A Saudi nurse held the hand of a 10-year-old boy and took him aside to whisper in his ear: “Aren’t you the man of the house? Don’t you feel protective of your sister?” The little
Years ago when Labor Minister Ghazi Al-Gosaibi was Saudi health minister, I wrote an article entitled “How’s Your Health?” Later I received a letter from him saying: “I hope the day comes when people
The minute her picture — she was wearing her hijab — was published in one of the local newspapers, she became the subject of gossip and backbiting. When she approached the teachers’ room at the school
Fifty years ago, when Jeddah’s water came from an old desalination unit known as Al-Kindasa, where people used to go for drinking water, no one ever suffered from thirst. I acknowledge that the
Two young girls were buying lingerie from a man in a lingerie shop. He told one of them that the item she had chosen wasn’t suitable for her but would be for her friend because her breast size was
I thank the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) for their serious attempt to evaluate the social status of women in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and their
The Western media are being very unfair when reporting the reality of the cruelty of Israelis against the Palestinians in Gaza. It’s a heart-breaking, painful tragedy. I believe that the Israeli
Ghazi Al-Gosaibi, minister of labor, said recently that there had been a 34 percent increase in the number of visas given by the Ministry of Labor as reported in different local newspapers. However,