I searched a lot for his biography, and I did not find anything on the Internet except for his many articles and his media and satellite participations. He is a daily writer for the Emirati newspaper Al-Ruya, and before that he was a daily sports writer in Al-Sharq newspaper about five years ago. Some electronic newspapers where he finds refuge, he says.
It is “Ahmed Adnan”, who refuses in this dialogue to be referred to as a writer, thinker, or even an intellectual, contenting himself with describing the Saudi journalist. We argued with him here about many issues, and he expressed his anger at the questions that haunted him about his choice of “Lebanon” as a place to live despite the thorny and complex political situation there. , stressing that this hadith «suggests that I live in their personal property, and this matter is ironic and pathetic», he said.
Adnan, in his dialogue with Okaz, expressed his adherence to his first demand, as he described it, to visit “Jerusalem” and the occupied lands, “even if the barrier was the seals of the occupation, when the Crusaders occupied Palestine, there was no boycott,” or as our guest who specialized in At the end of this meeting, he chose to address several letters to a minister, ambassador, thinker, publisher, writer, poet, and prince. Here are the details:
Live and settle in Lebanon.. where Hezbollah, hatred of the Saudi regime, and deceitful action against us exist.. Why Lebanon? Are you doing a national political work, for example, there?
A: First, I have never worked for the government. I fully believe in Ronald Reagan's words: "Normal minds work in government, but good minds work in the private sector." Secondly, Lebanon is not Hezbollah. The so-called Hezbollah is a small part of Lebanon, but it has grown thanks to Iranian weapons and Baathist gangs. And thirdly, I live in Lebanon because I love this beautiful country and its kind people, and I personally, on the social level, are closer to Beirut than Bukayriyah, and “I have nothing to do with it!” Some talk about my residency in Lebanon suggests that I reside on their personal property, and for me this is ridiculous and pathetic.
Religious trading
You were among the first to write about the fourth Saudi state.. Do you see it starting? How can this country survive in a turbulent world like the one we live in?
We are on our way to it. There is a difference between building a state and building a villa. Building the state is a cumulative, interactive and continuous process. What is important is that we follow the right path, and I think we are on this path, the path of the modern state: the state of law, institutions, citizenship and freedoms.
• In your opinion, who is the main player in everything that is happening today in the region? Do you not see that the successive crises, the latest of which is Qatar, suggest something? How do you see Qatar's position so far?
•• This question told me more than necessary, especially since the Qatari file will witness heated interactions. I suggest that you suffice with the first part of the question without mentioning Qatar. In your opinion, who is the main player in everything that is happening today in the region? Two evil forces conspire against the kingdom: the first is Iran, and this is the goal of all its crimes that cover Yemen, the Gulf, Iraq, Lebanon and Syria. Besieging and penetrating the kingdom, as the kingdom's presence is an obstacle to its expansionist and sedition project aimed at demolishing the Arab state and sitting on its ruins. The second is the political Islam groups that trade in religion, al-Qaeda, the Brotherhood, and ISIS. These forces will not be able to implement their destructive projects in light of the integrity and strength of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia due to its Arab and Islamic reference value. What I wish from the Saudi citizen is complete vigilance in confronting these two parties, especially since their projects explain what is happening in the entire region to a large extent.
• You write everywhere, Emirati newspapers and electronic newspapers, and they contain lengthy articles.. Sometimes you have writings that carry very important information that an ordinary person does not reach.. Do they belong to a device, for example? Do you think there is a reader today?
•• The reader is present at all times and places. A good journalist chooses his readers as well as his subjects. And a good journalist – likewise – is the one who can reach the correct information first or especially. The fact that I am doing my job well does not mean that I am super or supported, but it indicates primarily a clear shortcoming on the part of some of my colleagues. It is not true that I write everywhere, because this is a talent available to my dear colleagues. I write on a daily basis in Al-Ruya newspaper, and in parallel I wrote on a weekly basis in the London-based Al-Arab newspaper, which is a free newspaper in every sense of the word, but some lengths were not tolerated by the two newspapers so I turned it into Al-Hayat newspaper, and sometimes Margins can't bear me, so the last resort is around. Today I focused on Al-Roya newspaper, and I reduced the lengths, and I do not hide you, that I hope that the day will come when I will finally stop writing, as it is a difficult job – despite its apparent ease – that has the characteristics of addiction.
• When I was a daily writer for Al-Sharq newspaper, I chose a sports column. Is it to escape towards freedom because the sports press has a wide ceiling? And why were you outspoken about your inclinations to youth? Are they real tendencies? Or is it an emotional tendency towards a club without fans?
•• My support for Al-Shabab Club is beyond doubt, and it is a matter of pride and not a disgrace that should be hidden. I wrote in the sports press, because I really love football, and because the audience for this game is larger, and because the red lines in this field are limited, I thought of putting “poison” in honey. I succeeded sometimes and failed a lot, but the experience itself was fun and exciting, and I may repeat it, but Less than daily writing.
• Why this hostility and hatred towards the star Sami Al-Jaber.. Isn't it more useful and more important to support him as a national coach so that he can present a remarkable training footprint like other international stars? Do you see what is missing in our sport?
•• Sami Al-Jaber is a great player and a respected person, there is no doubt about that. Is he a great boss? No one is convinced of this except the fans of Al-Hilal. So the equation is simple: If Al-Jaber is a great coach in the eyes of the Hilalians, they give us Ramon Diaz and we give them Al-Jaber. As for the youth, I say to the administration and its successors, it is not appropriate to contract with a coach who learns in the youth, and through the last season and the preparations and contracts of the current season, we make sure that Al-Jaber was not qualified for the task assigned to him: rebuilding the first team. We will pay for it sooner or later. I do not have a negative attitude towards the national coach, and the evidence is that I fully believe in the capabilities of coach Khaled Al-Qarouni, and I believe that he has not yet had his full opportunity. And in football, my dear, there is no national or non-national coach, there is a good or not-so-good coach, there is a talented or not-talented coach. Thank you.
Caste and citizenship
• From an Islamic journalist project to a writer who is diligent in exposing the slogans of political Islam.. How was the process? And when did the transformation happen?
•• I have never been an Islamic journalist project, and here it must be noted that a thousand is obligatory (journalist is a common mistake. Correct: journalist). I worked in a true Islamic supplement, but the important thing is not where you are, but who you are, my dear, and the most important thing is that journalism is a definition that is second to none. Some media outlets, when hosting me, want to use respectable titles such as “writer” or “thinker.” My response was always the same: title “Journalist” suffices for any title and is more important than most titles. We continue with the addition: There is no such thing as “Islamic, partisan, liberal, or leftist journalism.” There is only journalism, and everything else may be propaganda, literature, or something like that.
• You have been preoccupied with the Lebanese issue, with much discussion and friendship. Do you think that politicians in Lebanon practice politics for survival? Or for state building?
•• The Lebanese politician – often – works for the sake of his sect, as the sect takes precedence over citizenship and the state. Therefore, there is not one Lebanon, but rather Lebanese women with a number of sects, and the Lebanese state treats objectively as a sect like the rest of the sects, instead of dominating everyone, and here is the crux of the problems. There are undoubtedly patriotic politicians, and they are all allies of the Kingdom, but they are besieged by their sectarian street or their sectarian counterparts. May God help them in what they are in and pay their mistake.
I crossed paths in some of your articles with the most problematic files. Did you know the direction of the compass? Or is there a compass (what) is your destination?
•• I don't take directions from anyone. I said that Qatar is a danger, and they discovered that I was right, and I confirmed that Erdogan is a crook, and the truth began to be revealed to them, and before that I said that Hezbollah is a gang and Bashar al-Assad – was and will remain – a lowly criminal in the treasury of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, and everyone is supposed to be sure of that. And I did not change my opinion, what happened is that others discovered that their calculations were wrong, and retracting from the error is a virtue, so – with all humility – we salute them.
• Could your friend Muhammad Saeed Tayeb be one of these Arab Hanjuris? Who is the most prominent of them in your opinion? How are their throats cut?
•• Professor Muhammed Saeed Tayeb was never a Hanjuri, the word comes out of him – audible or written – in scales of gold and jewels. Abu al-Shaima never claimed that he wanted his friends or students a copy of it, so in his glorious majlis I met all the spectra and learned from everyone, headed by the owner of the majlis. origin of its owner. You want examples of the Hanjurians, they are in our country many, and in the Arab world more, some of them lead the television screens and some of them stick to the papers of newspapers and velvet councils, you know them to take charge on the day of the march and with double standards and carrying incense burners for those who do not deserve and for those who deserve, and the march of these is entitled to give special interest to the public interest. What is the difference, my dear, between Mustafa Bakri and Abd al-Rahim Ali – in Egypt – and between Salem Zahran, Ghassan Jawad, the Qandilin Nasser and Ghaleb – in Lebanon – and the late Nahed Hattar and the dead Ihsan al-Faqih – in Jordan – and Ahmed bin Rashid bin Saeed – in the Kingdom – despite the divergence of political orientations between some of them ?! Nothing, they are all nothing.
Twitter rights
• What cause did you adopt and later discovered that it is a lost cause?
•• The issue that captivates people of opinion, their perception that they are capable of changing the world, and the worst is the perception of some of them that the public interest, or high morals, virtue and the like, are the drivers of transformations in the paths of nations, and the funny thing is – really – that this idea has nothing to do with reality, Behind the big slogans hides the private interest. Henry VIII, King of England, took up his church under the title of religious reform, but the truth was that he wanted to divorce his wife, and he was cruel to that. This is on the general level, but if we wanted to be specific, years ago Twitter caught mourning for Mrs. (AB), it was promoted that she is a prisoner of conscience, and the Ministry of Interior said that it had suspended her because she belonged to Al-Qaeda, and I do not know why she coordinated behind the “human rights” campaign on Twitter However, it became clear later that she was one of the most dangerous al-Qaeda women, and she was killed or assassinated in Yemen, as is well known. I learned from this story that it is wise and obligatory to be patient in these matters, and that the official statement – often – is more true than Twitter.
• What is the dream that you are still insisting on achieving and always postponing?
•• All my dreams are unattainable, my dear, yet I try. The great only quarrels with the great, let alone if your opponent is the impossible.
• Finally, what do you say to these:
1. His Royal Highness Prince Miteb bin Abdullah bin Abdulaziz (Minister of the National Guard)?
•• The institution that you contributed to building under the banner of your father, King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz – may God have mercy on him – and then you assumed its leadership, is a source of pride for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Muslims and Arabs. On the military level, history will not forget the role of the Guard in the war to liberate Kuwait and then Decisive Storm, and on the cultural level it will not History will forget that you received the intellectuals of the Arabs and the homeland – of all their walks and sects – and discussed with them the bravest addresses and brought you close points of view. On the entertainment level, history will not forget that you were the first to pay attention to the importance of this door and the first to open it. On the human level, history will not forget the white hands of the guards on the near In the distance, history will stand amazed and admired by a minister who treats all his subordinates as his children as they treat him – without exception – as their father. On the scientific and civilized level, history will stand amazed in front of a national institution that lives in the twenty-second century, although we have not yet reached it. May God protect you, make you happy, grant you victory, bless you, and direct your steps.
2. Turki al-Hamad?
A: Every day that passes in the Saudi press, or in the press friendly to Saudi Arabia, without a letter belonging to Turki Al-Hamad, means that we are living in a real and blatant crisis. Dear Aba Tariq: «Why did you accept to come to us? Your example was too much for us!
3. The publisher, Muhammad Ali Hafez?
•• I wonder how society forgets, or how society neglects, the existence of a lofty and illuminating figure like the venerable master, and here I seize the opportunity, to address the head of the state and its symbol, or to the esteemed Minister of Information, proposing a moral and media honor worthy of this mighty symbol whose least accomplishments were: Modernizing the local press, internationalizing the Arab press and establishing King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, may God have mercy on the feat Hisham Ali Hafez.
4. Writer Khaled Al-Sulaiman?
•• Oh man, why did we make you angry? She travels between the capitals of the world and forgets Beirut! Do you remember the dream in which I saw you and told you about it, and when I wrote it, the censor prevented it?!.
5. His Excellency Dr. Abdulaziz Muhyiddin Khoja (Ambassador of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques in the Kingdom of Morocco)?
•• From Turkey to Russia to Morocco to Lebanon and then back to Morocco again. When will you return to Beirut?!
6. Abdullah Bahitham?
A: My esteemed teacher, after your poem “Rahel, my daughter,” I stopped reading poetry. There is no poem after your letter. How difficult and noble you are. I hope that you realized – after ascending to the high heavens – that you came in the wrong place and at the wrong time, and this was not our fault or yours, but it was fate, O God, there is no objection. And I felt at this moment – and I do not know why – the need to direct my greetings and longing for you, rest in peace or fly wildly, many things have changed – after you – and nothing has changed after you. One day we will meet, and I hope the trip will be free of turbulence and unpleasant surprises.
Prepared by: Ali Makki