country_of_citizenship fawwaz bin abdulaziz al saud
The House of Saud (" l Sad " ) is the ruling royal family of ___MASK69___ . The family has thousands of members . It is composed of the descendants of Muhammad bin Saud , founder of the Emirate of Diriyah , known as the First Saudi state ( 1818  91 ), and his brothers , though the ruling faction of the family is primarily led by the descendants of Ibn Saud , the modern founder of ___MASK69___ . ___MASK69___ , officially known as the Kingdom of ___MASK69___ ( KSA ), is an ___MASK33___ sovereign state in Western Asia constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula . With a land area of approximately , ___MASK69___ is geographically the fifth - largest state in Asia and second - largest state in the ___MASK33___ world after ___MASK18___ . ___MASK69___ is bordered by Jordan and Iraq to the north , Kuwait to the northeast , Qatar , Bahrain , and the United ___MASK33___ Emirates to the east , Oman to the southeast , and Yemen to the south . It is separated from Israel and Egypt by the Gulf of Aqaba . It is the only nation with both a Red Sea coast and a Persian Gulf coast , and most of its terrain consists of arid desert or barren landforms . Fawwaz bin Abdulaziz ( 1934 -- 19 July 2008 ) was a senior member of the House of Saud . In 2006 , Fawwaz became one of the members of the Allegiance Commission . However , he died in July 2008 , some six months after the establishment of the council . Diriyah , formerly romanized as Dereyeh and Dariyya , is a town in ___MASK69___ located on the north - western outskirts of the Saudi capital , Riyadh . Diriyah was the original home of the Saudi royal family , and served as the capital of the Emirate of Diriyah under the first Saudi dynasty from 1744 to 1818 . Today , the town is the seat of the Diriyah Governorate , which also includes the villages of Uyayna , Jubayla , and Al - Ammariyyah , among others , and is part of Ar Riyad Province . Abdulaziz ibn Abdul Rahman ibn Faisal ibn Turki ibn Abdullah ibn Muhammad Al Saud (; 15 January 1875  9 November 1953 ), usually known within the ___MASK33___ world as Abdulaziz and in the West as Ibn Saud , was the first monarch and founder of ___MASK69___ , the " third Saudi state ".