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Ahmad Mazen Al Shugairi

Ahmad Mazen Al Shugairi

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  • Страна местожительства: Saudi Arabia
  • Пол: Male
  • Born in: 1973
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Ahmed Mazen Ahmed Asaad Al-Shugairi (June 6, 1973 AD, Jeddah) is a Saudi journalist. He began presenting social intellectual programmes, host of the TV series Khawatir, and former host of Yalla Shabab. He composed TV programs about helping young people to mature in their ideas, serve their faith, develop their skills, and discover their knowledge of the world and their role in making it a better place. Al-Shugairi became famous in Saudi Arabia and the Arab world after the series of the Khawatir program, which achieved wide success due to the simplicity of its style and its treatment of issues of youth and the Islamic nation, which always began with his saying: “I am not a scholar, nor a mufti, nor a jurist, but a student of knowledge.”

Al-Shugairi's beginning in the field of media dates back to 2002 through the television program Yalla Shabab, which he co-presented with a number of young men. On the MBC channel, whose idea was to accompany a group of young men to the American preacher Hamza Youssef in various locations, including the United States.

His role in television presentation came through the Khawater program, which is a continuation of a project he started by writing a group of weekly articles in the Saudi Al-Madina newspaper under the title, Thoughts of a Young Man as well. For young men and women, which he had to present alone due to the lack of much time on the MBC channel schedule.

Al-Shukairy adopted awareness projects on the ground with lectures and seminars in public events and universities. Al-Shukairy adopted many young people interested in volunteering and writing and provided them with a place to exchange ideas and experiences and introduce themselves to people. He also supported the expenses of some foreign students in universities, and he was among those who participated in defending the Prophet of Islam Muhammad. By posting a video in English on the Internet in response to the makers of the film insulting to the Prophet Muhammad.

Foundation
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Ahmed Mazen Al-Shugairi is of Hijazi origin, his family is from the Al-Shugairat tribe, which migrated from the Hijaz to Egypt and then to Acre. Ahmed Mazen Al-Shugairi is also the grandson of the politician Ahmed Asaad Al-Shugairi, head of the Palestine Liberation Organization. His grandfather worked in Saudi Arabia as Minister of State for United Nations Affairs under King Saud from 1957 to 1962.

Education and family
Al-Shugairi was born into a family from Jeddah, and after completing his high school studies in Al-Manarat Schools in Jeddah, he traveled to the United States of America to complete his university studies there when he was 17 years old in Long Beach, California, and obtained a Bachelor’s in Systems Management, then a Master’s in Business Administration from the University California. to run his father's business.

Dreams and aspirations
In his childhood, he wished to be a dentist specializing in orthodontics or a businessman, and he ended up studying business administration and computers. Despite this, he always loved voluntary work, and from this love, he opened the door to voluntary work in the media through the Yalla Shabab program and then the Thoughts program. His life was Like the life of any ordinary person in that he owns a commercial company and was engaged in trade before entering the media, and his goals and plans were very simple. He once found a file on his old device with his goals written on it for the year two thousand, that is, for the next ten years. His goals were to expand his commercial company and open a charitable hospital. Orphan sponsorship and so on, but when he entered the media, everything changed completely, and Al-Shugairi expressed that an important part of the inspiration came to him during the attack on the United States in the events of September 11, which struck him in particular with tremendous panic as someone who spent his decisive years in the United States, saying, “Many of us felt The necessity of educating young people to understand religion more and in moderation.

turning points
There were several turning points in Al-Shugairi's life, including the starting point of prayer, the starting point of reading, the starting point of quitting smoking, the starting point of marriage, the starting point of the Yalla Shabab program, the starting point of the Khawater program. As for the most important first turning point in Shugairi's life, it was in 1994, which was prayer. He says about it:

“And I still remember the first prayer I performed was the Asr prayer, and I prayed it at home, and from that day I began to pray, and during this period I was present in America, and the second point was in the year 2000 in the month of March when he began to quit smoking cigarettes and hookah.”
Quitting was neither easy nor quick. It took Al-Shugairi to quit smoking for two full years full of obstacles. He quit smoking one week and then resumed smoking the next week. The reason for returning to smoking was either grief or annoyance, and then he returned to quitting after the return of the enthusiasm for change. The third turning point is The start of the Yalla Shabab program in 2002.

TV shows
Al-Shugairi entered the media by chance, and his start was with the Yalla Shabab program. The program’s creator was a friend of his, so he offered him the idea of participating with them, and he went through the experience. The program was an idea by Hani Khoja and its aim is to improve and change society in general, with a focus on the youth category, especially the teenagers and twenties. He has been in the program since The starters were Qaswara Al-Khatib and Issa Boughari, and Al-Shukairy was supposed to work behind the scenes in preparing the program, but it was destined for him to participate in presenting the program as well in addition to the preparation.

Obstacles occurred to Al-Shukairy in television programs, but as he says, he does not call them obstacles, but rather divine signs for man, from which he can discern what God wants. After a journey program with Sheikh Hamza Yusuf in the United States, Shugairi and the others decided to repeat the same program on a new journey, but the MBC channel rejected this offer. Only in the sense of an episode per week throughout Ramadan because the journey is shown daily, so the MBC channel returned to refuse and its argument is that the Ramadan schedule is full. Shugairi did not give up and returned to the MBC channel with the idea of a new program that lasts only five minutes and MBC has to put this program on at any time She wanted, after thinking, the MBC channel requested a pilot episode from Al-Shugairi despite his work with MBC five years ago, in addition to the fact that the pilot episode is very expensive as it needs cameras and photographers. Al-Shugairi almost abandoned the idea of the program that is shown in five minutes, and these events All of them were three months before Ramadan and the time is very short.

After these conversations and events, Shugairi called on the same day, one of his friends telling him that he and a whole team were coming to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to film a pilot episode for a program, so this call, according to Shugairi, was a divine signal to him, so he told his friend that he needed him on Thursday for one hour to film an episode on the fast track. To send it to the MBC channel, the bathroom cleaning episode was filmed and sent to MBC, and the approval did not come until mid-August, and only two months remained until Ramadan. There are many obstacles for the channel and Al-Shugairi, and if these obstacles were not exploited, this program would not have appeared, as Al-Shugairi says.

Media activity
He has a number of media programs, including:
come on guys
The Yalla Shabab program was presented by Ahmed Al-Shugairi, Amr, Qaswara, and a group of young men, which was shown on MBC channel years ago. 11 seasons, the last of which was in 2015, which is the season in which the summary of the previous seasons was shown. The ideas of the program’s seasons were distinct and were mostly seeking practical attempts, and each year the program had an approach and a central idea that revolved around it.

The Yalla Shabab program was a talk and chat program. The pressures in it are less on Al-Shugairi as a result of his presence in a group, as he is one member of a team, and also because Ahmed Al-Fishawi was the main presenter of the team and Al-Shugairi was supportive of him in the serious cultural field, in addition to the fact that the space for entertainment is greater in Come on, guys, about thoughts. In filming and after filming, the members of the program sit and chat in addition to the many funny situations. The program’s policy depends on receiving guests, in each episode a guest. As for thoughts, the responsibility was greater on Al-Shugairi, so all eyes are on him for his appearance alone, in addition to that Preparing for it took longer.

Journey with Sheikh Hamza Yusuf
In the following years, Al-Shukairy participated in the television program Journey with Sheikh Hamza Yusef, whose idea was based on a group of young people accompanying the American sheikh and preacher Hamza Yusuf in various locations, including the United States. Through the trip and his dialogues with young people, Yusef presented an integrated vision of the relationship between Islam and the West. How can Muslims, especially young people, invite others to their religion in a civilized and modern way?

Reflections
Main article: Thoughts of a Young Man (program)
Ahmed Al-Shugairi's most prominent experience in television presentation came through the Khawater program, which is a continuation of a project he started by writing weekly articles in Al-Madina newspaper under the title, Thoughts of a Young Man as well. Addressed to young men and women, and through these five minutes, Al-Shukairy deals with a number of issues raised among young people, such as the hijab and work, and the reason for the youth’s reluctance to read, in addition to asking questions about the state of the Islamic nation and its ability to achieve renaissance and self-sufficiency from its resources. However, the program was criticized for its audacity in a way that the Arab viewer is not used to. Ahmed Al-Shugairi’s fame increased in Saudi Arabia and the Arab world after this series, which achieved great success, and some attribute the reason for his success to the simplicity of his style and his treatment of youth and nation issues, which always began with his saying:

“I am not a scholar, nor a mufti, nor a jurist, but rather a seeker of knowledge.”
In the Khawatir program, Al-Shukairy used a simple, smooth language that addresses the issues of society. His words reach easily and easily without affectation or artificiality. He addresses the mind and conscience at the same time in a practical practice of the jurisprudence of calling to God, and a deep understanding of the purposes of the Supreme Sharia applied on the ground, and is stronger than all that method. Which Al-Shukairy presented as the model for the youth of his generation through his work, manifesting and informing, so he was one of the most influential preachers on the youth of his generation, speaking in their language and language. Other cafes took the curve of killing time, so Al-Andalusia was the first Islamic cafe to restore the book to its status, and to be the nucleus of motivating the youth of the Iqra nation to read.

From the first show of the program, Khawater gained great popularity, especially among young men and women. The presenter used to speak in a colloquial dialect and dress as young men wear, which was a reason to bring him closer to young people, and he communicated advice directly from young man to young man without any complication. Shugairi was subjected to several fierce criticisms over the course of time. His Thoughts, and the program met in its first edition with success in a way that surprised everyone, including its presenter, who decided to continue Thoughts as a Ramadan program every year and to continue success over the following years. Ahmed Al Shugairi imposed himself in a few years, so his program rose to the first row in the ladder of successful and distinguished programs that It carries an added innovative value in the world of cultural media, material, performance, directing, contemporary and keeping up with the latest arts of attractive presentation full of innovations.

If it was between us
Program If We Were by Ahmed Al-Shugairi, his idea is to evoke the Prophet Muhammad in the contemporary time - the present - and whether Muslims will carry out their current behavior or not. It aims to achieve the Sunnah of the Prophet in daily actions in the 21st century. The program raises a question: How would the Messenger of God act or judge certain situations in this time as if he were among us, and for this reason Al-Shugairi goes down to the street and meets people, shedding light on many of their daily practices And he compares them to the practices of the Messenger, as it came in the biography of the Prophet, trying to extrapolate the answers and lessons with the aim of embodying them in applied practices that we carry out in our lives. In its episodes, the program discusses many topics that affect our real life, such as how to deal with a water tap, the importance of removing harm from the road, and the need to thank God for His blessings in order to bless them. The program consists of two parts, each part contains 15 episodes.

Qumra program
Main article: Qumra (program)
O program
Main article: Sen (program)
The first season was shown on MBC1 in 2021, and the second season was shown on the same channel in 2023.

Film charity from the city and film charity from the sanctuary
In the movie Ihsan from the Haram, Al-Shugairi touched on aspects of the management of the sanctuary, from watering Zamzam to cleaning services, the process of perfuming, helping people with special needs, and the reading of the sanctuary.

Social, cultural and literary activity

Screenshot of Ahmed Al Shugairi's website Thaqafa.com
In addition to programmes, Al-Shugairi owns several cultural projects through which he seeks to return the nation of Iqra to reading. In 2005, he started several endowment and non-profit projects, including the Khawater program, the Andalusia Cultural Café in Jeddah, and the Culture.net website. The aim of these projects is to improve and develop society in a modern and acceptable way. In the youth segment. After 7 years have passed, Al-Shugairi, along with Al-Fozan Group, the International Medical Center, and Osoul Company, decided to move these projects to the next stage by establishing the non-profit Aram Al-Ihsan Holding Company, which seeks to spread the concept of charity in society through the production of targeted television programs, the development of the Andalusia Cultural Café, and the transformation of the Culture.dot website. NET to a social networking site that aims to spread the culture of reading and volunteer work, all this with the aim of improving Arab societies to the best to reach the ranks of the first world.

Culture site
The Culture website contains a lot of information related to issues that are raised from time to time in the program and is presented in the form of a campaign in which a large number of Internet users participate. The site includes clips from the Khawater program.

Andalusia Cafe
Main article: Andalusian Library
Al-Shugairi also established a cultural café called Andalusia, which is located in the city of Jeddah in Saudi Arabia. It contains books from various branches of knowledge. It is the first cultural café in Jeddah. The café was later closed.

Al-Shukairy created the Andalusia website on the Internet to take care of the cultural and literary affairs.

Ihsan website
Main article: Ihsan (website)
Al-Shugairi established the Ihsan website or i7san, which is considered the first interactive social network to spread culture and volunteer work in the Arab world, as it allows its members to create and promote volunteer projects and obtain support. The site acts as a link between volunteers, volunteer clubs and supporters, to promote volunteer work in the Arab world.

The light of the Ihsan website appeared when Ahmed Al-Shugairi launched it on the Internet and made it its main goal to attract 100,000 volunteers in 2012 and another million volunteers by 2014. The core purpose of a website such as Ihsan Network is to work as a link between three parties: volunteers, volunteer clubs, supporters, To activate volunteer work in the Arab world. Ihsan website users can volunteer financially or in kind, or through personal effort in one of the volunteer projects on the network.

Through the main page of the site, it is possible to access: the main, members, clubs - and it is possible to join existing clubs or create a special supportive club for a project - it is possible to create a project or view and participate in existing projects, a library, articles, news, polls, competitions, and through The homepage also enables the individual to be a supporter of the site and its volunteer projects.

Thoughts of a young man
Main articles: Thoughts of a Young Man (book), Thoughts of a Young Man 2 (book), and Thoughts of a Young Man 3 (book)
A series no less influential than the TV program Thoughts of a Young Man, which had a major role in changing many young men and women and changing many social issues for the better, in its style directed especially to the youth and adolescents, as it addresses souls directly mixing love of religion, youth spirit and understanding of reality. The first book of the series appeared in 2006, and although most of the topics raised are the same as those raised in all parts of the program, additional paragraphs have been added, especially for the paper version. Some texts and revisions were also added to the rest of the topics. A series of thoughts concerned with self-development, printed to keep pace with its acquisition in the journeys in which some are forced to wait, and it is possible to transform the ideas presented in this book into practical applications in the Arab world, as there is no individual, whatever his age, job or social status, except that he can benefit and apply one of The ideas presented in the three-part series. The journey of the book, Thoughts of a Young Man, began with a collection of articles written by Al-Shugairi before he decided to turn her idea into a short TV program. Obeikan Library printed.

The series was characterized by the sobriety and simplicity of the style, and the series is considered the paper material for the program that millions admired and influenced many Muslims, especially the target group of society, which is the youth group. He looked at it, and it also carries with it some additions that I lacked in the previous article.

family situation
Al-Shugairi married twice and obtained a divorce with the first, and he is now married to Saudi Rola Dashisha. The couple had two children, Youssef and Ibrahim. In addition to his media activities, he owns a commercial project of his own, from which he spends on himself and his family in selling household items, in addition to his advocacy and volunteer work.

Cultural legacy
Since its inception, Al-Shugairi drew attention to him with the idea of his program and the way he presented and presented matters. He provided his youth with the characteristics of enthusiasm and took from the elders their wisdom and eloquence of advice, so he was able to mix between the wisdom of the sheikhs and the enthusiasm of the youth. To occupy it until it became a symbol of inspiration for the Arab youth, and even described them as a man of change.

Al-Shugairi was considered a shining star for the new generation of satellite channels, whose educational television programs helped revive the teachings of religion in the Arab world. With the end of the last century, the number of channels devoted to religious orientation increased from 1 to 30 channels, and religious education became broadcast on public stations, such as the program presented by Al-Shugairi. Many succeeded like him. In reaching out to a thirsty and well-informed young audience, but completely estranged from both politics and the traditional religious establishment, especially that prevalent in the Arab Republic of Egypt and Saudi Arabia, Al-Shukairy was able to blend deep religious commitment with elegance and a playful mood, and many times refer to Islam as a great creation that needs ascending. Better, but his message of religious moderation is very strong and clear, and he obtained an M.B.A. during his years in California.

Al-Shugairi is not the first or the only one of its kind. The Egyptian thinker and reformer Amr Khaled began to reach huge numbers of audiences during the past years. This field in the media also expanded greatly through the creation of websites for each of them and the writing of collections of books. Very different from the dry, educational style of many Muslim sheikhs. In one of the episodes, the camera followed Shugairi through the city of Jeddah in his wanderings, asking people where he could find a library, and no one knew. Given to the poor until one time he sat like a hidden camera - mute style - confronting people who were stealing wallets from the sidewalk and asking them if the Prophet would do such behaviour, each time Shugairi ends with lessons on environmental awareness and mindful leadership he lived in the West and spoke of the Qur'an as a contemporary moral guide And not a set of strict laws of the past centuries, as if he was saying: “You can enjoy yourself, keep your independence, and at the same time be a good Muslim.”

Advocacy method
Ahmed Al-Shugairi’s advocacy method in his last three seasons was based on the idea of learning through observation, simulation, imitation, or in another concept, learning through modeling or modeling. Pandora’s observational learning theory is one of the psychology theories that have tried over the years to explain complex human behavior. Then promote this behavior in different areas of life.

The word model refers to an actual person whose behavior is a role model for those who observe him, so his behavior is inspiring for the issuance of a response to everyone who observes him, although the efforts of education scholars are vigorous in benefiting from the data of this theory in advancing the level of education and advancing the level of models and role models in the vicinity of children and youth in particular However, these efforts have not achieved results - so far - to the required level. And the biggest beneficiaries of the results of the observational learning theory are the merchants and the owners of major companies, which market goods and products by using symbols and models - from famous people, artists and stars - for those goods and products in different forms and situations.

The program also relied on the theory and method of preaching shock, a method that Khawater started from the fifth season and is still proceeding on his approach, despite the different ways of dealing with each season. Khawater also found an outlet to get out of the traditional stereotypical preaching, as he is trying to get out of the completely ideal preaching system to broader horizons and more capable of raising questions, even if his focus is on the primary, middle and secondary stage. Most of those who give religious lectures or stand on platforms today did nothing but read some heritage books, and only a few of them took it upon themselves to teach people something new that they had not heard since they were students in school, but serving religion is not only preaching, but rather teaching. People how to build civilized societies, by teaching them how to create a global education system, by pushing them to stand up to government corruption, and by instilling the principles of human tolerance in their hearts.

Theses Ahmed Shugairi
Ihsan
See also: Ihsan (Islam)

Charity logo
What is meant in the prophetic definition of charity - according to Al-Shukairy - is that you do any work in the best (better) way possible. With this concept, the word charity expands to the meaning of perfection, and the benefactors are the ones who perfect their work. In the best way, in the shelves designated for shoes, to be among the benefactors, and when you perform ablution, make sure to leave the place clean for the one after you, and do not waste water to be among the benefactors. One of the benefactors, and so benevolence in all aspects of life. Charity as a concept and a value that is missing in the Arab Islamic culture has been repeated frequently in the Khawater program since the sixth season, where it is employed as a flash alarm whenever a good deed picked up by the program is shown, and Al-Shugairi’s message from his view of charity is to revive the culture of charity represented in perfecting works and performing them in the best way and in the best way.

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Awards and titles
Al-Shugairi won the first place as the most powerful young influential figure in the Arab world in the referendum conducted by the Emirati magazine Shabab 20. He was also nominated for the second time in the same award and fought a strong competition with the Qur’an reciter Mashari Rashid Al-Afasy, and he is one of the most attractive young men in his way. giving him the speech.
In 2010, he won the Best Young Media Personality Award at the Third Young Media Forum in Jordan. Al-Shugairi ranked one hundred and forty-third (143) in the list of the five hundred most influential Arab personalities in the Arab world. A list based on and published by Arabian Business magazine, and it has now been published for the eighth year in a row. It is a list of the five hundred most powerful (500) Arab personalities who have been able to greatly influence their societies or the societies in which they live. Usually, the list includes 100 personalities, but the magazine decided to expand it in 2011 to 500 figures. In addition to winning the award for the most respected personality and being ranked first in the Arab world.
The Japanese Embassy in Saudi Arabia honored Ahmed Al-Shugairi for his cooperation in developing the relationship between Japan and Saudi Arabia through part of his program, where Al-Shugairi dealt with Japanese culture in his program “Thoughts”. He was awarded the certificate by the Japanese Ambassador Shigeru Endo in appreciation of Al-Shugairi’s efforts. Increasing the interest of the Saudi people in all aspects of Japanese society.” The memorial ceremony for awarding the certificate of appreciation was held at the ambassador's residence, in the presence of the representative of the Kingdom Holding Company, Dr. Mona Abu Suleiman, and a number of former Saudi students in Japan.
Al-Shukairy's program, Khawatir, won the Best TV Cultural Program Award.
Al-Shugairi won the Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for Knowledge, the Sheikh Isa bin Ali Al Khalifa Award for Honoring the Pioneers of Voluntary Work, and the Ithra Award from the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture.
At the beginning of 2020, Ahmed Al-Shugairi won the Education Academy Award sponsored by the Union of Arab Creators, a member of the United Nations and the Arab League Federations Forum, which is organized by the Human Resources Development Center in Dubai.
He won the Favorite Influencer Award from the Joy Awards in its third edition 2023.

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