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Islam in Niger

More recently, Senegalese Nyassist Sufi teachers, especially in the Dosso area have gained converts, while some small Arab Wahhabite teaching is funded in Niger—as in much of Africa—through Saudi Arabian missionary groups.


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Ahmad Zaki

Ahmed Zaki Yamani (born in 1930), former Saudi Arabian oil minister

Ahmadullah Affandi

He was the leader of Indian contingent, which was invited to Saudi Arabia by the then Saudi Arabian King, Shah Faesal in 1967.

Al Mesbar Studies and Research Centre

Its general manager and a member of the editorial board is another Saudi Arabian journalist, Islamic legal scholar, and television producer Abdulah Bin Bijad Al Otaibi.

Al-Yamani

Ahmed Zaki Yamani, Saudi Arabian politician and petroleum and mineral minister

Ali al-Khudair

Sheikh Ali al-Khudair had issued fatwas against several Saudi-Arabian thinkers, among them Turki al-Hamad, Mansour al-Naqeedan and Abdullah Abusamh declaring them as infidel.

Arabic hip hop

In 2006, Arabic hip-hop solidified its mainstream presence in the Arab World with Hip Hop Na, a reality TV show on MTV Arabia hosted by Fredwreck and Qusai, a Saudi Arabian Artist.

Bob Shaheen

Born in Canton, Ohio, Shaheen was Chief of Staff and Executive Assistant for the Saudi Arabian entrepreneur Adnan Khashoggi for 25 years.

Fahd Al-Hayyan

Fahd Al Hayyan (born March 22, 1971) is a famous Saudi Arabian actor, Began his artistic career in 1991, He is mostly known for his various roles in the Saudi comedy Ghashamsham and Tash ma Tash, he acted with actors including Abdul-Allah Al-Sadhan and Nasir Al-Gasabi.

John Rossant

During his tenure as Europe Editor of BusinessWeek, Rossant took a year’s sabbatical in order to write a biography of the Saudi Arabian businessman and investor Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal.

Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities before and after the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001

Reps. Walter Jones (R-NC) and Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.) read the redacted section after a letter-writing campaign, and say that this section details high-level involvement by the Saudi Arabian embassy in receiving the hijackers on US soil, arranging for visas and other paperwork.

Lawyers for Liberty

In February 2012, a Saudi Arabian poet and journalist Hamza Kashgari, who had published three tweets of a would-be conversation with Muhammad, tried to leave Kuala Lumpur to seek political asylum in New Zealand in order to avoid apostasy or blasphemy charges and likely execution, and was detained by Malaysian authorities.

Naimi

Ali Al-Naimi, Saudi Arabian Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources

Otaibah

Prominent members of the tribe include Khalaf ibn Hathal, a poet who rose to prominence during the First Gulf War, Juhayman Al-'Utaybi, the militant who led the 1979 seizure of the Sacred Mosque in Mecca (see Grand Mosque Seizure), and Dhaifallah Al-Rogy Al-'Utaybi, mayor of Dammam and a former executive in the Saudi national oil company, Aramco, and Mutlaq Hamid Al-Otaibi a prominent Saudi Arabian poet.

Plashet School

The majority of the students come from an Asian background, such as Bengalis Gujaratis and Pakistanis, as well as people coming from a Middle Eastern backgrounds too, such as Yemenies, Saudi Arabian and Lebanese.

Qarni

Mohammed Al-Qarni (born 1989), Saudi Arabian football (soccer) player

Raja'a Alem

Her short story "One Thousand Braids and a Governess" has been translated into English and published in "Voices of Change: short stories by Saudi Arabian women writers" edited by Abubaker Bagader, Ava M. Heinrichsdorff, Deborah Akers Her birth in Mecca and her family background is highly influential to her work and outlook.

Sarah Attar

She has Saudi Arabian and American dual nationality and is currently a student at Pepperdine University in Los Angeles County, California.

Saudi Arabian art

Saudi Arabian art should be understood in the light of the country being the birthplace of Islam and to include both the arts of Bedouin nomads and those of the sedentary peoples of regions such as the Hejaz, Tihamah, Asir and the Najd.

Thomas Barger

He married Kathleen Elizabeth Ray on November 18, 1937 shortly before heading off to Saudi Arabia by himself for what ended up being three years exploring potential oil sites in the Saudi Arabian desert along with fellow American geologists Max Steineke, Jerry Harriss, Ernie Berg and others as well as a group of Bedouin guides headed by Khamis bin Rimthan of the Ajman tribe.

Tucson High Magnet School

Dr. Selwa Al-Hazzaa Ophthalmologist and influential Saudi Arabian personality.

Turki II bin Abdulaziz Al Saud

His second wife was Hind Al Fassi, a member of the Saudi Arabian al-Fassi family and daughter of Sheikh Shams ed-din Al Fassi, a Sufi religious leader from the Shadhili order, and grandson of Moroccan Sufi Imam al-Fassi, who had settled in Mecca in the late 18th-century.

United Press International Radio Network

After a long period of changing ownerships, business models and bankruptcies, UPI declined into a shell of a news service by 1999, when its then-Saudi Arabian ownership was convinced by its handpicked CEO, Arnaud de Borchgrave, to exit the broadcasting business United Press had pioneered back in the 1930s.