By : Khaled Almaeena An American journalist commenting on the latest incident in Jerusalem which culminated in the death of several people asked: “When will the cycle of violence in Israel end?” Only an American journalist would ask such a

By : Khaled Almaeena A front-page headline in a local Arabic paper drew the attention of readers to 2,622 cases of financial and administrative corruption, most of them at the ministries of municipal affairs, health and education. According to the

By: Khaled Almaeena A Gulf paper reported the suspension of the Twitter account of a Saudi preacher who urged followers on social media networking websites to celebrate the death by suicide bombing of dozens of protestors in Yemen thought to

By: Khaled Almaeena Recent newspaper reports have focused on the tragic deaths of a father and son who both fell into an uncovered manhole in the Saudi city of Jeddah. The incident has caused great alarm and has opened the

By: Khaled Almaeena Forbes Middle East in its 2014 ranking of the 200 most powerful Arab women has included 27 Saudi women. The impressive lineup included inspirational and accomplished women from family business and government as well as C-level top

By: Khaled Almaeena The social services department in Jazan, Saudi Arabia, is investigating the case of a boy who was reportedly severely beaten by his father. A picture of the boy’s savagely lacerated skull figured prominently in a local paper.

By: Khaled Almaeena Two Kuwaiti lawmakers have called for revoking the passports of any Kuwaiti who harms the country’s reputation abroad amid embarrassing reports about Kuwaiti travelers making a nuisance and a spectacle of themselves in public. In a news

By: Khaled Almaeena A Mexican standoff is taking place in Pakistan. Opposition politician Imran Khan, who recently called off talks with the elected government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, as well as populist cleric Tahir ul-Qadri are parked in front

By: Khaled Almaeena There are reports in the Saudi media about directives issued to mosque imams to pray against the Islamic State (IS), also called “Daish”, and other extremist organizations and portray them as “deviant groups”. More needs to be

By: Khaled Almaeena For those Arabs born in the early 1950s no decade in their history passed off without any major event. The 1956 invasion of Suez by Israel, Britain and France referred to as the tripartite invasion. The June

By: Khaled Almaeena “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it