World's 50 Richest Arabs

[Abdul-Curim]

1. $20.15 BILLION
Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Al Saud
Saudi Arabia
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The Saudi Prince runs a business empire thar now streches across four continents. It has now also made him the world's fourth richest man.

2. $9,2 BILLION
Nasser Al Kharafi
Kuwait

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The tycoon has made his fortune from range of industries, and now adding to it by helping rebuild Iraq.

3. $6.8 BILLION
The Olayan Family
Saudi Arabia

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The Olyan Group started life over fifty years ago as small trucking group. Today it is a world class diversified industrials company.

4. $6.7 BILLION
The Bin Laden Family
Saudi Arabia

The Bin Laden Family run one of the world's most successful consturction companies.

5. $5.2 BILLION
Rafik Al-Hariri
Lebanon

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The Prime Minister of Lebano is also one of the world's riches Arabs, thanks to the massive constuction group he owns.

6. $4.5 BILLION
Mahdi al-Tajir
UAE

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Al-Tajir has benn rich for three decades. Nobody has made more money out of Dubai's status as a free trade port.

7. $4.1 BILLION
Abdul AZIZ Al Qhurair family
UAE

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The tycoon owns the oldest bank in the UAE, and even his grandparents have a habit of making good money.

8. $3.8 BILLION
The Kanoo Family
Bahrian

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The family is not shy to declare the scale of its wealth. It has produced a book on it.

9. $3.5 BILLION
Majid Al Futtaim
UAE

The Al-Futtaim Group split ar board level four yeares ago, with the founding brothers takeing separate divisions.

10. $3.4 BILLION
Abdulla Al Futtaim
UAE

The exclusive UAE dealership for several carmakers has helped turn Abdulla into a Dubai billionire. And he's getting even richer.

11. $3.35 BILLION
Saleh Al Rajhi
Saudi Arabia

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The Al Rajhi family own one of the Gulf's biggest investment banks.

12. $3.3 BILLION
Khalid bin Mafouz
Saudi Arabia

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Khalid Bin Mafouz has been stuck down by illness, leaving his family to look after the massive fortune he built up.

13. $2.95 BILLION
Mohamed Jameel
Saudi Arabia

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Jameel not only runs the worl's largest Toyota dealership, he is also in charge of Saudi Arabia's bigges finance firm

14. $2.5 BILLION
Nadhmi Auchi
Iraq

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The tycoon is Itaq's richest man, though not without legal problems

15. $2 BILLION
Faisal Al Ayyar
Kuwait

Al Ayyar runs Kuwait's biggest private company, with operations in 70 countries.

16. $1.8 BILLION
Saudi Arabia
Sulaiman Bin Abdul Al Rajhi

The tycoon is one of four brother's sharing their banking family cash

17. $1.65Mohammed Al Amoudi
Ethiopia
Mohammed Al Amoudi

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He is the second largest invester in Sweden and Ethopia, owning a lavish hotel

18. $1.63 BILLION
Mohammed AL Fayed
Egypt

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Now 71 years old, there is no sign of the Egyption born tycoon slowing down.

19. $1.6 BILLION
Mohammed Bin Issa AL Jabber
Saudi Arabia

AL Jabber is the Saudi tycoon who likes to spend, spend and spend. Just ask fellow billionair Warren Buffett.

20. $1.5 BILLION
Wafic Said
Syria

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The Mr Fixit of arams world has made a fortune over the last two decades.

21. $1.45 BILLION
The Al Shaya Family
Kuwait

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The Al Shaya Group is over a century old. Its latest ventures is rolling out the Starbuckes brand in the Gulf.

22. $1.4 BILLION
Maan AL-Sanea
Kuwait

Maan Al-Sanea's background is in flying jets, but he gave it all up make a huge it all up to make a huge fortune in civil engineering.

23. $1.35 BILLION
Saleh Kamel
Saudi Arabia

Saleh Kamel has a passion for media. It is one that has cost him a small fortune along the way. But he hasn't stopped.

24. $1.3 BILLION
Al Zamil Family
Saudi Arabia

The family employs around 8,000 people in one of the Saudi Arabia's largest private enterprises.

25. $1.25 BILLION
Khalaf Al Habtoor
UAE

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He is the pioneering builder behind the world fampous seven star Burj Al Arab in Dubai.

26. $1.2 BILLION
Mohamed Al Bahar
Kuwait

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Al Bahra is widely seen as being the elder statesman of Gulf business.

27. $1.15 BILLION
The Dabbagh Family
Saudi Arabia

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The Dabbagh Group was initially founded by Sheikh Abdulla Dabbagh in 1962, a former Saudi Minister for Agriculture.

28. $1.12 BILLION
The Jameel Family
Saudi Arabia

Abdul Latif Jameel runs a huge financial and motoring services group in Afria and across Asia

29. $1.1 BILLION
Adnan Kashoggi
Saudi Arabia

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The international arms dealer has swapped his business life for the celebirty jet set circuit in recent years.

30. $980 MILLION
The Al Rostomani Family
UAE

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The family started in business launching Dubai's first ever book shop Al-Ahliya library.

31. $950 MILLION
The Boodai Family
Kuwait

The family's latest money making vnture is the launch of low cost airline based in Kuwait.

32. $900 MILLION
Simon Halabi
Syria

The Syrian born property dealer has made the UK his home, and is buying more property in the country.

33. $800 MILLION
Naguib Sawiris
Egypt

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The tycoon is plannig a strike on the Iraqi mobile networks market, which will make him even richer.

34. $700 MILLION
Al Tayer Family
UAE

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The family runs one of the most diversified industria groups in the Gulf, based in the UAE.

35. $630 MILLION
The Shoman Family
Jordan

The family of the founder Arab Bank has kept the financial torch burning.

36. $610 MILLION
Mohammed Ali Alabbar
UAE

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The chairman of Emaar properties has his hands in several other business pies across the world.

37. $600 MILLION
Mohammed Al Suwaidi
Saudi Arabia

Al Suwaidi runs a prominent Saudi based group which is looking at a stock market flotation.

38. $550 MILLION
Rashid AL Habtoor
UAE

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The polo playing son of Khalaf Al Habtooe has made a fortune in his own right.

39, $520 MILLION
Saeb Nahas
Syria

Saeb Nahas made a packet trading with Saddam Hussein's former regime in Iraq for a number of years .

40. $510 MILLION
Othman Al Aa'di
Syria

When it comes to runnig fabulous hotels, no-one does it better than Othman Al Aa'idi.

41. $425 MILLION
Abdulrahman Saad Al Rashid
Saudi Arabia

Saad Al-Rashi is doing so well, he has just made a huge donation to open an Arab University in Hong Kong.

42. $420 MILLION
Mohammed Khalfan bin Kharbash
UAE

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The chairman of the UAE's state owned telecomes provider is also the country's finance minister- and a very rich one.

43. $415 MILLION
Dr. Omar Al Zawawi
Oman

Textiles and industrial goods have helped make Oman's special represntative for foreighn affairs a wealthy man.

44. $410 MILLION
Iskander Sada
Lebanon

He left war torn lebanon ar age of 22, and made his cash by arranging business deals for western companies.

45. $380 MILLION
Mouna Ayoub
Lebanon

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Divorced four years ago and Ayoub's pay off, plus the assests she kept, have made her one of the world's richest Arab women.

46. $350 MILLION
Sam Hamman
Lebanon

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He was born in Lebanon but made his mark in the UK by taking over small soccer clubs.

47. $310 MILLION
Fawaz Zureikat
Jordan

The oil for food programme was by the Iraqi regime, with many benefactors.

48. $300 MILLION
Ahmad Zayat
Egypt

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Ahmad Zayat's company made its big money in the Middle East by promoting non-alcoholic beer.

49. $300 MILLION
The Alizera Family
Saudi Arabia

The family has made its cash from number of ventures, with a history dating back over 100 years.

50. $215 MILLION
Ramy and Michael Lakah
Egypt

The infamous Egyption brothers are extremely rich, but have run into trouble recently.

[Crono]

uh, isn't this a bragging type post?...but then again..you prolly arn't rich..so i don't know

[cheeky]

hmm..out of which 15 r non-khaleeji's.

If only they spent it in the way of Allah.

[Supernova Nebula]

leave them alone with their wealth, on the Judgment Day, they'll be questioned by Allah how they spent their wealth, the wealthier u re the more questions you'll be asked, so, be thankful for who you are and what u have.

[Supernova Nebula]

hmm..out of which 15 r non-khaleeji's.

If only they spent it in the way of Allah.

what does khaleeji mean?

[Moayidd]

what does khaleeji mean?

Khaleej means Gulf, Khaleeji means a person from the Gulf (Arab Gulf) which is Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar and the Emirates.

[cheeky]

isnt saudi part of the arab gulf too?

[Jam]

In one of Dr Zakir Naik's famous lectures he calculated that if only the world's 52 richest men gave zakat (i.e. 2.5% of their wealth to the needy every year) world poverty would be eradicated.

What a beautiful system Islam has!

[amal]

Is not good at all to have so much money. Better average life

[Shaolin's-Finest]

Is not good at all to have so much money. Better average life

Yeh. Life would be so boring then. You'd have no dreams left and would have everything you'd want.

What the hell are these people gonna do with all this money? Why not support the needy, make charitys and support the rebuilding of damaged muslim countries!

[kaphirgoyim]

>>In one of Dr Zakir Naik's famous lectures he calculated that if only the world's 52 richest men gave zakat (i.e. 2.5% of their wealth to the needy every year) world poverty would be eradicated.<<

So these guys apparently aren't giving any Zakat then are they? As proof by all the poverty in thier countries.

[wiseking]

uh, isn't this a bragging type post?...but then again..you prolly arn't rich..so i don't know

Its a good post, not a brag but considering the richest Arab with $20.15Billion has less then 1/5 of the richest American (Bill gates with wealth estimated at over $100Billion) then i think they still have a while to go despite all that Oil.

now what would be really interesting is if someone could post the biographies of these 50 men so we can learn how they became so wealthy.

[Kaiser]

The thing is there more money you have the more you need and the less you want to share.

Besides there still is the thing that, you can put your money to better use then those "poverty" stricken ones.

[NoorAlHuda]

r they married?




just an innocent question....

[abdulhakeem]

In one of Dr Zakir Naik's famous lectures he calculated that if only the world's 52 richest men gave zakat (i.e. 2.5% of their wealth to the needy every year) world poverty would be eradicated.

What a beautiful system Islam has!

i suppose his calculation is based upon the assumption that this share is not watered by administration costs not to speak about corruption. there is a lot of charity money in the world but some people like to open their own pockets or to redirect the money flow into other operations e.g. arms trade.

[slmz :)]

and i wonder where all that money goes! WHITH JUST 25 QUID THEY COULD BUY A TENT 4 A FAMILY OF 6 IN IRAQ.... THINK ABOUT HOW MUCH TENTS THEY COULD BUY.... THINK ABOUT ALL THE LIVES THEY COULD MAKE HAPPY!!

[Ali_Khan]

Didnt they miss out that Palestinian Telecommunications tycoon who made his billions from building cell phone networks in africa and asia?

[Brother_Daniel]

The sad thing is that alot of these Arab princes from the Gulf go gamble away hundreds of millions of dollars instead of helping the ummah.

[Arsalan]

if those 50 rich arabs put thier heads together , and brains inshAllah, they could have helped eliminate alot of povery and suffering in africa !!!!

[Supernova Nebula]

if those 50 rich arabs put thier heads together , and brains inshAllah, they could have helped eliminate alot of povery and suffering in africa !!!!

so very true

[amal]

r they married?




just an innocent question....

I think they are But don't forget they are not spending too much money on the wife needs.I might be wrong too

[Ahlam]

Asalamu Alaykum

It is sick how humans can be so greedy and damn selfish sometimes…if all the rich people used their money for good cause many countries would not be in poverty! May Allah (swt) guide them to the straight path…

[Kaiser]

Asalamu Alaykum

It is sick how humans can be so greedy and damn selfish sometimes…if all the rich people used their money for good cause many countries would not be in poverty! May Allah (swt) guide them to the straight path…

Its not about greed, its about what is sane, you do not know, you do not have such wealth, you cannot imagine how it is.

Not to mention, why give away what is yours by right, what you have earned, for nothing for someone who deserves it not, they know not what do with the money anyway, it is better they never see any of it, lest they harm themselves and others with it.

There is no reason why they would deserve any aid at all, yet it is still given to them and they live on lazy as they are.

[Baby Paw]

Feed the poor, help the needy.