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Mahmoud Ahmad
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‘Do you think I am Indian’?
When I related this incident to an Indian friend of mine, he just laughed and said magnanimously that people with little knowledge and petty minds are the ones who rely on these ‘stereotypical phrases’ as crutches to stress their intellect ...
‘This Saudi employee is absent from work’
Let us assume here that the manager was fed up with the continuous absence of the employee, then in these circumstances, there are procedures that document this negligence and this could lead to the firing of the negligent employee. After ...
When media is used as a weapon against us
The series talks about life in Riyadh during the 70s and the simple life of that city. The series started with one of the main characters in the show placing an illegitimate newborn infant in front of a mosque, and ...
Greeting Ramadan with good deeds
People should know that time should not be wasted in this month, for this Ramadan, once it passes, will not offer them the chance to reap the good rewards that can be gained till Ramadan ends. For their next opportunity ...
Beating a child to pray
Such incident is one of many that I have witnessed, in different places other than mosques and in different cities where various modes of coercion and abuse are used on children, but this was the most recent one. Terrorizing and ...
Crime hunters — patriots or nosey
On the same day when I wrote this article, I saw a disaster being averted at the Prince Miteb Street on my way to work. Two youth, in an SUV, ran a red light in early morning hours and almost ...
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 ...
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