Waleed Bin Ibrahim Al Brahim

Waleed Al Ibrahim
Born	Waleed bin Ibrahim Al Ibrahim
Residence	Riyadh
Nationality	Saudi Arabian
Occupation	Chairman of Middle East Broadcasting Company (MBC)
Years active	1991 – present
Net worth	US$ 10.9 billion (2016)

Waleed bin Ibrahim Al Ibrahim (Arabic: وليد بن إبراهيم آل إبراهيم‎), better known as Waleed Al Ibrahim, is a Saudi Arabian businessman and chairman of Middle East Broadcasting Center (MBC). He is the first commercially successful TV channel owner in the Middle East.

He was reported to be arrested by the Saudi authorities on 4 November, as part of the 2017 Saudi Arabian anti-corruption arrests. He had earlier refused to sell his MBC TV stations to Mohammad bin Salman.

Waleed Al Ibrahim was born and raised in Saudi Arabia. He has eight brothers. Two of his elder brothers, Abdulaziz and Khalid, are businessmen investing in real estate in the U.S.. One of Waleed Al Ibrahim's sisters, Al Jawhara Al Ibrahim, was one of the wives of the late King Fahd. Another, Maha Al Ibrahim, is married to former deputy minister of defence and aviation, Prince Abdul Rahman. His third sister, Mohdi Al Ibrahim, is married to former Saudi minister of higher education,Khaled Al Angari.

Al Ibrahim received education in the US during the 1980s and completed his higher education there.

On 4 November, 2017, Waleed bin Ibrahim Al Ibrahim was arrested in Saudi Arabia in a "corruption crackdown" conducted by a new royal anti-corruption committee. This was done on authority of Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman.

After completing his university education, al Ibrahim founded ARA Productions and Television Studios (ARAvision) in Saudi Arabia. It was his first enterprise in media. Later, it was called ARA Group International, becoming a media conglomerate that is made up of several radio and television companies airing the whole Arab world.

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