Here is one of my favorite stories. On a faraway island there was a beautiful temple with one thousand silver bells. The wind made them chime sweetly and it was said that whoever heard their peal woul...
DURING one of my visits to Bahrain, I decided to see Labor Minister Abdulnabi Al-Sho’ala as he had been in the news. At the time, I used to edit Malayalam and Urdu dailies. Our correspondent, As...
The nice thing about not being rich is that you really couldn’t care less if the dollar slips, stumbles or does the tango. And if the Wall Street mandarins want to balloon shares and make the st...
Saudi women married to non-Saudis finally got a break when they won the right to sponsor their own children, and that their children are considered Saudis by the government in getting education and wo...
Renting an apartment is a difficult job these days. The rent is high. It is a tiring exercise to get the one that one can afford. And in a span of years, the rent climbs even higher.
You think of mee...
For the first time, Pakistan’s civilian government has successfully completed its five-year term. Nawaz Sharif, a prime ministerial candidate of the widely popular Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N)...