Luai Ahmed

Luai Ahmed (; born September 5, 1993) is a Yemeni and Swedish journalist, columnist, and influencer. Ahmed is active on social media and is considered a critic of radical Islam and antisemitism in Islam. Ahmed is openly gay.

Biography Ahmed was raised in the capital of Yemen, Sana'a. He grew up in his home with the values instilled in him by his mother, Amal Basha, a peace and women's rights activist

Following his mother's feminist activism, the Al-Qaeda organization threatened his family in 2013 in an open letter to the population in Yemen to receive his family's address.

Ahmed is active on social networks with accumulatively more than 600k followers, on X with 200,000 followers, 300,000 on Instagram, 75,000 on TikTok, and 11,000 on Facebook. His videos get millions of views on average. During October 2023, his videos went viral on the network, and in the months since October and November 2023, he added about 100,000 followers. He condemns what he says is the hypocrisy of the Middle East, the hatred of Jews that is instilled from a young age, the servitude to religion and the Muslim world's delay in social and technological progress. because phobia (according to him) implies an extremely irrational and exaggerated fear. The fear of liberals, and especially free women in Islamic societies, of prison or the death penalty, is a rational and legitimate fear – so Ahmed said in an interview with the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.

On February 27th, 2025, Ahmed delivered a speech at the UN Human Rights Watch, where he condemned the organization’s purported silence on the ongoing crises in Yemen, Syria, and Sudan, and claimed that they are consistently overshadowed by the UN’s primary focus on Israel.

Ahmed has made media appearances such as Piers Morgan, Sky News, as well as Swedish national television SVT, and Israeli television channels.

His story has been profiled in a variety of international publications, such as Charlie Hebdo, The Jerusalem Post, and The Times of Israel. He has also been featured in Germany’s Die Welt, Sweden’s Hallandsposten, and Israel Hayom.

Education

Ahmed studied international business at the Lebanese International University in Yemen. He also studied International Migration and Ethnic Relations at Malmö University.