Walid Fitaihi (Arabic: وليد فتيحي‎) (born 1964) is a Saudi-American physician and also a motivational speaker on Saudi television.[1] In November 2017, a decade after returning from study and work in the United States,[1] Fitaihi was arrested by Saudi authorities and taken to the Ritz Carlton hotel as part of the 2017–19 Saudi Arabian purge, together with many prominent prisoners.[2] He was later moved to al-Hair prison, south of the capital.[1][2]