The following conversation was in Arabic between me and the manager of SACM financial dept. I translated to English to share it with you. Murtadha: Hello Dr Saad Asswailim ( Many of SACM employees are obsessed with being called a doctor, I even call the reception employee doctor too) Mr. Asswailim smiled: Doctor? I am [...]
Entries from February 2010
February 14, 2010
My View of Valentine Day
I honestly don’t believe in Valentine day. I feel it represents love as a product of consumptionism. I think companies found V-day as a very smart idea to manipulate the prices and increase people consumption so the flowers that cost 20 dollar is sold for 99 dollar in V-day! I am not against love celebration [...]
February 9, 2010
Forming Our Own Web of Beliefs
Let’s start our journey of the Observation From Inside with this week’s news. The former Saudi ambassador Turki al-Faisal shook the hands of Danny Ayalon, the Israeli deputy foreign minster. Now the incident itself isn’t important for me as observer because, remember, our goal is to understand and analyze the human behavior, not anything else. So [...]
February 9, 2010
Observation From Inside
If there is a list of societies that can be the best target for psychological’s and sociological research and observation, Saudi society should be in the top five of the them. You have gender segregation and you can easily do a psychological observation about how women are perceived by men and how men are perceived [...]
February 6, 2010
The Story of Buraidah Girl
I have been asked by one of my friends to comment on the marriage of 12 years old girl to 80 years old man in Buraidah of Saudi Arabia. The truth is that I can’t write about this story. I really can’t. The reason is that that the process of writing to me is the process of [...]
February 1, 2010
Kathryn Monet
Kathryn Monet! you may not have heard of this name before, but many Saudi students in Oregon have. She used to work for Saudi Cultural Mission as an academic advisor on Saudi students. We have never seen someone dedicated to her/his work as much as Kathryn does. From the first five minutes you talk with [...]
