Saad Albazei is a Saudi Critic, thinker and translator. He holds a bachelor’s degree in English Literature from King Saud University (1974), a master’s degree in English Literature from Purdue University in Indiana (1978), and a PhD in English and American Literature from Purdue University (1983). His research was about Orientalism in European Literature. He is a professor of English and Comparative Literature at King Saud University, Riyadh since 1984. He joined the Shura Council in 2009. He held a number of positions such as editor-in-chief of the Riyadh Daily, an English-speaking newspaper, editor-in-chief of the second edition of the Global Arabic Encyclopedia, a member of King Saud University Scientific Council, the president of the Riyadh Literary Club, a member of UNESCO international Fund to Support culture. For the last three decades, Dr. Albazei lectured and participated in conferences in countries including: Japan, USA, Germany, UK, Sweden, France, and the Arab World. He is well-known as a critic and researcher in the Saudi and Arabic cultural level. He chaired the judging panel for the 2014 Arabic Booker Prize. He has published widely in a number of Saudi and Arabic newspapers and international magazines and researches in English such as World Literature Today by University of Oklahoma. In addition to publications in Germany, Sweden and Poland. He was invited to lecture in Japan, Germany, France, UK, Russia, Algeria, Kuwait, UAE, Bahrain, Oman and Lebanon. His book review The Jewish Component in Western Civilization was published in Foreign Policy Journal of the US State Department, December 2008. He also edited and translated a number of Saudi poemss into English and he translated a number of books from English.