The cartoon in my previous post from al-Riyadh daily has apparently caused some controversy and attracted many angry comments from their readers who thought the cartoonist has crossed a red line. Toda… more →
Saudi JeansAhmed wrote 1 week ago: The cartoon in my previous post from al-Riyadh daily has apparently caused some controversy and attr … more →
Ahmed wrote 1 week ago: The sorry state of traditional media in the country has encouraged some Saudis in recent years to st … more →
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 →
Ahmed wrote 3 weeks ago: Riyadh witnessed a comeback for cinema after 30 years of absence. Menahi, a movie produced by Alwale … more →
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 →
Ahmed wrote 3 weeks ago: Some people think they are doing good things. Some people think they are spreading horror around the … more →
Ahmed wrote 3 weeks ago: The signs in the four drawings read, clockwise: Book Fair, Poetic Reading, Theater, Cinema. Read mo … more →
Ahmed wrote 4 weeks ago: Something is bothering me about Norah al-Faiz, the deputy minister of education. Sure, as the first … more →
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 →
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 →
Ahmed wrote 2 months ago: A group of reform activists has published an open letter to King Abdullah, asking him to ensure publ … more →
Ahmed wrote 3 months ago: Sheikh Namer al-Namer is back at it again. After his idiotic statements last summer he was detained … more →
Ahmed wrote 3 months ago: After the recent blunders of our very dysfunctional justice system, you would think judges will beco … more →
Ahmed wrote 3 months ago: Here’s yet another piece about joy riding, aka drifting, aka tafheet, aka total nonsense. Yes, we ar … more →
Ahmed wrote 4 months ago: While I sincerely hope that the Ministry of Culture and Information would drop the word ‘Internation … more →
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 →
Ahmed wrote 4 months ago: On the second week of February every year, the international media is usually full of stories about … more →
Ahmed wrote 5 months ago: TO: Amna Fatani CC: Saudi Arabia Although I have said that censorship does not work anymore, censors … more →