This is a story that just gets repeated in whispers, but lately in the press. If you want to get promoted or allowed to go into early retirement with full benefits, then steal, or at least accept bribes!! This is what happened in the so-called “questioning” of ministers, and today we wake up to find …
It’s not all doom and gloom in Saudi, rays of hope continue to emanate from the magic kingdom: Haifaa Al-Mansour is thought to be the only woman filmmaker in Saudi Arabia. Her three short films are cult favorites here and have made her a hero among her peers in the Saudi film making community, an …
You’re kidding right? Not so according to the Arab Monetary Fund’s (AMF) latest report: Per Capita Income: 1. Qatar – $30,410 (up from $29,948) – 13.9% growth! 2. United Arab Emirates – $19,755 3. Kuwait – $15,600 (up from $14,595) 4. Bahrain – $11,650 (up from $11,375) 5. Saudi Arabia – $8,800 (up from $8,055) …
Saudi and Qatar don’t like each other much. They almost came to war a few years ago, and the main contention other than disputed borders, is of course Al-Jazeera and the Israeli trade office in Doha on one side, the other is Qatar accusing Saudi of engineering a failed coup in 1996. So its time …
so much so that you would expect to get retirement benefits (arabic), in Bahrain that is. and here is silly me thinking all along that they’ve entered the public life simply to serve the public without any ulterior motives, nor as a road to personal enrichment. Now they want the government to treat their jobs …