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There are a lot of thoughts all around here and there… but the problem is how to take those thoughts and put them to work in real life…

As an example, eventhough there have been plans to make life easier travelling through the King Fahad causeway by using the ID card since more than five years ago,but because of the objections from Saudi Arabia this will only be officially implemented tomorrow 4 – Dec – 07. But why this delay after few years ?

Strategies should focus on building self reliant, self sufficient economies. And what made me smile was when I saw – in another thread – the participation of Aramco’s CEO , where most of the Saudi’s economy revolves around Aramco, any way I did not hear his speech yet but would love to find out what he spoke of.

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Yacoub, sorry mate, will correct it now.

Ash I’m sure there are and if I find one I’ll raise the issue just to illicit a response. Will post if I am successful.

Lee Ann, very true. This was discussed in some of the sessions today, briefly however, but discussed nonetheless. Hopefully one of the bloggers covering the event will post something about it.

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http://ydome.elzeeyed.com

Thanks

Inshalla I’ll be covering some of the educational and environmental discussions and I personally would like to thank you Mahmood for letting us participate in this conference.

Lee Ann: I totally agree with you, it’s very unfortunate that students here have grown accustomed to ‘spoonfeeding’ and even though we now have the internet, many students can’t be bothered to google information.

If people don’t read, they can’t research, and if they can’t research, they can never ever develop and grow

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We should identify which parts work better and enhance them, such as family values, tradition, strong faith etc and . . .

… be prepared to incorperate sucessful parts from other societies such as freedom of speech, freedom of thought and religion, equal rights for both sexes, and government by the people.. . .

.. and ditch those that don’t even if it offends religious interpretation of a few.

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1. arabs must accept that even though it was a nonarab/nonmuslim that said something…it still might have some validity to it and it worth listening to.

2. in order to really educate a population you need to get them to read…read their own literature(arab/muslim writers) and read others literature(non arab/non muslim writers)…then form your own thoughts about those writings…not just rely on someone else to spoon feed you on what you must think and how you must feel or react to it.

A population that reads is a population that is willing to understand, accept, and incorporate others opinions and ideas a little more readily…which leads to global dialogue and personal and regional growth.

After 20 years in Bahrain I find that generally Arabs are not big on reading(not all mind you but I feel the number is quite high just on my own experience among them)…not much of their own stuff and almost nothing of “outsiders”. The amount of literature translated into arabic is minimal and the amount of things translated from arabic is hardly more than that…and usually done by nonarabs.

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