30 Notable alumni of
Kuwait University
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Kuwait University is 793rd in the world, 159th in Asia, and 1st in Kuwait by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 30 notable alumni from Kuwait 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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Khaled Mashal
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Khaled Mashal is a Palestinian political leader who is the former head of the militant organization Hamas.
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Huda Hussein
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Huda Hussein is an Iraqi actress and producer residing in Kuwait. She is the third name on demand in Gulf TV after Hayat Al-Fahad and Souad Abdullah.
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Halema Boland
- Enrolled in Kuwait University
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in media studies
- Occupations
- television actortelevision presenterradio personality
- Biography
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Halema or Halimeh Boland is a Kuwaiti television presenter and former fashion model well known in the Middle East and North Africa region.
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Noha Nabil
- Years
- 1983-.. (age 41)
- Occupations
- poetwriterinfluencertelevision presenter
- Biography
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Noha Nabil S Mohammad is a Kuwaiti social media influencer. In 2017, she was listed by Forbes among the Top 10 Most Influential Arab Women in Social Media.
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Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah is a Kuwaiti royal and politician who served as the prime minister of Kuwait from 2011 to 2019. He previously served as minister of defense as well as deputy prime minister. In April 2021 a Kuwaiti court ordered his detention on corruption charges.
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Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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Sabah Al Khalid Al Sabah is a Kuwaiti diplomat and politician who served as the Prime Minister of Kuwait from 2019 to 2022. he served in different governmental posts from 2006 until 2019. He is a senior member of the ruling Al Sabah family.
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Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah
- Occupations
- politiciansports official
- Biography
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Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, also known as Ahmad Al-Fahad, is a controversial Kuwaiti politician, ruling family member, and disgraced former sports administrator.
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Musallam Al-Barrak
- Years
- 1956-.. (age 68)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Musallam Al-Barrak is a Kuwaiti politician. He was a member of the Kuwaiti National Assembly representing the fourth district.
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Safa Al Hashem
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Safa Al Hashem is a politician who was an elected Member of Parliament to the Kuwait Parliament. In Kuwait history, she was the only female member to be elected to the Kuwait parliament consecutively more than two times. In 2020, she lost her seat after getting only 430 votes in 2020 compared to 3,273 in 2016.
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Khaled El Sheikh
- Years
- 1958-.. (age 66)
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Khaled El Sheikh is a Bahraini singer. Married with 5 daughters (Dareen, Noor, Marwa, Samawa, and Wanas). Honored in 12th Bahrain International Musical Festival on 14 October 2003. Honored by Culture & Arts Directorate, Ministry of Information for best music and sound effects for Akhbar AlMajnoon play on 6 July 2005.
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Shahd Alshammari
- Born in
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Kuwait - Occupations
- academicwriterscreenwriteruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Shahd Alshammari is a Kuwaiti writer, academic scholar and assistant professor of the English language. She is well known for her researches that focus on human and women's rights, disability issues and, recently, illness narrative. She published six books, in total, three of which she was the author, and the other three co-author. Additionally, she participated in over 15 conference, both as attendee and Keynote speaker, and discussed different topics in the fields of literature and culture. In 2019, she was nominated for the British Council Alumni Awards – Social Impact. In 2021 she won Outstanding Monograph of the Year from the National Communication Association's (NAC).
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Faiz Mohammed Ahmed Al Kandari
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- businessperson
- Biography
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Faiz Mohammed Ahmed Al Kandari is a Kuwaiti citizen who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States' Guantanamo Bay detainment camp in Cuba, from 2002 to 2016. He has never been charged with war crimes.
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Bothayna El Essa
- Years
- 1982-.. (age 42)
- Occupations
- novelistwriter
- Biography
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Bothayna El Essa is a novelist from Kuwait who was born on 3 September 1982.
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Worawi Makudi
- Occupations
- association football refereepolitician
- Biography
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Worawi Makudi, also referred in the media as Bung Yee (Thai: บังยี, RTGS: Bang Yi) is a Thai former football official. He was a member of the FIFA Council from 1997 to 2015. He served as the Football Association of Thailand's General Secretary from 1996 to 2007, before being elected president in 2007.
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Princess Haya bint Rashed Al Khalifa
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- 1952-.. (age 72)
- Occupations
- 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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Saleh Al-Mulla
- Years
- 1971-.. (age 53)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Saleh Mohammad Al-Mulla was elected two times to the National Assembly of Kuwait in 2008 and 2009 after snap elections, representing the third district, and generally affiliates with the liberal deputies. Born in 1971, Al-Mulla studied business at Kuwait University and received a M.A in political science from Harvard University and he was previously a diplomat representing Kuwait in the ministry of foreign affairs. He has two sons, Mohammad Saleh AlMulla and Khaled Saleh AlMulla. Saleh AlMulla was the youngest head of parliament of Kuwait at the time of his appointment. In 2015, he was arrested and accused of insulting the Emir of Kuwait and President of Egypt on his Twitter. However, he was acquitted from these charges.
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Ibtihal Al-Khatib
- Enrolled in Kuwait University
- In 1996 graduated with bachelor's degree in English literature
- Occupations
- journalisthuman rights activistacademicwriter
- Biography
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Ibtihal Al-Khatib is a Kuwaiti academic, journalist, and prominent advocate of secular liberal values in Middle Eastern societies. She is a professor at the Kuwait University in the department of English Language and Literature. She has been the subject of controversy because of her outspoken defense of secularism, separation of church and state, and civil rights, including gay rights.
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Hessa Al Jaber
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- politicianengineerinternational forum participant
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Hessa bint Sultan Al Jaber is a Qatari engineer, academic and politician. She was the first Minister of Information and Communications Technology in Qatar following the formation of a new cabinet by the Emir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani in 2013. In 2017 she was one of four women appointed to the Consultative Assembly, becoming one of the country's first female parliamentarians.
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Salman Sabah Al-Salem Al-Homoud Al-Sabah
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Salman Sabah Al-Salem Al-Homoud Al-Sabah is the Minister of Information and Minister of State for Youth Affairs in Kuwait.
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Raja Al Gurg
- Born in
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United Arab Emirates - Occupations
- executive president
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Raja Al Gurg is a businesswoman who lives in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. She is the Chairperson of the Easa Saleh Al Gurg Group and a Board Member of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Raja Easa Al Gurg has been ranked 28th in the Arab Power 2018 listing of the 100 Most Powerful Arabs, compiled by Gulf Business magazine rising from the previous ranking in 2017. She was the most powerful Emirati Businesswoman in Forbes Middle East's 2017 ranking and the third most influential businesswoman in the Arab world in Forbes Middle East's 100 Most Powerful Arab Businesswomen for 2017, ranking. As of 2020 she is listed 89th among the [[Forbes list of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women and in third place on its 2020 100 Most Powerful Arab Businesswomen List.
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Khaled Al-Duwaisan
- Years
- 1947-.. (age 77)
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Khaled Abdulaziz Al-Duwaisan is a Kuwaiti diplomat and the previous ambassador to the United Kingdom, a role he has held since 1993. He is Dean of the Diplomatic Corps in London.
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Abdulwahab Hussain
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Abdulwahab Hussain Ali Ahmed Esmael is a Bahraini political activist, writer, religious figure and philosopher. He was one of the most prominent opposition leaders in the 1990s uprising when he was arrested twice for a total length of five years in which he was allegedly subjected to solitary confinement and torture. After his release in 2001, he supported government reform plans.
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Abdulwahab Al-Babtain
- Years
- 1985-.. (age 39)
- Biography
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Abdulwahab Mohammad Al-Babtain is a politician, who is an elected Member of Parliament of the Kuwait Parliament. As the Kuwaiti General Election 2016 was his first stand for elections, he won the first chair in the third constituency by 3,730 votes.
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Huzama Habayeb
- Occupations
- writerpoet
- Biography
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Huzama Habayeb is a Palestinian novelist, storyteller, columnist, translator, and poet who has won multiple awards such as Mahmoud Seif Eddin ِAl-Erani Award for Short Stories, Jerusalem Festival of Youth Innovation in Short Stories, and Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature. Upon graduating from Kuwait University in 1987 with a Bachelor of Arts in English language and Literature, she pursued careers in journalism, teaching, and translation before she eventually started to write professionally as a published author. She is a member of both the Jordanian Writers Association and the Arab Writers Federation.
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Lamees Dhaif
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Lamees Dhaif is a Bahraini journalist, renowned for social criticism, including satirical articles. She has written in various newspapers, including AlAyam, Akhbar Al Khaleej, AlYaum, AlWaqt, AlQabas, and AlRai in the Persian Gulf region. Currently, she has a column in AlShabiba newspaper.
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Bilal M. Ayyub
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- scientistcivil engineer
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Bilal M. Ayyub is a researcher in risk analysis and reliability engineering. He has been a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) since 1983, and is also the director of the Center for Technology and Systems Management at its A. James Clark School of Engineering.
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Moudi A. Al-Humoud
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Prof. Moudi A. Al-Humoud, is currently the Founding Administrative Board, Chair of Abdullah Al-Salem University in Kuwait and she is a professor of management at the College of Business Administration, Kuwait University. She served as president of Arab Open University, a pan Arab university operating in Kuwait, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Oman, Bahrain, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Sudan and Palestine.
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Ali Hussain Al-Awadhi
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- politician
- Biography
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Ali Hussain Al-Awadhi is a journalist, former student leader and politician from Kuwait. He is the first chairman of the Youth Association of Kuwait (then National Democratic Youth Association) and a founding member of the Democratic Ticket, a student group which runs for elections at Kuwait University – College of Science's student society. He is best known for being the editor-in-chief of Kuwaiti progressive weekly newspaper Al-Taleaa which is loosely linked to the Kuwait Democratic Forum (Arabic: المنبر الديمقراطي الكويتي).
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Najma Idrees
- Occupations
- poetwritercolumnist
- Biography
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Najma Abdullah Idrees is a Kuwaiti poet, columnist, and scholar.
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Hayat Alyaqut
- Years
- 1981-.. (age 43)
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Hayat Alyaqout is a Kuwaiti writer and publisher. She founded Nashiri, considered the first Arabic nonprofit online publishing house, in 2003.
