Ribal al-Assad

Ribal al-Assad (Arabic: ريبال الأسد; born 4 June 1975) is a Syrian businessman and political activist.

He is the son of Rifaat al-Assad and his third wife Line Al-Khayer, sister-in-law of the late Saudi king Abdullah bin Abdulaziz,[1] and is thus a member of the Assad family.

[2] In 2006, he became director of the London Bureau of the Arab News Network (ANN), a family owned television channel founded in 1997.

He has pointed-out how it has been overwhelmingly made up of members of the Muslim Brotherhood, who were not elected through a democratic process but hand-picked by Turkey and Qatar.

[9] Ribal al-Assad’s work as Chairman of the Iman Foundation has focused on promoting interfaith and inter cultural dialogue and challenging extremism across the world.