Fajer Al-Saeed
Fajer Othman Al-Saeed is a Kuwaiti screenwriter, producer, and journalist.
Biography
At the beginning, Fajer Al-Saeed was writing on the radio, but her fame started with the first work she wrote for television, the series "The last decision". In addition to being a writer, she produces her own work through her company Scope Art Production. On 7 July 2007, she launched a television channel, Scope Channel affiliated with her company. At the present time, her company's work is not limited to producing works that she writes only, but has begun to expand since 2005 to produce works for other writers, Al-Saeed had stopped writing dramas since 2010.Private life
Al-Saeed is the sister of Talal Al-Saeed, the former MP, poet and journalist. On 21 March 2010, she married the lawyer Saud Al-Subaie.TV presenting
In November 2018, she experimented with TV presenting on her channel Scope, in the political variety program "Here’s Kuwait". In Ramadan 2019, She presented the program “Scope gathering”.Controversies
On New Year's Eve 2019, Al-Saeed called for the normalization of relations with Israel and the investment of Arab capital in it, as she added in her tweet on Twitter: "I expect the New Year 2019, God willing, will be a year of goodness, security and safety, and on this happy occasion, I like to say to you, I strongly support normalization with the State of Israel, opening up trade with it, introducing Arab capital for investment and opening up tourism, especially religious tourism, Al-Aqsa, the Dome of the Rock and the Church of the Resurrection".On 9 January 2019, Al-Saeed had an interview with the Israeli Kan channel and repeated her call for normalization and about "peace between the Arab peoples and Israel".
She also criticized rocket launches by Palestinian militants on 14 March 2019, during clashes between Gaza and Israel.
Al-Saeed sparked controversy on social media in a video on her personal account in September 2024 in Georgia, describing the two Israelis she was standing with as “cousins.”
On 9 January 2025, she was placed under investigation in her country and sentenced to 21 days of detention for advocating normalization with Israel.