Omar Abdulaziz Al-Zahrani (Arabic: عمر بن عبد العزيز الزهراني) is a Saudi Arabian dissident video blogger and activist living in exile in Montreal, Canada.
[3] Consulting firm McKinsey & Company named Abdulaziz in an internal report as one of the top Saudi influencers on Twitter.
[3] He applied for asylum in Canada in 2014, when his student scholarship was cancelled after he criticised the Saudi government.
[4] Abdulaziz was close friends[3] and worked with Jamal Khashoggi—the Saudi dissident and journalist for The Washington Post—on various initiatives after Khashoggi left the kingdom to live in exile in 2017.
[1][4] His story features prominently in the film The Dissident (2020), directed by Bryan Fogel.