86 Notable alumni of
American University in Cairo
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The American University in Cairo is 534th in the world, 8th in Africa, and 4th in Egypt by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 86 notable alumni from the American University in Cairo sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Queen Rania of Jordan
- Enrolled in the American University in Cairo
- In 1992 graduated with Bachelor in Business Administration
- Occupations
- queen consort
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Rania Al Abdullah is Queen of Jordan as the wife of King Abdullah II. Rania's domestic activities include education, youth, environmental, and health initiatives. Globally, she has campaigned for education and cross-cultural dialogue. She has authored three children's books: The Sandwich Swap, The King's Gift, and Enduring Beauty.
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Yuriko Koike
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- politician
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Yuriko Koike is a Japanese politician, who has served as the Governor of Tokyo since 2016. Previously, she was also served as a member of the House of Councillors from 1992 to 1993, a member of the House of Representatives from 1993 to 2016, Minister of the Environment under from 2003 to 2006, and Minister of Defense in between July and August 2007.
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Reza Pahlavi
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- photographermusicianartistwriterhuman rights activist
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Reza Pahlavi is the eldest son of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the former Shah of Iran, and his wife Farah Diba. He was officially named Crown Prince of Iran in 1967 at the time of his father's coronation.
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Amr Waked
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- film actortelevision actorstage actoractor
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Amr Waked is an Egyptian film, television and stage actor. He is best known to international audiences and in Hollywood for his role in the 2005 film Syriana. Other prominent roles include a Yemeni sheikh called Muhammad in Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, Pierre Del Rio in Luc Besson's Lucy and Farouk Hassan in Ramy.
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Mohammad Emam
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- actor
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Mohamed Emam is an Egyptian actor. He comes from a prominent family of filmmakers; his father is Adel Emam, one of Egypt's most famous actors and his brother is director Ramy Imam.
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Suzanne Mubarak
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- politician
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Suzanne Saleh Mubarak is the widow of Egyptian former president Hosni Mubarak and was the First Lady of Egypt during her husband's presidential tenure from 14 October 1981 to 11 February 2011. She has served as Goodwill Ambassador of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, and founded the Cairo Child Museum in collaboration with the British Museum.
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John Owen Brennan
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- intelligence analystintelligence officercivil servant
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John Owen Brennan is a former American intelligence officer who served as the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from March 2013 to January 2017. He served as chief counterterrorism advisor to U.S. President Barack Obama, with the title Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, and Assistant to the President. Previously, he advised Obama on foreign policy and intelligence issues during his 2008 presidential campaign and presidential transition.
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Minouche Shafik
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- economist
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Nemat Talaat Shafik, Baroness Shafik, commonly known as Minouche Shafik, is a British-American academic and economist. She served as the president and vice chancellor of the London School of Economics from 2017 to 2023, and then as the 20th president of Columbia University from July 2023 to August 2024.
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Amina Khalil
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- actor
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Amina Khalil is an Egyptian film and television actress who has gained prominence in the late 2010s and early 2020s in the Arab world. Her advocacy for female rights granted her an honorary ambassador title by The United Nations Population Fund (UPFA) in Egypt.
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Wael Ghonim
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- computer scientistpolitician
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Wael Ghonim is an Internet activist and computer engineer with an interest in social entrepreneurship.
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Gamal Mubarak
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- businesspersonpolitician
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Gamal Al Din Muhammad Hosni Sayed Mubarak is the younger of the two sons of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and former First Lady Suzanne Mubarak. In contrast to his older brother Alaa, Gamal had pursued an active public profile and was starting to wield some influence on political life in the country before the revolution of early 2011.
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Asser Yassin
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- writerfilm produceractor
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Asser Ashraf Fouad Yassin is an Egyptian actor, writer, and film producer. He has been awarded Best Actor for several of his works. Yassin began his career on the stage of the American University in Cairo spotted by Director Khairy Beshara to play his first role on TV in Qalb Habiba in 2006, followed by the blockbuster The Yacoubian Building in 2007. His first major film release was Zay El Naharda (2008) where he was praised for his supporting role, playing the character of a drug addict. In the same year, Yassin got his big break and played a leading role in the movie "El Waad" lit. The Promise, facing the legendary actor and superstar Mahmoud Yassin. In 2010, Yassin played the leading role in a Daoud Abdel Sayed movie Messages from the Sea, for which he was awarded Best Actor at the Carthage Film Festival, and Malmö Arab Film Festival. He was also awarded Best Actor for his latest release Aswar El Qamar (2015) by The Tetouan International Mediterranean Film Festival.
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Mikie Sherrill
- Enrolled in the American University in Cairo
- In 2004 graduated with academic certificate in Arabic
- Occupations
- politicianprosecutornaval officerhelicopter pilot
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Rebecca Michelle "Mikie" Sherrill is an American politician, former U.S. Navy helicopter pilot, attorney, and former federal prosecutor serving as the U.S. representative for New Jersey's 11th congressional district since 2019. The district includes a swath of suburban and exurban areas west of New York City. A member of the Democratic Party, Sherrill was elected on November 6, 2018. She was reelected in 2020 by a slightly narrower margin and reelected in 2022 by a wide margin. She is currently seeking the Democratic nomination for Governor of New Jersey.
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Mohamed Hassanein Heikal
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- writerjournalistpolitician
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Mohamed Hassanein Heikal was an Egyptian journalist. For 17 years (1957–1974), he was editor-in-chief of the Cairo newspaper Al-Ahram and was a commentator on Arab affairs for more than 50 years.
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Yosra El Lozy
- Enrolled in the American University in Cairo
- Studied theatre and late modern period
- Occupations
- voice actortelevision presenterfilm actorballet dancerfashion model
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Yosra El Lozy is an Egyptian actress. She has received many awards from regional and international film festivals. She has won various awards for her acting in Qobolat Masrouqa (2008), Bel-Alwan el-Tabe'eya (2009), Heliopolis (2010) and Microphone (2011). She has also provided voice dubbing in Arabic for several films and television series.
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Ramy Imam
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- actorfilm director
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Ramy Imam, also known as Rami Imam, is an Egyptian director, and producer.
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Mona el-Shazly
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- television presenter
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Mona El Shazly is an Egyptian talk show host. She is known for her talk show Al Ashira Masa'an (10 O'Clock) where she discussed news of the day and interviewed Egyptian and foreign politicians and scientists.
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Tamim al-Barghouti
- Enrolled in the American University in Cairo
- Studied in 2001
- Occupations
- poetuniversity teacher
- Biography
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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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Alaa Mubarak
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- entrepreneurbusinessperson
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Alaa Mohammed Hosni El Sayed Mubarak is an Egyptian businessman and the elder of two sons of Hosni Mubarak, the former President of Egypt who served from 1981 to 2011, and his wife, Suzanne Mubarak.
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Anoushka
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- singeractor
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Vartanoush Garbis Selim, better known by her stage name Anoushka (Arabic: أنوشكا), is an Egyptian singer and actress.
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Katherine Maher
- Enrolled in the American University in Cairo
- Studied in 2002-2003
- Occupations
- executive director
- Biography
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Katherine Roberts Maher is an American businesswoman. She has been the chief executive officer (CEO) and president of National Public Radio (NPR) since March 2024. Prior to NPR, she was the CEO of Web Summit and chair of the board of directors at the Signal Foundation. She transitioned to the role of non-executive chairperson at Web Summit in March 2024. She is a former chief executive officer and executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation.
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Lobna Abdelaziz
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- actor
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Lobna Abdel Aziz, aka Lobna Abdelaziz or Lobna Abd- el-aziz is an Egyptian actress.
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Lawrence Wright
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- screenwriternovelistwriterjournalistplaywright
- Biography
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Lawrence Wright is an American writer and journalist, who is a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine, and fellow at the Center for Law and Security at the New York University School of Law. Wright is best known as the author of the 2006 nonfiction book Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11. Wright is also known for his work with documentarian Alex Gibney who directed film versions of Wright's one man show My Trip to Al-Qaeda and his book Going Clear. His 2020 novel, The End of October, a thriller about a pandemic, was released in April 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, to generally positive reviews.
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Moez Masoud
- Enrolled in the American University in Cairo
- Studied in 1997-2000
- Occupations
- television presenterpreacherhumanities scholar
- Biography
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Moez Masoud is an Egyptian scholar, public intellectual and international producer who focuses on the fields of existential questions, challenges to global co-existence, and identity in the modern world.
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Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni
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- politician
- Biography
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Abdul Qadir al-Husayni was a Palestinian revolutionary and Arab nationalist guerrilla military leader. In late 1933, he founded the secret militant group known as the Organization for Holy Struggle (Munathamat al-Jihad al-Muqaddas), which he and Hasan Salama commanded as the Army of the Holy War (Jaysh al-Jihad al-Muqaddas) during the 1936–1939 Arab revolt and the 1948 war.
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Haifaa al-Mansour
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- directorfilm directorscreenwriter
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Haifaa al-Mansour is a Saudi Arabian film director. She is one of the country's best-known and one of the first female Saudi filmmakers.
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Maumoon Abdul Gayoom
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- politician
- Biography
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Maumoon Abdul Gayoom is a Maldivian politician, statesman, diplomat and scholar who served as the 3rd president of the Maldives from 1978 to 2008. He previously served as the Minister of Transport from 1977 to 1978, and as the Permanent Representative of the Maldives to the United Nations from 1976 to 1977. The longest-serving Maldivian president, Gayoom was the longest-serving leader in Asia.
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Amina Wadud
- Enrolled in the American University in Cairo
- Studied Arabic
- Occupations
- university teacherwomen's rights activistIslamicist
- Biography
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Amina Wadud is an American Muslim theologian. Wadud serves as visiting professor at 4 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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Mona Eltahawy
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- non-fiction writerjournalistwomen's rights activist
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Mona Eltahawy is a freelance Egyptian-American journalist and social commentator based in New York City. She has written essays and op-eds for publications worldwide on Egypt and the Islamic world, on topics including women's rights, patriarchy, and Muslim political and social affairs. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, and the Miami Herald among others. Headscarves and Hymens, Eltahawy's first book, was published in May 2015. Eltahawy has been a guest analyst on U.S. radio and television news shows. She is among people who spearheaded the Mosque Me Too movement by using the hashtag #MosqueMeToo.
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Hisham Abbas
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- actorsinger
- Biography
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Mohammad Hisham Mahmoud Mohammad Abbas, commonly known as just Hisham Abbas ([heˈʃæːm ʕæbˈbæːs]), is an Egyptian pop singer best known for his hit song "Habibi Dah (Nari Narain)" and his religious song "Asmaa Allah al-husna".
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Karim Kassem
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- film actoractortelevision actor
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Karim Ahmed Kassem is an Egyptian actor.
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Anne Aly
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- university teacherpoliticianacademicpolitical scientist
- Biography
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Anne Azza Aly is an Australian politician who has been a Labor member of the House of Representatives since the 2016 election, representing the electorate of Cowan in Western Australia. Aly is currently the Minister for Early Childhood Education and Minister for Youth in the Albanese ministry.
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Jonathan A.C. Brown
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- university teacher
- Biography
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Jonathan Andrew Cleveland Brown, born August 7, 1977, is a university academic and American scholar of Islamic studies. Since 2012, he has served as an associate professor at Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. He holds the Alwaleed bin Talal Chair of Islamic Civilization at Georgetown University.
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Sahar Nasr
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- 1964-.. (age 61)
- Occupations
- politicianeconomistcivil servant
- Biography
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Sahar Nasr is an Egyptian politician who served as the Minister of Investment and International Cooperation (2015–2019).
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Khaled Bichara
- Enrolled in the American University in Cairo
- In 1993 studied computer engineering
- Occupations
- entrepreneur
- Biography
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Khaled Bichara was an Egyptian businessman and entrepreneur who served as the chairman of link.net and chief executive officer of Accelero Capital. Prior to joining Accelero Capital, Bichara was chief executive officer of Orascom Telecom Media and Technology OTMT, group president and chief operating officer of VimpelCom Ltd., and executive chairman of Global Telecom Holding. Bichara played a pivotal role in the merger of VEON and Wind Telecom to create the world's sixth-largest telecommunications carrier.
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Rania Al-Mashat
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- politicianeconomist
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Rania A. Al-Mashat is an Egyptian economist who is currently the country's Minister of Planning, Economic Development and International Cooperation. She previously served as the country's Minister of International Cooperation from December 2019 to July 2024 and former Minister of Tourism from 2018 until December 2019. She previously held high level positions at the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC and at the Central Bank of Egypt.
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Juan Cole
- Enrolled in the American University in Cairo
- In 1978 graduated with Master of Arts
- Occupations
- university teacherhistorianblogger
- Biography
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John Ricardo Irfan "Juan" Cole is an American academic and commentator on the modern Middle East and South Asia. He is Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. Since 2002, he has written a weblog, Informed Comment (juancole.com).
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Nonie Darwish
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- journalistwriter
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Nonie Darwish is an Egyptian-American author, writer, founder of the Arabs for Israel movement, and director of Former Muslims United. Darwish is an outspoken critic of Islam. The Southern Poverty Law Center has described her as an anti-Arab and anti-Muslim activist.
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Farouk Kaddoumi
- Enrolled in the American University in Cairo
- Graduated with Bachelor of Economics in economics and political science
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Faruq al-Qaddumi or Farouk al-Kaddoumi, also known by the kunya Abu al-Lutf (Arabic: أبو اللطف), was a Palestinian politician, who served as the Secretary-General of Fatah until 2009 and Chairman of Fatah's central committee and the Palestine Liberation Organization's political department, operating from Tunisia, between 2004 and 2009.
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Rana el Kaliouby
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- computer scientist
- Biography
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Rana el Kaliouby is an Egyptian-American computer scientist. She is the co-founder, with Rosalind Picard, and CEO of Affectiva.
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Yasser Abed Rabbo
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- politician
- Biography
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Yasser Abed Rabbo also known by his kunya, Abu Bashar (Arabic: ابو بشار) (born 1944) is a Palestinian politician and a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization's (PLO) Executive Committee.
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Asaad Kelada
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- television director
- Biography
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Asaad Kelada is an Egyptian-American television director of many American television sitcoms.
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Nesrine Malik
- Years
- 1975-.. (age 50)
- Occupations
- journalistwriter
- Biography
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Nesrine Malik FRSL is a Sudanese-born journalist and author of We Need New Stories: Challenging the Toxic Myths Behind Our Age of Discontent. Based in London, Malik is a columnist for The Guardian and served as a panellist on the BBC's weekly news discussion programme Dateline London.
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Mona Baker
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- translatorwriterprofessorresearcherlinguist
- Biography
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Mona Baker is a professor of translation studies and Director of the Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies at the University of Manchester in England.
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Monir Fakhri Abdelnur
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- businesspersonpolitician
- Biography
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Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour is an Egyptian businessman and politician.
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Sadek Wahba
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- businessperson
- Biography
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Sadek Wahba is an American economist and businessman. He is the founder and managing partner of the Miami-based global infrastructure investment company I Squared Capital, and the author of Build: Investing in America's Infrastructure. In 2022 he was appointed by President Biden to the President's National Infrastructure Advisory Council.
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Nabil Fahmi
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- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Nabil Fahmi is an Egyptian diplomat and politician who served in the government of Egypt as minister of foreign affairs from June 2013 to July 2014.
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Yehia El-Deraa
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- handball player
- Biography
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Yehia Mohamed Yehia El-Deraa is an Egyptian handball player for ONE Veszprém and the Egyptian national team.
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Maggie Gobran
- Occupations
- nun
- Biography
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Maggie Gobran or Mama Maggie, is a Coptic Orthodox consecrated servant and the founder and CEO of the non-profit charity Stephen's Children in Cairo, Egypt. She was also professor of computer science at the American University in Cairo, is married and has a son and a daughter. She was nominated for Nobel Peace Prize in 2012 and 2020.
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Maya Morsy
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Maya Morsy is an Egyptian political scientist, specialist in public policy, and advocate for woman's and human rights. She is an elected president of Egypt's National Council for Women (NCW) on 1 February 2016. She is the third, and youngest, President of the NCW since it was established in 2000, by a ministerial decree. Morsy previously served as regional gender team leader for the Regional bureau of United Nations Development Programme in New York City and Regional Center in Amman before she served as the Country Manager for the United Nations Development Fund for Women. She has been described as "one of the best public policy experts on social gender in Egypt, and perhaps even in all of the Arab world".
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Jonathan Schanzer
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- 20th Century
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Jonathan Schanzer is an American author and senior vice president of research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. He oversees the work of the organization's experts and scholars.
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Getatchew Haile
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- linguistphilologist
- Biography
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Getatchew Haile was an Ethiopian-American philologist widely considered the foremost scholar of the Ge'ez language and one of its most prolific (he published more than 150 books and articles). He was acknowledged for his contributions to the field with a MacArthur Fellows Program "genius" award and the Edward Ullendorff Medal from the Council of the British Academy. He was the first Ethiopian and the first African to win the award.
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Merera Gudina
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Merera Gudina is an Ethiopian professor and politician. He is the leader of the Oromo People's Congress (OPC), a political party representing the Oromo people. The organization is opposed to the previous ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front and the current authoritarian ruling Abiy Ahmed's Prosperity Party. He has been described as Ethiopian "leading opposition politician".
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David M. Malone
- Years
- 1954-.. (age 71)
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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David M. Malone, born in 1954, is a Canadian author on international security and development, as well as a career diplomat. He is a former president of the International Peace Institute, and a frequently quoted expert on international affairs, especially on Indian Foreign Policy and the work of the UN Security Council. He became president of the International Development Research Centre in 2008 and served until 2013. On 1 March 2013, he took up the position of UN Under-Secretary-General, Rector of the United Nations University, which he fulfilled until 28 February 2023.
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Kabiné Komara
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kabiné Komara was Prime Minister of Guinea from 30 December 2008 to 26 January 2010. Until the end of 2008 a director at the African Export-Import Bank in Cairo, Egypt, Komara was announced as the new prime minister in a government radio broadcast on 30 December.
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Ziad Bahaa-Eldin
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- politicianeconomistlawyer
- Biography
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Ziad Ahmed Bahaa-Eldin is an Egyptian economist, commercial lawyer and politician.
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Ahmed Hassan Said
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Ahmed Hassan Said is a prominent Egyptian businessman in the IT sector and has become a leading political figure as a result of the Arab Spring uprising and the ouster of former President Hosni Mubarak. Said was at Tahrir Square when the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 started.
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Mostafa Alnagar
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- writerjournalistpolitician
- Biography
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Mostafa Alnagar / Mostafa Alnajjarمصطفي النجار; is an Egyptian opposition figure and politician, and a writer, with a special interest in human rights.
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Hossam el-Hamalawy
- Occupations
- human rights activistphotographerwritertrade unionistjournalist
- Biography
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Hossam el-Hamalawy is an Egyptian journalist, blogger, photographer and socialist activist. He is a member of the Revolutionary Socialists and the Center for Socialist Studies.
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Christopher Fabian
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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Christopher Fabian is a technologist who works for UNICEF. He founded technology and finance initiatives in both the public and private sector, including the creation in 2006, of UNICEF's Innovation Unit.
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Ángeles Moreno Bau
- Enrolled in the American University in Cairo
- Studied sociology
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Ángeles Moreno Bau is a Spanish diplomat who has been serving as ambassador of Spain to the United States since 2024.
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Lina Attalah
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- writerjournalistactivist
- Biography
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Lina Attalah is an Egyptian media figure and journalist. Attalah is co-founder and chief editor of Mada Masr, an independent online Egyptian newspaper and was previously managing editor of the Egypt Independent prior to its print edition closure in 2013. She is active in the fight against the restriction of honest journalism. Time recognized her as a "New Generation Leader", calling her the "Muckraker of the Arab World" in 2018, and including her in Time's 100 Most Influential People of 2020.
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Rashad al-Shawa
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Rashad al-Shawwa was the Palestinian mayor of Gaza for eleven years from 1971 to 1982. Before becoming mayor he was an outgoing local activist in the city. He was known by Israelis and Palestinians as the pro-Jordanian "father figure" of the Gaza Strip. He is the father of artist Laila Shawwa.
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Kassim al-Rimawi
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kassim al-Rimawi was a Jordanian politician and statesman who served as the 25th Prime Minister of Jordan from 3 July 1980 to 28 August 1980. He was born in Beit Rima under Occupied Enemy Territory Administration.
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Mamie Locke
- Occupations
- university teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Mamie Evelyn Locke is an American politician and educator. A Democrat, she was a member of the Hampton, Virginia city council 1996–2004, and mayor 2000–2004. Since 2004, she has been a member of the Senate of Virginia from the 2nd district. She currently represents parts of the cities of Hampton, Newport News and Portsmouth, plus part of York County. She is also Professor of Political Science and Dean of the School of Liberal Arts at Hampton University.
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Yousef Gamal El-Din
- Years
- 1985-.. (age 40)
- Occupations
- discussion moderatorwriternews presenterjournalist
- Biography
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Yousef Gamal El-Din is an Egyptian-Swiss news anchor, entrepreneur and author. Since 2016, he was the host of Bloomberg Television's Bloomberg Daybreak: Middle East. Previously he worked for CNBC, gaining global TV recognition as the host of CNBC's Access: Middle East and the channel's regional correspondent, based in Dubai., Gamal El-Din was also a co-host of CNBC's Capital Connection from the network's Middle East studios in Bahrain.
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Dan Stoenescu
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Dan Stoenescu is a Romanian career diplomat, political scientist and journalist. He was a minister in the technocratic government of Prime Minister Dacian Cioloș.
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Gihan Ibrahim
- Occupations
- writerjournalisthuman rights activist
- Biography
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Gigi Ibrahim is an Egyptian-American citizen journalist and activist. During the Egyptian revolution in 2011, she reported events about the protests and became a face of the events for much of the Western media.
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Roger Valhammer
- Years
- 1984-.. (age 41)
- Enrolled in the American University in Cairo
- 2010-2010 studied political science
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Roger Valhammer is a Norwegian politician from the Labour Party. He served as chief commissioner of Bergen from 2019 to 2022, and previously served as city commissioner for schools, kindergartens and sports between 2018 and 2019.
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Sara Sabry
- Years
- 1993-.. (age 32)
- Occupations
- astronautengineer
- Biography
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Sara Sabry is an Egyptian–Lebanese engineer, citizen astronaut, and entrepreneur. In 2022, as part of the Blue Origin NS-22 mission, she became the first Egyptian to travel into space, as well as the first Arab or African woman. She is also the founder and CEO of the Deep Space Initiative, a non-profit organization.
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Khaled al-Qazzaz
- Years
- 1979-.. (age 46)
- Occupations
- human rights activist
- Biography
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Khaled Al-Qazzaz is an educator, philanthropist, and human rights activist based in Egypt and Canada. Al-Qazzaz graduated from the University of Toronto with a master's degree in mechanical engineering in 2003.
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Nadeen Ashraf
- Occupations
- women's rights activist
- Biography
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Nadeen Ashraf is an Egyptian feminist activist. Her use of social media instigated the #MeToo movement within Egypt. She is part of the BBC's 100 Women of 2020 list.
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Mervat Tallawy
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Mervat M. Tallawy is an Egyptian diplomat and politician.
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Ed Lopez
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Eduardo Jesus Lopez-Reyes best known as Ed Lopez is an American politician and activist for the Republican Party. He previously served as the vice chairman of the Republican Liberty Caucus. In 2022, Lopez unsuccessfully ran for Connecticut House of Representatives for the 150th District, which encompasses parts of Greenwich. He currently serves as the Chairman of the Greenwich Representative Town Meeting (RTM) for District 3 in Greenwich, Connecticut.
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Nora Armani
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilm directoractor
- Biography
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Nora Armani, (Armenian: Նորա Արմանի) is an actor and film-maker. She was born in Giza, Egypt of Armenian parents, educated and trained in England and as an actor has appeared on stage and screen worldwide performing in different languages. She has also directed a number of plays, a feature film and short film. She holds a master's degree in theatre from Hunter College CUNY and an M.Sc. degree from the University of London (London School of Economics) and a BA from the American University in Cairo. She has continued her training at UCLA Extension and RADA in acting and directing, in addition to a number of noteworthy workshops such as Ariane Mnouchkine's worldwide acclaimed Théâtre du Soleil (Paris) and Simon MacBurney's equally well known physical theatre Théâtre de Complicité (London).
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Iman Issa
- Occupations
- installation artist
- Biography
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Iman Issa is an Egyptian multi-disciplinary artist whose work looks at the power of display in relation to academic and cultural institutions at large.
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Yussef El Guindi
- Enrolled in the American University in Cairo
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in comparative literature and English
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Yussef El Guindi is an Egyptian-American playwright. He writes full-length, one-act, and adapted plays on Arab-Muslim experience in the United States. He is best known for his 2005 play Back of the Throat and has been called "the most talented Arab American writer of political plays."
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Zeina Soufan
- Born in
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Lebanon - Enrolled in the American University in Cairo
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in Middle Eastern studies
- Occupations
- journalisttelevision presenter
- Biography
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Zeina Soufan is a Lebanese journalist and television host based in Dubai. Soufan is senior business editor at Dubai Media Incorporated and host of "Money Map" show on Dubai TV. She is also an independent author and digital content creator.
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Tarek ElKazzaz
- Years
- 1980-.. (age 45)
- Occupations
- business executive
- Biography
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Tarek El Kazzaz is an Egyptian digital entertainment expert who is also the CEO and founder of QSoft Holding, one of the leading new media companies in the Middle East. El Kazzaz is best known for creating and producing Al-Bernameg with Bassem Youssef, the first and top political satire program in the Middle East.
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Taghreed El-Khodary
- Born in
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Palestine - Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Taghreed El-Khodary is a Palestinian journalist who is a visiting scholar in the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment, where her research focuses on the future of Gaza. She is also a 2010 Heinrich Boell Fellow. She is editor at fanack.com,
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Rana al-Tonsi
- Occupations
- writernovelistpoet
- Biography
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Rana al-Tonsi is an Egyptian writer and poet.
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Michel Barsoum
- Years
- 1955-.. (age 70)
- Occupations
- university teachermaterials scientist
- Biography
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Michel Barsoum is an American-Egyptian material scientist and engineer, currently a distinguished professor at Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the field of materials science and engineering and also a published author. In 2009, he became the holder of the A. W. Grosvenor Professorship at Drexel.
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Paul Peters
- Years
- 1982-.. (age 43)
- Occupations
- business executive
- Biography
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Paul Harvey Peters is the non-Executive Board Chair of online conference software provider ExOrdo and from 2015 to 2021 was the chief executive Officer of the Open Access publisher Hindawi. He is past Chair of the Board of Crossref and was President of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) from 2013 to 2019. Peters is known for his work as an advocate for Open Access, open infrastructure for Open Science, and research integrity in the published literature.
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Hala Elkoussy
- Occupations
- video installation artistvisual artistfilm directorvideo artist
- Biography
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Hala Elkoussy is an Egyptian artist and film director.
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Georgette Savvides
- Occupations
- psychologist
- Biography
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Georgette Savvides is a Greek Egyptian psychologist and director of Psychealth. She has a double masters in Business psychology and Clinical psychology. Though she was born in Egypt, she comes from a Greek family background and was raised between the two countries. Her cross cultural experience has allowed her to obtain a curiosity in the field of psychology, where she has been investing her professional experience and exposure for the past twenty five years. (1990-2015–present).
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Fadi al-Hadami
- Enrolled in the American University in Cairo
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in business administration
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Fadi al-Hadami is a Palestinian politician who is currently serving as Minister of Jerusalem Affairs in the Palestinian Authority since April 2019. He has also served as Director-general of the Jerusalem Chamber of Commerce and Investment.
