100 Notable alumni of
Cairo University
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Cairo University is 95th in the world, 1st in Africa, and 1st in Egypt by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Cairo 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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Saddam Hussein
- Enrolled in Cairo University
- In 1960 studied law
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- military personnelnovelistwriterpolitician
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Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti, was an Iraqi politician and revolutionary who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 1979 to 2003. He also served as prime minister of Iraq from 1979 to 1991 and later from 1994 to 2003. He was a leading member of the revolutionary Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, and later, the Baghdad-based Ba'ath Party and its regional organization, the Iraqi Ba'ath Party, which espoused Ba'athism, a mix of Arab nationalism and Arab socialism.
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Yasser Arafat
- Enrolled in Cairo University
- 1944-1950 graduated with bachelor's degree in civil engineering
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- civil engineerpolitician
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Yasser Arafat was a Palestinian political leader. He was chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) from 1969 to 2004 and president of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) from 1994 to 2004. Ideologically an Arab nationalist and a socialist, Arafat was a founding member of the Fatah political party, which he led from 1959 until 2004.
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Omar Sharif
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- film actorbridge playernon-fiction writerwritertelevision actor
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Omar Sharif was an Egyptian actor, generally regarded as one of his country's greatest male film stars. He began his career in his native country in the 1950s. He is best known for his appearances in American, British, French, and Italian productions. His career encompassed over 100 films spanning 50 years, and brought him many accolades including three Golden Globe Awards and a César Award for Best Actor.
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Gamal Abdel Nasser
- Enrolled in Cairo University
- Studied law
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- politicianmilitary personnel
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Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein was an Egyptian military officer and politician who served as the second president of Egypt from 1954 until his death in 1970. Nasser led the Egyptian revolution of 1952 and introduced far-reaching land reforms the following year. Following a 1954 attempt on his life by a Muslim Brotherhood member, he cracked down on the organization, put President Mohamed Naguib under house arrest and assumed executive office. He was formally elected president in June 1956.
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Ayman al-Zawahiri
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- surgeonmilitary leader'ālim
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Ayman Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri, was an Egyptian-born militant and physician who served as the second general emir of al-Qaeda from June 2011 until his death in July 2022.
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Yuriko Koike
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- international forum participantpolitician
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Yuriko Koike is a Japanese politician, who has served as the Governor of Tokyo since 2016. She graduated from the American University in Cairo in 1976 and was a member of the House of Representatives of Japan from 1993 until 2016, when she resigned to run for Governor of Tokyo. She also previously served as Minister of the Environment in the Junichiro Koizumi cabinet from 2003 to 2006 and briefly as Minister of Defense in the first cabinet of Shinzō Abe in 2007. Koike was elected Governor of Tokyo in 2016, becoming the metropolis's first female Governor. Koike was re-elected Governor in 2020, winning 59.7% of the vote.
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Adel Emam
- Enrolled in Cairo University
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in agricultural science
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- television actorstage actorfilm actoractorcomedian
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Adel Emam is an Egyptian film, television, and stage actor. He is primarily a comedian, but he has starred in more serious works and, combined comedy with romance especially in his earlier secondary roles in films such as My Wife, the Director General, My Wife's Dignity, My Wife's Goblin and Virgo, all films starring Salah Zulfikar.
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Mohamed Morsi
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- engineerpoliticianuniversity teachermaterials scientist
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Mohamed Mohamed Morsi Eissa al-Ayyat was an Egyptian politician, engineer, and professor who served as the fifth president of Egypt, from 2012 to 2013, when General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi removed him from office in a coup d'état after protests in June. An Islamist affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood organization, Morsi led the Freedom and Justice Party from 2011 to 2012.
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Naguib Mahfouz
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- writershort story writernovelistjournalisttranslator
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Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature. Mahfouz is regarded as one of the first contemporary writers in Arabic literature, along with Taha Hussein, to explore themes of existentialism. He is the only Egyptian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. He published 35 novels, over 350 short stories, 26 screenplays, hundreds of op-ed columns for Egyptian newspapers, and seven plays over a 70-year career, from the 1930s until 2004. All of his novels take place in Egypt, and always mentions the lane, which equals the world. His most famous works include The Cairo Trilogy and Children of Gebelawi. Many of Mahfouz's works have been made into Egyptian and foreign films; no Arab writer exceeds Mahfouz in number of works that have been adapted for cinema and television. While Mahfouz's literature is classified as realist literature, existential themes appear in it.
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Boutros Boutros-Ghali
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- diplomatwriteruniversity teacherpoliticianjurist
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Boutros Boutros-Ghali was an Egyptian politician and diplomat who served as the sixth Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1992 to 1996. Prior to his appointment as secretary-general, Boutros-Ghali was the acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of Egypt between 1977 and 1979. He oversaw the United Nations over a period coinciding with several world crises, including the breakup of Yugoslavia and the Rwandan genocide.
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Taha Hussein
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- literary critictranslatorliterary scholarliterary historianhistorian
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Taha Hussein was one of the most influential 20th-century Egyptian writers and intellectuals, and a figurehead for the Arab Renaissance and the modernist movement in the Arab world. His sobriquet was "The Dean of Arabic Literature" (Arabic: عميد الأدب العربي). He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature twenty-one times.
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Hassan al-Banna
- Enrolled in Cairo University
- 1923-1927 graduated with Licentiate
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- writerpoliticianteacherdawahleader
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Hassan Ahmed Abdel Rahman Muhammed al-Banna, known as Hassan al-Banna (Arabic: حسن البنا), was an Egyptian schoolteacher and imam, best known for founding the Muslim Brotherhood, one of the largest and most influential Islamic revivalist organizations.
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Ashraf Marwan
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- businesspersonspy
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Ashraf Marwan was an Egyptian billionaire who worked as a spy for both the General Intelligence Directorate (Egypt) and the Israeli Mossad.
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Mohamed Aboutrika
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- association football player
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Mohamed Mohamed Mohamed Aboutrika is an Egyptian retired professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder and a forward. He won the African Footballer of the Year award in 2008 beating the previous years winner Emmanuel Adebayor, and was one of five nominees for the 2006 award, and one of the ten nominated for the 2013 award.
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Magdi Yacoub
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- university teachersurgeonprofessor
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Sir Magdi Habib Yacoub, is an Egyptian retired professor of cardiothoracic surgery at Imperial College London, best known for his early work in repairing heart valves with surgeon Donald Ross, adapting the Ross procedure, where the diseased aortic valve is replaced with the person's own pulmonary valve, devising the arterial switch operation (ASO) in transposition of the great arteries, and establishing the heart transplantation centre at Harefield Hospital in 1980 with a heart transplant for Derrick Morris, who at the time of his death was Europe's longest-surviving heart transplant recipient. Yacoub subsequently performed the UK's first combined heart and lung transplant in 1983.
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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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Nawal El Saadawi
- Enrolled in Cairo University
- In 1955 graduated with Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery in pulmonology
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- novelistpsychiatristphysician writerwritergynaecologist
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Nawal Elsaadawi was an Egyptian feminist writer, activist and physician. She wrote numerous books on the subject of women in Islam, focusing on the practice of female genital mutilation in her society. She was described as "the Simone de Beauvoir of the Arab World", and as "Egypt's most radical woman".
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Bassem Youssef
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- satiristwritercardiac surgeoncolumnisttelevision presenter
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Bassem Raafat Mohamed Youssef is an Egyptian-American comedian, tv host, and surgeon. Youssef started his career with The B+ Show inspired during the 2011 Egyptian revolution. He gained prominence for having hosted Al Bernameg, a satirical comedy show focused on Egyptian politics, from 2011 to 2014. He was profiled in the documentary Tickling Giants (2017) and he wrote the Revolution For Dummies (2017).
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Mustafa Mahmoud
- Enrolled in Cairo University
- Studied pulmonology
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- literarywritershort story writertelevision presenterphysician
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Mustafa Kamal Mahmoud Hussein, commonly known as Mustafa Mahmoud (Arabic: مصطفى محمود), was an Egyptian doctor, philosopher, and author. Mustafa was born in Shibin el-Kom, Monufia province, Egypt. He was trained as a doctor, but later chose a career as a journalist and author, traveling and writing on many subjects. He wrote 89 books on science, philosophy, religion, politics, and society as well as plays, tales, and travelogues.
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Sultan bin Mohamed Al-Qasimi
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- autobiographermilitary personnel
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Sheikh Sultan bin Muhammad Al-Qasimi is the ruler of the Emirate of Sharjah and a member of the Federal Supreme Council of the United Arab Emirates.
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Abla Kamel
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- actor
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Abla Kamel Mohamed Afifi is an Egyptian actress.
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Princess Dina bint Abdul-Hamid Hashem
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- university teacher
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Dina bint Abdul-Hamid was a Hashemite princess and the Queen of Jordan from 1955 until 1957 as the first wife of King Hussein. She was the mother to Hussein's oldest child, Princess Alia bint Hussein. She and the king were married from 1955 to 1957, and in 1970 she married a high-ranking official in the PLO. She was a graduate of the University of Cambridge and a lecturer in English literature at Cairo University.
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Poussi
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- film actoractor
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Poussi, Poussy or Boussy real name Sarvenaz Moustafa Adri (Egyptian Arabic: صارفيناز مصطفى قدري; born 26 November 1953) is a Cairo-born Egyptian actress.
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Adly Mansour
- Enrolled in Cairo University
- 1968-1970 graduated with master's degree in law
- Studied in 1970
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- lawyermagistratejudgepolitician
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Adly Mahmoud Mansour is an Egyptian judge and politician who served as the president (or chief justice) of the Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt. He also served as interim president of Egypt from 4 July 2013 to 8 June 2014 following the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état by the military which deposed President Mohamed Morsi. Several secular and religious figures, such as the Grand Imam of al-Azhar (Ahmed el-Tayeb), the Coptic Pope (Tawadros II), and Mohamed ElBaradei supported the coup against President Morsi and the military appointed Mansour interim-president until an election could take place. Morsi refused to acknowledge his removal as valid and continued to maintain that only he could be considered the legitimate President of Egypt. Mansour was sworn into office in front of the Supreme Constitutional Court on 4 July 2013.
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Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani
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- politiciandiplomat
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Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber bin Mohammed bin Thani Al Thani, who was also known informally by his initials HBJ, is a Qatari politician. He was the Prime Minister of Qatar from 3 April 2007 to 26 June 2013, and foreign minister from 11 January 1992 to 26 June 2013.
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Mohamed ElBaradei
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- diplomatpoliticianinternational forum participantjuristhuman rights activist
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Mohamed Mostafa ElBaradei is an Egyptian law scholar and diplomat who served as the vice president of Egypt on an interim basis from 14 July 2013 until his resignation on 14 August 2013.
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Jehan Sadat
- Enrolled in Cairo University
- In 1986 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
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- writerpoliticianuniversity teacherpoethuman rights activist
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Jehan Sadat was an Egyptian human rights activist and the First Lady of Egypt, as the wife of Anwar Sadat, from 1970 until her husband's assassination in 1981. As Egypt's first lady, she greatly influenced the reform of the country's civil rights legislation. Advance laws, referred to as the "Jehan Laws", have given women in Egypt a range of new rights, such as the right to child support and custody in the event of divorce.
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Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria
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- priesttheologianwriter
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Pope Shenouda III was the 117th Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark. His papacy lasted 40 years, 4 months, and 4 days, from 14 November 1971 until his death.
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Mikhail Zygar
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- writerwar correspondentopinion journalistdirectorjournalist
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Mikhail Viktorovich Zygar is a Russian born journalist, writer and filmmaker, and the founding editor-in-chief of Russian news channel TV Rain (2010–2015). Under Zygar's leadership, TV Rain provided an alternative to Kremlin-controlled federal TV channels by focusing on news content and giving a platform to opposition voices. The channel's coverage of politically sensitive issues, like the Moscow street protests in 2011 and 2012 as well as the conflict in Ukraine, has been dramatically different from the official coverage by Russia's national television stations. Zygar is also the author of the book All the Kremlin's Men (2017), the history of Putin's Russia, based on interviews with Russian politicians from Putin's inner circle.
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Mostafa Shabanane
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- actor
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Mostafa Shaban is an Egyptian actor.
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Sameera Moussa
- Enrolled in Cairo University
- 1935-1939 graduated with Bachelor of Science in radiology, natural science, and radioactivity
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- nuclear physicistassistant professormedical physicist
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Sameera Moussa or Samira Musa Aly was the first female Egyptian nuclear physicist. Sameera held a doctorate in atomic radiation. She hoped her work would one day lead to affordable medical treatments and the peaceful use of atomic energy. She organized the Atomic Energy for Peace Conference and sponsored a call that set an international conference under the banner "Atoms for Peace." She was the first woman to work at Cairo University.
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Wael Ghonim
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- politiciancomputer scientist
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Wael Ghonim is an Internet activist and computer engineer with an interest in social entrepreneurship.
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Hassan Fathi
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- architect
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Hassan Fathy was a noted Egyptian architect who pioneered appropriate technology for building in Egypt, especially by working to reestablish the use of adobe and traditional mud construction as opposed to western building designs, material configurations, and lay-outs. Fathy was recognized with the Aga Khan Chairman's Award for Architecture in 1980.
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Rached Ghannouchi
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- lawyerinternational forum participantpoliticianuniversity teacher
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Rached Ghannouchi, also spelled Rachid al-Ghannouchi or Rached el-Ghannouchi, is a Tunisian politician, the co-founder of the Ennahdha Party and serving as its intellectual leader. He was born Rashad Khriji (راشد الخريجي).
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Hany Ramzy
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- television actoractor
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Hani Ramzi is an Egyptian actor and one of the most famous comedians in Egypt.
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Saleh Selim
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- association football playeractor
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Saleh Selim was the 10th president of the Egyptian Al Ahly Sporting Club. He also was a famous Egyptian football player and actor. He was nicknamed El Maestro because of his way of leading the Al Ahly football team to many victories. He then became the manager of the team, then member of the board of directors of the club. He finally became one of the most successful presidents of the club.
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Mohammed Badie
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- university teacherpoliticianveterinarian
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Mohammed Badie is the eighth Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood.
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Amr Saad
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- television actoractor
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Amr Saad is an Egyptian actor. He graduated from the Faculty of Applied Arts. He began his artistic career in the late 1990s, when he first stood in front of the camera. Shahin, then the film Al Madina by Yusra Nasrallah, and then appeared in a short film entitled Ten pounds and then a legitimate betrayal.
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Mais Hamdan
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- actorsingertelevision presenter
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Mais Abdel-Jabbar Hamdan Selim, better known as Mais Hamdan (Arabic: ميس حمدان), is a Jordanian actress, singer and TV presenter. Her sisters are Mai Selim and Dana Hamdan.
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Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin
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- spiritual leaderphilanthropist
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Mufaddal Saifuddin is the spiritual leader, the 53rd Da'i al-Mutlaq of one million Dawoodi Bohras, a subgroup of the Tayyibi, Mustaali, Ismaili Shia branch of Islam. He is the second son of the 52nd Da'i al-Mutlaq, Mohammed Burhanuddin, whom he succeeded in 2014. He is the Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University and Jamia Miliya Islamia University situated in India. He has led a number of cultural, social, and economic initiatives. In Islamic Cairo, he rebuilt shrines of the Ahl al-Bayt and led the restoration of medieval Fatimid architecture, notably Al-Anwar Mosque, Al-Aqmar Mosque, Al-Juyushi Mosque, and Lulua Mosque. In Yemen, he has spearheaded several campaigns to improve socio-economic conditions of the inhabitants of the Haraaz region, introducing sustainable agricultural systems, improving local infrastructure and providing equal access to education for children.
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Mostafa Madbouly
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- international forum participantpolitician
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Mostafa Kamal Madbouly is the Prime Minister of Egypt, serving since 2018. He was appointed by President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to succeed Sherif Ismail following his government's resignation in the wake of Sisi's re-election. Madbouly also served in Sherif Ismail's cabinet as Minister of Housing, and had also briefly served as acting prime minister.
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Omar Suleiman
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- military personneldiplomatpolitician
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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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Tamim al-Barghouti
- Enrolled in Cairo University
- In 1999 graduated with bachelor's degree
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- poet
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Tamim Al-Barghouti is a Palestinian-Egyptian poet, columnist and political scientist. Nicknamed the "poet of Jerusalem" (شاعر القدس), he is one of the most widely read poets in the Arab World. He received his PhD degree in political science from Boston University in 2004. He grew up in a family interested in Arabic literature. His father was the Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti from the Deir Ghassana village, and his mother is the Egyptian novelist and political writer Radwa Ashour.
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Ahmed Zaki Yamani
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- politician
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Ahmed Zaki Yamani was a Saudi Arabian politician who served as Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources under four Saudi monarchs from 1962 to 1986, and a minister in the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) for 25 years.
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Eldef Ahmad
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- television actoractor
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El Deif Ahmed, was an Egyptian actor. He was part of the stand-up comedy trio Tholathy Adwa'a El Masrah alongside George Sidhom and Samir Ghanem.
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Amr Khaled
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- television presenteraccountant
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Amr Mohamed Helmi Khaled is an Egyptian Muslim activist and television preacher. The New York Times Magazine, in reference to Khaled's popularity in English-speaking countries, described him in 2006 issue as "the world's most famous and influential Muslim television preacher." In 2007, Amr Khaled was chosen as one of the world's 100 most influential people by Time magazine. His message appeals to a large number of Muslims who want an easy way to understand Islam.
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Anis Mansour
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- journalisttranslatorwriter
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Anis Mansour, also transliterated as Anīs Manṣūr was an Egyptian writer.
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Yusuf Idris
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- physician writernovelistplaywrightwriter
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Yusuf Idris, also Yusif Idris was an Egyptian writer of plays, short stories, and novels.
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Walid Muallem
- Enrolled in Cairo University
- In 1963 graduated with Bachelor of Economics
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- politiciandiplomat
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Walid Mohi Edine al Muallem was a Syrian diplomat and Ba'ath Party member who served as foreign minister from 2006 to 2020 and as deputy prime minister from 2012 to 2020.
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Abdel Bari Atwan
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- writereditortranslatorlinguistjournalist
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Abdel Bari Atwan is a Palestinian-born British journalist and the editor-in-chief of Rai al-Youm, an Arab world digital news and opinion website. Previously he was the editor-in-chief of the London-based pan-Arab newspaper Al-Quds Al-Arabi from the founding of the paper in 1989 until July 2013.
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Ibrahim Eissa
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- writerjournalist
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Ibrahim Eissa is an Egyptian journalist and TV personality best known for co-founding the popular Egyptian weekly Al-Dustour. He is currently editor-in-chief of Al Tahrir, which he co-founded in July 2011.
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Youssef Ziedan
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- novelisthistorianwriter
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Youssef Ziedan is an Egyptian writer and scholar who specializes in Arabic and Islamic studies. He is a public lecturer, columnist, and prolific author of more than 50 books. He is also director of the Manuscript Center and Museum at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina.
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Hazem Salah Abu Ismail
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- politicianlawyer
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Hazem Salah Abu Ismail is an Egyptian lawyer, television preacher, and former presidential candidate. He was a host on The Fadfada Show which aired on Al-Nas Channel and is the founder of the Flag Party.
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Amr Moussa
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- lawyerinternational forum participantpoliticiandiplomat
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Amr Moussa is an Egyptian politician and diplomat who was the Secretary-General of the Arab League, a 22-member forum representing Arab states, from 1 June 2001 to 1 July 2011. Previously he served in the government of Egypt as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1991 to 2001. On 8 September 2013, he was elected president of the committee of 50 that will amend the Egyptian constitution.
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Aisha Abd al-Rahman
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- mufassirwriterpoet
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Aisha Abd al-Rahman was an Egyptian author, editor and professor of literature who published under the pen name Bint al-Shāṭiʾ[Daughter of the Riverbank] (بِنْت ٱلشّاطِئ).
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Wahid Hamed
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- writershort story writernovelistscreenwriterplaywright
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Wahid Hamed was an Egyptian screenwriter.
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Mohamed Ali
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- building contractorfilm actoractorpolitical activist
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Mohamed Ali is an Egyptian building contractor living in exile in Spain who worked for 15 years with Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and Sisi's colleagues building villas and a palace. In September 2019, Ali circulated videos accusing Sisi of corruption. The online circulation of videos snowballed, with others including Wael Ghonim joining in the anti-Sisi criticism. Ali called for mass anti-Sisi street protests which started on 20 September 2019 across Egypt. On 28 December 2019, Ali released the "Egyptian Consensus Document" with a list of four key principles and four key actions for replacing the Egyptian government, which he claimed represented the consensus of a wide range of the Egyptian opposition.
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Nasr Abu Zayd
- Enrolled in Cairo University
- Studied in 1968-1972
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- university teacherwriterarabistthinkerphilosopher
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Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd was an Egyptian Quranic thinker, author, academic and one of the leading liberal theologians in Islam. He is famous for his project of a humanistic Quranic hermeneutics, which "challenged mainstream views" on the Quran, sparking "controversy and debate." While not denying that the Quran was of divine origin, Zayd argued that it was a "cultural product" that had to be read in the context of the language and culture of seventh century Arabs, and could be interpreted in more than one way. He also criticized the use of religion to exert political power. In 1995 an Egyptian Sharia court declared him an apostate, this led to threats of death and his fleeing Egypt several weeks later. He later quietly returned to Egypt where he died.
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Randa El Behery
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- actor
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Randa El Behery is an Egyptian model and actress.
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Alaa Al Aswany
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- novelistnon-fiction writerpolitical activistwritershort story writer
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Alaa Al Aswany is an Egyptian writer, novelist, and a founding member of the political movement Kefaya.
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Tarek Shawki
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- university teacher
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Tarek Galal Shawki is the former minister of education in Egypt. He was the Dean of the School of Sciences and Engineering at the American University in Cairo (AUC). This academic assignment started on 1 September 2012 following a four-year tenure as the Director of the UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science in Arab States [2008-2012] located in Cairo, Egypt. Prior to his UNESCO Cairo Office appointment in June 2008, he was the Chief of the Section for "ICTs in Education, Science and Culture" within the "Information Society Division" in UNESCO headquarters (Paris, France). Dr. Shawki has served as the regional advisor for Communications and Information at the UNESCO Cairo Office (UCO) between January 1999 and November 2005. The UCO is a regional office for science, technology, and information for Arab states. Shawki has been a panelist on the National Science Foundation and the National Research Council. His leadership is considered paramount to the Arab region in modernizing university education in basic and engineering sciences, through the promotion of the Mathematica technology.
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Mahmoud al-Zahar
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- physicianpolitician
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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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Mofeed Fawzy
- Enrolled in Cairo University
- Studied in 1959
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- television presenterjournalistwriter
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Mofeed or Mufid Fawzy was an Egyptian television presenter, interviewer and journalist. He produced and presented on Egyptian "Talk of the Town" (Arabic: حديث المدينة Hadeeth Al Madena) for nearly 26 years. He was also a talk show co-host for Al-Qahira Al-Youm, a popular live talk show from Cairo, which airs on Orbit TV's El Yawm Channel (Arabic: قناة اليوم). Mufid Fawzy was also the editor-in-chief of صباح الخير "Sabāh al-Khayr" Good Morning magazine published by Rose al-Yūsuf. Fawzy was married to late broadcaster Amal El-Omdah with whom he had one daughter - writer, poet and journalist for Nisft Al-Dunya magazine, Hanan Mofeed Fawzy.
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Nicholas John Spykman
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- journalistgeopolitical analystuniversity teacherdiplomat
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Nicholas John Spykman was an American political scientist who was Professor of International Relations at Yale University from 1928 until his death in 1943. He was one of the founders of the classical realist school in American foreign policy, transmitting Eastern European political thought to the United States.
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Amina Wadud
- Enrolled in Cairo University
- Studied tafsir
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- Islamicistwomen's rights activistuniversity teacher
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amina wadud is an American Muslim theologian. Wadud serves as visiting professor at Indonesian Consortium for Religious Studies and was also a visiting scholar at Starr King School for the Ministry. Wadud has written extensively on the role of women in Islam.
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Mustafa al-Nahhas
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- diplomatpoliticianlawyer
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Mostafa el-Nahas Pasha or Mostafa Nahas was an Egyptian politician who served as the Prime Minister for five terms.
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Ali Mahdi Muhammad
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- politicianbusinessperson
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Ali Mahdi Muhammad was a Somali entrepreneur and politician. He served as President of Somalia from 26 January 1991 to 27 August 1993. The Cairo Agreement in December 1997 designated Ali Mahdi as president once again, a position he held until being succeeded by Abdiqasim Salad in the year 2000.
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Muhammad Imara
- Enrolled in Cairo University
- In 1975 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in Islamic philosophy
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- journalistwriterpreacherintellectual
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Muhammad ʿImāra was an Islamic thinker, an author and editor, as well as a member of al-Azhar's Academy of Islamic research in Cairo.
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Abd Al-Halim Abu-Ghazala
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- military personnelpoliticianwriter
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Muhammad Abd Al-Halim Abu-Ghazala was Defense Minister of Egypt from 1981 to 1989. Abu Ghazala was seated next to Anwar Sadat when the president was assassinated.
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Fahd bin Mahmoud al Said
- Years
- 1944-.. (age 80)
- Enrolled in Cairo University
- Studied commerce
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Sayyid Fahd bin Mahmoud Al-Said is the Deputy Prime Minister for the Council of Ministers in the Sultanate of Oman, and has served in this post since 23 June 1972. He was also the spokesperson of the Royal Family Council at least on the extraordinary session upon the death of Sultan Qaboos bin Said.
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Mahmoud Jibril
- Occupations
- international forum participantpolitician
- Biography
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Mahmoud Jibril el-Warfally, also transcribed Jabril or Jebril or Gebril (28 May 1952 – 5 April 2020), was a Libyan politician who served as the interim Prime Minister of Libya for seven and a half months during the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi and the Libyan Civil War, chairing the executive board of the National Transitional Council (NTC) from 5 March to 23 October 2011. He also served as the Head of International Affairs. As of July 2012, Jibril was the head of one of the largest political parties in Libya, the National Forces Alliance.
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Hamad Bin Abdulaziz Al-Kawari
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Hamad Bin Abdulaziz Al-Kuwari is a Qatari diplomat and politician. Dr. Al-Kuwari serves as State Minister with rank of Deputy Prime Minister. He is currently President of Qatar National Library and was formerly the Minister of Culture, Arts and Heritage of Qatar (2008-2016). He was previously the Ambassador of Qatar to France, the United States, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and the UN. Dr. Al-Kuwari was a candidate in 2017 election of the Director-General of UNESCO. He is married and the father of three children.
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Hesham Qandil
- Occupations
- Politicianengineer
- Biography
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Hesham Mohamed Qandil is an Egyptian engineer and civil servant who was Prime Minister of Egypt from 2012 to 2013. Qandil was appointed as Prime Minister by President Mohamed Morsi on 24 July 2012 and sworn in on 2 August 2012. Qandil previously served as Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation from 2011 to 2012.
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Ibrahim Mahlab
- Occupations
- politiciancivil engineerinternational forum participant
- Biography
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Ibrahim Roshdy Mahlab is an Egyptian engineer and politician who was the Prime Minister of Egypt from 1 March 2014 until 19 September 2015. Previously he served as Minister of Housing.
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Mourid Barghouti
- Occupations
- poet
- Biography
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Mourid Barghouti was a Palestinian poet and writer.
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Essam Heggy
- Occupations
- astronomer
- Biography
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Essam Heggy is an Egyptian space scientist. Heggy obtained his Ph.D. in astronomy and planetary science in 2002 with distinguished honors from the Paris-Sorbonne University in Paris. His main science interests in space and planetary geophysics covers Mars, the Moon, icy satellites and near-Earth objects. His research involves probing structural, hydrological and volcanic elements in terrestrial and planetary environments using different types of radar imaging and sounding techniques as well as measuring the electromagnetic properties of rocks in the radar frequency range. His research expertise span from laboratory electromagnetic characterization of planetary analog materials, Radar sounding of aquifers in hyper-arid environments, GPR surveys in volcanic and ice-rich environments, FDTD numerical simulations of wave propagation and terrestrial and planetary radars data analysis. Heggy is a member of the science teams of several planetary exploration missions, and he is a contributing scientist to several proposed planetary and terrestrial radar imaging and sounding experiments. Heggy taught academic classes and mentored several postdocs and graduated students in UCLA, Caltech, Cambridge University, Paris VI & Paris VII universities, Institut de Physique du Globe, Ecole Normale Superieure, University of Houston, Trento University and Columbia University.
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Mehmet Görmez
- Enrolled in Cairo University
- Studied in 1988-1989
- Occupations
- university teacherimam'ālim
- Biography
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Mehmet Görmez is the former President of the Presidency of Religious Affairs (Turkish: Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı from November 2010 to 31 July 2017, commonly known as Diyanet) and as such legally the highest level Islamic scholar in Turkey and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.
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Osman Ahmed Osman
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- engineerpoliticiancivil engineerbusinessperson
- Biography
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Osman Ahmed Osman (April 6, 1917 – May 1, 1999) was an Egyptian engineer, contractor, entrepreneur, and politician. Known commonly as el-mo'alim ("the boss"), Osman founded the Arab Contractors (the largest Arab contracting firm between the 1960s and 1980s) and led the Egyptian effort to build the Aswan Dam. He went on to become the Egyptian Minister of Housing and Development and later a member of the Egyptian Parliament.
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Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh
- Occupations
- physiciantrade unionistpolitician
- Biography
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Dr. Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh Abdel Hady is an Egyptian physician, former student activist and a politician. In 2011–2012, he ran for President of Egypt as an independent. He was formerly a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood.
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Hamdeen Sabahi
- Occupations
- journalistpoetwriterpolitician
- Biography
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Hamdeen Sabahi is an Egyptian politician, journalist. He is currently the leader of the Egyptian Popular Current and a co-leader of the National Salvation Front. An opposition activist during the Anwar Sadat and Hosni Mubarak eras, Sabahi was jailed 17 times during their presidencies for political dissidence. He was an immediate supporter and participant of the 2011 Egyptian revolution. Sabahi entered the 2012 Egyptian presidential race in which he finished third place with 21.5% of the vote trailing the second place candidate Ahmed Shafiq by a margin of 700,000 votes. In the 2014 presidential election he was one of just two candidates. He ran second with less than 4% of the vote. Abdel Fattah el-Sisi was declared the winner after attracting 22 million of the nearly 23 million votes cast. Sisi was sworn into office as President of Egypt on 8 June 2014.
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Ahmed Nazif
- Occupations
- politiciancomputer scientist
- Biography
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Ahmed Nazif served as the Prime Minister of Egypt from 14 July 2004 to 29 January 2011, when his cabinet was dismissed by President Hosni Mubarak in light of a popular uprising that led to the Egyptian Revolution of 2011. Nazif was Acting President of Egypt from 5 March to 15 April 2010, when President Mubarak delegated his authorities to Nazif while undergoing surgery in Germany.
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Rashid Karami
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Rashid Karami was a Lebanese statesman. He is considered one of the most important political figures in Lebanon for more than 30 years, including during much of the Lebanese Civil War (1975–1990), and he served as prime minister eight times, making him the most democratically elected prime minister in history according to the Guinness Book of World Records 2005. He was assassinated in 1987.
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Abd El-Razzak El-Sanhuri
- Occupations
- writerjudgeuniversity teacherpoliticianjurist
- Biography
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Abd el-Razzak el-Sanhuri or ‘Abd al-Razzāq al-Sanhūrī was an Egyptian jurist, law professor, judge and politician. He is best remembered as the primary author of the revised Egyptian Civil Code of 1948. Al-Sanhūrī's multi-volume masterwork, Al-Wasīṭ fī sharḥ al-qānūn al-madanī al-jadīd, a comprehensive commentary on the Egyptian Civil Code of 1948 and on civil law more generally, published during 1952-1970, remains in print and is highly regarded in legal and juristic professions throughout the Arab world. Al-Sanhūrī was Minister of Education in the Cabinet of Mahmoud El Nokrashy Pasha from 1945-1946 and again from late 1946 to 1948.
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Zaki Naguib Mahmoud
- Occupations
- philosopher
- Biography
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Zaki Naguib Mahmoud was an Egyptian intellectual and thinker, and is considered a pioneer in modern Arabic philosophical thought. He was described by Abbas Mahmoud al-Akkad as "the philosopher of authors and author of philosophers". Mahmoud adhered to logical positivism and adopted science interpretation with social motivations to reconcile the Arab tradition with modernism. Mahmoud defines the "Arab tradition" as the configuration of techniques by which our ancestors lived, and he viewed logical positivism as the spirit of "Modernism".
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Khalid bin Mohammad Al Attiyah
- Occupations
- entrepreneurmilitary personnelpoliticiandiplomat
- 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 has been minister of state for defense since January 2016.
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Nabil Elaraby
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- diplomatlawyerjudgepoliticianinternational forum participant
- Biography
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Nabil Elaraby is an Egyptian politician and diplomat who was Secretary General of the Arab League from 1 July 2011 to 3 July 2016. Previously, he was Foreign Affairs Minister of Egypt in Essam Sharaf's government from March to June 2011.
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Hani al-Mulki
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- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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Hani Fawzi Mulki is a Jordanian politician that held several ministerial and diplomatic positions, and he was Chief Commissioner of the Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority before his designation as the 41st Prime Minister of Jordan by King Abdullah II and approval by the House of Representatives on 29 May 2016.
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Latifa al-Zayyat
- Occupations
- writernovelistuniversity teachertranslatoractivist
- Biography
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Latifa al-Zayyat was an Egyptian activist and writer, most famous for her novel The Open Door, which won the inaugural Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature.
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Belal Fadl
- Occupations
- actorwriterscreenwriter
- Biography
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Belal Fadl is an Egyptian screenplay writer, journalist and a column writer. He was born and raised in Cairo, Egypt. Fadl has roots from Alexandria. Fadl graduated from Cairo University 1st class with honors, school of mass communications. He began his career as a journalist at Rose al-Yūsuf then, a co-founder and secretary of Al-Dustour, then joined Al-Masry Al-Youm to write his column Istbaha being one of the most important columnists in Egypt.
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Abdelkrim Ghallab
- Occupations
- writerjournalist
- Biography
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Abdelkrim Ghallab was a Moroccan political journalist, cultural commentator, and novelist. He is an important figure both in the literary and political field (editor of the Istiqlal Party daily al-Alam).
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Hatim Zaghloul
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- scientist
- Biography
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Hatim Zaghloul Ph.D., M.Sc., B.E.E. is best known for his inventions, together with his long-time friend, Dr. Michel Fattouche of Wideband Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (WOFDM), and Multi-code Direct-sequence Spread Spectrum (MCDSSS). WOFDM is the foundation for the IEEE 802.11a/g/n technologies whereas MCDSSS helped increase the data rates of code division multiple access (CDMA) technologies as in the CDMA2000 standard. Currently, Dr. Zaghloul is the CEO and Chairman of Innovatian Inc., Giza, Egypt, a company specializing in building wireless data networks in unconnected countries through WiFi and blockchain. Dr. Zaghloul is also the co-founder and Chairman of Hikmah Capital Ltd. a company specializing in the development, marketing and management of financial technology solutions., Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He co-founded with Michel Fattouche, to commercialize their patented WOFDM technology. He founded and co-founded a number of hi-tech companies such as Cell-Loc Location Technologies Inc., a company he co-founded with Michel Fattouche to commercialize a cellular telephone location determination/tracking technology.
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Osama El-Baz
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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Osama El-Baz was an Egyptian diplomat and a senior advisor to former President Hosni Mubarak.
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Saad El-Katatni
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- politician
- Biography
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Saad El-Katatni is an Egyptian Islamist politician who has been the chairman of the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) since October 2012. From January 2012 until its dissolution in September he was the first Speaker of the People's Assembly after the Egyptian Revolution of 2011. Prior to this, he served as the first secretary-general of the FJP and was a member of the Guidance Bureau of the Muslim Brotherhood.
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Essam el-Erian
- Enrolled in Cairo University
- In 1992 graduated with licentiate degree in law
- Studied in 2000
- Occupations
- human rights activistphysiciantrade unionistpolitician
- Biography
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Essam al-Din Muhammad Hussein el-Erian was an Egyptian physician and politician. He was the vice chairman of the Freedom And Justice Party. Formerly he was a member of the Guidance Bureau of the Muslim Brotherhood. He was elected as a parliament member in the 2011–12 Egyptian parliamentary election. After the 2013 Egyptian coup, prosecutors ordered his arrest on 10 July 2013. On 14 July 2013, Egypt's new prosecutor general Hisham Barakat ordered his assets to be frozen. el-Erian was arrested by the government on 30 October 2013.
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Abdel Rahman Badawi
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- writeruniversity teacherpoettranslatorphilosopher
- Biography
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Abdel Rahman Badawi was an Egyptian existentialist philosopher, professor of philosophy and poet. He has been called the "foremost master of Arab existentialism." He published more than 150 works, mostly rendering of Arabic philosophical manuscripts.
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Bassem Ouda
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- ministerpoliticianengineer
- Biography
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Bassem Kamal Mohamed Ouda, commonly known as Bassem Ouda, is an Egyptian politician who is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP). He served as Egypt's Minister of Supply and Interior Trade between January and July 2013, when he resigned due to the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état. He was later arrested, tried and sentenced to life imprisonment in a politically motivated trial.
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Hazem Al Beblawi
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- economistwriterpoliticianinternational forum participant
- Biography
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Hazem El Beblawi is an Egyptian economist and politician who was interim prime minister of Egypt from 2013 until 1 March 2014. Previously he served as deputy prime minister and minister of finance in 2011. After the ouster of President Mohammed Morsi and his government in July 2013, Beblawi was named interim prime minister. On 24 February 2014, Beblawi announced his resignation.
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Sandra Nashaat
- Occupations
- film director
- Biography
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Sandra Nashaat is an Egyptian film director.
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Omar Karami
- Years
- 1934-2015 (aged 81)
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Omar Abdul Hamid Karami was the 29th prime minister of Lebanon, who served two separate terms. He was Prime Minister for the first time from 24 December 1990, when Selim al-Hoss gave up power, until May 1992, when he resigned due to economic instability. He was again Prime Minister from October 2004 to April 2005.
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Panakkad Shihab Thangal
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Mohammedali Shihab Thangal, known with the honorific prefix Sayed, was an Indian community leader, Islamic scholar and politician from Kerala. He is sometimes regarded as "the most important Mappila leader" of modern Kerala.
