When I receieved a phone call last Monday from my Filipino friend who works in Ruwais, a working-class neighborhood near the US Consulate in Jeddah, I thought he was in trouble. “What’s wrong?”
It was a warm sunny late November day, probably the last nice day before winter. I had some work to do and so I decided to go to Lafayette Park, a block from my office, sit on a bench, read and write.
Wednesday's budget was a good-news budget. With a surplus of SR98 billion for 2004 and gross domestic product at SR931.8 billion, the Kingdom finds itself in a fortunate and promising position.
The main problem facing Israel is its demand the world accept its racial discrimination against the Palestinian people, and on the other hand that the Palestinians, like any other people, are not going
WASHINGTON, 10 December 2004 — For a White House administration that likes to make the trains run on time, the Jan. 30 elections scheduled in Iraq are light at the end of a dark and violent tunnel. US
Following its occupation of Iraq, the United States began a campaign of intimidation and threats against Syria openly accusing Damascus of supporting terrorism. The US Congress then passed the Syria
It is more than a little crass of Britian’s Chancellor of Exchequer Gordon Brown, to go on, as he was again doing the other day, about all the wonderful things for world poverty and indebtedness that
