Tariq A. Al-Maeena
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Past articles by Tariq:
India Bleeds But Is Anyone Noticing? – OpEd
What has happened in recent months in India, a previously proclaimed democracy is nothing short of alarming. The unilateral abrogation of treaties with the Kashmiri people and the delegitimizing th… → Read More
India Bleeds But Is Anyone Noticing? – OpEd
What has happened in recent months in India, a previously proclaimed democracy is nothing short of alarming. The unilateral abrogation of treaties with the Kashmiri people and the delegitimizing th… → Read More
India’s Democracy Is At Stake – OpEd
My columns on the recent events in Kashmir have prompted a flurry of letters, some supportive of my views while others vehemently opposed to them and accusing me of being ignorant on the subject as… → Read More
India’s Democracy Is At Stake – OpEd
My columns on the recent events in Kashmir have prompted a flurry of letters, some supportive of my views while others vehemently opposed to them and accusing me of being ignorant on the subject as… → Read More
India’s Road To Fascism – OpEd
What so-called democracy in the world invades a disputed territory that has enjoyed autonomy for decades with tens of thousands of heavily armed troops, arrests local leaders, enforces a complete c… → Read More
India’s Road To Fascism – OpEd
What so-called democracy in the world invades a disputed territory that has enjoyed autonomy for decades with tens of thousands of heavily armed troops, arrests local leaders, enforces a complete c… → Read More
Destruction in the region
Cambridge Dictionary defines holocaust as “a very large amount of destruction, especially by fire or heat, or the killing of very large numbers of people” a situation that is currently in full force against Palestinians in Gaza, which has earned the dubious distinction of being the largest open-air concentration camp today. → Read More
It’s always the customer’s fault
As Ismail continued in his futile attempts to explain his dilemma to the branch manager, the response was that it was out of his hands, the fault being with the head office! The head office, Ismail wondered. ‘And what do I have to do with it. I brought my money here at this branch, and paid you to send it’, ignoring the implication of the manager to go to the head office at a great inconvenience… → Read More
Why Saudis vacation abroad
Salma, a housewife from Taif, had this to say. “During my childhood, I remember my father packing off the whole family to the hilly resorts of Abha and Sawda. Even during the hottest period of the year, we would enjoy the cool morning mist as we camped on the hillside. But go to them today. There’s hardly any area that’s not walled off and restricted to visitors. And in the few places available,… → Read More
Cold-blooded rabbis are not men of the cloth
Rabbi Lior who has gone public with his praise and eulogy for Baruch Goldstein, a New Yorker Jew settler who in 1994 mowed down 29 Arab worshippers while they were offering their prayers at Hebron’s Ibrahimi Mosque. Referring to the terrorist Goldstein as a “great saint”, the rabbi stated that a “thousand non-Jewish lives are not worth a Jew’s fingernail”. → Read More
A missing sense of ethics
There are some who agree that our ethics have taken a collective turn for the worse over the past three decades or so. Be it work, business or social ethics, our general behavior seems to be on a subtle but downward spiral into something most of us are not comfortable with. → Read More
Put an end to the vilification of Islam
As the year 2017 slides into 2018, one thing that is obvious to me is the decline in outrageous fatwas (religious edicts) that used to spring up constantly in times gone by. Going back in history, callous individuals used religion as a tool to promote their brand of morality. To sway the poor and uneducated, they would often appear in the guise of holy men and preachers of knowledge and peddle… → Read More
A Day That Will Live In Infamy – OpEd
On December 8, 1941, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed a joint session of the US Congress, a day after the attack by Japanese warplanes on the US naval fleet at Pearl Harbor. He describe… → Read More
What a waste of words
The recent rains in Jeddah once again exposed the depth of inefficiency that plagues our civil sectors. Following a brief rain, the lack of a proper drainage system caused severe flooding in neighborhoods and led to the reported death of three individuals. → Read More
What follows the rain?
THE last time heavy rain briefly lashed our city, it created enough problems and inconvenience to warrant public complaints being aired on TV and in the press. → Read More
Just Grant Them The Nationality – OpEd
An item in this paper the other day reflected upon some of the hardships and challenges facing expatriates born and raised in this country, but made to feel that they did not belong. An estimated t… → Read More
How they see us
Irrespective of the fact that we became the first country to grant citizenship to a robot, the fact remains that we are not immune to criticism from different quarters for the best of our intentions. → Read More
Just grant them the nationality!
An item in this paper the other day reflected upon some of the hardships and challenges facing expatriates born and raised in this country, but made to feel that they did not belong. → Read More
Observations of an expat
Expatriates have often been maligned unfairly in the press as money-hungry people who just come here to fill their pockets and then flee the country once they have had their pockets filled with no regard or concern for the welfare of their host country or its citizens. → Read More
Not just waiting to die
When we talk demographics in this country, it is the 70 percent plus of the population that is under the age of 30 that attracts attention. They are the sizeable force for which the Kingdom’s various branches of government must cater. But what about the remaining lot? → Read More