Background
Alshugairi was born in the city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Alshugairi was born in the city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
After graduating from Manarat high school in Jeddah he moved to the United States where he received his Bachelor of Arts in Management Systems, and an Master of Business Administration at University of California, Berkeley.
He is best known for his program Khawatir that spanned from 2005 to 2015, which was a critical and a commercial success within Saudi Arabia. He has notable social media exposure with 13 million followers (as of March 2016), ranked in the world top 100 as well as #1 in Saudi Arabia in 2015 on twitter. In 1996, he returned to Saudi Arabia and started working in his father"s business.
His father Mazen Alshugairi, his mother Affaf Ali.
The couple have two boys named Yousef and Ibrahim. Starting his media career in 2002, in the television program, Yalla Shabab, and a second program, A Travel with Shiekh Hamza Yusuf on MBC. He is the host of Khawatir, an annual television show that aired during Ramadan from 2005 to 2015.
Twenty Youth magazine (Magalet Shabab 20) in Emirates placed him the first in its list as the most influential in the Arab world.