68 Notable alumni of
Ain Shams University
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Ain Shams University is 424th in the world, 6th in Africa, and 3rd in Egypt by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 68 notable alumni from Ain Shams University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Mervat
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- actor
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Mervat Mostafa Amin is an Egyptian actress.
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Ahmed Ezz
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- actorfilm actorradio drama actorstage actortelevision actor
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Ahmed Ezz Eldine Ali Ezzat, is an Egyptian film and television actor, with numerous accolades in his professional career spanning over 20 years and over 30 Film/TV prolific credits to his name.. His popularity stems from his versatility as an actor in comedy, drama, thriller and action film and television. In 2022, he starred in the epic action drama "Kira & El Gin" which became the highest grossing film in the history of the Egyptian cinema.
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Yehia El-Fakharany
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- film actorphysicianstage actoractor
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Yehia el-Fakharany; born 7 April 1945, in Mansoura, Dakahlia governorate, Egypt, is an Egyptian television and film actor.
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Madiha Kamel
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- actor
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Madiha Kamel was an Egyptian actress.
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Entissar Amer
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- politician
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Entissar Amer is the current First Lady of Egypt, since her husband Abdel Fattah el-Sisi became the sixth President of Egypt on 8 June 2014.
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Hamed Abdel-Samad
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- writerhistorianautobiographernovelist
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Hamed Abdel-Samad is a German-Egyptian author critical of Islam.
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Ahmed Al-Fishawy
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- actortelevision actor
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Ahmed El-Fishawy; (born November 11, 1980) an Egyptian actor and son of recognized Egyptian actor Farouk al-Fishawy.
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Youssef El Sherif
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- actorauthorfilm actortelevision actorperforming artist
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Youssef El Sherif is an Egyptian actor. His birth name is Mohamed Ismail Naji (Arabic: محمد إسماعيل ناجي).
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Dina Talaat
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- belly danceractor
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Dina Talaat Sayed Muhammad is an Egyptian belly dancer and actress. She was named as the "Last Egyptian Dancer" by the American magazine Newsweek. She has a master's degree in Philosophy.
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Ali Gomaa
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- muftiwriter
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Ali Gomaa is an Egyptian Islamic scholar, jurist, and public figure who has taken a number of controversial political stances. He specializes in Islamic Legal Theory. He follows the Shafi`i school of Islamic jurisprudence and the Ash'ari school of tenets of faith. Gomaa is a Sufi.
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Abu Ishaq Al Heweny
- Enrolled in Ain Shams University
- Studied Spanish
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- imammuhaddithʿālim
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Abu Ishaq al-Heweny is an Egyptian salafi preacher.
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Omar Suleiman
- Enrolled in Ain Shams University
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in political science
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- politiciandiplomatmilitary personnel
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Omar Mahmoud Suleiman was an Egyptian army general, politician, diplomat, and intelligence officer. A leading figure in Egypt's intelligence system beginning in 1986, Suleiman was appointed to the long-vacant vice presidency by President Hosni Mubarak on 29 January 2011. On 11 February 2011, Suleiman announced Mubarak's resignation and ceased being vice president; governing power was transferred to the Armed Forces Supreme Council, of which Suleiman was not a member. A new head of intelligence services was appointed by the ruling Supreme Council. Suleiman withdrew from the political scene and did not appear in public after announcing Mubarak's resignation.
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Farouk El-Baz
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- university teacherspace scientistgeologist
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Farouk El-Baz is an Egyptian American space scientist and geologist, who worked with NASA in the scientific exploration of the Moon and the planning of the Apollo program. He was a leading geologist on the program, responsible for studying the geology of the Moon, the selection of landing sites for the Apollo missions, and the training of astronauts in lunar observations and photography. He played a key role in the Apollo 11 Moon landing mission, and later Apollo missions. He also came up with the idea of touchable Moon rocks at a museum, inspired by his childhood pilgrimage to Mecca where he touched the Black Stone (which in Islam is believed to be sent down from the heavens).
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Farag Foda
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- intellectualwriterhuman rights activistjournalist
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Farag Foda was a prominent Egyptian professor, writer, columnist, and human rights activist.
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Kal Naga
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- film produceractorfilm actorfilm directortelevision actor
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Kal-El Naga, is an Egyptian American actor, director and producer. He is recognized primarily for his work in Egypt and the Middle East, but has increasingly ventured into American and British film and television roles since 2006. He started acting and directing plays and musicals in Egypt while studying theatre at The American University in Cairo. Beginning his professional acting career in 2000, Naga starred in several movies through the next decade with roles encompassing several genres, from musicals None but that! (2007), action Agamista (2007), ''Eyes Of A Thief'' (2014), thrillers Kashf Hesab (2007), art-house Heliopolis (2009), Villa 69 (2013), Decor (2014), and slapstick comedy Habibi Naêman (Sleeping Habibi) (2008). Additionally, he has participated in several European film festivals, where he received a range of awards as an actor and producer. Since 2016, he has acted in several English-speaking roles, such as Tyrant on FX, History Channel's Vikings, and the BBC's TV mini-series The Last Post, and announced to appear in the upcoming Netflix Show Messiah 2019. In a film festival in 2016 that celebrated Arab film submissions to the Oscars, he was noted as being the most submitted actor in Arabic films submissions to the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (The Oscars). He is often tagged in western media as "Egypt's Brad Pitt", and he has also been described as "the next Omar Sharif" especially after his American debut movie Civic Duty in 2007. Chosen as a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF in 2007, Naga played a pivotal role in child rights awareness, as well as the very first HIV awareness campaigns in Egypt and the Arab world, and participated in several international causes, including advocating for democracy in his home country Egypt. He is one of the most recognizable celebrity faces of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, taking part in mass demonstrations in Cairo that led to the removal of President Mubarak. He faced defamation campaigns against him by the state-owned media during the Mubarak era before the January 25th, 2011 revolution in Egypt, and several times again from the 2013 "coup d'etat" General Sisi government in Egypt in retaliation for his advocacy about the deterioration of human rights, especially Egyptian youth situation in Egypt.
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Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu
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- university teacherpoliticianhistoriandiplomat
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Ekmeleddin Mehmet İhsanoğlu is a Turkish chemistry and science history professor, academician, diplomat and politician who was Secretary-General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) from 2004 to 2014. He is also an author and editor of academic journals and advocate of intercultural dialogue.
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Mahmoud al-Zahar
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- politicianphysician
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Mahmoud al-Zahar is a Palestinian politician. He is a co-founder of Hamas and a member of the Hamas leadership in the Gaza Strip. Al-Zahar served as foreign minister in the Hamas-dominated Palestinian Authority Government of March 2006 (also known as the First Haniyeh Government) that was sworn in on 20 March 2006.
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Sherif Ismail
- Enrolled in Ain Shams University
- In 1978 studied mechanical engineering
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- mechanical engineerpolitician
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Sherif Ismail was an Egyptian engineer and politician who served as the prime minister of Egypt from 2015 to 2018. He was also the minister of petroleum and mineral resources from 2013 to 2015.
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Ahmed Aboul Gheit
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- diplomatpolitician
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Ahmed Aboul Gheit is an Egyptian politician and diplomat. He has been Secretary-General of the Arab League since July 2016. He was reappointed for a second term on 3 March 2021. Aboul-Gheit served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Egypt from 11 July 2004 to 6 March 2011. Previously, between 1999 and 2004, he was Egypt's Permanent Representative to the United Nations. He was succeeded as Minister of Foreign Affairs by ICJ judge Nabil Elaraby in March 2011, following the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak. He was elected Secretary-General of the Arab League in March 2016, and his term commenced on 3 July 2016.
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Mahmoud Zulfikar
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- directorscreenwriterwriterfilm producerfilm director
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Mahmoud Zulfikar was an Egyptian film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. He was a major figure in Egyptian film industry. He started his career as an architect, before becoming starting his film career as an actor in 1939. Zulfikar was one of the most prominent artists in Egypt. He was known for his boldness and adventure with the new talents he presented to the Egyptian audience, later, he was nicknamed the "Talent Finder".
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Mousa Mohammed Abu Marzook
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- politician
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Mousa Mohammed Abu Marzook is a Palestinian politician and senior member of Hamas who served as the first chairman of Hamas Political Bureau from 1992 until 1996 and deputy chairman of Hamas Political Bureau from January 1997 until April 2013, where he was succeeded by Ismail Haniyeh.
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Assem Allam
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- 1939-2022 (aged 83)
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- businessperson
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Assem Allam was an Egyptian-British businessman, based in the East Riding of Yorkshire from 1968. He was the owner of Allam Marine, an industrial generator manufacturer, and of EFL Championship club Hull City.
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Sameh Shoukry
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- diplomatpolitician
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Sameh Hassan Shoukry is an Egyptian diplomat who served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2014 to 2024. Previously, Shoukry served as the Ambassador of Egypt to the United States from 2008 to 2012.
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Mohammed Mahdi Akef
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- teacherpolitician
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Mohammed Mahdi Akef was the head of the Muslim Brotherhood, an Egypt-based Islamic political movement, from 2004 until 2010. He assumed the post, that of "general guide" (Arabic: المرشد العام) (frequently translated as "chairman") upon the death of his predecessor, Ma'mun al-Hudaybi. Akef was arrested on 4 July 2013. On 14 July 2013 Egypt's new prosecutor general Hisham Barakat ordered his assets to be frozen.
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Mostafa El-Sayed
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- inventorchemistresearcher
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Mostafa A. El-Sayed is an Egyptian-American physical chemist, nanoscience researcher, member of the National Academy of Sciences and US National Medal of Science laureate. He is known for the spectroscopy rule named after him, the El-Sayed rule.
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Nashoua Mostafa
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- film actoractortelevision actor
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Nashwa Mustafa, is an Egyptian actress. She is best known for the roles in the films; El-Rehla, El-Farah and in the television shows; The Family of Mr Shalash and Mahmoud the Egyptian.
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Hani Azer
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- civil engineer
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Hani Azer is an Egyptian-German civil engineer. He was born in Tanta, Egypt to a Coptic family and moved to Cairo for high school and university. In 1973, after earning a BSc(Engg) degree from the Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, he moved to Germany to study for his post-graduate diploma in civil engineering in Bochum.
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Ahmed Magdy
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- film directorfilm actoractor
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Ahmed Magdy is an Egyptian-Algerian actor, artist and director.
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Farouk Shousha
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- 1936-2016 (aged 80)
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- poetwriter
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Farouk Shousha was an Egyptian poet. He hosted the popular television program Umsiya Thaqafiya ("Cultural Evening") from 1977 through 2006.
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Fatima Naoot
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- translatorwriteranimal rights advocatehuman rights activistjournalist
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Fatima Naoot is an Egyptian poet, translator and journalist. She has written 18 books, including seven collections of poetry, and is the chief editor of the literary magazine Qaws Qazah (The Rainbow). She has translated many novels and anthologies from English into Arabic. She is also a columnist and has written articles for Nesf El Donya, Al-Masry Al-Youm, and Youm7.
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Osama Mounir
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- 1970-.. (age 55)
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- radio personality
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Osama Mounir is an Egyptian radio personality and singer, he is current CEO of Express Media groups.
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Isa bin Rashid Al Khalifa
- Enrolled in Ain Shams University
- In 1963 studied law
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- judgearistocratpoet
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Sheikh Isa bin Rashid bin Abdullah bin Isa bin Ali bin Khalifa bin Salman bin Ahmed Al-Fateh bin Mohammed Al Khalifa was a Bahraini poet. Born in Muharraq, he moved to Riffa and lived there for most of his life. He died after a struggle with illness.
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Ahmed Okasha
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- psychiatristpsychologist
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Ahmed Okasha is an Egyptian psychiatrist. He is a professor of psychiatry at Ain Shams University Faculty of Medicine, Cairo, Egypt. He wrote books and articles about psychiatry and mental disorders. He is the first Arab-Muslim to be president of World Psychiatric Association from 2002 to 2005.
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Wael Abbas
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- television producerwriterhuman rights activistjournalist
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Wael Abbas Bilal is an internationally renowned Egyptian journalist, blogger, and human rights activist, who blogs at Misr Digital (Egyptian Awareness). He reported an incident of mob harassment of women, and broadcast several videos of police brutality. His actions led to the conviction of police for torture, but he has been harassed by the Egyptian government.
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Abdel-Wahed El-Wakil
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- architect
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Abdel-Wahed El-Wakil is an Egyptian architect who designed over 15 mosques in Saudi Arabia and is considered by many as the foremost contemporary authority in Islamic architecture. For designing in traditional styles, he is also a representative of New Classical Architecture.
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Ali Lutfi Mahmud
- Enrolled in Ain Shams University
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in trade
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- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Aly Lotfy Mahmoud was an Egyptian politician and prime minister.
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Princess Haya bint Rashed Al Khalifa
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- 1952-.. (age 73)
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- politiciandiplomatlawyer
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Haya Rashed Al-Khalifa is a lawyer and diplomat from Bahrain. As ambassador to France 1999-2004 she became Bahrain's first ever female ambassador. She is one of the first women to practice law in Bahrain, and the third ever woman to preside at the UN General Assembly.
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Tarek Heggy
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- writerjournalistpolitician
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Tarek Heggy is an Egyptian liberal author, political thinker and international petroleum strategist. Heggy is one of Egypt’s more prominent authors on the subject of Egypt’s need for political reform. His extensive writings advocate the values of modernity, democracy, tolerance, and women's rights in the Middle East – advancing them as universal values essential to the region's progress. He has lectured at universities throughout the world and various international institutions and think tanks, including The Heritage Foundation, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Ahmed Zulfikar (1952-2010)
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- entrepreneurengineerbusinessperson
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Ahmed Mourad Salah El-Din Zulfikar, was an Egyptian mechanical engineer and entrepreneur. He worked for three decades in the field of infrastructure. Zulfikar was one of the first founders of the modern irrigation systems technology in Egypt.
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Mohamed Mahsoub
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- politician
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Mohamed Mahsoub Abdel Meguid is an Egyptian politician and former minister of state for parliamentary affairs, who served in the Qandil cabinet for a short time in 2012.
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Jenan Boushehri
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- 1973-.. (age 52)
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- politician
- Biography
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Jenan Mohsin Ramadan Boushehri is a Kuwaiti politician. She was one of the first two women to run for election in Kuwait, and held various positions in the Cabinet until her resignation on 12 November 2019.
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Zakiah Daradjat
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- psychologistuniversity teacheracademic
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Zakiah Daradjat was an Indonesian Islamic psychologist, educator, and professor of psychology at the Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University Jakarta.
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Hisham Arafat
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- 1964-2024 (aged 60)
- Enrolled in Ain Shams University
- Graduated with Doctor in Engineering
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- engineerpolitician
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Hisham Arafat was an Egyptian politician who was Transport Minister in the cabinet headed by Sherif Ismail from 19 February 2017 to 27 February 2019 (in succession to Minister Galal Saeed) and resigned shortly after the Ramses Station rail disaster.
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Emad Effat
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- 1959-2011 (aged 52)
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Sheikh Emad Effat was a senior Egyptian Sunni Islamic cleric at al-Azhar Mosque who was shot and killed during protest demonstrations on 16 December 2011. Effat had participated in the Arab Spring demonstrations in Egypt since the January uprising.
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Salwa Bakr
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- writerjournalistnovelist
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Salwa Bakr is an Egyptian critic, novelist and author. She is the author of seven volumes of short stories (including The Wiles of Men, AUC Press, 1997), seven novels, and a play. Her work has been translated into nine languages and holds international recognition.
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Omar Touray
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- 1965-.. (age 60)
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- diplomatpolitician
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Omar Alieu Touray is a Gambian diplomat who has served as president of the Economic Community of West African States Commission since 2022. He was the Gambia's Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 2007 to 2008 and was Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from March 2008 to September 2009.
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Omar Marwan
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- politician
- Biography
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Omar Marwan is an Egyptian judge currently serving as Director of the Egyptian presidential office. Previously,He served as Minister of Justice. He also served as minister of Legal and Parliamentary Affairs before being redeployed to the Ministry of Justice in a cabinet reshuffle in 2022.
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Hisham Zazou
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- 1954-.. (age 71)
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- civil servant
- Biography
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Hisham Zazou is an Egyptian businessman and politician who is the former Egyptian minister of tourism. He was one of the ministers who are not affiliated with an Islamist party in the Qandil cabinet. Zazou remained in his post in the interim government of Egypt, until he was replaced by Khaled Abbas Rami. He was reappointed on 19 September 2015.
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Samy Rashad
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Samy Mohamed Rashad Mahmoud Ahmed Kandil El-Baz is an Egyptian who lives and performs in South Korea as a television personality. He was a cast member in the talk show Non-Summit. And also he was cast member in the variety show Hello! Stranger.
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Paul Ghalioungui
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- physiciananthropologistegyptologistarchaeologist
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Paul Ghalioungui or Ghalioungi, MD (Cairo), MRCP (Lond), Professor of Medicine and former Chairman of Internal Medicine department, Ain Shams University Faculty of Medicine. An Egyptian endocrinologist, historian of Egyptian medicine, Egyptologist and an authority on Pharaonic medicine, he wrote a vivid history of Egyptian medicine in English, French, Arabic, German, and Spanish.
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May Telmissany
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- short story writerfilm teacherwritertranslatoruniversity teacher
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May Telmissany is an Egyptian-Canadian novelist, translator, film critic and academic. She teaches Arabic studies and cinema at the University of Ottawa in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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Abdel Latif Moubarak
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- writerpoetscreenwriter
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Abdel Latif Moubarak is an Egyptian poet. He is a member of the Egyptian Writers Union and a member of the Arab Writers on the Internet. He was born in Suez and writes poetry using classical Arabic and Egyptian vernacular. He received a Bachelor of Law from Ain Shams University. He was one of the most important poets of the 1980s and his poems were published in several literary magazines in Egypt and the Arab world, including the Arab magazine, Kuwait magazine, News Literature, Republic newspaper, Al-Ahram, the new publishing culture (magazine). Received the Excellence and Creativity Shield from the Arab Media Union in 2014 and Won the shield of excellence and creativity from the East Academy 2021
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Ṭāriq Ṭaiyib
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- writerpoetnovelistprofessor
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Tarek Eltayeb is an Egyptian-Sudanese writer. He was born to Sudanese parents in Cairo, and has been a resident of the Austrian capital Vienna since 1984. He studied Social and Economic Sciences at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, and is currently professor at the International Management Center/University of Applied Sciences in Krems, Austria.
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Aly Hindy
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- imam
- Biography
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Aly Hindy is the Imam of the Salaheddin Islamic Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada once called "Toronto's million-dollar radical mosque” by the National Post.
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Mustafa Jassem Al-Shamali
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- 1943-.. (age 82)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Mustafa Jassem Al-Shamali is a Kuwaiti politician who has had held different cabinet posts. He served as Minister of Finance between 2007 and May 2012. He also served as oil minister from 4 August 2013 to January 2014.
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Gamal Eid
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- 1964-.. (age 61)
- Occupations
- lawyerhuman rights activist
- Biography
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Gamal Eid is a leading Egyptian human rights activist and lawyer. He is the executive director of the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), the most prominent organization dealing with the defense of freedom of opinion, belief and expression in the Arab world. He founded the ANHRI in 2003. He graduated from the College of Law in Ain Shams University.
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Youssef Badawy
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- karateka
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Youssef Badawy is an Egyptian karateka and a world-classed champion. He won the gold medal in the men's kumite 84 kg event at the 2021 World Karate Championships held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. In 2019, he won the bronze medal in the men's kumite 84kg event at the World Cadet, Junior & Under 21 Championships in Chile, marking his debut at the Worlds and introducing himself as a candidate for the World Champion title.
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Gamal El-Araby
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- academic
- Biography
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Gamal El-Araby Ahmad is an Egyptian politician who served as Minister of Education from December 2011 to July 2012 in the Cabinet of Kamal Ganzouri.
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Fawzia Fahim
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- writerbiochemist
- Biography
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Fawzia Abbas Fahim is an Egyptian biochemist and environmental biologist known for her work on the anti-tumoral effects of snake venom and iodoacetate. She is currently Professor of Biochemistry at Ain Shams University, Egypt. Fahim has also made important contributions to infant and occupational health, and pollution issues in Egypt.
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Mohamed Abd-el-Kader Salem
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- 1948-.. (age 77)
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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Mohamed Abdel Kader Salem is an Egyptian academic and politician, He is the Former Cabinet Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Egypt.
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Muhammad Abdul 'Ati
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- engineer
- Biography
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Muhammad Abdul 'Ati is an Egyptian civil engineer, and a former Egyptian Minister of Irrigation and Water Resources.
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Ayman Aly Kamel
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- diplomat
- Biography
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Ayman Aly Kamel is an Egyptian diplomat, and the current Ambassador of Egypt to Slovakia. He was previously the Assistant Foreign Minister for Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands, and served as Ambassador of Egypt to Japan from October 2017 to October 2021. He has also served as the First Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs in Egypt, and Consul-General in Sydney.
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Basem Darwisch
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- composer
- Biography
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Basem Darwisch is an Egyptian–German composer, producer and oud virtuoso. He is the founder of Cairo Steps Ensemble, He is the first musician in the Middle East to be awarded the German golden jazz award in 2018 and 2021.
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Hussein El Gebaly
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- visual artistgraphic artist
- Biography
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Hussein El Gebaly was an Egyptian artist.
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Magdi Youssef
- Biography
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Magdi Youssef is an Egyptian professor of comparative literature and culture studies. He has taught at various universities in Europe and Egypt until his retirement. Al-Ahram (according to the Middle East Institute the equivalent of the New York Times in the Arab World) called Youssef “the renowned culture critic.” He is widely noted in the Arab world for his analytic interventions that focus on cultural alienation and unequal exchange in the sphere of culture. His book Critical Battles received wide attention. Youssef has contributed to the proceedings of comparative literature congresses in Latin America, Asia, Europe and the US., and to such journals as Al-Hilal, the International Journal of Middle East Studies (Cambridge Univ. Press) and Theatre Research International (Oxford Univ. Press). He is also the founding president of the International Association of Intercultural Studies (IAIS) and still actively involved in theoretical debates related to intercultural relations and comparative literature.
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Zahira Kamal
- Years
- 1945-.. (age 80)
- Enrolled in Ain Shams University
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in physics
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Zahira Kamal is a Palestinian activist and politician of the Palestinian Democratic Union. From 2003 to 2006 she served as the Minister of Women Affairs in the Palestinian National Authority. Zahira was the first female leader of a Palestinian political party. She was detained for six years under town arrest, the longest time any woman has been held under town arrest.
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Soliman Abdel-hady Soliman
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- engineer
- Biography
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Dr. Soliman Abdel-hady Soliman was an Egyptian professor of electrical engineering focusing on power and machines sector. Since 1997, he has been Professor of Electric Power System Analysis, Electrical Power & Machines Department, at Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt,
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Saadaldeen Talib
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- politician
- Biography
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Saadaldeen Talib is a Yemeni physician, businessman and politician. He served as the Yemeni Minister of Industry and Trade from December 2011 to 2014. He currently lives in Singapore and holds a position of a Goodwill Ambassador for UNDP Yemen.
