According to Egyptian media, it was announced today, Friday, September 1, 2023, that the Egyptian billionaire Mohamed Al-Fayed died in Britain at the age of 94 years, while the funeral was held after Friday prayers from the “Reagan’s Park” Mosque in London.
The businessman life:-
First: his personal life
Mohamed Al-Fayed was born on January 27, 1929 AD, in the Ras El-Tin area of Alexandria.
He was the only son of a simple father who used to work as an Arabic language teacher in a government school.
He was recently living in Switzerland, and he is the father of Dodi Al-Fayed and Camelia Al-Fayed.
Second: his working life
Mohamed Al-Fayed began working at a young age, where he did several jobs, including being a porter of goods in the port of Alexandria.
Mohammed Al-Fayed began making his fortune when he traveled to the United Kingdom in the mid-1960s, then traveled to Saudi Arabia, where he met the Saudi businessman Adnan Khashoggi and married his sister, the writer Samira Khashoggi. Adnan also helped him enter the import trade in the Kingdom until a foreigner, the Sultan of Brunei, became responsible for his wealth, convincing him to invest his money in England.
Mohamed Al-Fayed is on the list of wealthy Arabs:-
Mohamed Al-Fayed is ranked 12th on the list of the richest Arabs, with a net worth of $2 billion, while he is ranked 1516th in the world, according to the Forbes classification.
