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Excuse You?21 comments

Ahmed wrote 1 week ago: The cartoon in my previous post from al-Riyadh daily has apparently caused some controversy and attr … more →

Tags: Human Rights, media, News, Politics, Saudi Arabia, Cartoon, Commission, Haya, khulwa

A Case of Suspicion24 comments

Ahmed wrote 1 week ago: Rabea strikes again. … more →

Tags: Arts, Human Rights, Humor, media, Politics, Saudi Arabia, Women's rights, Cartoon, Commission

Scurrilous18 comments

Ahmed wrote 1 week ago: The sorry state of traditional media in the country has encouraged some Saudis in recent years to st … more →

Tags: media, News, Politics, Saudi Arabia, alweeam, British Embassy, Charity, missionary, Online News

Bad, Bad Al-Watan (Updated)27 comments

Ahmed wrote 2 weeks ago: UPDATE II 21/6/09: Jamal Khashoggi was not fired. He wrote an editorial today about the incident, sa … more →

Tags: media, News, Politics, Saudi Arabia, alwatan, Commission, Haya, naif, Prayer Time

Let Them Protest37 comments

Ahmed wrote 3 weeks ago: Riyadh witnessed a comeback for cinema after 30 years of absence. Menahi, a movie produced by Alwale … more →

Tags: Human Rights, media, News, Politics, Saudi Arabia, Cinema, faiz almaliki, free speech, Freedom of Expression

Norah and Adela10 comments

Ahmed wrote 3 weeks ago: Norah al-Faiz says she has been misquoted. She does not say she was misquoted on what exactly: her N … more →

Tags: Education, media, News, Politics, Saudi Arabia, Sports, Women's rights, adela bint abdullah, girls education

Commission is Hiring13 comments

Ahmed wrote 3 weeks ago: Some people think they are doing good things. Some people think they are spreading horror around the … more →

Tags: News, Politics, Saudi Arabia, Commission, haia, hayaa, Religious Police

Fanatics Everywhere17 comments

Ahmed wrote 3 weeks ago: The signs in the four drawings read, clockwise: Book Fair, Poetic Reading, Theater, Cinema. Read mo … more →

Tags: Arts, Humor, media, News, Politics, Saudi Arabia, Cartoon, Cinema, extremists

Roots18 comments

Ahmed wrote 4 weeks ago: Something is bothering me about Norah al-Faiz, the deputy minister of education. Sure, as the first … more →

Tags: Education, media, News, Politics, Saudi Arabia, Women's rights, najd, niqab, nora alfaiz

Girls Beware!77 comments

Ahmed wrote 2 months ago: In a lecture he gave earlier this week at KSU, Sheikh Abdul Aziz Bin Abdullah Aal Al-Sheikh, the Gra … more →

Tags: Human Rights, media, News, Politics, Saudi Arabia, Women's rights, Grand Mufti, mahram, saudi girls

Wild Dreams57 comments

Ahmed wrote 2 months ago: When you live here long enough, you become so accustomed to the absurdities of life in the magic kin … more →

Tags: Human Rights, media, News, Politics, Saudi Arabia, dream, Mia, SCTA, Tourism

Another Day, Another Statement7 comments

Ahmed wrote 2 months ago: A group of reform activists has published an open letter to King Abdullah, asking him to ensure publ … more →

Tags: News, Saudi Arabia, Politics, Human Rights, constitution, open letter, reform, Terrorism Trials

Unacceptable54 comments

Ahmed wrote 3 months ago: Sheikh Namer al-Namer is back at it again. After his idiotic statements last summer he was detained … more →

Tags: Human Rights, media, News, Politics, Saudi Arabia, awamiyya, Madinah, Medina, namer al-namer

Injustice150 comments

Ahmed wrote 3 months ago: After the recent blunders of our very dysfunctional justice system, you would think judges will beco … more →

Tags: News, Saudi Arabia, Politics, Women's rights, Human Rights, al-shamli, Hail, Judges, Judiciary

The Broken Frame39 comments

Ahmed wrote 3 months ago: Here’s yet another piece about joy riding, aka drifting, aka tafheet, aka total nonsense. Yes, we ar … more →

Tags: Education, News, Saudi Arabia, media, Politics, Human Rights, Drifting, NY Times, NYT

Riyadh Book Fair '0935 comments

Ahmed wrote 4 months ago: While I sincerely hope that the Ministry of Culture and Information would drop the word ‘Internation … more →

Tags: News, Saudi Arabia, Politics, Women's rights, Human Rights, Arts, Books, riyadh international book fair, book fair

On Madinah19 comments

Ahmed wrote 4 months ago: I did not want to write about the tension in Madinah over the past few days and the reason is simply … more →

Tags: News, Saudi Arabia, media, Politics, Human Rights, Shiites, Shia, Madinah, Medina

King Renders Me Speechless30 comments

Ahmed wrote 4 months ago: On the second week of February every year, the international media is usually full of stories about … more →

Tags: Education, News, Saudi Arabia, media, Politics, Women's rights, Healthcare, reform, Government

Letter to Amna85 comments

Ahmed wrote 5 months ago: TO: Amna Fatani CC: Saudi Arabia Although I have said that censorship does not work anymore, censors … more →

Tags: Human Rights, media, Politics, Saudi Arabia, Women's rights, censorship, conformity, misogyny, social censorship


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