49 Notable alumni of
Alexandria University
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Alexandria University is 629th in the world, 12th in Africa, and 5th in Egypt by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 49 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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Samira Khashoggi
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- writerjournalist
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Samira Khashoggi was a Saudi Arabian progressive author, as well as the founder of Al Sharkiah magazine. She was the sister of the Saudi businessman Adnan Khashoggi. She was the first wife of Egyptian businessman Mohamed Al-Fayed and the mother of filmmaker Dodi Al-Fayed. She died of a heart attack in 1986 at the age of 51.
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Samir Ghanem
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- television actoractor
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Samir Yousef Ghanem was an Egyptian comedian, singer, and entertainer.
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Ahmed Zewail
- Enrolled in Alexandria University
- Graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- physicistinventoruniversity teacherchemist
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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 the second African to win a Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He was the Linus Pauling Chair Professor of Chemistry, a professor of physics, and the director of the Physical Biology Center for Ultrafast Science and Technology at the California Institute of Technology.
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Mahmoud Abdel Aziz
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- film directorstage actortelevision actorfilm 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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Zahi Hawass
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- necropolis scholaranthropologistegyptologistarchaeologistpolitician
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Zahi Abass Hawass is an Egyptian archaeologist, Egyptologist, and former Minister of State for Antiquities Affairs, serving twice. He has also worked at archaeological sites in the Nile Delta, the Western Desert and the Upper Nile Valley.
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Mai Ezz Eldin
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- actor
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Mai Ezz Eldin is an Egyptian actress. She has acted in many films and series such as Love Journey in 2001, Bent benout in 2006, Ayathon in 2006, Omar & Salma in 2007, and Kheit harir in 2020.
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Somaya Elkhashab
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- singeractor
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Somaya Saeed Said Fetiha 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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Zubaida Tharwat
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- film actor
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Zubaida Ahmed Tharwat was an Egyptian film, stage and television actress who was known for "the most beautiful eyes in classic Egyptian cinema". She was known for movies such as The Guilty (1975), The Other Man (1973), There is A Man in Our House (1961) and Part Virgin (1961).
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Pope Theodoros II of Alexandria
- Enrolled in Alexandria University
- Studied pharmacology
- Occupations
- presbyterChristian cleric
- Biography
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Pope Tawadros II or Theodore 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 (9 Hathor 1729), two weeks after being selected.
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Nermin Al-Fiqy
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- actor
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Nermin Al-Fiqy is an Egyptian actress.
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Hamza Namira
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- composerguitaristsingeractormunashid
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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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Khalil al-Wazir
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- politicianmilitary personnel
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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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Lotfy Labib
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- actor
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Lotfy Labib is an Egyptian stage, television and film actor. He also worked as an announcer at one point. Despite having graduated from the Institute of Theatrical Arts in 1970, Labib's career was delayed for a whole decade. First, he was drafted in the army for six years, and then travelled outside Egypt for four years. His career truly started in 1981, when he acted in the play "The Bald Singer," which he followed with another stage production "The Hostages." Labib has since then worked profusely, in many supporting but memorable roles, with over 200 film and television credits. Though many of his screen appearances have been brief, Labib has performed admirably and has shown himself to be one of the strongest performers of his generation. He has appeared in 387 sequels (series, movies, radio and more.) since 1988.
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Mostafa El-Abbadi
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- historian
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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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Mo Ibrahim
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- politicianscientistbusinesspersonengineerinternational forum participant
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Sir Mohammed Fathi Ahmed Ibrahim 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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Safwat Hegazi
- Enrolled in Alexandria University
- 1980-1984 graduated with Bachelor of Letters
- Occupations
- imamwriterpoliticiandawah
- 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
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- military officerpolitician
- 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
- politiciandiplomat
- 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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- politicianwriterlawyer
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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. 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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Abdullah bin Hamad Al Attiyah
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- international forum participantpolitician
- 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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Farouk Hosny
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- politicianpainter
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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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- diplomatpoliticianlawyer
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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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Mohamed Kamel Amr
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- diplomat
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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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Rachid Mohamed Rachid
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- 1955-.. (age 69)
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- businesspersonengineerinternational forum participant
- 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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Abdelhadi Tazi
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- diplomathistorianwriterpoliticianessayist
- 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
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- journalistlawyerhuman rights activistwriter
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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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Princess Haya bint Rashed Al Khalifa
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- 1952-.. (age 72)
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- diplomatpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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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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El-Sayyid el-Badawi
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- politicianbusinessperson
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El-Sayyid el-Badawi Shehata is an Egyptian businessman and the former President of Al-Wafd Party. He is the head of the Board of Directors of Al-Hayah Egyptian television network.
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Essam El-Haddad
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- 20th Century
- 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 in the third of July 2013. He is now in custody in solitary confinement in Al-Aqrab Prison in Cairo.
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Reem Bassiouney
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- linguistnovelistwriter
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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, 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.
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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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Manal Awad Mikhail
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- 20th Century
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Manal Awad Mikhail is Egyptian politician who is the current governor of Damietta, Egypt. She was sworn in by President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi. She is the first female Coptic Christian governor and second female governor in Egypt. Before this appointment, Mikhail was the deputy governor of Giza.
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Emad Abdel Ghaffour
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- politiciansurgeon
- 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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Aya Tarek
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- 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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Hania Morsi Fadl
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- radiologist
- Biography
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Hania Morsi Fadl is a Sudanese-British radiologist and the founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Khartoum Breast Cancer Centre.
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Abdel Moneim El Shahat
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- politicianengineer
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Abdel Moneim El Shahat 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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Yousry Saber Hussein El-Gamal
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- 1947-.. (age 77)
- 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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Rabab al-Kadhimi
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- writerdentistpoet
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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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Mohammad Moustafa Haddara
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- writerdiplomat
- Biography
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Mohammad Moustafa Haddara was an 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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Doaa el-Adl
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- cartoonistwriter
- 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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Rasha Kelej
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- 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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Ihab Ilyas
- Enrolled in Alexandria University
- Graduated with Master of Science in computer science
- Graduated with Bachelor of Science in computer science
- Occupations
- computer scientistprofessordirector
- Biography
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Ihab Francis Ilyas is a computer scientist who works in data science. He is currently a professor of computer science in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. He also led the Knowledge Platform team at Apple Inc. Ihab is the holder of the Thomson Reuters-NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Data Cleaning at the University of Waterloo.
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Ahmed A AL-Samawi
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- economistwriterpoliticianbanker
- 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 the Republic of Yemen.
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Alaa Najjar
- Enrolled in Alexandria University
- Studied in 2014-2021
- Occupations
- physicianWikimedianInternet activist
- Biography
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Alaa Najjar is a physician, Wikipedian and internet activist, who 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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Ahmed Sameh
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- 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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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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Sumi Helal
- Born in
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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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Emadeldin Elsayed
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- documentary filmmaker
- Biography
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Emadeldin Elsayed is an Egyptian documentary filmmaker, born in Alexandria, Egypt.
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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.
