While it may be offensive to look for some good in the recent terrorist attacks in Saudi Arabia, specifically the bombing of a security forces building in...
Saudi-American relations appear publicly to be doing well. There are regular contacts between officials from both countries and active cooperation in security...
I was returning to my city, Jeddah, some years ago, when just before landing the voice of an air hostess broke the silence. She politely requested that...
As soon as he arrived in occupied Japan, Douglas MacArthur, leader of the victorious allied forces, put the drafting of a new constitution for the defeated...
A few months ago, I was invited to a conference in Cyprus to discuss Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah’s Arab Peace Initiative, floated at the 2002 Arab League...
Years ago, a friend studying law at an American university told me that a professor asked his students to play the role of lawyers charged by the US...
A meeting in London entitled An Evolving Government and Economy brought together parliamentarians, politicians and businessmen from Great Britain and Saudi...
How dear one’s homeland seems from afar. It’s that place you miss even if you were in the beautiful gardens of Sharm el-Sheikh, or in mighty Europe, whose...
It was thoughtful of British Prime Minister Tony Blair to take time to address the Saudi and Egyptian peoples (through the Saudi daily Al-Watan and Cairo’s...
Strategic decisions of historic import, while inescapable, are almost invariably unpopular. Taking them needs courage as well as responsibility. Prince...
After the fiasco at Sharm el-Sheikh, should we Saudis start looking for another Arab League? Or should we stick with the existing organization and try to...
In the unfolding Iraq crisis, no two countries have more similar geopolitical considerations than Saudi Arabia and Turkey. Their location, as Iraq’s largest...
The news coming out of Brussels and the UN Security Council in New York was music to Arab ears, not only because the Europeans were arguing with the Americans...
My father passed away recently while I was in the US on business. Being far-off made the pain of losing him much deeper. I decided to return home immediately,...
It seems that we forget all too quickly. That is perhaps why many of us have been speaking (on Arab TV) about how difficult the impending war will be, and...
It was meant to be a post-Iraq initiative. While we can safely predict that a storm will break soon over Iraq, we cannot tell when or how it will...
The hour of war is drawing nearer and everyone in the region is fearful of what the evil Ariel Sharon might do, especially since US President George W. Bush...
It is always good to believe that even the darkest of clouds have silver linings. This is especially the case now, with war looming in the Middle East. For it...
Very few Saudi shoppers in Jeddah’s opulent Tahliya Street which has become the Red Sea port city’s most fashionable shopping venue know that a...
War is coming, no doubt about it. The only question is when and how it will end. It will be the fourth major war (including the Kurdish war, which the Arabs...
Is Saudi Arabia really an intolerant country? Such a question might be taken as an affront by Saudi Justice Minister Abdullah bin Mohammed Ibrahim al-Sheikh...
JEDDAH: Saudis will not be going to the polling booths to choose a new ruler anytime soon. Nevertheless, Crown Prince Abdullah’s recent tour of the more...
Trying to prove that the United States uses double standards in dealing with the Arabs and Israel is a waste of time, although comparing how America insists...
It is relatively easy for an Arab writer, safely ensconced in his office in Jeddah or Beirut, to criticize the Chechens for abducting civilians and putting...
A columnist in Jeddah’s Okaz newspaper recently wrote of his happiness to have met “US presidential candidate” Lyndon LaRouche (as LaRouche unfailingly refers...