Mshari Al-Zaydi

Opinion Writer and Presenter

Mshari Al-Dhaydi is a Saudi political columnist and television presenter at Al Arabiya, born in Buraidah in the Qassim region in 1970. He joined Asharq Al-Awsat in 2003 and rose through the paper to supervise its opinion section and become its senior editor for Saudi Arabia and the Gulf, where he remains a regular columnist. He produced and presented the programmes Maraya and Al-Nadwa on the Al Arabiya network. His writing addresses Islamist movements, the history of ideological groups and shifts in religious discourse, working from these movements' own texts read against their historical context.