Nasser Al-Othman

Nasser Al-Othman (; born in 1939, full name Nasser Mohammed Al-Othman Al-Fakhroo) is a Qatari journalist and author. He formerly directed the Culture and Arts Department, a now-defunct governmental agency which supervised Qatar's cultural development. He also served as editor in chief of daily newspaper Al Raya and has been attributed with the creation of Qatar's first radio station.

Education Al-Othman began his primary schooling in 1949. He studied in Lebanon from 1952 to 1961, graduating from International College in Beirut.

In 1978, he was involved in the founding of Gulf Publishing & Printing Company, the parent company of newspapers Gulf Times and its Arabic counterpart, Al Raya. He joined Al Raya as editor in chief in 1979.

He became the first Qatari journalist to be allowed entry into the Soviet Union in 1985. He parted ways with Al Raya in 1986, and joined Al Sharq three years later. He was elected as secretary general of the Gulf Press Association in 2005. He was later elected to the advisory board of the Doha Centre for Media Freedom, being the only Qatari on a board consisting of ten members.