Hisham Ali Hafiz (28 April 1931 - 26 February 2006) was a Saudi Arabian newspaper publisher and author.
Hafiz was born on 28 April 1931 in Medina[1] where his father and uncle founded the Al Madina newspaper in 1937.
The Saudi Government banned him from working as a journalist after a couple of years so he rejoined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Their first publication was Arab News, the first English-language daily newspaper in Saudi Arabia with the first edition published in 1974.
The success of Arab News led to the founding of an international Arabic-language newspaper Asharq Alawsat in 1978.