17 Notable alumni of
Beirut Arab University
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Beirut Arab University is 1632nd in the world, 366th in Asia, and 5th in Lebanon by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 17 notable alumni from Beirut Arab 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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Rafic Hariri
- Enrolled in Beirut Arab University
- Studied administration
- Occupations
- entrepreneurpolitician
- Biography
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Rafic Bahaa El Deen al-Hariri was a Lebanese businessman and politician who served as prime minister of Lebanon from 1992 to 1998 and again from 2000 to 2004.
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Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani is a Qatari politician, who served as the Prime Minister of Qatar from 26 June 2013 until his resignation on 28 January 2020. A member of the ruling family, he was Minister of State for Internal Affairs from 2005 to 2013.
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Basmah bint Saud
- Occupations
- entrepreneurhuman rights activist
- Biography
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Basmah bint Saud bin Al Saud is a Saudi Arabian royal, businesswoman and human rights activist. She is one of the grandchildren of Saudi's founder King Abdulaziz and a daughter of King Saud.
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Muhammad al-Yaqoubi
- Occupations
- poetIslamic jurist
- Biography
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Muhammad Abul Huda al-Yaqoubi is a Syrian religious leader and Islamic scholar. He has opposed Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
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Layal Abboud
- Enrolled in Beirut Arab University
- Studied translation
- Occupations
- police officercomposeractorpoetfitting model
- Biography
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Layal Mounir Abboud is a Lebanese pop singer, folk music entertainer, sound-lyric poet, concert dancer, fit model and Muslim humanitarian.
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Khalid bin Mohammad Al Attiyah
- Occupations
- politicianmilitary personnelentrepreneurdiplomat
- Biography
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Khalid bin Mohammad Al Attiyah is a Qatari politician who was minister of foreign affairs from June 2013 to January 2016. He had been Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Defense Affairs between January 2016 and 12 November 2024.
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Ghazi Hussein
- Years
- 1950-.. (age 75)
- Biography
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Ghazi Hussein is a Qatari actor and journalist. He is best known for his work in presenting Iftah Ya Simsim, the Arabic version of American children's television series Sesame Street, and for his leading role in Qatari television series Excuse Me, Father in 1994. He typically plays roles consisting of a domineering and authoritarian male figure.
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Najah Wakim
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Najah Wakim is a Lebanese politician who served as member of parliament from 1972 to 2000. He is the president of the People's Movement.
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Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser is a Qatari diplomat and the former permanent representative of Qatar to the United Nations, appointed on 11 September 1998. Prior to this office at the United Nations, Al-Nasser had served as the ambassador to Jordan from 1993. He worked for his country's foreign affairs department beginning in November 1972. He was the President of the Sixty-sixth session of the United Nations General Assembly from 14 September 2011 to 18 September 2012.
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Fadwa Barghouti
- Occupations
- lawyermilitant
- Biography
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Fadwa Al-Barghouti is a Palestinian lawyer and member of the Fatah council. The wife of politician Marwan Barghouti, who is currently held in Israeli prison for murder, she holds a master's degree in law in 2003 from Al-Quds University, and holds a bachelor's degree in law from Beirut University in 1997.
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Akram Chehayeb
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Akram Hussein Chehayeb is a Lebanese Druze politician who is a member of the Progressive Socialist Party headed by Walid Jumblatt. Cheheyab is a long-term member of the parliament and has also served in different cabinet and parliamentary posts.
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Anton Salman
- Enrolled in Beirut Arab University
- In 1986 graduated with bachelor's degree in law
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Anton Salman is the mayor of Bethlehem.
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Sawsan Al Sha'er
- Years
- 1956-.. (age 69)
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Sawsan al-Sha'er is a journalist and author. She is a columnist with Al-Watan newspaper, having joined the staff there from the pro-government Al-Ayam.
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George Ibrahim Haddad
- Years
- 1934-2009 (aged 75)
- Occupations
- writerjournalistpoet
- Biography
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George Ibrahim Haddad was a national Jordanian writer, poet and journalist and the founder of the Hebrew section in the Jordanian television, as his work of newsletters and political comments then had the most significant impact among the Hebrew society, even that Golda Meir– 4th Prime Minister of Israel– said about him during the 1973 war: "Israel had never faced in its history a nation with such a brutal psychological war as the one the Jordanian television waged." The 27th of June is his memorial day.
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Khaled Akil
- Occupations
- photographer
- Biography
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Khaled Akil born 1986 in Aleppo is a Syrian artist based in Istanbul. Akil is a self-taught artist who works with different art mediums. He is best known for his photography series Pokémon Go in Syria
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Anwar al-Fatayri
- Occupations
- politicianpartisan
- Biography
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Anwar Habib al-Fatayri was a Lebanese politician and junior commander of the People's Liberation Army who was assassinated on 9 February 1989.
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Mona al-Kuwari
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Mona Jassim Mohammed al-Kuwari (Arabic: منى جاسم محمد الكواري, is a Bahraini judge, academic, and author. She is currently a member of the Constitutional Court, the first woman in the Gulf to sit on such a court, which includes two other judges and a secretary.
