Ahmad Al Shugairi
Ahmad Mazin Alshugairi (; born on 6 June 1973 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia), is a Saudi activist and media figure. He is best known for his program that spanned from 2005 to 2015, which was a critical and a commercial success within the Arab world and Saudi Arabia in particular. 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. Biography. Origin. Ahmed Mazen Al-Shugairi is of Palestinian origins. 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 but due to the refugee exodus of Palestinians in 1948 after the declaration of the establishment of the State of Israel, 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. Personal 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. 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. Career. Starting his media career in 2002, in the TV program, "Yalla ya Shabab" (Come on, Youth), 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. He won the US$1 million Sheikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Award in 2015. He has many publications such as: 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.