Advanced Technology Helps Ensure Safety and Security of Pilgrims

By Rob L. Wagner Muslim World League Magazine July 2021, Vol 49, Issue 7

Dr. Alyenbaawi: Preventive treatment for dementia is the goal

By Rob L. Wagner Muslim World League Magazine June 2021, Vol 49, Issue 6

The True and Tragic Adventures of Dr. Laura E. Forster

By Rob  Leicester Wagner Sabretache (military journal) Volume 58 Issue 4 (Dec 2017) Sydney, Australia As Dr Laura Elizabeth Forster stood on the platform at London’s Victoria Station, she must have pondered with some amusement the fuss from bystanders over the departure of her medical unit’s doctors and nurses for the war front. It was

GCC Countries Embrace Social, Economic Change for Survival

By Rob L. Wagner The Arab Weekly 25 December 2016 Jeddah – When General Motors chief Charles Wil­son was misquoted as saying, “What’s good for General Motors is good for the country” in 1953, there was outrage that he put GM’s interests first and the coun­try’s economic welfare second. Yet many observers attending his con­firmation

Saudi Women Enter Pharmaceutical Retail Industry

By Rob L. Wagner The Arab Weekly 18 December 2016 Jeddah – In a significant move that prom­ises to level the playing field for women in the pharmaceutical industry, Saudi Arabia’s Minis­try of Health has agreed to issue licences for women to work in phar­macies and herbal medicine facili­ties. The decision is a boon for

Marriage Rate Among Saudis Dropping

By Rob L. Wagner The Arab Weekly 27 November 2016 Jeddah – One-quarter of Saudis of marriage age are single, the General Authority for Statistics for 2016 said. The trend in the increase in the number of unmar­ried men and women over the age of 15 has prompted the Saudi gov­ernment to implement policies to

Saudi Women’s Rights Advocate No Stranger to Adversity

By Rob L. Wagner Gulf News 19 November 2016 Jeddah: Earlier this month, Qatar University administrators forced Dr Hatoon Al Fassi, a leading Saudi scholar instrumental in helping women gain the vote in Saudi Arabia, to postpone a Debate Club discussion on women in Islam at the university where she teaches. University students launched an

Saudi Government Employees Face Austerity

By Rob L. Wagner The Arab Weekly 6 November 2016 Jeddah – Saudi government employ­ees have received their first pay cheques since the an­nouncement that salaries would be slashed as part of a fiscal austerity programme. The new salaries, deposited in bank accounts at the end of Octo­ber, provided Saudis — including all ministers and

A Conversation with Saudi Women’s Rights Advocate Aziza al-Yousef

By Rob L. Wagner The Arab Weekly 6 November 2016 Jeddah – When Aziza al-Yousef registered as a student at King Saud University in the Saudi capital Riyadh in the 1980s, she did not need her father’s permission. When her daughter enrolled in the same university in 2001, she was required to have her father’s

Saudi Arabia Looks to Build on Medical Tourism as Austerity Bites

By Rob L. Wagner Gulf News 4 November 2016 Jeddah: When Faisal Banjar founded Arabian Gulf Medical Tourism Agency he secured what he thought was an important contract with the 600-bed Dr Soliman Fakeeh Hospital to bring foreign patients for treatment and capitalise on the $40 billion-a-year (Dh147 billion) medical tourism industry. Eighteen months later