17 Notable alumni of
University of Aleppo
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The University of Aleppo is 1767th in the world, 408th 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
- essayistpsychiatrist
- Biography
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Wafa Sultan is a Syrian-American medical doctor, writer, and critic of Islam.
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Hussein Arnous
- Occupations
- politiciancivil servant
- Biography
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Hussein Arnous is a Syrian politician who has served as prime minister of Syria since 11 June 2020. 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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Hevrin Khalaf
- Enrolled in the University of Aleppo
- In 2009 studied civil engineering
- Occupations
- dynamics / stress engineerpoliticianhuman 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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Waad al-Kateab
- Years
- 1991-.. (age 33)
- Occupations
- journalistfilm directorcinematographer
- 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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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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Abdurrahman Mustafa
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Abdurrahman Mustafa is a Syrian Turkmen politician who is the incumbent president of the Syrian Turkmen Assembly, the umbrella organization of the Turkmen political movements in Syria, and the political leader of the Turkmen national movement of Syria. On 6 May 2018, he was elected as the head of the Syrian National Coalition.
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Hassan Abboud
- Occupations
- 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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Yassin al-Haj Saleh
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- writerdissidenteditorpoliticianauthor
- Biography
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Yassin al-Haj Saleh is a Syrian writer and political dissident. He writes on political, social and cultural subjects relating to Syria and the Arab world.
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Zuhair Masharqa
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- politician
- Biography
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Muhammad Zuhair Masharqa was a Syrian politician who served as Vice President of Syria from 1984 to 2005.
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Juliana Jendo
- Occupations
- singeractor
- 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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Hadiya Khalaf Abbas
- Enrolled in the University of Aleppo
- Graduated with doctorate in agricultural technology
- Occupations
- professorpolitician
- 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 is the only woman to have held the post.
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Abdulrazak Eid
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- writer
- Biography
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Abdulrazak Eid, Abdul razzak Eid, Abdul razaq Eid, Abdel razzak Eid, Abdul razzaq Eid, or Abd al Razzaq 'Id 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
- journalistpoetwriterpolitical writer
- Biography
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Khalaf Ali Alkhalaf; born 10 November 1969 in Raqqa, is a poet and writer. He holds Swedish nationality. He lived in Saudi Arabia from 1993 until 2001, then in the same year he moved to Greece and stayed there until the summer of 2002. He went back to Syria and returned to Saudi Arabia again. In the spring of 2008, he left Saudi Arabia, went to Egypt and stayed in Alexandria.
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Sufian Allaw
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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Sufian Allaw was the former oil minister of Syria.
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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
- designerwritercreative directorphotographer
- 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 32)
- Occupations
- human rights activist
- Biography
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Hadeel Kouki is a former human rights activist from Syria.
