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Tariq A. Al-Maeena
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Mental health should be meticulously diagnosed before treatment
A GROWING number of patients are seeking the help of psychiatrists, and how business was booming for those prescribing the magic pill. There is no question that regional developments and uncertainties have led many to a life of anxiety and ...
Goodbye, my lovely children
THE month of March this year spells the end of long established family arrangements for a lot of expatriates, many of whom are from the Asian continent. It is in this month that the end of school year exams is ...
A mosque should be more than just a prayer hall
THERE’S a mosque being built in every locality or so it seems. In the couple of square miles of neighborhood of where I’m at, I can count three mosques standing and one in the process of construction. And ...
Saudization is no excuse for bad behavior
I had an absorbing dialogue with an expatriate named Abdunnaser who wanted to share with me his perspective on the Kingdom’s fast-moving changes in all aspects. Whether it was about Saudization, the hunt for illegal expats, low oil price, doors ...
The grass is always greener
Some men just want more. And when they do get it, it’s not at all what they had expected. My friend Yaseen is currently facing such a dilemma. One that he himself created over a year ago. You see Yaseen ...
Better to play it safe than be sorry
Have you ever been so mad at somebody that you were overcome with an overwhelming urge to strike back, and strike hard?
Holocaust envelops Palestinians
It has been more than 50 years since the unlawful Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. These are Palestinian lands the Israelis control through repression, institutionalized discrimination, murder and systematic abuse of the Palestinian population’s rights.
A missing sense of ethics
There are some who agree that our ethics have taken a collective turn for the worse over the past three decades or so. Be it work, business or social ethics, our general behavior seems to be on a subtle but ...
A citizen without citizenship
A few days ago, I read of a real-time tragedy when a family was wrenched apart without much feeling for the consequences. A Michigan man of Mexican descent was deported last week from Detroit in the US to Mexico, a ...
Honesty is the best policy
In the past few weeks one topic has dominated the conversation at many social gatherings and that is the arrest and detention of princes, businessmen and government officials who have been rounded up and sequestered, facing charges of corruption, money ...
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