I Write, therefore, I Exist
Whoever kills a soul…., it is as if he had killed the entire mankind Qurain Whenever I watch the american news coverage of every terrorist attack on American soil, I hear media asking this question: Where are the moderate muslim? why don’t they speak up against Redial muslims who are killing on the name of Islam. I used to Continue Reading
Two days ago, I met a stranger in London underground as I was exploring the city. The conversation started small as I was asking about the underground map. Then, we found ourselves talking about everything from work to traveling to culture. He is from Canada working in UK and I am from Saudi coming here Continue Reading
“Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves.” Part of Naomi Klein’s book “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism” “I was gonna tell him: You can ask the dogs why they want to get married” A Saudi friend telling me his story, as he was asked by Continue Reading
Since I left Portland, I have been struggling to write anything in my blog. I felt the loss of the most important thing in my life, which is the ability to express my feeling. Sometimes, I feel attempting to write is like giving birth to words, painful in the beginning and may require Caesarean surgery. Continue Reading
The French philosopher, Voltaire, has once said that “Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one.” And I have never been so doubtful and confused of who I am as now. Life is somehow like a cycle. We move from one doubt to another, from one confusion, to less or maybe Continue Reading
My beloved, you know how weak I am, you know for certainty how insignificant I am, I can o nothing to help you, I am a lonely woman, I cannot reclaim your rights, I cannot support you, or take your revenge, but I will do everything I can for you… I will cry for you” Continue Reading
Rights aren’t given, they are taken and if you aren’t willing to stand up and make a sacrifice for those rights, then just forget it. Black people would never gotten their rights, if Rose Parks had chosen to give up her seat to the white man in the bus, and let’s imagine the history of Continue Reading
I watched recently the MTV episode “Resist the Power! Saudi Arabia.” The episode represents an inside story of young Saudi: Fatima who fights to change the traditional clothing of Saudi women, Ahmed who fights for women rights, Aziz who wants to date and see his girlfriend with no fear, and finally the music’s group who Continue Reading
I am a human being, a simple human being who wants to live his life to the fullest, achieve his dreams, read more and more, travel around the world, meet new friends, fall in love, get married and build a family. I am a human being with emotions. I feel sad when I see people Continue Reading
Olivier Arvisais is a university researcher at the University of Quebec at Montreal. He is currently doing an academic research on socials issues and labor market in Saudi Arabia. He want to know whether or not Saudis hold some prejudice with respect to certain kinds of jobs and whether most young Saudis prefer to remain unemployed, Continue Reading