Ali Hussain Al-Awadhi
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Ali Hussain Al-Awadhi | |
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| Born | 2 May 1974 Sulaibikhat, Kuwait |
| Occupation | Political activist |
| Website | alialawadhi |
Ali Hussain Al-Awadhi (Arabic: علي حسين العوضي, born 2 May 1974) is a journalist, former student leader and politician from Kuwait. He is the first chairman of the Youth Association of Kuwait (then National Democratic Youth Association) and a founding member of the Democratic Ticket, a student group which runs for elections at Kuwait University – College of Science's student society. He is best known for being the editor-in-chief of Kuwaiti progressive weekly newspaper Al-Taleaa which is loosely linked to the Kuwait Democratic Forum (Arabic: المنبر الديمقراطي الكويتي).[1]
Al-Awadhi was born in Sulaibikhat where he attended Al-Awza'ai high school in 1988 and graduated in 1992. His father Hussain Al-Awadhi was employed in the Ministry of Communication for the Kuwaiti government and is of Persian ancestry. His parents are 3rd generation Kuwaitis.
In 1992, he was accepted in Kuwait University to study biology where he started his student activism. After a year in college he joined the ranks of leftist Democratic Circle Ticket to "change Kuwait to the better" but after some time he splintered with a group of students to form the Democratic Ticket because he and other students wanted less control from Kuwait Democratic Forum at that time which Democratic Circle was.