Who’s Who: Mohammed Al-Hejaili, manager of the Madinah Art Center

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Updated 04 July 2023
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Who’s Who: Mohammed Al-Hejaili, manager of the Madinah Art Center

Mohammed Al-Hejaili has been manager of the Madinah Art Center since December and is responsible for all aspects of its operations, including the development of promotional social media campaigns.

He also works as corporate communications manager at Namaa Al-Munawara, a nonprofit endowment company that targets economic development with a social impact in the Madinah region.

Al-Hejaili joined Namaa Al-Munawara in February last year as exhibitions and art programs manager. In that role he maximized profitability, and managed client relationships and expectations for creative projects with various budgets.

He had earlier worked as PR and marketing manager, and manager of the director’s office at the Arab Open University in Madinah.

While there, Al-Hejaili helped to promote local community outreach and served as board secretary for the honorary council.

In 2014, Al-Hejaili was promotional manager of the Saudi Club at Cape Breton University in Nova Scotia, Canada, where he organized and managed sporting activities and developed the college’s first Saudi-Canadian newspaper, Saudi Capers.

He earned a bachelor’s degree in marketing from the university and collected several honors, including the Elaine Delaney Memorial Student Advisory Award and the Mayor of Cape Breton Pin for his community work.

Al-Hejaili holds certificates in digital analytics, digital media and marketing principles and strategies.

For Saudi National Day in 2018, he was the first to create a portrait of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman using origami.

 

 


Saudi Arabia celebrates Flag Day with displays, special events

Updated 11 March 2026
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Saudi Arabia celebrates Flag Day with displays, special events

  • Nation goes green in show of unity, belonging
  • Current design of the flag, which represents unity and sovereignty, was adopted in 1937

RIYADH: A new art exhibition has opened at King Abdulaziz Public Library in Riyadh, as the country celebrates Flag Day, which fell on Wednesday.

The event, titled “In Love with Green,” is being held in collaboration with the Saudi Art Association and features 20 fine art paintings inspired by the Saudi flag, as well as other cultural and contemporary images and landmarks.

The current design of the flag, which represents unity and sovereignty, was adopted in 1937. It features the Shahada and a sword symbolizing justice and safety, representing the unification of the Kingdom during the reign of King Abdulaziz Al-Saud.

The exhibition, at the library’s services branch and reading halls on Khurais Road, was opened by the library’s Director General Bandar Al-Mubarak and the association’s board chair Hanaa Al-Shibly.

Visitors can attend from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.

Elsewhere in the country, public spaces and buildings have become a sea of green for Flag Day.

In Al-Baha, government buildings, squares and main roads were decorated with green lighting and national flags were hoisted in public squares.

It was a similar picture in Makkah, where people celebrated the annual show of pride and belonging against a green backdrop.

In Tabuk, authorities installed more than 7,000 flags along roads, squares and bridges, while the region’s landmarks and tunnels were illuminated with green and white lights.

More than 10,000 Saudi flags were also hoisted in Jazan, where Souk Al-Awalin in Jazan City is set to host a range of events and performances to mark the special occasion.