[wpResize] By : Abdullah Sayel A report released by the Riyadh Chamber of Commerce stated that 11,751 vacancies were announced for Saudis, and astonishingly, only 1760 Saudis applied. The Employment and Training Center (run by the Riyadh Chamber of Commerce)

[wpResize] By : John Sfakianakis Sixty-three percent of Saudi universities students are focused on human and social sciences and Islamic studies leaving them ill-equipped for the labor market when they graduate. Higher education and technical and vocational training are still

[wpResize] By : Rajeev Sharma The Indian general elections are long over but the bitterness lingers on and the Indian polity continues to remain a squabbling mix. The Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has stormed into power single-handedly decimating

[wpResize] By : Salahuddin Haider Of late Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has been facing several issues back to back. In the wake of every crisis “experts” start predicting the demise of the democratically elected government. Sharif and his government,

[wpResize] By : Sabria S. Jawhar All too often many Muslims lose their way when passing judgment on individuals stricken by tragedy. And Twitter only seems to exacerbate their eagerness to abandon the teachings of Islam by setting the morality

[wpResize] By : Bjørn Lomborg Despite gains in life expectancy, expanded access to education, and lower rates of poverty and hunger, the world has a long way to go to improve the quality of people’s lives. Almost a billion people

By : Mohammed Fahad Al-Harthi At the annual Global Editors Network Summit in Barcelona this week, I was one of many delegates taken by surprise by the head of the Catalonian government welcoming us to the future state of Catalonia.

By : Abdulateef Al-Mulhim Back in 2013, in one of my articles published in Arab News titled “Republic of Iraq — rich and fractured” I tried to analyze the Iraqi situation. I believe that Iraq is not only rich in

By : Shashi Tharoor The victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party and its leader, Narendra Modi, in India’s general election last month has raised a crucial question about the country’s future. With the BJP sweeping to power on a platform

By : Osama Sharif In retrospect, the Sunni uprising that is gripping northern and eastern Iraq today was bound to take place eventually. Eight years under Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki’s self-serving policies of political exclusion and marginalization have pushed Iraq’s

By : Mahir Ali As Iraq hovers on the brink of a sectarian civil war, raising the prospect of the bloodiest partition since India was divided in 1947, the serially delusional former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has deemed it

By : Muhammad Waqas They are our mothers, daughters and sisters. As the bearer and nurturer of our future generations, we are obligated to protect them from all sources of danger. Yet, South Asia seems to be failing miserably in

By : Dr. Khaled M. Batarfi Talking to a number of our students abroad, I told them that every great achievement in life starts with an obsessive dream. Imagine a person driving his car around with no purpose. You ask

By : Gwynne Dyer WHATEVER else you may say about the “young war criminal” (as British journalist Alan Watkins used to call former prime minister Tony Blair), he certainly fights his corner with great determination. He is condemned to spend

By : Fernando Duarte You are forgiven if you are excited. The 2014 World Cup started with a bang: the first round was the most free-scoring since 1954 and there have been surprisingly spectacular results such as Holland’s demolition of

By : Susan V. Ople MANY non-government organizations here in the Philippines continue to receive urgent requests for assistance from families with relatives working as domestic workers in Saudi Arabia. Queries regarding long hours, underpayment and delay in payment of

By : Linda S. Heard If it walk like a duck and quacks like a duck then it is a duck was one of former US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s favorite sayings in 2003 when Shock and Awe turned the