Mohammed Jassem Al-Sager (Arabic: محمد جاسم الصقر; born 18 June 1951) is a Kuwaiti journalist, businessman, and politician.
[1] In 1980, he left the bank to become Chairman and Managing Director of Coast Investment & Development Co.[1] In 1983 he began working as a journalist, serving as editor-in-chief of Al-Qabas (English: "The Firebrand"), a daily newspaper.
[2] Along with colleague Ibrahim Marzouk, he was sentenced to six months in prison in 1998 on charges of "insulting the essence of the Divine Being", following the publication of a joke on Al-Qabas's "Entertainment" page: "Why did God expel Adam and Eve from paradise?
From 2005 to 2009, he also served as Chairman of the Arab Parliament,[4] in which role he worked with King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt to promote a reconciliation between battling Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah.
Al-Sager stated that he believed the next parliament would "also fail to implement the awaited reforms", these being an economic stimulus bill and a boost to the country's infrastructure.