Jamal Khashoggi

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jamal Khashoggi
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	Oct 13, 1958(1958-10-13)
Age	66
Date Of Death	October 2, 2018, İstanbul, Turkey
Birthplace	Saudi Arabia
Country	Saudi Arabia
Horoscope	Libra

Jamal Khashoggi Biography

Jamal Khashoggi is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on October 13, 1958 in Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabian journalist and former editor-in-chief of Al-Arab News Channel who is also known for his work with the Al Watan newspaper. After writing articles critical of the Saudi Arabian government and the Crown Prince in The Washington Post, he was killed in the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul on October 2, 2018.

He is known for having interviewed Osama bin Laden in Tora Bora and Sudan in 1995 about the jihad against the Soviets.

Jamal Ahmad Khashoggi (/k ə ˈ ʃ oʊ ɡ ʒ i , k ə ˈ ʃ ɒ ɡ ʒ i / ; Arabic: جمال أحمد خاشقجي ‎, romanized: Jamāl ʾAḥmad Ḵāšuqjī, Hejazi pronunciation: [dʒaˈmaːl xaːˈʃʊɡ.(d)ʒi] ; 13 October 1958 – 2 October 2018) was a Saudi Arabian dissident, author, columnist for The Washington Post, and a general manager and editor-in-chief of Al-Arab News Channel who was assassinated at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on 2 October 2018 by agents of the Saudi government. He also served as editor for the Saudi Arabian newspaper Al Watan, turning it into a platform for Saudi progressives. He was a sympathizer and former member of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Khashoggi was acquainted with Osama bin Laden in the 1980s and 1990s in Afghanistan while bin Laden was championing his jihad against the Soviets. Khashoggi interviewed bin Laden several times, usually meeting bin Laden in Tora Bora, and once more in Sudan in 1995. According to The Washington Post columnist David Ignatius, “Khashoggi couldn’t have traveled with the mujahideen that way without tacit support from Saudi intelligence, which was coordinating aid to the fighters as part of its cooperation with the CIA against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. … Khashoggi criticized Prince Salman, then governor of Riyadh and head of the Saudi committee for support to the Afghan mujahideen, for unwisely funding Salafist extremist groups that were undermining the war.”

He is the first cousin of Dodi Fayed who was dating Princess Diana when they were killed in Paris.

Jamal Khashoggi Net Worth

Jamal Khashoggi is one of the richest Journalist from Saudi Arabia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jamal Khashoggi 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He earned his bachelors degree in business administration from Indiana State University in 1982. He began his career as a manager of Tihama Bookstores and later became a correspondent for the Saudi Gazette. He became editor in chief of Al Madina in 1991.

In 2018, he established a new political party called Democracy for the Arab World Now which positioned him as a threat to Crown Prince Mohammed.

Jamal Ahmad Khashoggi was born in Medina on 13 October 1958. His grandfather, Muhammad Khashoggi, who was of Turkish origin (né Muhammed Halit Kaşıkçı), married a Saudi Arabian woman and was personal physician to King Abdulaziz Al Saud, the founder of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

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Khashoggi briefly became the editor-in-chief of the Saudi Arabian daily Al Watan in 2003. After less than two months, he was dismissed in May 2003 by the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Information because he had allowed a columnist to criticize the Islamic scholar Ibn Taymiyyah (1263–1328), who is considered an important figure of Wahhabism. This incident led to Khashoggi’s reputation in the West as a liberal progressive.

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Jamal Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Saudi Arabia. Jamal Khashoggi celebrates birthday on October 13 of every year.

After he was dismissed, Khashoggi went to London in voluntary exile. There he became an adviser to Prince Turki Al Faisal. He then served as a media aide to Al Faisal while the latter was Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States. In April 2007, Khashoggi began to work as editor-in-chief of Al Watan for a second time.