Ghazi al-Gosaibi

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Ghazi al-Gosaibi ( Arabic غازي عبد الرحمن القصيبي, DMG Ġāzī ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān al-Quṣaibī ; born March 3, 1940 in Hufuf ; died August 15, 2010 in Riyadh ) was a Saudi Arabian writer , politician and diplomat .

Life

Gosaibi was born into a wealthy family of traders. He graduated from Cairo University in 1961 with a law degree , earned a master's degree from the University of Southern California in 1964, and a doctorate in law from the University of London in 1970 .

He was Saudi Ambassador to the United Kingdom (1992–2002), but had to resign after he published a poem in praise of a Palestinian female suicide bomber.

He then became his country's labor minister and remained so until his death. As Minister of Labor, he worked hard for better job opportunities for women. Due to the relatively high unemployment rate of 10.5% (as of 2009), he implemented a quota for Saudi companies according to which they must have a minimum proportion of Saudi employees. Many companies mainly employ foreign workers.

Despite his proximity to the ruling house, Gosaibi was considered the leading liberal voice in his homeland. His poems were based on motifs from desert culture. He also addressed the corruption of his homeland and Arab alienation in novels and wrote essays on the relationship between “Islam” and “the” West. Numerous books by Gosaibi were banned in Saudi Arabia.

Gosaibi died of cancer at the age of 70.

Publications

  • 1994: Shaqqat al-ḥurriyya (An apartment called Freedom)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Saudi politician and poet al-Gosaibi dies. BBC online , accessed August 16, 2010 .
  2. ^ Saudi Arabia's labor minister Ghazi Algosaibi dies. The Daily Telegraph , accessed August 16, 2010 .
  3. ↑ Saudi writer Al-Gosaibi dies. Focus-online, accessed August 16, 2010 .
personal data
SURNAME Gosaibi, Ghazi al-
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Quṣaibī, Ġāzī ʻAbd ar-Raḥmān
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Saudi Arabian writer, politician and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Hoof
DATE OF DEATH August 15, 2010
Place of death Riad