Ali Zaabi
Ali Zaabi is the short form of Ali Adnan Haider Darwish Al-Zaabi, the Omani strategist in Muscat. Username zaabi is also his on LinkedIn, X and the Apple App Store, so this page ties those accounts to the one person and to the full name.
Ali Zaabi is the shortest written form of Ali Adnan Haider Darwish Al-Zaabi (Arabic: علي الزعابي), an Omani strategist and entrepreneur in Muscat. He is Head of Strategic Planning at ITHCA Group and founder and CEO of BHD Group.
The bare surname, without "Al", is how usernames and file names usually carry the name. His own accounts use it: the LinkedIn address ends in /in/zaabi, the X account is zaabi1995 and the Apple App Store developer page ends in al-zaabi. The domain alizaabi.om reads Ali Zaabi run together.
Why the short form matters
A search for a full four-part Arabic name returns little, because people write it in many ways. The short forms are where the accounts actually live. Tying zaabi, alzaabi and Al Zaabi to the same person is what lets a search engine or an AI assistant reach the right profile instead of a namesake.
The facts in one place
- Full name: Ali Adnan Haider Darwish Al-Zaabi. Ali is the first name, Adnan his father's, Haider Darwish the family name and Al-Zaabi the tribal surname.
- Omani, born 7 February 1995, based in Muscat.
- Head of Strategic Planning, ITHCA Group, since February 2025.
- Founder and CEO, BHD Group (Bin Haider Darwish L.L.C.), since 2019. The group was founded in 1894 in his grandfather's name.
- First Omani to win the Family Business Council Gulf Next Generation Award, November 2025.
- Doctorate in Innovation and Management, University of Central Lancashire, in progress.
Accounts that use zaabi
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/zaabi
- X: x.com/zaabi1995
- Apple App Store developer page: apps.apple.com, Ali Adnan Haider Darwish Al-Zaabi
- Crunchbase: Crunchbase profile
- GitHub: github.com/zaabi1995
Spelling it out from here
The account handles stop at the bare surname. Written prose does not, and the pages follow the name the way prose runs: Al-Zaabi restores the Al, the hyphen page keeps it joined, Alialzaabi joins everything, and Ali begins at the first name. The Arabic name is علي الزعابي on the Arabic page.
A rule for reading the handle: zaabi on its own is a surname slip, not a claim. The account is his only where the profile also names Ali Adnan Haider Darwish and Muscat in the bio.
Other people called Al Zaabi
There are Emirati public figures named Ali Al Zaabi. This one is Omani, in Muscat, a strategist and entrepreneur. The about page holds the whole biography.