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Fahad Amer Alahmadi, a writer, traveler, media activist and contemporary Saudi author. He was born in Medina on (7 April 1966) and he is one of the most prominent authors who enriched Arabic literature, as his articles equal 50 doctoral dissertations in volume.

His articles appeared daily on the last pages of Al-Madina newspaper (1991-2000), AlRiyadh newspaper (2000-2019) and Aleqtisadiah newspaper (2020). Alahmadi is considered a record holder in terms of uninterrupted publishing of articles (since 1991) and also in the number of his publications (9520 articles up to March 2019). He is considered the highest paid writer in the history of Saudi journalism, as his salary reached 56 thousand riyals before his resignation from AlRiyadh newspaper at the beginning of 2020.

He is known for his daily column "Around The World." His articles were distinguished by their cognitive diversity, scientific orientation and exotic nature, and this made Turki Al Sudairi, the former editor-in-chief of Al-Riyadh newspaper, call him "Anis Mansour of Saudi Arabia". Nevertheless, he personally finds his articles closer to the articles of the American writer Isaac Asimov and the British writer Arthur C. Clarke.

Despite his long career in newspapers, Alahmadi started writing at a relatively late stage, where his first known book was published in 2011. Since that date, he published 13 books in various fields (equals to 1.6 book a year).

He is also known for his frequent travels and his precedence in visiting unknown places to write about them. His attachment to travels began at the age of eight, when he visited Egypt with his uncle for medical treatment, and since that time he decided to see all the worlds' countries before he "becomes old." In 1986, he traveled to America for the purpose of studying, but he seized the opportunity to visit most of its important states. By the end of 2020, he had already finished visiting most countries of the world - and published most of his travels in an illustrated book entitled "Around the World in 80 Articles."

Family
Fahad Alahmadi is married to doctor Najat Saeed Alahmadi (child consultant) and has five children, Hosam, Faisal, Raseel, mayas, and Yasser. His father is Amer Wassel Alahmadi Alharbi, and his mother is Latifah Abdulaziz Abduallah Alsegabi (from Qassim).

Life
Alahamdi was born in the Eten neighborhood in Medina and spent most of his childhood at his uncle Abduallah Alsaqabi house.

He mastered reading at an early age during preschool and got attached to owning books to a degree that his mother had to designate specific periods for him to read outside school material because he neglected his schoolbooks. He was also fond of innovations and the way things worked, he once said in an interview: “children were buying toys to have fun with them, and I was buying them to take them apart to see how they worked from the inside”. As well as saying: “In my childhood, I fell in love with the stories of inventors, discoverers, and the greats so much that I thought they were family members” in an article titled “the prince of inventors”.

Education
He studied elementary in Sayed Alshuhadaa school, middle school in Ibn Khaldoon, and high school in Uhud, and five universities after that, three of them in the United States, but didn’t finish his degree in any of them.

and from there get a governmental scholarship, but his education stopped after two years, because governmental scholarships ended by that time, along with how he wasn’t focusing on university as much as getting a patent for an autopilot plane wings.

As he stated on Edhat With Turki Aldakheel that he spoke 9 languages that he remembered bits of them still due to his contact with the visitors of the Prophet Mosque (AlMasjid An-nabawi).

Early Beginnings
In 1989 he returned from the U.S hands free and started to look for a job. After spending a while unemployed, he worked in a Qur’an printing press in Medina as a technical inspector, then as managerial worker in Alsamhoodi high school, before moving to work as a director of public information in the Emirate Of Madinah Province in 2004, and finally resigning from government employment in 2006.

One of the reasons for his resignation is that his freelance salary in AlRiyadh newspaper became four times the amount of his official governmental salary. At that time there was not any official position with the title ‘writer’ in the private sector, which made him join AlRiyadh newspaper as a ‘journalist’, and for that he wrote the article titled “Oh Lord, I am a writer”.

Career
During his government job, Fahd Al-Ahmadi also worked as a daily part-time writer in Almadina and Riyadh newspapers. In more than one interview, he stated that he had never thought of becoming a writer or author. However, when he returned from the United States, unemployed, he had nothing to offer but "ideas" and "knowledge" that newspapers were the best to publish them. Thus, he began writing and submitting articles to newspapers until Mr. Mohamed Hosni Mahjoub agreed to try some of them in the Madina newspaper. Few months later, his articles were published regularly under a daily angle entitled "Around The World", whose title was chosen by the page’s supervisor. The first article under it appeared on 17 August 1991 entitled "Siberia's explosion”.

Although the writer was not satisfied with the name of the column –as he put it; it was cliché even by the standards of those days– the popularity of the articles established the name, and encouraged the chief editors to move the column to last page, after a 1999 inter-readers' poll proved the column to be the second most important attractive factor to the newspaper.

After spending ten years in AlMadina Newspaper, he received an offer to transfer his column Around The World, to the Riyadh Newspaper under the same title – the first article appeared on 9 September 2006 entitled "A virus that devours/swallows a continent"

On 27 August 2016, the column completed 25 years of continuous daily appearance since it first appeared in AlMadina Newspaper.

During this period, the writer became a shareholder in the Riyadh newspaper; however, the decline in the popularity of all the print made him think of stopping daily writing and focusing only on writing books. In early 2019, the newspaper decided to use piece-rate pay system with the writers instead of giving them a monthly salary, which the writer refused. When the negotiations reached an impasse, the column stopped appearing in the Riyadh Newspaper – and the last article appeared on Tuesday, 5 March 2019.

Alahmadi stopped writing for newspapers for a year and a half, during which he published two books. Then, he started writing for newspapers again in the Aleqtisadiah newspaper, with two articles per week on the last page, that is still going.

Remarkable Articles
The writer's articles exceeded 9500– up until his resignation from the Riyadh newspaper in 2019, while his daily column (on the last page) tackled many political, economic, scientific, and tourism aspects of a religious and social nature. Because of the articles’ large number and wide diversity, his archive can be accessed in the Riyadh newspaper.

Some of the articles published in 2018 include:

“The identity of the executioner” (21 February 2018)

http://www.alriyadh.com/1663369

“Add your personal flower” (23 October 2018)

http://www.alriyadh.com/1712711

“The culture of disgrace” (29 October 2018)

http://www.alriyadh.com/1713983

“The difference between the western and the eastern divorce” (30 October 2018)

http://www.alriyadh.com/1714217

“Our national costumes, are they truly national?” (12 November 2018)

http://www.alriyadh.com/1717371

There is no magic recipe

You as an individual, and you as a society

Stubbornness is not a bad thing

Religion, science, and art

Our society and neytin’s third law

The government work and writing on a daily basis prevented Fahad AlAhmadi from entering the field of compilation early. Truthfully,in 1997, he tried to publish a book containing his best articles in AlMadina Newspaper, but his attempts to distribute the book himself failed truly. He did not repeat the experience for the next 14 years until Dar Twaiq for Publishing and Disturbutiom offered him in 2011 to reissue the same book in a new way. Then, the book did very well. Since then, 13 books have been published by Alahmadi in different fields, with 1.6 books per year.

Some of the books he published until the end of 2020:


 * 1) An Encyclopedia On The World: The     Best Articles From Almadina Newspaper
 * 2) The Other Possibility: Alahmadi's     Prohibited Articles From Alriyadh Newspaper
 * 3) Who Knows A Jinn To Possess Me?: profound     reflections (Banned by the Saudi Government)
 * 4) Around The World In 80 Articles: a     picture travel book on his trips between 1986 and 2018.
 * 5) The Confused People Of Allah: social satire     critique
 * 6) The Pistachio Theory: A Self-Development     Book (One of the best sellers in the Arab world)
 * 7) Why Don’t Sheep Go To The Doctor: a     medical book in collaboration with his wife Dr. Najat
 * 8) The Dead Poets Association: collection     of short stories
 * 9) The Theory In Short: Published By Dar     Alhadhara
 * 10) Only God Makes Them: Great And     Anonymous People Who Served The Humanity Positively
 * 11) The Pistachio Theory (Part 2):     Continuation Of The First Book
 * 12) Secrets of Money: the art of personal     money management. (how to not be of low-income)
 * 13) Secrets of Investment: the art of     investing money and building a wealth. (how to be rich)

Filmed Interviews
Al-Arabiya News' talk-show Edaat With Turki Aldakhil (3 episodes)

Rotana Khalijia: In The Picture (fi Alsurah)

Ya Hala With Ali Al-Alyani

An interview with Rashid Alfowzan on CNBC Arabia

A Pen Talks (Qalam Yatahadath)

Other Interviews
Sabq E-Newspaper

Fahad Al-Ahmadi | TEDxSulaimanAlrajhiColleges

Al-Riyadh Newspaper: I did not say I am a Hilal fan.. I apologize for Al-Nassr's fans.

An interview at the Islamic University

Exchanging experiences (Tabadul Alkhibrat)

The national Talk (Maqha Alhiwar)

Al-Hilal Club

Others
Fahad Alahmadi's profile - Al-Riyadh Newspaper

Fahad Alahmad's articles (archive) - Al-Riyadh Newspaper.

biography of Fahad Alahmadi on Around The World

Look also
Al-Riyadh Newspaper

Famous people from Almadina.