The fact is all garbage that fills our streets, our gardens and accumulates around the garbage bins next to our homes and our business centers is sickening, but it did not show up out of nowhere. We a...

Banking on a loan

2013-06-10 00:06
Every now and then I break down. Into sobs of touching sentiment. Members of my family walk past saying, uh oh, he’s reading one of those bank loan ads again, that’s why he is crying. Tru...

Asian ‘Great Game’ on Africa

2013-06-09 00:08
It looks like history repeating itself, but with different players at a different venue this time. During the empire building of the 1800s, the British-Russian rivalry to control Afghanistan and the r...
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