WHAT is left of the constitutional institutions if the entire government only exists as a caretaker, while the National Assembly is closed, rather, it does not carry out its constitutional duties due to the skirmishes and vilification that have prevailed for years? Even if the Assembly decides to
WHEN we contemplate the past and present conditions of our Arab world, we see many lessons that the leaders of several countries did not benefit from. They voluntarily went on to ruin their societies by withholding people’s rights from public money or offering them a small piece of a huge national c
IN his book titled “The History of the Caliphs”, the prolific Egyptian writer of the Middle Ages Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti narrates an expressive story about the “kadhis” (judges) and governors during the era of the Abbasid Caliph Abu Ja’far Al-Mansur. The story goes like this: Caliph Al-Mansur wrot
INTEGRITY of His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled is undoubtedly intact. Everyone knows that he does not get butterflies in his stomach when he decides to take reform measures. However, his reluctance in dealing with matters head-on is strange, to the extent that questions are b
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THE situation in several Arab countries was unexpected … and what was expected of these countries has become a dream. This is due to the fact that the ruling elites miscalculated and misread the situation that their countries could reach when they left its affairs on a serendipitous strike.
They did not tackle the challenges faced by the people in a serious manner, or they left matters to be handled by their aides and advisors, or they selected unqualified officials to run the affairs of the country.
For these reasons, development has retreated and retrogressed in various fields. Transparency has become an iron curtain that renders the future more oblique. As for democracy in some Arab countries, it has turned out to be a war and like rivers of blood, as if the COVID-19 pandemic not only affected people, but rather destroyed the systems and institutions of government, and weakened their immunity.