Nasser Al-Saeed

Nasser Al Saeed (born 1923) was a Saudi Arabian writer and the founder of the Arabian Peninsula People's Union (APPU). He was one of the most significant critics of the Saudi royal family. He was kidnapped in December 1979 in Beirut, Lebanon, and his whereabouts have been unknown since then. His case is the first reported instance of the state-sponsored abduction by Saudi Arabia.

Biography Al Saeed was born in 1923 to a Hail-based family belonging to the Shammar tribe. He was employed in Aramco.

Al Saeed took part in protests against the Saudi royal establishment in 1947 due to the inefficiency of Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries to end the attempts to establish an Israeli state in the Middle East. His opposition continued in the 1950s through radio broadcast. At the end of the same year and in the early days of 1954 Al Saeed and other strike leaders formed the National Reform Front. which was renamed as the Union of the Sons of the Arabian Peninsula.

Al Saeed settled in Sanaa, North Yemen, where he founded an office for the APPU in 1963. In the book Al Saeed claimed that the Saudi ambassador to Egypt, Abdullah bin Ibrahim Al Mufaddal, asked Muhammad Al Tamimi in 1943 to create a fake family tree for the Al Saud family and the family of Muhammad Abd al Wahhab, founder of Wahhabism, and to relate them to the origins of Muhammad. It is also argued in the book that the Al Saud have Jewish roots. Ghassan Salamé remarks that Tarikh Al Sa'ud is not objective and lacks the necessary evidence to support its strong claims against the Saudi royal family. He described the seizure as a revolution that was the result of newly emerging controversies in Saudi Arabia. He added that the incident was organized by the opposition forces and carried out by military officials and tribesmen. Madawi Al Rashid argued in 2018 that Ali Shaher, Saudi ambassador to Lebanon, also assisted the capture of Al Saeed.

Personal life Al Saeed was married and had children.