The bid committee to bring the Worldcon to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia in 2022 (JeddiCon) styles itself The Jeddi High Council. The Master of The Order – bid chair — is Yasser Bahjatt. He’s been to Worldcons, and Olav Rokne forwarded several photos he took of Bahjatt on a panel at the San Jose Worldcon of 2018. (Thanks to Steven H Silver for the panelist identifications.)
This was the alternate history panel “If This, Then What?” The panelists in order from left to right: Kaja Foglio, Steven H Silver, Yasser Bahjatt, Kay Kenyon, Harry Turtledove. (Foglio only appears in the last picture.)



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Okay, that’s a start.
I’d like to note that I first met Yasser at LoneStarCon 3 in San Antonio, Texas during the 2013 Worldcon. Following the panel in San Jose illustrated above, I had a very nice conversation with his wife, who was also attending Worldcon 76.
Sounds like a great guy but I would not be going to Saudi Arabia.