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Hassan bin Youssef Yassin
Hassan bin Youssef Yassin worked closely with Saudi petroleum ministers Abdullah Tariki and Ahmed Zaki Yamani from 1959 to 1967. He headed the Saudi Information Office in Washington from 1972 to 1981, and served with the Arab League observer delegation to the UN from 1981 to 1983.
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Painful transition to a new order that does not yet exist
I have said for some time that we have entered an age of confusion and also an age of nihilism, in which everything we were once used to and everything we once took for granted has been transformed.
Cutting waste would help us cut carbon emissions
We are living in a moment of profound global disorder, more and more painfully visible every day. Humans have become a danger to each other, to the planet, and to themselves.
Always pause at the commas — it allows you to reflect
Turtles have been around for 200 million years — a testament to how well adapted to this planet they are. But over the past century of human progress, their numbers have dwindled.
Escaping the cycle of excessive waste paper
The world is going through a tremendously difficult time, with wars, crises and environmental calamities almost everywhere we look.
Even Mother Earth’s fury has failed to awaken us
Mother Earth has been the archetype of generosity and graciousness for as long as our planet has existed. Like every mother, though, there is a point where we push her too far and she loses her patience.
