As a Saudi-American living in both the US and Thailand, I have a passion for multicultural fiction with a bent on familial dysfunction and darkness. My interests include reading, working out, indulging my endless craving for coffee, and cozying up in a café to write.

I attended Boston University in Massachusetts, earning a bachelor’s degree in Economics with elective concentrations in Creative Writing and Music Theory.

After college, I moved to Florida and began a career in banking. However, after the economic crash of 2008 and a life-changing armed robbery at my home, I experienced an “Eat Pray Love” moment. I decided to take a break to pursue my dreams of traveling and writing.

I am working on my debut novel, Dark of My Son, a work of fiction set in an exclusive boarding school. Dark of My Son is the journey away from the innocence of twelve-year-old Oliver, leading him from curiosity into the macabre of deceit and, ultimately, the worst of crimes. But Oliver isn’t without guidance from someone with secrets of his own: the school headmaster.

I also blog at Banker in the Sun, a site with a reach of over 100,000 monthly readers and which follows my adventures around the world. Blending my trekking experience with a foreign literary style, I focus on themes of family dysfunction and compromised values.

My nomadic lifestyle has taught me several languages. He uses the latter when visiting his roots in Saudi Arabia, where his grandfather, of the same name, served three successive monarchs as head advisor, first health minister, and senior delegate to the United Nations. This ultimately lay the groundwork for another novel, When Kings Fall.