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A chicken crisis on the rise

  • YOU ALMOST can’t follow the media in Saudi Arabia these days without seeing or reading about the unreasonable and sudden escalating price of poultry.Economic observers state that the increase of poultry prices has been on the rise in the local market since last Ramadan. They accuse national...
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A day for our children

  • On NOV. 20, 1959, the United Nations adopted the declaration of children’s rights for the first time. The aim for that declaration was to initiate actions to benefit and promote the welfare of children around the world. Since then, the UN has been encouraging its member countries to adopt this...
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A green day for Saudi liberalism

  • A group of young Saudi activists announced last week that on May 7 would be celebrated every year as the Saudi Liberal Day. They planned activities and events to promote the idea of liberal thinking as a new ideology that could bring modern solutions to the speedily developing Saudi society. If...
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A healthy election

  • I ENJOYED READING an interesting article by a fellow writer in Arab News, Saad Al-Dosari entitled “What do Saudi citizens really fear?” He adequately summarized his view of some of the concerns that regular Saudi citizen’s lives on a daily basis.Being a nation totally dependent on oil, the...
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A Hologram for the King

  • 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 failed to achieve its objectives, and that all which has been said before at the launch of the...
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A more competitive Saudi middle class

  • ON THE LAST World Economic Forum report, Saudi Arabia went down one place down from 17th to 18th in the Global Competitiveness Index. Although it maintained its second place in the region coming after Qatar in position 11, there are many rising concerns that economic competitiveness is not moving...
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A new petition for an old cause

  • To many local and international observers, the issue of women driving in Saudi Arabia seems a trivial and not a pressing matter. Views on the subject may vary from considering the debate as a mere distraction from other pressing issues such as the economy and human rights concerns, to more...
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A pink ribbon for life

  • In 1982, a dying woman named Susan Komen was listening to her sister’s promise that she would do everything in her power to end breast cancer forever. That promise became the leading generator of the biggest global breast cancer movement in history....
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A Tweet calling for harassment to protect women’s chastity

  • A controversial hashtag has triggered a raging war of words on the subject of Saudi women working as cashiers in local supermarkets and major department stores. In Twitter, the hashtag — #harassfemalecashiers — was the focus of criticism of many Saudi intellectuals and concerned...
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Acknowledging the Arabic language

  • During these special days of Haj, millions of Muslims around the world are all praying in one voice as a sign of unity. They are invocating in a language of the Holy Qur’an that has been their means for worship for more than a thousand years. Arabic has always been a major influence in the...
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