55 Notable alumni of
Alexandria University
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Alexandria University is 606th in the world, 12th in Africa, and 5th in Egypt by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 55 notable alumni from Alexandria 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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Ahmed Zewail
- Enrolled in Alexandria University
- Graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- inventorphysicistchemistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Ahmed Hassan Zewail was an Egyptian and American chemist, known as the "father of femtochemistry". He was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on femtochemistry and became the first Egyptian and Arab to win a Nobel Prize in a scientific field, and also the first African to win a Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He was a professor of chemistry and physics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he was the first Caltech faculty member to be named the Linus Pauling Chair of Chemical Physics and served as the director of the Physical Biology Center for Ultrafast Science and Technology.
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Samir Ghanem
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- actortelevision actor
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Samir Youssef Ghanem was an Egyptian actor, known primarily for his comedy roles.
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Yasmine Sabri
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- modelactor
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Yasmine Ashraf Sabri is an Egyptian actress and model.
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Zahi Hawass
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- egyptologistanthropologistnecropolis scholaruniversity teacherpolitician
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Zahi Abass Hawass is an Egyptian archaeologist, Egyptologist, and former Minister of Tourism and Antiquities, a position he held twice. He has worked at archaeological sites in the Nile Delta, the Western Desert and the Upper Nile Valley.
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Mahmoud Abdel Aziz
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- television actorstage actoractorfilm actor
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Mahmoud Abdel Aziz was an Egyptian film and television actor. He became famous for several famous roles in Egyptian cinema, before becoming famous in his native Egypt and the whole region for his Egyptian patriotic role in the Egyptian TV series Raafat el-Hagan. The Egyptian Actors Guild announced his death on the night of 12 November 2016.
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Ma
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Mai Ezz Eldin is an Egyptian actress. She is known for her roles in both film and television, including the films Love Journey (2001), Bent benout (2006), Ayathon (2006), Omar & Salma (2007), and Kheit harir (2020).
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Somaya Elkhashab
- Born in
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Egypt - Occupations
- actorsinger
- Biography
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Somaya El Khashab is an Egyptian actress and singer. She began her career in 1998, acting in many series and movies, and became one of the most famous actresses in Egypt, winning many awards. She also became a singer in 2009 after releasing her first album Hayessal eh.
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Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi
- Years
- 1947-2004 (aged 57)
- Occupations
- politicianphysician
- Biography
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Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi was a Palestinian political leader and co-founder of Hamas, along with Sheikh Ahmed Yassin in 1987. He also served as the chairman of the Hamas Shura Council from the assassination of Hamas founder Ahmed Yassin on 22 March 2004 until his own assassination in April 2004 and the first deputy chairman of the Hamas Shura Council from December 1987 until March 2004.
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Pope Theodoros II of Alexandria
- Enrolled in Alexandria University
- Studied pharmacology
- Occupations
- Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church
- Biography
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Pope Tawadros II is the 118th and current Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark, succeeding the late Pope Shenouda III as leader of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria. He took office on 18 November 2012 (Coptic calendar: 9 Hathor 1729), two weeks after being selected.
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Zubaida Tharwat
- Occupations
- film actor
- Biography
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Zubaida Ahmed Tharwat, was an Egyptian film, stage and television actress. She started her acting career in 1956, and quickly rose to stardom in Egypt. After six years hiatus in the 1960s, she returned to acting in 1969, and retired in the 1980s. Tharwat was known as "the most beautiful eyes in classic Egyptian cinema".
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Nermin Al-Fiqy
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Nermin Al-Fiqy is an Egyptian actress.
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Khalil al-Wazir
- Occupations
- revolutionarypolitician
- Biography
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Khalil Ibrahim al-Wazir was a Palestinian leader and co-founder of the nationalist party Fatah. As a top aide of Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Chairman Yasser Arafat, al-Wazir had considerable influence in Fatah's military activities, eventually becoming the commander of Fatah's armed wing al-Assifa.
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Moustafa Amar
- Occupations
- singertelevision actorcomposeractorfilm actor
- Biography
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Moustafa Amar is an Egyptian actor and singer.
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Hamza Namira
- Occupations
- singerguitaristcomposervocalistsongwriter
- Biography
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Hamza Namira is an Egyptian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He has released three albums from the production of Awakening Records: Dream With Me, Insan, Esmaani; and a couple of albums from Namira production, his own foundation: Hateer Min Tany and Mawlood Sanat 80. Besides singing, for which he is mostly known, he has also worked in musical composition and arrangement. Hamza composed some of his own work, like the album heads Esmaani and Insan, along with some collaborations with other artists, like Maher Zain's song Ya Nabi Salam Alayka. He also contributed to arranging the cartoony remake Egyptian Jingle Bells (also known as Oh la la song), which was the first shaabi work in his repertoire, later followed by Esta3izo in his fourth studio album.
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Mo Ibrahim
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- engineerscientistbusinesspersonpolitician
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Sir Mohammed Fathi Ahmed Ibrahim KCMG is a Sudanese-British billionaire businessman. He worked for several telecommunications companies, before founding Celtel, which, when sold, had over 24 million mobile phone subscribers in 14 African countries. After selling Celtel in 2005 for $3.4 billion, he set up the Mo Ibrahim Foundation to encourage better governance in Africa, as well as creating the Ibrahim Index of African Governance, to evaluate nations' performance. He is also a member of the Africa regional advisory board of London Business School.
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Mostafa El-Abbadi
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- historian
- Biography
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Mostafa Abdel-Hamid el-Abbadi was a prominent Egyptian historian, public intellectual and professor specialized in Greco-Roman studies. He died on 13 February 2017, at the age of 88, in Alexandria.
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Safwat Hegazi
- Enrolled in Alexandria University
- 1980-1984 graduated with Bachelor of Letters
- Occupations
- writerimamdawahpolitician
- Biography
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Safwat Hegazi is an Egyptian imam and television preacher who is on the list of "Individuals banned from the UK for stirring up hatred". A supporter of Mohamed Morsi, he was arrested after the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état.
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Ahmed Badawi
- Occupations
- politicianmilitary officer
- Biography
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Ahmed Badawi Sayyid Ahmed was an Egyptian Field Marshal (Mushir) and the Chief of the General Staff of the armed forces.
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Mustafa Ben Halim
- Enrolled in Alexandria University
- In 1946 graduated with Bachelor of Engineering
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Mustafa Ahmed Ben Halim was a Libyan politician and businessman who served in a number of leadership positions in the Kingdom of Libya from 1953 to 1960. Ben Halim was the Prime Minister of Libya from 12 April 1954 to 25 May 1957. Through his political and private sector work, he supported the development of the modern Libyan state.
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Mohammad Salim Al-Awa
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- lawyerwriterpolitician
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Mohammad Salim Al-Awa is an Egyptian Islamist thinker, widely considered to belong to the moderate Islamic democratic strain. He is the former Secretary General of the International Union for Muslim Scholars based in London, and head of the Egyptian Association for Culture and Dialogue, a member of the Academy of the Arabic Language in Cairo, an Advisor to the Arab Bureau of Education for the Gulf States - KSA 1979–1985. He received a PhD in Comparative Law from the University of London 1972. Al-Awa has been called one of the few Islamic thinkers who has made a "serious attempt" at "defining what Islamism would mean in a modern society," or "courageously delved into the realities of Islamic history and experimented with new interpretations."
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Farouk Hosny
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- painterpolitician
- Biography
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Farouk Hosny is an Egyptian abstract painter who was Minister of Culture from 1987 to 2011.
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Ahmed Asmat Abdel-Meguid
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- diplomatlawyerpolitician
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Ahmed Asmat Abdel-Meguid was an Egyptian diplomat. He served as the Foreign Minister of Egypt between 1984 and 1991, and as the Secretary-General of the Arab League from 1991 until 2001.
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Abdullah bin Hamad Al Attiyah
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- politician
- Biography
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Abdullah bin Hamad Al Attiyah is the former deputy prime minister of Qatar and the head of the Emir's court. From September 1992 to January 2011, Attiyah was Qatar's minister of energy and industry.
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Rachid Mohamed Rachid
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- 1955-.. (age 71)
- Occupations
- businesspersonengineer
- Biography
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Rachid Mohamed Rachid or Rasheed Mohamed Rasheed is an Egyptian born entrepreneur and investor. He is the founder and chairman of Alsara Investment Group, an international investment group focused on the luxury and well being industry and including its subsidiary Bidayat, a company focused on investing and nurturing young brands in jewelry, fashion and accessories and take them globally. He is also the chairman of the international fashion houses of Valentino and Balmain. His foray into the creative and fashion industries led Business of Fashion magazine to name him as one of 500 most influential people shaping the global fashion industry. Rachid is also on the supervisory board of Lipton Teas and Infusions. Prior to that Rachid held a cabinet position in Egypt as Minister of Trade and Industry between 2004 and 2011. Prior to his cabinet position Rachid was the founder and chairman of a JV with Unilever in Egypt and was named as President of Unilever MENA and Turkey.
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Mohamed Kamel Amr
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Mohamed Kamel Amr is an Egyptian politician and diplomat who served as Egypt's Minister of Foreign Affairs between 2011 and 2013. He resigned from office on 30 June 2013.
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Abdelhadi Tazi
- Occupations
- politicianwriterhistoriandiplomatessayist
- Biography
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Abdelhadi Tazi was a scholar, writer, historian and former Moroccan ambassador in various countries.
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Mahienour El-Massry
- Occupations
- writerhuman rights defenderlawyerjournalist
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Mahienour El-Masry is an Egyptian human rights lawyer and political activist from Alexandria, who has been engaged on the activist scene in the coastal city since the mid-2000s, and was arrested on 22 September 2019. El-Masry was released in July 2021.
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Reem Bassiouney
- Occupations
- novelistlinguistwriter
- Biography
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Reem Bassiouney is an Egyptian author, professor of sociolinguistics and Chair Department of Applied Linguistics at The American University in Cairo. In Addition, Bassiouney is the editor of the Routledge Series of Language and Identity. She is also the editor and creator of the journal Arabic Sociolinguistics Edinburgh. She has written several novels and a number of short stories and won the 2009 Sawiris Foundation Literary Prize for Young Writers for her novel Dr. Hanaa. While a substantial amount of her fiction has yet to be translated into English, her novel The Pistachio Seller was published by Syracuse University Press in 2009, and won the 2009 King Fahd Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies Translation of Arabic Literature Award. Bassiouney also won Naguib Mahfouz Award from Egypt's Supreme Council for Culture in the best Egyptian novel category for her best selling novel, Sons of the People: The Mamluk Trilogy. She was also the winner of the National Prize for Excellence in Literature of the year 2022 from the Egyptian Ministry of Culture. Bassiouney won the Sheikh Zaid Literature Award for her novel Al Halwani: The Fatimid Trilogy in 2024. Reem Bassiouney is the first Egyptian woman to earn her MA (1998) and PhD (2002) in linguistics from Oxford University in the UK, the first linguist to write a book on Arabic sociolinguistics in 2009, titled "Arabic Sociolinguistics” and covering topics such as gender, variation, politics, language policy, code switching, and diglossia, and the first woman to win the Naguib Mahfouz Literature Award from Egypt's Supreme Council for Culture in 2020.
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Princess Haya bint Rashed Al Khalifa
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- 1952-.. (age 74)
- Occupations
- diplomatlawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Haya Rashed Al-Khalifa is a lawyer and diplomat from Bahrain. From 1999 to 2004, she served as Bahrain’s first female ambassador, accredited to France. She was also among the first women to practice law in Bahrain. From 2006 to 2007, she held the office of President of the United Nations General Assembly, becoming the third woman to occupy this position.
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Manal Awad Mikhail
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- 1967-.. (age 59)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Manal Awad Mikhail is Egyptian politician who is the first female Minister of Local Development in Egypt. Before, she was the governor of Damietta, Egypt, as the first female Coptic Christian governor and second female governor in Egypt. Mikhail was the deputy governor of Giza.
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Bishoy Kamel
- Occupations
- hegumen
- Biography
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Bishoy Kamel also spelled Bishoi Kamel, was a priest of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria.
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Essam El-Haddad
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Essam El-Haddad is an Egyptian politician. He was a senior advisor for foreign relations for the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and the Freedom and Justice Party. In August 2012, he was appointed as one of four Egyptian Presidential assistants with responsibility for foreign relations and international cooperation until the overthrow of Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi on 3 July 2013. He is now in custody in solitary confinement in Al-Aqrab Prison in Cairo.
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Sayyid Badawi
- Occupations
- businesspersonpolitician
- Biography
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El-Sayyid el-Badawi Shehata is an Egyptian businessman and the president of Al-Wafd Party; he previously served in the position from 2010 until 2018. He is the head of the Board of Directors of Al-Hayah Egyptian television network.
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Emad Abdel Ghaffour
- Occupations
- surgeonpolitician
- Biography
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Emad Eddine Abdel-Ghaffour is a founder of the Salafist Homeland Party in Egypt, the former leader of the Al Nour Party and a surgeon. He was released from detention 2 weeks after the 2013 Egyptian coup. Ghaffour stated at the time that he would withdraw from politics and focus on worship, given the political climate. Ghaffour was instrumental in the creation of the new alliance named the 25 January Salvation Front that calls for the "restoration" of the 25 January revolution; Ghaffour met with Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh to organize its creation.
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Raji Sourani
- Enrolled in Alexandria University
- Studied in 1977
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Raji Sourani is a human rights lawyer, the director of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, and a former member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
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Hania Morsi Fadl
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- radiologist
- Biography
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Hania Morsi Fadl OBE is a Sudanese-British radiologist and the founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Khartoum Breast Cancer Centre.
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Aya Tarek
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Aya Tarek is an Egyptian artist from the city of Alexandria. Tarek's mediums are primarily street art or graffiti and paint. Although street art in Egypt gained much international attention after the 2011 revolution, Tarek began sharing her street art on the walls of Alexandria in 2008, when she was 18. Tarek also produces indoor murals which she feels helps her in to be taken more seriously as an artist. However, she utterly stresses the importance of street art because it is accessible to anyone to take whatever they may need to from the work.
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Rabab al-Kadhimi
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- poetdentistwriter
- Biography
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Rabab Al-Kadhimi was an Iraqi feminist poet and dental surgeon, who is considered a pioneer of women's poetry.
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Yousry El-Gamal
- Years
- 1947-.. (age 79)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Yousry Saber Hussein El-Gamal is a former Minister of Education for Egypt. He was replaced on 3 January 2010 by Dr. Ahmed Zaki Badr.
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Doaa el-Adl
- Occupations
- writercartoonist
- Biography
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Doaa el-Adl is an Egyptian cartoonist currently working for the Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper, known for her satirical cartoons with strong political, social or religious themes. She has been cited as Egypt's most famous female cartoonist. Her work at Al-Masry Al-Youm has received considerable attention and created controversy. She lives and works in Cairo.
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Mohammad Moustafa Haddara
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- diplomatwriter
- Biography
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Mohammad Moustafa Haddara was an Egyptian Arabic scholar. Haddara was a distinguished professor of Arabic literature, at Alexandria University, Egypt, and a professor at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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Abdel Moneim El Shahat
- Occupations
- engineerpolitician
- Biography
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'Abd al-Mun'im al-Shahhat is a religious preacher, TV Host, and the official spokesman of the Egyptian Salafist group al-Da'wa al-Salafiya ("The Salafist Call"). He graduated from the faculty of Engineering in Alexandria University in 1992. He became a regular guest on talk shows after the 2011 Egyptian revolution as his opinions about tourism and Naguib Mahfouz's novels were publicly debated.
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Tarek Emam
- Years
- 1977-.. (age 49)
- Occupations
- novelistwriterjournalist
- Biography
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Tarek Emam is an Egyptian writer.
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Mariam Al Maadeed
- Occupations
- inventormaterials scientist
- Biography
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Mariam Al Maadeed is a Qatari national and a Professor in Physics and Materials Science at Qatar University.
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Alaa Najjar
- Enrolled in Alexandria University
- Studied in 2014-2021
- Occupations
- physicianInternet activistWikimedian
- Biography
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Alaa Najjar is a physician, Wikipedian and internet activist. He was named the Wikimedian of the Year at Wikimania in August 2021 by Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales for his pioneering role in the development of the Arab and medical communities as well as for his role in the development of COVID-19 topics.
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Rasha Kelej
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Rasha Kelej is an Egyptian Senator. Among the 100 appointments made by President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to the Senate in 2020, she will serve a five-year term. Kelej has been working for women's empowerment and improved access to healthcare in African and other developing countries.
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Khaled Kandil
- Years
- 1963-.. (age 63)
- Occupations
- thinkerwriterpolitician
- Biography
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Dr. Khaled Kandil is an Egyptian senator and Vice President of the Al-Wafd Party. He is also the founder of Hali Pharm and Tiba Pharma for the export, trade and distribution of medicines.
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Ihab Ilyas
- Enrolled in Alexandria University
- Graduated with Master of Science in computer science
- Graduated with Bachelor of Science in computer science
- Occupations
- computer scientistdirectorprofessor
- Biography
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Ihab Francis Ilyas is a computer scientist who works in data science. He is currently a Professor Emeritus of computer science in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo and he is the co-founder and CEO of hiddenweights, a startup for building efficient custom AI. He has also led the Knowledge Platform team at Apple Inc. Ihab was the holder of the Thomson Reuters-NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Data Cleaning at the University of Waterloo.
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Ahmed Morsi
- Enrolled in Alexandria University
- In 1954 graduated with licentiate in English
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Ahmed Morsi is an Egyptian artist, art critic and poet.
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Ahmed A AL-Samawi
- Occupations
- writereconomistbankerpolitician
- Biography
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Ahmed Abdulrahman Ali Al-Samawi is a Yemeni economist and banker. He was the Governor of the Central Bank of Yemen for thirteen years from May 1997 to April 2010. He was the first to prepare a scientific budget for the Republic of Yemen in 1972. He is currently a member of the 'Consultative' Shura Council of Yemen.
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Fadel Mohammed Ali
- Years
- 1945-2010 (aged 65)
- Biography
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Major General Engineer Fadel Mohammed Ali was the Director of Royal Maintenance Corps of the Jordanian Armed Forces responsible for supporting continuous operations for the military, until the year 2001.
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Ahmed Sameh
- Occupations
- computer scientist
- Biography
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Ahmed Hamdy Mohamed Sameh is the Samuel D. Conte Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University. He is known for his contributions to parallel algorithms in numerical linear algebra.
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Emadeldin Elsayed
- Occupations
- documentary filmmaker
- Biography
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Emadeldin Elsayed is an Egyptian documentary filmmaker, born in Alexandria, Egypt.
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Sumi Helal
- Born in
- Egypt
- Occupations
- scientist
- Biography
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Dr. Abdelsalam Helal is a computer scientist who was born in Suez, Egypt. He graduated from Alexandria University in 1982. He is best known for his work in Pervasive Computing, Mobile computing and the Internet of Things, and their human-centric applications in the domains of aging, personal health and disability. He is a professor at the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Department (CISE) at the University of Florida and the director of its Mobile and Pervasive Computing Laboratory
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Nazir Tanbouli
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Nazir Tanbouli is an Egyptian born artist. He was born and raised in Alexandria, Egypt and studied at the University of Alexandria Faculty of Fine Arts. His uncle is the painter Ibrahim El-Tanbouli (b. 1954) and his great-uncle was the painter and Egyptologist Lotfy El-Tanbouli (1919–1982). He works in drawing and painting, especially mural painting.
