Ahmad Al Shugairi

Ahmad Mazin Alshugairi (Arabic: أحمد مازن الشقيري‎ - born on 6 June 1973 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia),[1] is a Saudi activist and media figure.[2] He is best known for his program Khawatir that spanned from 2005 to 2015, which was a critical and a commercial success within Saudi Arabia. He has notable social media exposure with 18.2 million followers (as of October 2019), ranked in the world top 100 as well as #1 in Saudi Arabia in 2015 on Twitter.[3]

Ahmad Alshugairi - أحمد الشقيري
Alshugairi in July 2010
Born
Ahmad Mazen Alshugairi

(1973-06-06) 6 June 1973
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
OccupationTV Personality
Years active2002 – ..
Spouse(s)Rola Dashisha (1999–present)

Biography

Origin

Ahmed Mazen Al-Shugairi is of Palestinian origin. His family is from the Shqirat tribe, who historically lives in south the Levant (Palestine and Jordan) and North Arabia (Saudi Arabia), and his family origin is from Acre[4] but due to the refugee exodus of Palestinians in 1948, they settled in Jeddah. Ahmed Mazen Al-Shugairi is also the grandson of the politician Ahmed Asaad Al-Shugairi, head of the Palestine Liberation Organization.[5]

Life

Alshugairi was born in the city of Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. After graduating from Manarat high school in Jeddah he moved to the United States where he received his B.A. in Management Systems, and an MBA at California State University-Long Beach.[6]

In 1996, he returned to Saudi Arabia and started working in his father's business.

His father Mazen Alshugairi, his mother Affaf Ali. Ahmad Alshugairi married twice; upon divorcing his first wife Yasmine, he married his second, Rola Dashisha, who is also his costume designer in khawatir 5 & 6. The couple have two boys named Yousof and Ibrahim. Ibrahim is 15.

Career

Starting his media career in 2002, in the TV program, Yallab ya Shabab, If he were Among us and a second program, A Travel with Sheikh Hamza Yusuf on MBC. He is the host of Khawatir, an annual TV show that aired during Ramadan from 2005 to 2015.[7] He currently hosts a new program called Qomrah which airs on MBC during Ramadan. He won the US$1 million Sheikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Award in 2015.

circa. 2006

He has many publications such as:

  • Khawatir Books, which essentially encompass the contents of the Khawatir television series in a published book.
  • Khawatir from Japan, in reference to season 5 of Khawatir that was from Japan.
  • My Trip with Gandhi, he talks in this book about his own experience in this life.
  • forty a book that isn’t yet released talks about Ahmad’s 40 top favorite things like 40 favorite books 40 favorite verses in Quran so on

Critical reception

Twenty Youth magazine (مجلة شباب 20) in Emirates placed him the first in its list as the most influential in the Arab world. He also won the Best youth media personality in the third youth media forum in Jordan, and he was placed 143 in a list of 500 of the most influential Arab figures in the Arab world according to a survey published by Arabian Business magazine.

References
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  2. http://pulpit.alwatanvoice.com/articles/2014/07/03/334945.html
  3. "أحمد الشقيري Twitter Stats & Rankings (shugairi) | Twitaholic.com". twitaholic.com. Archived from the original on 17 March 2016. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
  4. Forty Years in Arab and International Life, Author: Ahmad Al-Shugairi, Publisher: Dar Al-Awda - Beirut, Page: No. 67
  5. Ahmed Al Shugairi roots Archived 1 September 2017 at the Wayback Machine
  6. https://www.linkedin.com/in/ahmad-alshugairi-0322b241/
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