17 Notable alumni of
University of Aleppo
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The University of Aleppo is 1784th in the world, 411th in Asia, and 2nd in Syria by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 17 notable alumni from the University of Aleppo sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Wafa Sultan
- Occupations
- psychiatristessayist
- Biography
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Wafa Sultan is a Syrian-American medical doctor, writer, and critic of Islam. In 2006, Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
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Hussein Arnous
- Occupations
- civil servantpolitician
- Biography
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Hussein Arnous is a former Syrian politician who served as prime minister of Syria from 11 June 2020 to 14 September 2024. Arnous's appointment was announced by state media shortly after it was reported that President Bashar al-Assad had fired previous prime minister Imad Khamis amid a worsening economic crisis.
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Waad al-Kateab
- Occupations
- film directorjournalistcinematographer
- Biography
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Waad Al-Kateab is the pseudonym of a Syrian journalist, filmmaker, and activist. Her documentary, For Sama (2019), was nominated for four BAFTAs at the 73rd British Academy Film Awards, winning for Best Documentary, and was also nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 92nd Academy Awards. Her coverage of the Battle for Aleppo won an International Emmy Award for Current Affairs & News for Channel 4 News. The pseudonymous surname Al-Kateab is used to protect her family.
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Abdurrahman Mustafa
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- politician
- Biography
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Abdurrahman Mustafa is a Syrian Turkmen politician who is the current president of the Syrian Turkmen Assembly, he was also the last Prime Minister of the Syrian Interim Government until January 2025. Between March 2018 and his appointment as Prime Minister of the interim government, he was President of the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces.
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Muhammad Naji al-Otari
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- politician
- Biography
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Muhammad Naji al-Otari is a Syrian politician who was Prime Minister of Syria from 2003 to 2011.
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Abu Abdullah al-Hamawi
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- military personnel
- Biography
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Hassan Abboud, also known under his nom de guerre Abu Abdullah al-Hamawi, was a Syrian militant and political leader who was one of the founders of Ahrar al-Sham. He was part of its leadership until his death in September 2014.
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Hevrin Khalaf
- Enrolled in the University of Aleppo
- In 2009 studied civil engineering
- Occupations
- politiciandynamics / stress engineerhuman rights activist
- Biography
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Hevrin Khalaf was a Syrian Kurd politician and civil engineer. Khalaf served as the Secretary General of the Future Syria Party after working for many years in Rojava. She was executed by Turkish-backed Ahrar al-Sharqiya fighters near the M4 Motorway south of Tell Abyad during the 2019 Turkish offensive into north-eastern Syria, on 12 October.
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Yassin al-Haj Saleh
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- authorpoliticianeditordissidentwriter
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Yassin al-Haj Saleh is a Syrian writer and leftist political dissident. He writes on political, social and cultural subjects relating to Syria and the Arab world.
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Juliana Jendo
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- actorsinger
- Biography
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Juliana Jendo is a Syrian Assyrian singer and actress who, unlike many other Assyrian Neo-Aramaic-speaking artists, has occasionally recorded songs in Turoyo, Chaldean Neo-Aramaic and as well as in Arabic. She has mostly recorded folk dance music.
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Zuhair Masharqa
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Muhammad Zuhair Masharqa was a Syrian politician who served as Vice President of Syria from 1984 to 2006.
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Hadiya Khalaf Abbas
- Enrolled in the University of Aleppo
- Graduated with doctorate in agricultural technology
- Occupations
- politicianprofessor
- Biography
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Hadiya Khalaf Abbas was a Syrian politician who served as the Speaker of the People's Council of Syria from June 2016 to July 2017. She was the only woman to have held the post.
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Abdulrazak Eid
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- writer
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Abdulrazak Eid, is a Syrian writer and thinker and one of Syria's leading reformers. He helped to found the Committees of Civil Society in Syria, drafted the Statement of 1000 and helped to draft the Damascus Declaration. Because of his opposition writings and political actions, he was arrested many times in Syria, banned from working and traveling, kidnapped by the Syrian intelligence forces, and was threatened with being assassinated. He fled Syria in 2008 for exile in Europe where he was elected president of the National Council of Damascus Declaration in exile.
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Khalaf Ali Alkhalaf
- Occupations
- political writerwriterpoetjournalist
- Biography
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Khalaf Ali Alkhalaf is a Syrian poet and writer who holds Swedish citizenship. He lived in Saudi Arabia (1993–2001) and Greece (2001–2002) before returning to Syria and, once again, Saudi Arabia. In the spring of 2008, Alkhalaf moved to Alexandria, Egypt, where he currently resides.
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Sufian Allaw
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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Sufian Allaw is a Syrian former politician who served as the oil minister of Syria from 2006 to 2013.
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Malatius Jaghnoon
- Occupations
- epigrapher
- Biography
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Malatius Jibriel Jaghnoon,, is a Syrian engineer and epigrapher specialized in Aramaic and Greek inscriptions.
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Bengin Ahmad
- Enrolled in the University of Aleppo
- Studied in 2010
- Occupations
- photographercreative directorwriterdesigner
- Biography
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Bengin Ahmad is a Syrian Kurdish photographer and creative director, known for his candid photographs of Horse & Equine, Architecture and also Portrait. He is the first Syrian and the first Kurdish who obtains a Crown Distinction at the Global Photographic Union (GPU).
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Hadeel Kouki
- Years
- 1992-.. (age 33)
- Occupations
- human rights activist
- Biography
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Hadeel Kouki is a former human rights activist from Syria.
