Congratulations Tunisia, and the Tunisian people, for having the first female prime minister in the Arab world, Najla Bouden Romdhan. Tunisia have made an exceptional achievement and is making history. Although through ancient and medieval history, we have seen many women who ruled countries and kingdoms in what is now known as the Arab world, starting with Queen Kubaba of Sumer, and several Egyptian Queens ...

Federal elections have started already with early polls, the elections’ day in few days, but should I go or should I stay! That’s the question that I have been asked by some friends and colleagues. Most voters believe that if our nation is still under the contingency measures for fighting the pandemic, then the elections will not be in favour of any party or their candidates. It will not reflect the right c ...

Elections, in a nation, are looked upon as the most prominent component within a democracy. It is the process that represent the real will of people allowing them to choose whom they would grant authority to mange their lives. It is the hypothetical signed contract between the people and the elected government in which a society delegates the elected government to provide all aspects of economic, social, po ...

In only five days, the whole country fell into the hands of the guardians of darkness, a country with hope for a brighter future, where girls and women had a right to education, work, and equality. Everyone could listen to music, watch movies, and read. This is what makes a society able to live in stability, humanity, and equality, if we consider that these conditions are the basic needs for a nation to exi ...

This time the Olympic games has unique conditions, the games that were delayed for a year because of the pandemic, the games that are held without spectators, the games that have strict measures for protection against infections with the Covid, that makes life hard for athletes, their coaches, judges, and the organizing team. At the opening ceremony, Japan has shown the world its spectacular technological c ...

My colleague came to me with a deep look in her eyes, revealing some distress mixed with bewilderment, after a few seconds of staring, she questioned me firmly; So, don’t you believe in Inclusion and Diversity? With a big smile and confident voice, I replied, unquestionably I believe in inclusion, diversity, multiculturalism, acceptance of the other, and freedom of speech on top of all, without fear of bein ...

Why the society, when it drifts from the truth, it tends to hate those who speak it! It is a fact that was thought about by the very renowned English novelist, journalist, and critic, George Orwell. If we try to expose the weaknesses in our society the majority would rush to hide their heads in the sand, others will declare war against those who speak the truth, simply because truth mostly hurts. Ignoring r ...

The nation woke up to horrifying news, the discovery of yet another unmarked mass grave in Saskatchewan that contained over seven hundred and fifty bodies of indigenous children. Such discovery took place just a month after a similar mass grave was discovered in another site in British Colombia, and as some observers stated, these are not the only sites, there could be more. What a shocking and dreadful dis ...

The mornings of this week carried hot air and unexpected high temperatures, mixed with the refreshing odors of the spring, although for the last spring and this one, and until the last week we did not pay enough attention to the beauty of the nature that we expect every spring and after a long cold winter, we were disheartened by all the measures taken to contain and prevent the spread of the Covid 19.  The ...

Why many people from the four corners of the globe strive to find a new home in the new world! Possibly the term the new world is no longer in use, however, it will always be called the New World. Many factors drive people towards this race to cross the oceans, reside in the new world, and take it as home. Most of all are modernity, advancement, and human rights, and the list is long. Over the last two week ...

Looking back in time at the development of political approaches and awareness, we would realize that the principle of Democracy came to existence in the 400’s BC when Plato wrote his book “The Republic”, followed by many philosophers, thinkers, social reformers and patriots, Democracy became a crucial requirement for governing and human rights. Although the Roman Senate existed in 700’s BC, nonetheless it w ...

Many of us hear words, expressions, even facts about events and incidents that we never experienced, and sometimes our reactions are not in line with these incidents and facts. Most of us heard, through movies, about the solitary confinement during a period of imprisonment, specially how it was demonstrated in the prominent movie “Papillion – 1973” and its remake in 2017. Nevertheless, what we hear or see i ...