Amany Albahar is Associate Professor and former Head of the History Department at the Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University in Dammam. She is actively involved in promoting the heritage of Saudi Arabia, especially among Saudi youth. Her interests include both Islamic and pre-Islamic history, and she has published a volume on The Rituals of Pilgrimage to Makkah City Before Islam (published by Al-Moaarekh al Masri).