Anghami appoints Meshal Abdullah Mohammad Ali as Chairman in board reshuffle

Anghami, the MENA-focused Spotify rival, has appointed Meshal Abdullah Mohammad Ali as Chairman of its Board, changing H.E. Sheikha Adana Nasser Sabah Al-Sabah.

Sabah Al-Sabah has stepped down from the function to rebalance her board duties however will proceed as Chair of OSN Streaming Restricted, the dad or mum firm of Anghami.

The corporate additionally confirmed the appointment of Eman Al Awadhi and Moustapha Chami as new members of its Board of Administrators.

Ali has served as a Director of Anghami since April 2024 and at the moment holds senior management positions throughout a number of organizations, together with Interim CEO of OSN Group, Chair of AlRayan Holding Firm, Vice Chair of United Training Firm, and President and CEO of each the Nationwide Offset Firm and the Nationwide Offset Laptop Firm in Kuwait.

He additionally serves as a board member of Panther Media Group Restricted.

“I’m honored to step into the function of Chairman, having served on the Board of Administrators since 2024. On behalf of my fellow administrators, I want to thank Sheikha Adana for her management all through Anghami’s evolution.”

Meshal Abdullah Mohammad Ali

Commenting on his appointment, Ali stated: “I’m honored to step into the function of Chairman, having served on the Board of Administrators since 2024. On behalf of my fellow administrators, I want to thank Sheikha Adana for her management all through Anghami’s evolution.

“The up to date Board brings collectively seasoned leaders from various sectors and backgrounds, positioning us to successfully assist Anghami’s administration staff as we unlock worth for all stakeholders and pursue our subsequent section of progress, increasing into new markets and capitalizing on the regional streaming alternative.”

Chami is Deputy Group Chief Monetary Officer and Group Head of Finance, Operations and Taxation at Kuwait Initiatives Firm Holdings (KIPCO), the place he oversees monetary operations and planning, together with governance and danger administration.

He additionally holds directorships at a number of establishments, together with Financial institution of Baghdad (Iraq), SACEM Industries (Tunisia), Jordan Kuwait Financial institution (Jordan) and Burgan Financial institution (Turkey), and serves as Vice Chairman (Govt) of Amaken United Actual Property in Kuwait.

Awadhi is Group Senior Vice President of Company Communications and Investor Relations at KIPCO and Vice Chair of Gulfsat Communications in Kuwait. Her profession spans greater than 22 years throughout public relations, media and journalism.

“The up to date Board brings collectively seasoned leaders from various sectors and backgrounds, positioning us to successfully assist Anghami’s administration staff.”

Meshal Abdullah Mohammad Ali

As of January 21, 2026, Anghami’s board includes Meshal Ali (Chairman), Elias Habib (CEO and co-founder), Edgard Maroun (co-founder), Michael Johnson, James Cooke, Bassil Almouallimi, Moustapha Chami, and Eman Al Awadhi.

The board restructure arrives two years after OSN Group, proprietor of MENA-focused Netflix rival OSN+ acquired a majority stake in Anghami.

The 2 merged operations in 2024, creating what they known as a regional “leisure powerhouse.” The mixed platforms boast 18,000 hours of premium video content material, together with HBO content material, and over 100 million Arabic and worldwide songs and podcasts.

For the reason that merger, OSN Group, proprietor of the MENA-focused streaming service OSN+, has bolstered its dedication to Anghami by a collection of capital injections, together with a $55 million funding introduced in late 2024, because the mixed entity seeks to scale its content material providing and expertise capabilities throughout the area.

The corporate has additionally expanded its presence inside international platform ecosystems.

In 2025, TikTok built-in Anghami into its ‘Add to Music App’ function, permitting customers throughout the area to save lots of tracks found on the social platform on to their Anghami libraries.

Anghami printed its H1 2025 outcomes on the finish of December, posting 97% year-on-year income progress to USD $48.4 million for the six-month interval ended 30 June 2025. The expansion, it stated, was pushed by the OSN+ integration and increasing subscription revenue.

The corporate’s paid subscriber base doubled to 3.54 million as of June 30, 2025, with over 120 million complete registered customers.

Based on IFPI’s World Music Report 2025, the MENA area was one of many world’s fastest-growing music markets, with recorded music revenues rising by 22.8% in 2024 and streaming accounting for 99.5% of complete revenues.Music Enterprise Worldwide