---
name: "Omar Abdulaziz"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/omar-abdulaziz"
fi1m_id: "omar-abdulaziz"
imdb_id: "nm11868214"
tmdb_id: 2763159
roles: []
born: "5 January 1991"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-02T22:08:49.342951+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Omar Abdulaziz

## Identity

Omar Abdulaziz

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/omar-abdulaziz
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** omar-abdulaziz
- **IMDb ID:** nm11868214
- **TMDB ID:** 2763159
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm11868214/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2763159

Actor. Born 5 January 1991 in جدة ، المملكة العربية السعودية.

## Details

- **Born:** 5 January 1991, جدة ، المملكة العربية السعودية
- **Also known as:** عمر بن عبد العزيز الزهراني, عمر الزهراني, عمر عبد العزيز, عمر بن عبد العزيز
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm11868214/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2763159

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*The Dissident*](https://film.one/film/the-dissident.md) (72)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Omar Abdulaziz, also credited as Omar Abdulaziz Alzahrani, is a Saudi Arabian video blogger and activist. He appears as himself in the 2020 documentary *The Dissident*, directed by Bryan Fogel, which examines the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi.

Born in Jeddah in 1991, Abdulaziz moved to Canada as a student. He was granted political asylum there in 2014 after criticising the Saudi government and became a permanent resident in 2017. He lives in exile in Montreal and hosts a YouTube programme known for its satirical criticism of the Saudi leadership. He directed the 2018 video *Goodbye Jamal*.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Dissident* (2020), Fi1m 72, as Self - Interviewee — [page](https://film.one/film/the-dissident.md)

## Complete filmography (1)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Salam Kaka* (2020), as Hemin

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