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• How to welcome the holy month | Arab News — Saudi Arabia News, Middle East News, Opinion, Economy and more.

  God says in the Qur’an: “O ye who believe! Fasting is prescribed to you as it was prescribed to those before you, that ye may (learn) self-restraint. “(Fasting) for a fixed number of days; but if any of you is ill, or on a journey, the prescribed number (should be made up) from days later.

• Management Tips to Boost Workplace Productivity

  Managing people is perhaps one of the most challenging jobs created by man. Being an expert in your field has nothing to do with being able to manage or lead, so if you’re reading this article hoping to learn the magical way to motivate your team to be more productive; don’t be surprised when you know that the process starts with you! Here are 3 things you need to do to boost workplace productivity:   1. Improve the way you communicate Don’t be one of those managers who expect people to read their minds before they start running around the place to execute. Make your action plan clear by breaking it down to a few simple phrases and communicating with your staff over and over again until every one of them has completely internalized your goals. Try using various ways to communicate the same thing, for example, have a meeting in which you discuss the action plan in detail then send an email summarizing and repeating. If you are not sure you’ve been heard, follow up with another presentation. Don’t be afraid of being too creative. Be ready to do it all over again when a change in business priorities or the competitive environment calls for it. Provide ongoing updates and clearly spell out the overall goals so that your team knows which items to complete first on their to-do lists. Encourage open, clear, and constant communication so that the company culture is a transparent on

• SOCIAL MEDIA
  Why Terrorists Love Twitter

  “Try to think like a terrorist for a second. Would you like to get—free-of-charge—satellite services? Of course, you would,” says Gabriel Weimann. “Now think about Google Earth.”

• The Syrian War Comes Home to Europe

  em Ipsum ist ein einfacher Demo-Text für die Print- und Schriftindustrie. Lorem Ipsum ist in der Industrie bereits der Standard Demo-Text seit 1500, als ein unbekannter Schriftsteller eine Hand voll Wörter nahm und diese durcheinander warf um ein Musterbuch zu erstellen. Es hat nicht nur 5 Jahrhunderte überlebt, sondern auch in Spruch in die elektronische Schriftbearbeitung geschafft (bemerke, nahezu unverändert). Bekannt wurde es 1960, mit dem erscheinen von "Letraset", welches Passagen von

• Saudi Arabia
  Jeddah gears up for king’s cup in new Sports City | Arab News — Saudi Arabia News, Middle East News, Opinion, Economy and more.

  Jeddah is eagerly awaiting the grand opening of the King Abdullah Sports city on Thursday amid an air of festivity and excitement. The stadium opening will witness the final match between the Al-Ahli and Shabab teams for the Custodian of Two Holy Mosques Cup, a prime football competition between highly popular football clubs in the Kingdom.

• The elephant in the room | Arab News — Saudi Arabia News, Middle East News, Opinion, Economy and more.

  Poor old Tony Blair is condemned to spend the rest of his life trying to justify his decision to help George Bush invade Iraq. He was at it again recently, insisting that the threat of Islamist extremism is the great problem of the 21st Century. Western countries, he said, must put aside their differences with Russia and China in order to “cooperate” in the fight against radical Islam

• Marrying a non-Saudi | Arab News — Saudi Arabia News, Middle East News, Opinion, Economy and more.

  the first case, the Saudi husband gets legal authorization to marry a non-Saudi wife. He gets married, has children, obtains for his wife a Saudi nationality and he lives happily ever afte

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