Mahmoud Ahmad

1 - 10 From 208 result

Creating our own cinema content

I know, during the 80s, when Bollywood, through its exports of its films in videocassettes had a strong presence in the region. We were influenced heavily by Indian movies, which could be viewed along with family in homes, as it ...

Ghazi Al-Gosaibi, the legend

The beauty of the book is its language, which is very simple. This ensures that those who read it grasp it quickly — with the hard facts and reality along with cold logic searing the minds and the sensitivity of ...

Battered women and invasion of privacy

Regardless of the fact whether the case was true or not, there are many questions that need to be answered here. One could ask, why would people resort to Twitter and other social media applications to raise an issue? Are ...

A day to hate Muslims!

Some time ago, a disturbing letter came to my WhatsApp account, sent by someone from the many groups I am in, calling to hurt a Muslim on April 3 in England and that momentarily upset me, but I rolled onto ...

Ignorant authors and criticism

THE Riyadh Book Fair, which took place from March 14-24, is a cultural carnival and a continuation of many other book and cultural activities in the Kingdom and in the region. I have visited many book fairs, in Saudi Arabia ...

Helping a child to smoke!

NEARLY two weeks ago social media was afire with a video clip that left many smoldering at the foolishness of a man’s act. The clip showed a man with a child on his lap, and the man was making the ...

Social media and boycotting relatives

BOYCOTTING relatives and sometimes parents is a major sin in Islam. When I say ‘boycotting’, I mean, it is a time when relatives do not call or visit each other or even ask about each other. They do not share ...

Traffic department making a come back

I HAVE written many articles in the past about the need for clear traffic department rules and their strict implementation. I have come out in defense, repeatedly, in favor of the Saher system, an automated system for the management of ...

Racism against expats

THE worst and a disturbing kind of language is the language of racism, which regrettably is on the increase lately everywhere. What is unfortunate is the disturbing trend is evident here also with many individuals using the cover of the ...

Proud to serve the two holy mosques

EVER since the unification of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by its founder King Abdul Aziz, the major focus in the vision and the mission for building the Saudi nation by successive kings was the care of the Two Holy ...