53 Notable Alumni of Lebanese University [Sorted List]

Elissa

Born in: Lebanon
Years: 1972-.. (age 52)
Enrolled in Lebanese University: Studied political science
Occupations: singeractor
Biography: Elissar Zakaria Khoury, commonly known as Elissa (Arabic: إليسا), is a Lebanese singer. She is one of Lebanon's most famous singers and one of the best-known artists in the Arab world.

Nabih Berri

Born in: Sierra Leone
Years: 1938-.. (age 86)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Nabih Berri is a Lebanese politician who has been serving as Speaker of the Parliament of Lebanon since 1992. He heads the Amal Movement.

Majida El Roumi

Born in: Egypt
Years: 1955-.. (age 69)
Occupations: vocalistcomposersingeractor
Biography: Majida El Roumi Baradhy is a Lebanese soprano singer and United Nations Goodwill Ambassador.

Nour

Born in: Lebanon
Years: 1977-.. (age 47)
Occupations: actormodel
Biography: Marian Phillip Abi Habib, known as Nour (Arabic: نور), is a Lebanese actress who performs in Egypt.

Maya Diab

Born in: Lebanon
Years: 1980-.. (age 44)
Occupations: modelentertaineractorphilanthropistbrand ambassador
Biography: Maya Henri Diab is a Lebanese singer, entertainer, actress and television personality. She is a former member of the Lebanese girl group The 4 Cats.

Nicole Saba

Born in: Lebanon
Years: 1974-.. (age 50)
Occupations: actorsinger
Biography: Nicole Saba is a Lebanese singer and actress.

Maguy Bou Ghosn

Born in: Lebanon
Years: 1977-.. (age 47)
Occupations: actor
Biography: Maguy Bou Ghosn is a Lebanese actress. Bou Ghosn debuted her acting career in various television series in the Arab world. In 2008, she made her breakthrough with the drama TV series "Asr el Hareem" and "Metel El Kezzeb" in 2011, both being aired on LBC. She is a Murex d’Or winner.

Peter Scholl-Latour

Born in: Germany
Years: 1924-2014 (aged 90)
Occupations: paratrooperwriterjournalistopinion journalisteditor-in-chief
Biography: Peter Roman Scholl-Latour was a French-German journalist, author and reporter.

George Kordahi

Born in: Lebanon
Years: 1950-.. (age 74)
Occupations: television presenterpresentercorrespondent
Biography: George Kordahi is a Lebanese TV presenter and former host of the Arabic version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?.

Kamal Jumblatt

Born in: Lebanon
Years: 1917-1977 (aged 60)
Occupations: politicianlawyer
Biography: Kamal Fouad Jumblatt was a Lebanese politician who founded the Progressive Socialist Party. He led the National Movement during the Lebanese Civil War. He was a major ally of the Palestine Liberation Organization until his assassination in 1977. He authored more than 40 books centered on various political, philosophical, literary, religious, medical, social, and economic topics. In September 1972, Kamal Jumblatt received the International Lenin Peace Prize. He is the father of the Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt and the son-in-law of the Arab writer and politician Shakib Arslan.

Michel Suleiman

Born in: Lebanon
Years: 1948-.. (age 76)
Occupations: military officerpolitician
Biography: Michel Suleiman is a Lebanese Maronite Christian politician who served as President of Lebanon from 2008 to 2014. Before becoming president, he served as commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces from 1998 to 2008.

Darine Hamze

Born in: Lebanon
Years: 1979-.. (age 45)
Occupations: film directoractor
Biography: Darine Hamze is a Lebanese actress, director and producer. She has been working in film, television and theatre since 2001 in The Middle East and Europe. Hamze won the Best Actress Award in Oran International Film Festival 2017 for her role in film Nuts.

Layal Abboud

Born in: Lebanon
Years: 1982-.. (age 42)
Enrolled in Lebanese University: Graduated with master's degree in English literature
Occupations: actormodelcomposerpoetdancer
Biography: Layal Mounir Abboud (Arabic: ليال منير عبود, pronounced [laj'ja:l ʕab'bu:d]; is a Lebanese pop singer, folk music entertainer, sound-lyric poet, concert dancer, fit model and Muslim humanitarian.

May Chidiac

Born in: Lebanon
Years: 1963-.. (age 61)
Occupations: journalistpoliticianinternational forum participant
Biography: May Chidiac is a journalist and former Lebanese Minister of State for Administrative Development.

Safi Saïd

Born in: Tunisia
Years: 1953-.. (age 71)
Occupations: journalistwriterpolitician
Biography: Safi Saïd, from his complete name Ahmed Safi Ben Ibrahim Ben Haj Ali Saïd (Arabic: أحمد الصافي بن ابراهيم بن الحاج علي سعيد), (born 22 September 1953) is a Tunisian journalist and writer. He was a candidate in the 2014 Tunisian presidential election and in the 2019 presidential election.

Naim Qassem

Born in: Lebanon
Years: 1953-.. (age 71)
Occupations: politicianwriter
Biography: Naim Qassem is a Shia Lebanese cleric and politician, who is the second-in-command of Hezbollah with the title of deputy secretary-general.

Ghazanfar Roknabadi

Born in: Iran
Years: 1966-2015 (aged 49)
Occupations: politiciandiplomat
Biography: Ghazanfar Mohammad Asl Roknabadi was an Iranian diplomat, who served as the Iranian ambassador to Lebanon from 2010 to 2014. Rokanabadi is known to have had strong ties to Lebanon's Hezbollah. He survived many assassination attempts during his service in Lebanon.

Rita Hayek

Born in: Lebanon
Years: 1987-.. (age 37)
Occupations: television presenteractor
Biography: Rita Elie Hayek is a Lebanese actress and television presenter.

Chamel Roukoz

Born in: Lebanon
Years: 1958-.. (age 66)
Occupations: politicianmilitary personnel
Biography: Chamel Roukoz is a Lebanese politician, former brigadier general and former member of parliament. From May 2018 to 2022, he was a member of parliament who represented the Byblos–Keserwan district. Roukoz is also the son-in-law of President Michel Aoun, the founder of the FPM. Before retiring, Roukoz was the oldest commander of the Rangers Regiment and was spoken of as a potential candidate for the post of Lebanese Armed Forces Commander.

Joelle Behlok

Born in: Lebanon
Years: 1979-.. (age 45)
Occupations: actorfashion designermodel
Biography: Joelle Behlok or Joëlle Behlock is a Lebanese actress, tv host, fashion designer and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Lebanon 1997. She finished in the Top 10 in Miss World 1997.

Marcel Ghanem

Born in: Lebanon
Years: 1964-.. (age 60)
Occupations: television presenterjournalist
Biography: Marcel Ghanem is a Lebanese journalist. He hosted the widely popular Lebanese political talk show "Kalam El-Nas" (Arabic: كلام الناس) and now he is hosting another Lebanese political talk show "Sar el Waqt" (Arabic: صار الوقت).

Ashraf Rifi

Born in: Lebanon
Years: 1954-.. (age 70)
Occupations: military personnel
Biography: Ashraf Rifi is a Lebanese politician and former police chief. He was the general director of the Lebanese Internal Security Forces (ISF; the national police) from 2005 to 2013 and served as minister of justice from 15 February 2014 to 21 February 2016. He is a member of the Renewal Bloc in the Lebanese Parliament.

Elie Ferzli

Born in: Lebanon
Years: 1949-.. (age 75)
Occupations: politicianlawyer
Biography: Elie Ferzli is a Lebanese and Greek Orthodox Christian politician. He served as Information Minister and Deputy Speaker of the Parliament of Lebanon in the early 2000s. He was succeeded by as deputy speaker Farid Makari in 2005. He expressed pro-Syrian sentiments during the Cedar Revolution.

Abdel Karim Obeid

Born in: Lebanon
Years: 1957-.. (age 67)
Enrolled in Lebanese University: Studied architecture
Occupations: imam'ālim
Biography: Abdel Karim Obeid is a Sheikh and Imam of the village of Jibchit in south Lebanon, high-place of Lebanese Shiism.

Ahmad Kaabour

Born in: Lebanon
Years: 1955-.. (age 69)
Occupations: singeractor
Biography: Ahmad Kaabour is a Lebanese singer, songwriter, music composer and actor. He is perhaps best known for his song Ounadikom which he composed in 1975 upon the outbreak of the Lebanese civil war.

Ghazi Aridi

Born in: Lebanon
Years: 1954-.. (age 70)
Occupations: politicianwriter
Biography: Ghazi Aridi is a Lebanese politician who has held various cabinet portfolios. He was the minister of public works and transportation from 13 June 2011 to December 2013.

Assaad Hardan

Born in: Lebanon
Years: 1951-.. (age 73)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Assaad Hardan is a Lebanese politician and the former leader of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party in Lebanon. He joined the Syrian Social Nationalist Party in 1968 and became leader of the Central Political Bureau in 2016.

Ali Qanso

Born in: Lebanon
Years: 1948-2018 (aged 70)
Occupations: politicianteacher
Biography: Ali Khalil Qanso was a Lebanese politician who served as a minister for parliamentary affairs in the second cabinet of Saad Hariri. He was the president of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party and he served as minister of state in Najib Mikati government and previously minister of labor in the cabinet of Rafik Hariri.

Wafaa Sleiman

Born in: Lebanon
Years: 1952-.. (age 72)
Occupations: socialite
Biography: Wafaa Sleiman is the former First Lady of Lebanon from 2008 to 2014 and the wife of President Michel Suleiman.

Ahmed Majdalani

Born in: Syria
Years: 1955-.. (age 69)
Occupations: politicianuniversity teacher
Biography: Ahmed Majdalani is a Palestinian politician, university professor and researcher. A former Palestinian government minister, he currently serves as Secretary-General of the Palestinian Popular Struggle Front (PPSF) and is a senior member of the PLO Executive Committee which is considered the highest political level in Palestine.

Hanna Gharib

Born in: Lebanon
Years: 1953-.. (age 71)
Occupations: school teachertrade unionistpolitician
Biography: Hanna Gharib is a Lebanese politician and the current general secretary of the Lebanese Communist Party (LCP).

Hiba Kawas

Born in: Lebanon
Years: 1972-.. (age 52)
Occupations: composeropera singer
Biography: Hiba Al Kawas is a Lebanese operatic soprano, composer and academic.

Amor Ben Salem

Born in: Tunisia
Years: 1932-.. (age 92)
Occupations: translator
Biography: Amor Ben Salem is a Tunisian Arabic writer.

Julia Kassar

Born in: Lebanon
Years: 1963-.. (age 61)
Occupations: actorfilm actorstage actor
Biography: Julia Kassar is a Lebanese actress, who is known for her roles in Lebanese cinema and theater. She has worked with many famous directors such as Nidal Al Achkar, Jawad al-Assadi, Jalal Khoury, and Roger Assaf. She received a Master diploma in Audiovisual arts in theater from the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik. She is also an academic teacher at the Lebanese University.

Najat Saliba

Born in: Lebanon
Years: 20th Century
Enrolled in Lebanese University: In 1986 graduated with Bachelor of Social Science
Occupations: chemistresearcher
Biography: Najat Aoun Saliba is a Professor of Analytical Chemistry and an atmospheric chemist at the American University of Beirut (AUB). She was the Director of AUB's Nature Conservation Center from 2013 till 2020. Saliba is also the co-founder and director of Khaddit Beirut (an initiative launched after Beirut's 2020 explosion) and the founder and director of the Environment Academy (an initiative created with the support of the World Health Organization). She was appointed a laureate of the L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science program in 2019. In 2022 she was elected to the Lebanese parliament.

Charbel Dagher

Born in: Lebanon
Years: 1950-.. (age 74)
Occupations: writernovelistuniversity teacherpoetjournalist
Biography: Charbel Dagher is a Lebanese professor at the University of Balamand, Koura, Lebanon. He has been an active and prominent voice on the Arab cultural scene, mainly in the fields of poetry, Arabic language, and Arab and Islamic arts. He is a Poet, writer and story-writer in both Arabic and French.

Mohamed Ali Yousfi

Born in: Tunisia
Years: 1950-.. (age 74)
Occupations: translatorwriterpoet
Biography: Mohamed Ali Yousfi is a Tunisian writer and translator.

Berge Setrakian

Born in: Lebanon
Years: 1949-.. (age 75)
Occupations: juristlawyer
Biography: Berge Setrakian, is a lawyer and the current President of the Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU) since 2002.

Adnan Hussein

Born in: Lebanon
Years: 1954-.. (age 70)
Occupations: academicpoliticianministerprofessor
Biography: Adnan Hussein is a Lebanese political scientist, academic and politician who served as minister of state for social affairs in the cabinet led by Prime Minister Saad Hariri. He is a close ally of former Lebanese President Michel Suleiman.

Ayman Hazza' al-Majali

Born in: Jordan
Years: 1949-.. (age 75)
Occupations: politiciandiplomat
Biography: Ayman Hazza' al-Majali is the former Deputy Prime Minister of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. He is the son of Jordan's late Premier Hazza' al-Majali. As a Member of Jordan's House of Representatives he also headed the parliament's Lower House Finance Committee.

Youssef Hourany

Born in: Lebanon
Years: 1931-2019 (aged 88)
Enrolled in Lebanese University: Graduated with diploma
Occupations: historiananthropologistwriter
Biography: Youssef Hourany was a Lebanese writer, archeologist and historian. Hourany received his diploma in philosophy, from the Lebanese University, and his PhD on the ancient philosophy of history from The Université Saint-Esprit de Kaslik (Arabic: جامعة الروح القدس – الكسليك).

Hassan Kobeissi

Years: 1941-2006 (aged 65)
Occupations: anthropologisttranslatoruniversity teacherphilosopher
Biography: Dr. Hassan Kobeissi was a prominent Lebanese writer, thinker and translator. He was born in Zebdine زبدين Lebanon, and is considered an important figure in the Lebanese intellectual circle. He is noted for writing publications such as "Rodinson and the Son of Islam", and for his award-winning translations of many prominent philosophical, sociological and anthropological writings.

Avedis Guidanian

Years: 1966-.. (age 58)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Avedis Guidanian is the former Minister of Tourism in Lebanon. He is a member of the ARF political party.

Laura Boushnak

Born in: Kuwait
Years: 1976-.. (age 48)
Occupations: photographer
Biography: Laura Boushnak is a Kuwaiti-born Palestinian photographer whose work is focused on women, literacy, and education reform in the Arab world. For her ongoing documentary project "I Read I Write" she photographed girls and women changing their lives with education in Egypt, Yemen, Kuwait, Jordan and Tunisia.

Ali Al Shami

Born in: Lebanon
Years: 1945-.. (age 79)
Occupations: political scientistdiplomat
Biography: Ali Al Shami is a Shia Lebanese academic and a member of the Amal movement. He was Lebanon's minister of foreign affairs and emigrants from 2009 to 2011.

Inaya Jaber

Born in: Lebanon
Years: 1958-2021 (aged 63)
Enrolled in Lebanese University: Graduated with Licentiate in political science
Occupations: journalistwriterpoet
Biography: Inaya Jaber was a Lebanese writer, journalist, artist and singer. She has published nine collections of poetry and one collection of short stories. She lived in Beirut.

Musa Cheaib

Born in: Lebanon
Years: 1943-1980 (aged 37)
Occupations: politicianpoet
Biography: Musa Muhammad Ali Shuaib was an assassinated Lebanese poet and politician who was a member of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party in Lebanon.

Joseph Lebbos

Born in: Lebanon
Years: 1966-.. (age 58)
Occupations: writer
Biography: Joseph Labbos was a writer, researcher, and a lecturer at the Lebanese University and Saint Joseph University. He writes about travel literature, biography and the history of religions.

Anwar al-Fatayri

Born in: Lebanon
Years: 1946-1989 (aged 43)
Occupations: partisanpolitician
Biography: Anwar Habib al-Fatayri was a Lebanese politician and junior commander of the People's Liberation Army who was assassinated on 9 February 1989.

Habib Younes

Born in: Lebanon
Years: 1959-.. (age 65)
Occupations: journalistpoetwriterpolitician
Biography: Habib Younes is a Lebanese poet, journalist, political writer, and professor at the Faculty of Mass Communication at the Lebanese University, born in 1959. He has sixteen published books in his credit, He considered a reference in Arabic language. He has published dozens of studies and articles on various topics and in various magazines, newspapers and websites. He is a television programs journalist; programs are ranging from politics, history, culture and art. He is also a playwright, and the author of poems sung and composed by Lebanese artists. He also has a number of tunes in his credit, and he is a music critic. He is the recipient of the Human Rights Award, issued by the "Human Rights and Human Rights Organization" in 2004. He is one of the exciting Lebanese personalities.

Chawki Bazih

Born in: Lebanon
Years: 1951-.. (age 73)
Occupations: writerpoet
Biography: Chawki Bazih is a Lebanese contemporary poet born in southern Lebanon in 1951. He has dozens of books in poetry and prose, as well as critical, literary, cultural and intellectual articles. He won the Poet of the Year Award in 2010, and the Alowis Cultural Award in 2015. He was awarded the Order of Jumblatt in 2010, the Order of Palestine in 2017, and the Special Honor in the Mahmoud Darwish Award for Culture and Creativity on 13 March 2020.

Samir El-Khadem

Years: 1942-.. (age 82)
Occupations: military personnel
Biography: Samir El-Khadem is the former Commander of the Lebanese Naval Forces, and an author, historian, and currently the director of the Institute for East and West Studies in Beirut, Lebanon. El-Khadem retired from the Lebanese Army on September 25, 2000, reaching the rank of Rear Admiral after serving for 39 years. As of 2007, he is the President of the Numismatic Society for the Arab and Muslim World.

Chucrallah-Nabil El-Hage

Years: 1943-.. (age 81)
Occupations: Catholic bishopCatholic priest
Biography: Chucrallah-Nabil El-Hage, also transliterated Shukrallah Nabil El Hajj, (born on 26 February 1943 in Hajjeh, Lebanon) was the Archeparch of the Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Tyre from 2003 until his retirement in 2020.