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About the creator

Culture · social · taste · curiosity

I make brands feel native to the internet.

I work where social strategy meets internet behavior. I pay attention to how a fandom phrases a joke, when a trend has already expired, what a creator can make their own, and how different audiences and platforms carry tone. Then I turn that read into content that feels like it belongs on the platform.

Mahmoud with colleagues and a Best Creative Team recognition
Team recognition · Creative Industry Summit 2025
Mahmoud during an on-set content production
Making the thing, not only the deck
Mahmoud wearing a handmade YouTube play-button box
Platform behavior, taken literally
A workshop table with planning notes and laptops
Notes, drafts, decisions
Working principle Social is culture before it is a calendar.
Current chapter Caktuss · YouTube Arabia · Google Arabia · Gemini
YouTube
Google
Gemini
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How I learned social

Tech and gaming communities → global platform work

I learned content from communities that answer back.

2020–2022

ArabHardware

Writing and publishing inside technology and gaming culture trained me to move quickly without flattening the audience. During my role, year-on-year engagement rose 100%, impressions rose 120%, the Valorant Takeover reached 500K+ gamers across four platforms, and the daily editorial voice learned to stay recognizable at feed speed.

Social Media Specialist · tech editorial · gaming communities
2022–present

Caktuss

I moved into platform and brand social: ideation, copy, formats, production, and day-to-day channel work for YouTube Arabia, Google Arabia, and Gemini. The work is made with Caktuss and client teams; my contribution sits in the creative decisions and execution.

Senior Content Creator · social campaigns · creator content
Launched March 2024

YouTube Arabia on Instagram

I owned the account’s day-to-day content creation and helped shape its editorial voice, creator formats, captions, trend reactions, and always-on cultural storytelling. The wider program was delivered with Caktuss and YouTube’s regional and global teams.

Editorial voice · creator formats · captions · cultural storytelling
Regional content evolution

Google Arabia + Gemini

I contributed strategy, ideation, bilingual copy, and execution across cultural Search and Maps stories, Arabic AI education, and newer Gemini and creator formats—inside the wider Caktuss and Google team.

Strategy · concepts · Arabic and English copy · social execution
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How I judge an idea

Platform instinct lives in the details

A good social idea survives the caption, crop, and comment section.

The phrase fans already use. The frame that makes someone stop. The creator’s actual job inside the idea. The register of the copy. The signal in shares and comments that tells us whether it travelled. I move between those details without losing the idea.

  1. 01 · ListenStart with audience language.

    Notice what people quote, defend, replay, remix, and send before naming a content pillar.

  2. 02 · ShapeGive every format a reason to exist.

    Build the hook, caption, creator role, and visual structure around what the post needs people to do.

  3. 03 · MakeStay close to production.

    Carry the idea through the brief, script, shot list, set, edit, and final post instead of leaving it in a deck.

  4. 04 · LearnLet response sharpen the next idea.

    Use shares, comments, and follower action to decide what to repeat, change, or stop.

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What I bring

Voice · concepts · creators · production

Creative judgment, carried all the way to the post.

I can enter at the strategy stage or with a brief already in hand. Either way, I stay close enough to the work to protect tone, cultural specificity, and platform behavior through delivery.

English + ArabicVoice

Platform-native social copy

Write each language as a voice of its own, choosing the right register, rhythm, joke, and degree of explanation for the audience.

Captions · scripts · hooks · on-screen copy

FormatNative

Platform-native concepts

Shape ideas for the behavior of a Reel, carousel, static post, or reactive moment instead of squeezing one campaign line into every placement.

Concepts · hooks · recurring formats · reactive content

CreatorsBriefable

Creator formats with a clear job

Define the mechanic, creator role, prompt, briefing, shot list, and packaging so the collaboration feels authored, not rented.

Creator ideas · briefs · games · interview formats

ProductionHands-on

From brief to shoot to publish

Work across boards, scripts, interviews, on-ground coverage, edit feedback, and the last-mile details that decide how the post lands.

Scripts · shot lists · on-set content · edit feedback

CultureSpecific

Fandom, trend, and community judgment

Separate a useful cultural signal from noise, then find the local reference or audience truth that makes the idea worth sharing.

Trend response · fandoms · gaming · audience nuance

CollaborationClear

A useful partner in the room

Explain the reasoning, share drafts early, welcome specialist input, and keep creative, client, creator, and production teams aligned.

Creative teams · client teams · creators · production

Where I am useful

Hire me when the brand needs a social point of view—and someone who can make it real.

The strongest fit is work that needs cultural judgment, strong writing, and hands-on execution—not strategy that disappears into a deck or production without a reason behind it.

01

Social launch or channel reset

Audience read, channel role, voice, content territories, roadmap, and the first working formats.

02

Brand voice, captions and scripts

Voice principles, concepts, captions, scripts, recurring formats, and always-on content that reads naturally in English or Arabic.

03

Creator mechanics and content production

Creator jobs, prompts, games, shot lists, on-ground formats, packaging, and platform-native delivery.

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Campaign and cultural storytelling

Turn a product, campaign, or cultural moment into social concepts, hooks, copy, and a coherent run of content.

Available for Upwork projects

Need a social creative who can carry the idea through delivery?

Send the brand, platform, audience, goal, current challenge, deliverables, and timeline in our Upwork message thread. I’ll return with a focused creative starting point and the questions that matter.

  • Market
  • Platform
  • Audience
  • Goal
  • Deliverables
  • Timeline