Samira Khashoggi

Samira Khashoggi (; 1935 – March 1986) was a Saudi Arabian progressive author, as well as the founder of Al Sharkiah magazine. She was the sister of the Saudi businessman Adnan Khashoggi. She was the first wife of Egyptian businessman Mohamed Al-Fayed and the mother of filmmaker Dodi Al-Fayed. She died of a heart attack in 1986 at the age of 51.

Early life and education Samira Khashoggi was born in 1935. she was the daughter of Muhammad Khashoggi, King Abdulaziz Al Saud's personal doctor and Samiha Ahmed, a Saudi woman of Syrian descent. She was educated in Egypt. She was one of the Saudi women who supported the education of girls. The marriage lasted two years, and produced one child, Dodi Fayed. and had her second child, Jumana Yassin, who is the editor in chief of Al Sharkiah magazine.

Khashoggi was the aunt of actress and producer Nabila Khashoggi and political journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Khashoggi died in 1986.