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  "ar": "الوليد بن طلال بن عبد العزيز آل سعود",
  "en": "Al Waleed bin Talal Al Saud",
  "ur": "الولید بن طلال بن عبد العزیز آل سعود"
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  "ar": "الأمير الوليد بن طلال بن عبد العزيز آل سعود ⁦(وُلد في ٧ آذار ١٩٥٥ في جدة)⁩ رجل أعمال ومستثمر سعودي من الأسرة المالكة، مؤسس شركة المملكة القابضة وكبير مساهميها؛ استثمر في سيتي غروب وآبل ونيوز كوربورة وسلاسل فنادق عالمية حتى لُقب بـ«وارن بافيت العربي»، واحتُجز في الريتز-كارلتون بالرياض في حملة تشرين الثاني ٢٠١٧ ثم أُطلق سراحه في كانون الثاني ٢٠١٨ بعد تسوية مالية.",
  "en": "Prince Al Waleed bin Talal Al Saud (born 7 March 1955 in Jeddah) is a Saudi businessman, investor and royal, founder and controlling shareholder of Kingdom Holding Company; his stakes in Citigroup, Apple, News Corporation and global hotel chains earned him the label 'the Arabian Warren Buffett', and he was detained at the Ritz-Carlton in Riyadh in the November 2017 purge and released in January 2018 after a financial settlement.",
  "ur": "شہزادہ الولید بن طلال بن عبد العزیز آل سعود ⁦(پیدائش 7 مارچ 1955، جدہ)⁩ سعودی کاروباری، سرمایہ کار اور شاہی خاندان کے فرد ہیں، کنگڈم ہولڈنگ کمپنی کے بانی و بڑے حصص دار؛ سٹی گروپ، ایپل اور نیوز کارپوریشن میں ان کی سرمایہ کاری پر انھیں «عرب وارن بفیٹ» کہا گیا، نومبر 2017 میں گرفتار ہوئے اور جنوری 2018 میں مالی تصفیے کے بعد رہا ہوئے۔"
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   "source": "English Wikipedia article 'Al Waleed bin Talal Al Saud' revision 1382760766 of 30 October 2026 (the title 'Al-Waleed bin Talal' redirects to it, and the QID was grounded from that article's own page property); Arabic Wikipedia article 'الوليد بن طلال بن عبد العزيز آل سعود' revision 77107710 of 30 October 2026; Wikidata item Q293679 revision 2561465049 of 27 October 2026 (all retrieved live in-session on 2 November 2026 via the MediaWiki API; the Wikidata revision re-asserted identical on a second query). His father Prince Talal bin Abdulaziz has no person record on main, so no child_of edge is written. The born_in edge targets place/jeddah, verified present on origin/main in-session. No record or draft stub for him existed on main (checked against origin/main on 2 November 2026 by slug, name fragments and QID). The queue's 1955 birth year is correct.",
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     "heading": "ملخص",
     "markdown": "الأمير الوليد بن طلال بن عبد العزيز آل سعود ⁦(وُلد سنة 1955)⁩ رجل أعمال ومستثمر ملياردير سعودي من الأسرة المالكة، مؤسس شركة المملكة القابضة ومالك 95 بالمئة منها، وأدرجته مجلة تايم في قائمة المئة الأكثر تأثيرًا سنة 2008 {cite:wikipedia-al-waleed-bin-talal-en} {cite:wikipedia-al-waleed-bin-talal-ar}. وسمته تايم «وارن بافيت العربي» {cite:wikipedia-al-waleed-bin-talal-en}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "حياته",
     "markdown": "وُلد الوليد في جدة في 7 آذار 1955 للأمير طلال بن عبد العزيز ومنى الصلح، ابنة رياض الصلح أول رئيس وزراء للبنان، وهو حفيد الملك عبد العزيز {cite:wikipedia-al-waleed-bin-talal-en} {cite:wikipedia-al-waleed-bin-talal-ar}. بعد انفصال والديه عاش مع أمه في لبنان ودرس في مدارس في بيروت والرياض، ونال البكالوريوس من كلية منلو في كاليفورنيا سنة 1979 والماجستير من جامعة سيراكيوز سنة 1985 {cite:wikipedia-al-waleed-bin-talal-en}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "أعماله",
     "markdown": "بدأ الوليد بثلاثين ألف دولار قدمها أبوه فبنى المملكة القابضة عبر اندماجات مصرفية سعودية ثم حصص عالمية، أشهرها إنقاذ سيتي كورب باستثمار 590 مليون دولار سنة 1991 وحصص في آبل ونيوز كوربورة وفور سيزونز وفندقي جورج الخامس وبلازا {cite:wikipedia-al-waleed-bin-talal-en} {cite:wikipedia-al-waleed-bin-talal-ar}. وفي 4 تشرين الثاني 2017 اعتُقل في حملة محمد بن سلمان واحتُجز في الريتز-كارلتون بالرياض حتى إطلاق سراحه في 27 كانون الثاني 2018 بعد تسوية مالية {cite:wikipedia-al-waleed-bin-talal-en}. لا يسمي أي نص مقروء لهذا السجل مذهبًا أو انتماءً للوليد نفسه، ولذلك سُجل دينه غير معروف {cite:wikipedia-al-waleed-bin-talal-en} {cite:wikipedia-al-waleed-bin-talal-ar} {cite:wikidata-al-waleed-bin-talal}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "المصادر",
     "markdown": "- {cite:wikipedia-al-waleed-bin-talal-en}\n- {cite:wikipedia-al-waleed-bin-talal-ar}\n- {cite:wikidata-al-waleed-bin-talal}"
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Prince Al Waleed bin Talal Al Saud (born 1955) is a Saudi Arabian billionaire businessman, investor and royal, founder and 95 percent owner of the Kingdom Holding Company, listed on Time magazine's Time 100 in 2008 {cite:wikipedia-al-waleed-bin-talal-en} {cite:wikipedia-al-waleed-bin-talal-ar}. Time has called him the 'Arabian Warren Buffett' {cite:wikipedia-al-waleed-bin-talal-en}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Life",
     "markdown": "Al Waleed was born in Jeddah on 7 March 1955 to Prince Talal bin Abdulaziz and Mona El Solh, daughter of Riad Al Solh, Lebanon's first prime minister; he is a grandson of King Abdulaziz {cite:wikipedia-al-waleed-bin-talal-en} {cite:wikipedia-al-waleed-bin-talal-ar}. After his parents separated he lived with his mother in Lebanon, studied at schools in Beirut and Riyadh, and took a bachelor's degree at Menlo College in California in 1979 and a master's at Syracuse University in 1985 {cite:wikipedia-al-waleed-bin-talal-en}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Work",
     "markdown": "From a 30,000-dollar start provided by his father, Al Waleed built Kingdom Holding through Saudi banking mergers and then global stakes, most famously rescuing Citicorp with a 590 million dollar investment in 1991 and holding positions in Apple, News Corporation, Four Seasons and the George V and Plaza hotels {cite:wikipedia-al-waleed-bin-talal-en} {cite:wikipedia-al-waleed-bin-talal-ar}. On 4 November 2017 he was arrested in Mohammed bin Salman's anti-corruption purge and held at the Ritz-Carlton in Riyadh until his release on 27 January 2018 after a financial settlement {cite:wikipedia-al-waleed-bin-talal-en}. No text read for this record names a school or affiliation for Al Waleed himself, so his faith is recorded as unknown {cite:wikipedia-al-waleed-bin-talal-en} {cite:wikipedia-al-waleed-bin-talal-ar} {cite:wikidata-al-waleed-bin-talal}."
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     "heading": "Sources",
     "markdown": "- {cite:wikipedia-al-waleed-bin-talal-en}\n- {cite:wikipedia-al-waleed-bin-talal-ar}\n- {cite:wikidata-al-waleed-bin-talal}"
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     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "شہزادہ الولید بن طلال بن عبد العزیز آل سعود (پیدائش 1955) سعودی ارب پتی کاروباری، سرمایہ کار اور شاہی فرد ہیں، کنگڈم ہولڈنگ کمپنی کے بانی و 95 فیصد مالک، جنھیں ٹائم نے «عرب وارن بفیٹ» کہا {cite:wikipedia-al-waleed-bin-talal-en} {cite:wikipedia-al-waleed-bin-talal-ar}۔"
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    {
     "heading": "زندگی و کام",
     "markdown": "الولید 7 مارچ 1955 کو جدہ میں شہزادہ طلال بن عبدالعزیز اور لبنان کے پہلے وزیراعظم ریاض الصلح کی بیٹی منیٰ الصلح کے ہاں پیدا ہوئے، اور شاہ عبدالعزیز کے پوتے ہیں {cite:wikipedia-al-waleed-bin-talal-en} {cite:wikipedia-al-waleed-bin-talal-ar}۔ انھوں نے کیلیفورنیا اور سائراکیوز سے تعلیم پائی {cite:wikipedia-al-waleed-bin-talal-en}۔ والد کے دیے گئے تیس ہزار ڈالر سے شروع کر کے انھوں نے کنگڈم ہولڈنگ بنائی، 1991 میں سٹی کورپ میں 590 ملین ڈالر کی سرمایہ کاری کی، اور ایپل و نیوز کارپوریشن میں حصص لیے {cite:wikipedia-al-waleed-bin-talal-en} {cite:wikipedia-al-waleed-bin-talal-ar}۔ نومبر 2017 میں گرفتار ہوئے اور جنوری 2018 میں مالی تصفیے کے بعد رہا ہوئے {cite:wikipedia-al-waleed-bin-talal-en}۔ اس ریکارڈ کے لیے پڑھے گئے کسی متن میں ان کے اپنے مسلک یا انتماء کا نام نہیں، لہٰذا ان کا مذہب غیر معلوم درج ہے {cite:wikipedia-al-waleed-bin-talal-en} {cite:wikipedia-al-waleed-bin-talal-ar} {cite:wikidata-al-waleed-bin-talal}۔"
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