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Dark clouds over Jeddah
Mahmoud Ahmad It looks like a cloud is really hanging over the city of Jeddah. For every time it rains chaos reigns in the whole city with excessive water logging in various major nodal points such that the city’s arteries get ...
The fight against Saher
Mahmoud Ahmad Recently, a new department began operating Saher, an Automated System for the management of speed and traffic via e-systems, and they promised that it would work differently, with an emphasis on not hunting for violating drivers in order to ...
‘Japanizing’ our youth
Mahmoud Ahmad MY recent visit to Japan was a real eye-opener, especially while witnessing the work ethics of the people in that country. Till this visit it was all hearsay. I have been hearing a lot about a country where a ...
Dynamics Driving Toyota: Customer is always first
Mahmoud Ahmad Saudi Gazette HIROYUKI FUKUI, managing officer of Toyota Motor Corporation and deputy CEO, Asia, Middle East & North Africa Region, welcoming words to the visiting Toyota Motors group tour was reflective of how the Japanese company viewed the people ...
From Japan with love…
Mahmoud Ahmad ONE of my long-cherished dreams ever since I was a child was to visit Japan. Not because the place was exotic and vast, but because during my generation it embodied a spirit and courage that enabled it to rise ...
Dear expat, get your passport back
Mahmoud Ahmad THE issuance of a new set of rules by the Labor Ministry provides some great steps toward solving many problems between expat workers and Saudi sponsors and companies. These new set of rules are the ones we have all ...
Forced to suffer in silence
Mahmoud Ahmad I received many emails since I published my last article titled "Stranded against their will". Most of the emails and comments had a similar refrain and I’ll just highlight the gist of it. The mails demanded more effort to ...
Stranded against their will
Mahmoud Ahmad I have been receiving messages, intermittently, from frustrated expatriate workers who are working under abusive sponsors, who are holding them back by neither giving them an exit visa nor paying them their wages. These workers just want to get ...
Restraining abusive sponsors
Mahmoud Ahmad The recent announcement by the UAE Labor Minister Saqr Ghobash that the Gulf State is set to introduce labor reforms that will take effect on Jan. 1 is music to my ears. These reforms are aimed at improving ...
What is the point of politicizing Haj
  Mahmoud Ahmad     THE recent and tragic incident following a stampede in Mina during this year’s Haj was really saddening. The incident left more than 700 pilgrims dead and over 900 injured in one of the Mina streets. After many years, since ...
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