At the elegant conference hall where the Jeddah Economic Forum was held earlier this year, I saw him busy receiving guests with a smiling face. He had kept his mishlah (cloak) in his left hand in order
It is a great time to be alive, for we are today in the presence of history. Right under our eyes a dramatic historic process is taking place, transforming Saudi Arabia from an oil-rich country to
Ramadan is the month when TV becomes the major entertainment in every home: The programs, series and films shown then attract a very large audience, more than in any other month. This of course is
THE Turkish bombardment, air attacks and brief troop incursion into Iraq yesterday were madness. The handful of PKK rebels allegedly slain is likely to be out of all proportion to the diplomatic and
It takes a special kind of genius to unite the warring parties of the Israel-Palestine conflict, but George Bush may just have pulled it off. His proposal for what the US administration calls a “meeting”,
