Saudi Earth Hour

Few days to the 27th of March and its Earth hour. The whole country is taking part in this global initiative to spread awareness about the scarse of resources on our planet Earth. No matter how romantic the idea of saving the planet may sound, saving energy for one hour won’t make the Earth problems [...]

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No One to Vaccinate

On the 26th of last October, while talking about H1N1, its vaccination rumors, and how our ministry of health (MoH) was handling the subject, I posted the following concern: ‘Just imaging the situation when the vaccine becomes available and nobody is there to take it!’ You do not have to imagine anymore because it is a fact by [...]

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Pepsi and Coca-Cola in Saudi; Rivals but Friends

It seems that the historical rivals, Pepsi and Coca-Cola, are getting along pretty well in Saudi Arabia. Just after few days of Pepsi increasing their prices by 50% (from 1 SAR to 1.5 SAR – from 0.3 $ to 0.4 $) Coca-Cola followed suit and increased its prices by the same percentage. It does not [...]

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The Pink Glove Dance

At the beginning of the last month I wrote a post called ‘What do you mean no to cancer?’ about a Saudi campaign promoting cancer awareness. My main point was that campaign slogan was lame and not only that; it was a bit offensive. Now, I want you to compare that campaign with the one [...]

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What do you mean ‘No to Cancer’??

It has been three days now since I start noticing some kind of ads on street billboards with few words on them and bunch of logos stating ‘Yes to life … No to cancer.’ Now, I do not know if it is only me … or these few words are bit offensive! It turned out [...]

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