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Ahmed Al Sarraf

The overt and the silent crime
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The overt and the silent crime
When a sensible citizen chooses to move to an apartment no larger than half the size of the villa they previously lived in, despite being able to afford a larger villa, there must...
Ahmed Al Sarraf | 26/11/2025
Security with accountability
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Security with accountability
I searched the list of the world’s ten safest countries according to the Global Peace Index, and Kuwait did not appear among them. Expanding the list to twenty, then thirty countr...
Ahmed Al Sarraf | 25/11/2025
The reason behind America’s shift: Its tremendous wealth
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The reason behind America’s shift: Its tremendous wealth
History has never seen a nation founded on moral principles and ideals as high as those of the United States of America. Despite their flaws, the Founding Fathers embodied the ide...
Ahmed Al Sarraf | 15/11/2025
Moulton cuts ties with AIPAC
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Moulton cuts ties with AIPAC
Senator Stith Moulton announced his decision to return all donations previously received from AIPAC and to decline any future support from the organization. This is perhaps the fi...
Ahmed Al Sarraf | 13/11/2025
Minister of Education, cauterization is the last resort!
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Minister of Education, cauterization is the last resort!
I believe that nations are built by engineers, as in China, and minds are shaped by creative thinkers, as in the United States and other countries. However, the engineer or educat...
Ahmed Al Sarraf | 01/11/2025
Iran ... Hijab and water
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Iran ... Hijab and water
After 46 years of insisting on the obligation for women to wear the hijab, the Islamic Republic of Iran has suspended the order at the request of the President. Wearing the hijab ...
Ahmed Al Sarraf | 30/10/2025
The beautiful lies of ‘One Thousand and One Nights’
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The beautiful lies of ‘One Thousand and One Nights’
I have long believed that “One Thousand and One Nights” has Arabic origins, given the Arab names and cities it contains, and also based on my own limited understanding. This nearl...
Ahmed Al Sarraf | 26/10/2025
Jack Ma and shoe theft
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Jack Ma and shoe theft
In 1999, Chinese billionaire Jack Ma founded Alibaba, a mail-order retail company. Within a few years, it grew to be valued at nearly $130 billion, employing more than 124,000 peo...
Ahmed Al Sarraf | 25/10/2025
Four bitter facts on housing
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Four bitter facts on housing
First fact is that the Public Authority for Housing Welfare (PAHW) will, within a few years, face a backlog of more than 150,000 housing applications. Second, this massive demand ...
Ahmed Al Sarraf | 23/10/2025
Lost everything but her dignity
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Lost everything but her dignity
Lebanese journalist Ricardo Karam wrote, “I visited Amani Bazzi, the woman who lost her husband and three children on September 21 in Bint Jbeil, southern Lebanon, as a result of ...
Ahmed Al Sarraf | 21/10/2025