25 Notable alumni of
Helwan University
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Helwan University is 1251st in the world, 26th in Africa, and 6th in Egypt by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 25 notable alumni from Helwan University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Ahmed h
- Occupations
- actorcomediantelevision actorradio drama actorwriter
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Ahmed Muhammad Helmy Abdel Rahman Awwad is an Egyptian actor, comedian, producer, author, and television presenter. He began his career in 1993 as host of the children's program Leib Eyal (Kids' Play) on the Egyptian Satellite Channel. Helmy made his film debut in 1998 with Aboud at the Border (Aboud Ala El Hedoud), which introduced him to a wider audience. Over the following two decades, he became one of the most popular comedians in Egyptian cinema, known for leading roles in commercially successful films such as El Nazer (2000), Keda Reda (2007), and X-Large (2011).
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Mohamed Mounir
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- musiciancomposerfilm actorstage actortelevision actor
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Mohamed Mounir is an Egyptian singer and actor, with a musical career spanning more than four decades. He incorporates various genres into his music, including classical Egyptian music, Nubian music, Blues, Jazz and Reggae. His lyrics are noted both for their philosophical content and for their passionate social and political commentary. He is affectionately known by his fans as "El King" in reference to his album and play "El Malek Howwa El Malek" (The King is The King). Mounir's family is from Nubia, Southern Aswan, Egypt.
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Hesham Seliem
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- film actoractortelevision actor
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Hesham Selim was an Egyptian film and television actor. He is the son of Saleh Selim. He acted in many movies and television series since his childhood.
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Mohamed Hamaki
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- actorsingermusician
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Mohamed Ibrahim Mohamed El Hamaki is an Egyptian singer. In 2010, he won the "Best Arabia Act" award from MTV Europe Music Awards and the Music Award in 2006, for "Ahla Haga Fiki". He was a coach at the fifth season of The Voice Ahla Sawt in 2019.
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Dalia Elbeheri
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- modelbeauty pageant contestanttelevision presenteractor
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Dalia Mahmoud Quotb El Behery is an Egyptian actress and beauty pageant titleholder. She won the Miss Egypt 1990 and represented her country at Miss Universe 1990 pageant in Los Angeles where she unplaced.
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Abdelmeneem Madbuli
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- film directortelevision actorfilm screenwriteractorfilm actor
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Abdel Moneim Madbouly was an Egyptian actor, comedian and playwright.
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Ahmed Amin
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- television presenterfilm actorcomedianstage actortelevision actor
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Ahmed Sayed Amin is an Egyptian comedian, actor, and writer. He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Helwan University in 2002. Amin came to prominence from his online video "30 Sanya" (30 seconds) that went viral among Egyptians on Facebook. His second, and more important step, was the Al Plateau TV show. 2019, came up with his successful TV show Amin and partners. Amin started in Netflix's first-ever Egyptian original Paranormal (2020), in the role of Refaat Ismael.
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Ali El Haggar
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- singeractortelevision actor
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Ali El Haggar, he is an Egyptian singer, artist, composer, and actor.
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Mohamed M. Abou El Enein
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- businesspersonpolitician
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Mohamed M. Abou El Enein is an Egyptian businessman, investor, public figure and politician. He is the chairman and founder of Cleopatra Group and the chairman of Ceramica Cleopatra FC.
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Khaled al-Anani
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- researcheracademicegyptologistpolitician
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Khaled Ahmed El-Enany Ali Ezz is an Egyptian Egyptologist and politician who was elected as the 11th Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in November 2025. He previously served as Minister of Tourism and Antiquities of Egypt between 2016 and 2022.
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Mohamed Abdel Latif
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- politicianminister
- Biography
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Mohamed Ahmed Abdel Latif is an Egyptian educational administrator who has served as the Minister of Education of Egypt in the cabinet of Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly's second ministry since 3 July 2024.
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Salah Isa
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- historianwriterjournalist
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Salah Isa was an Egyptian journalist and historian in left-wing politics.
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Mohamed El-Sawy
- Years
- 1956-.. (age 70)
- Occupations
- engineerwriterpolitician
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Mohammed El-Sawi is an Egyptian engineer, cultural entrepreneur and politician. He is the founder of the cultural centre El Sawy Culturewheel and the Civilization Party.
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Ahmad Abdalla
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- screenwriterfilm directorwriterfilm editorfilm producer
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Ahmad Abdalla El Sayed Abdelkader is an Egyptian film director, editor and screenwriter.
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Mustafa Hussein
- Enrolled in Helwan University
- 1953-1959 graduated with bachelor's degree in art of painting
- Occupations
- paintercartoonist
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Mustafa Hussein was an Egyptian cartoonist, artist, painter and journalist. He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts, department of photography in 1959. In the 1980s, Hussein created the weekly cartoon magazine, Caricature, along with his fellow cartoonist Ahmed Toughan.
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George Bahgoury
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- painterlithographerwritercartoonistsculptor
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George Abdel Masih Al Bahgoury or George Bahgoury is an Egyptian-French artist. An accomplished painter and sculptor, he is most famous as a caricaturist and political cartoonist.
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Muhammad Aladdin
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- writernovelist
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Muhammad Aladdin, also known as Alaa Eddin is an Egyptian novelist, short story writer, and script writer. His first collection of short stories was published in 2003, and he is the author of five novels—The Gospel According to Adam, The Twenty-Second Day, The Idol (novel), The Foot (novel), and A Well-Trained Stray—and four short story collections—The Other Shore (Short-stories collection), The Secret Life of Citizen M, Young Lover, New Lover, and The Season of Migration to Arkidea.
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Ahmad Nady
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- comics artistwritercartoonist
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Ahmad Mohammad Nady is an Egyptian political cartoonist, comic artist and activist. Belonging to a family of artists, Nady began his career early on, steadily rising to become one of the best known comic artists in Egypt at a young age. He has drawn political cartoons since an early age, and since the Egyptian Revolution of 2011, has become increasingly active in this area of work, garnering a significant reputation for the boldness of his work.
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Nesrin Sanad
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- modelfashion modelpainteractorbrand ambassador
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Nesrin Sanad is an Egyptian actress, model, Internet personality and painter. Her acting roles include appearances in Ghafwa and Sea Shadow and Adam. As a model, she has been photographed for magazines such as Grazia, Harper’s Bazaar Serbia, and L’Officiel.
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Bahgat Osman
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- cartoonist
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Bahgat Muhammad Osman was an Egyptian cartoonist and illustrator, most widely known as for his political cartoons and children's book illustrations throughout most of the Arab world.
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Amal Kenawy
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- draftspersonperformance artistinstallation artistvideo artistvisual artist
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Amal Kenawy was an Egyptian contemporary visual artist, best known for her videos, performance and feminist work. Active since 1998, her successful career helped her gain international recognition.
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Gihan Kamel
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- 1976-.. (age 50)
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- physicist
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Gihan Kamel is an Egyptian physicist known for her work as an Infrared Beamline Scientist in the Synchrotron-light project for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East. She lives in Jordan.
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Sherif Nour
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- musician
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Sherif Nour is an Egyptian composer. Brought up in Cairo, Nour studied at composition at Helwan University. He has composed for various television, radio serials and films, including providing music for 270 episodes of the Egyptian cartoon Bakaar.
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Yehia Dessouki
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- painter
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Yehia Dessouki is an Egyptian painter and visual artist making contemporary art using diverse kinds of media both traditional and digital. He is also an architect, who graduated from the faculty of fine-arts, architecture department, of Helwan University.
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Noha Hany
- Years
- 2001-.. (age 25)
- Enrolled in Helwan University
- Studied business information systems
- Occupations
- fencer
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Noha Hany is an Egyptian fencer. She competed in the women's foil event at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
