by Turki Al-Hamad | Mar 21, 2007 | Opinion
After the events of September 11, and after the immediate and sweeping wave of world sympathy with the United States had receded, a question began to crop up in the minds of many, both inside and outside the United States: why does the world hate the United States?...
by Turki Al-Hamad | Feb 21, 2007 | Opinion
For some people, the concept of ‘liberalism’ connotes moral decay and degeneration, an anti-religious attitude and little else. For those who share this perspective, liberalism makes everything permissible and valid leaving no place for religion or morals in a liberal...
by Turki Al-Hamad | Feb 14, 2007 | Opinion
At a time when the Palestinian cause was merely a political card that several parties sought to manipulate for the sake of urgent as well as transitory interests, the Palestinian cause for Saudi Arabia was a fateful issue that was not to be manipulated today and...
by Turki Al-Hamad | Feb 6, 2007 | Opinion
Democracy today has become the system of choice for ‘most’ of the world – both eastern and western countries alike – so that one may say we live in the age of democracy. Democracy is no longer, as many would believe; one of the choices, as was the case until very...
by Turki Al-Hamad | Jan 24, 2007 | Opinion
The fatal mistake the current US administration made in its 2003 invasion of Iraq was emptying the country of all its political institutions without an alternative ready to fill the ensuing vacuum, and that it sought to rebuild the country on a basis of immature...
