Samira Khashoggi
{{Short description|Saudi author and journalist (1935–1986)}}
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| native_name = {{nobold|سميرة خاشقجي}}
| native_name_lang = ar
| birth_date = 1935
| birth_place = Mecca, Saudi Arabia
| death_date = March {{death year and age|1986|1935}}
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| nationality = Saudi Arabian
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| occupation = Journalist
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| spouse = {{ubl|{{marriage|Mohamed Al-Fayed|1954|1956|reason=div}}|Anas Yassin}}
| children = {{ubl|Dodi Fayed|Jumana Yassin}}
| parents = Muhammad Khashoggi (father)
| relatives = {{ubl|Adnan Khashoggi (brother)|Soheir Khashoggi (sister)|Nabila Khashoggi (niece)|Jamal Khashoggi (nephew)|Emad Khashoggi (nephew)}}
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Samira Khashoggi ({{langx|ar|سميرة خاشقجي}}, 1935 – March 1986) was a Saudi Arabian progressive author, as well as the founder of Al Sharkiah magazine.{{Cite web |title=About us |url=http://www.alsharkiahmag.com/about-us/ |access-date=2022-09-10 |website=Al Sharkiah |language=en-US}} She was the sister of the Saudi businessman Adnan Khashoggi. She was the first wife of Egyptian businessman Mohamed Al-Fayed and the mother of filmmaker Dodi Al-Fayed. She died of a heart attack in 1986 at the age of 51.Ajish P. Joy (22 December 2018). [https://www.theweek.in/theweek/more/2018/12/21/all-in-the-family.html All in the family]. The Week. Retrieved 21 August 2019.
Early life and education
Samira Khashoggi was born in 1935.{{cite book|author=Nora Derbal|title=Charity in Saudi Arabia. Civil Society under Authoritarianism|doi=10.1017/9781009072656|year=2022|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge; New York|isbn=9781009072656
|page=45|url=https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009072656}} she was the daughter of Muhammad Khashoggi, King Abdulaziz Al Saud's personal doctor and Samiha Ahmed, a Saudi woman of Syrian descent.{{Cite web |date=2017-06-08 |title=Adnan Khashoggi — the man behind the legend |url=https://www.arabnews.com/node/1112196 |access-date=2023-12-07 |website=Arab News |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Kessler |first=Ronald |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-Iw2DwAAQBAJ |title=The Richest Man in the World: The Story of Adnan Khashoggi |date=2017-10-31 |publisher=Grand Central Publishing |isbn=978-1-5387-6254-7 |language=en}} She was educated in Egypt.
Career
Khashoggi wrote, under the pseudonym "Samirah, Daughter of the Arabian Peninsula". Her books include Wadda't Amali (Farewell to my Dreams, 1958), Thekrayāt Dām'ah (Tearful Memories, 1963), Wara' Aldabab (Beyond the Cloud, 1971), Qatrat Min ad-Dumu' (Teardrops, 1979) and Barīq Aynaik (The Sparkle of Your Eyes). Since 1972, Al Sharkiah has been the leading monthly pan-Arab women's magazine.
In 1962, Khashoggi began to head a women's welfare association, Al Nahda, which was based in Riyadh and was the first organization targeted towards women in Saudi Arabia.{{cite book|author=Nora Derbal|series=Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series |editor1=E. Möller|editor2=J. Paulmann|editor3=K. Stornig|title=Gendering Global Humanitarianism in the Twentieth Century|date=2020|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan, Cham|isbn=978-3-030-44629-1|pages=167–192|chapter-url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-44630-7_7|chapter=Humanitarian Service in the Name of Social Development: The Historic Origins of Women's Welfare Associations in Saudi Arabia|doi=10.1007/978-3-030-44630-7_7|s2cid=226630086 }} She was one of the Saudi women who supported the education of girls.
Personal life and death
Khashoggi met Mohamed Al Fayed on the beach in Alexandria through her brother, Saudi billionaire Adnan Khashoggi, and they married in 1954.{{cite magazine|author=Sally Smith |title=Dodi's Life in the Fast Lane|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/1997/12/dodi-fayed-199712|accessdate=3 August 2018|magazine=Vanity Fair|date=December 1997}} The marriage lasted two years, and produced one child, Dodi Fayed. Khashoggi separated from Al Fayed just months after Dodi's birth and returned to Saudi Arabia. She then married Saudi ambassador Anas Yassin,{{Cite web |date=September 11, 1997 |title=Sister says Dodi wanted to marry love of his life |url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12292101.sister-says-dodi-wanted-to-marry-love-of-his-life/ |access-date=2022-11-13 |website=The Herald Scotland |language=en}} and had her second child, Jumana Yassin, who is the editor in chief of Al Sharkiah magazine.{{Cite web |title=About us|url=http://www.alsharkiahmag.com/about-us/ |access-date=2022-09-10 |website=Al Sharkiah |language=en-US}}
Khashoggi was the aunt of actress and producer Nabila Khashoggi and political journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
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Category:20th-century novelists
Category:20th-century Saudi Arabian women writers
Category:20th-century Saudi Arabian writers
Category:20th-century women journalists
Category:Pseudonymous women writers
Category:Saudi Arabian novelists
Category:Saudi Arabian women journalists
Category:Saudi Arabian women novelists