The coronavirus (MERS) crisis and the scare it is giving to society should be viewed as a test case. We have been hearing about this virus for almost two years and every report on MERS has been followed by reports from the Ministry of Healths Public Relations Department that all is well and that everything…
A news item that appeared in Al-Hayat daily caught my attention. It stated that the National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) has signed an agreement with several recruitment committees in the Kingdom to follow up on the cases of housemaids who have been deprived of the right to contact their families or receive their salaries.…
On a recent trip from Jeddah to Dubai, I was sitting next to a German gentleman on the airplane. After initial pleasantries, he said it had been his first trip to the Kingdom and his family were very distraught. He had to promise his wife to phone her every four hours to tell her he…
Today I take a step forward from the day-to-day running of a newspaper. I have always been a media person, and journalism has always been my passion. Although I’ve had the privilege to be the editor-in-chief of the two Saudi English-language newspapers I’ve always believed that editorial titles do not mean much as in the…