Alumni of the American University of Beirut

This is a list of alumni and former students of the American University of Beirut. Listed alphabetically by last name.

Afghanistan

• Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai (President of Afghanistan, elected 2014 - Former Minister of Finance)
• Yousef Pashtun (Minister of Urban Development, former Governor of Kandahar Province)
• Anwar ul Haq Ahady (Minister of Trade, former Minister of Finance)
• Farouq Azam (Chairman, Movement for Peaceful Transformation of Afghanistan. Ex-Minister of Education, Ex-Minister of Refugees & Repatriates)

Armenia

• Avedis Donabedian (Doctor and pioneer in study of health care, known for the Donabedian model)

Bahrain

• Yusuf Al-Shirawi (Former Minister of Trade and Industry)
• Ali Fakhro (Former Minister Health between 1972 and 1982, and Education between 1982 and 1995. The first Bahraini medical doctor)
• Abdulrahman Mohammed Jamsheer (Leading businessman and Chairman of the Foreign Affairs, Defence and National Security of the Shura Council in the Kingdom of Bahrain)
• Amal Joseph Mousa Zabaneh (Currently Quality Executive- Arabian Gulf University, Associate Dean of the College of Health Sciences 1999-2004, Head Analyst Head Registration and Student Affairs 1983-1998,Bahrain Flour Mills 1980-1982 Bahrain)
• Afnan Zayyani (Businesswoman, Board Member of the Bahrain Chamber of Commerce - Transferred to Texas Tech University during the Lebanese War 1975-1990)

Canada

• Ayah Bdeir (CEO of littleBits)
• Mona Nemer (Vice President - Research, The University of Ottawa - Transferred to Wichita State University during the Lebanese War)

China

• Ma Haide (Doctor credited with eradication of leprosy and many venereal diseases in China, first foreigner granted citizenship in the People's Republic of China, did clinical training at AUB)

Egypt

• Hassan Behnam (Director of UBIFRANCE office in Egypt, Embassy of France)
• Sahar Sallab (businesswoman and former Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry)

France

• Lina Mroue (founder of the French chain of restaurants Lina's)

Germany

• Brigitta Siefker-Eberle (Ambassador to Jordan and former ambassador to Lebanon)

Iran

• Shoghi Effendi Rabbani (Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith 1921–1957)
• Ali Akbar Salehi (Former Foreign Minister, currently Head of the Iran Nuclear Agency)
• Sayyed Mahmoud Hessaby (prominent Iranian scientist)

Iraq

AUB Alumni and former Prime Minister of Iraq Sa'dun Hammadi

• Abdul-Jabbar Abdullah (Scientist and academic, the second president of the University of Baghdad))
• Mohammed Tawfiq Allawi (Minister of Communications)
• Fadhil Al-Jamali (Prime Minister)
• Adnan Al-Pachachi (Foreign Minister and President/Member of the Interim Ruling Council)
• Khalil M. H. Al-Shamma' (Professor Of Banking And Finance, Vice President Of the Arab Academy for Banking and Financial Sciences, Chairman, Board of Directors of Professional Consultant and Trainer, PCT, www.pctgroup.net, Amman-Jordan
• Matti Aqrawi (Academic, the first president of the University of Baghdad)
• Ali Al-Wardi (Anthropologist and social historian)
• Taha Baqir (Archaeologist and scholar)
• Zaha Hadid (First woman to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize)
• Saadun Hammadi (Prime Minister & Speaker)
• Hafiz Jameel (Famous poet)

Israel

• Gabriel Baer, Historian of the Islam,
• Eliyahu Eilat, Diplomat and orientalist, ambassador of Israel to the USA
• Yehuda Cohen, judge in the Supreme Court of Israel

Japan

• Shigeru Endo (Ambassador to Tunisia and Saudi Arabia)

Jordan

• Samira Shammas (Pharmacist)
• Hussein Fakhri Al-Khalidi (Prime Minister)
• Sulayman al-Nabulsi (Prime Minister from 1956-1957)
• Wasfi Al-Tall (Prime Minister)
• Abdul Hamid Sharaf (Prime Minister)
• Ahmad Touqan (Prime Minister)
• Abdul Raouf Al-Rawabdeh (Prime Minister)
• Abdullah Al-Nsour (Prime Minister)
• Makhluf Haddadin (Chemist, co-discoverer of Davis–Beirut reaction)
• Rima Khalaf (Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance, and senior UN official)
• Riad al Khouri (Economist; former Dean of the Business School, Lebanese French University, Iraq; currently Director, Middle East, GeoEconomica GmbH, Amman & Geneva)
• Nadine Fakhoury (Banker)
• Leila Najjar-Sharaf (Second woman Minister and current member of the Upper House "Majlis Al-A'yan")
• Kadri Touqan (Foreign Minister and academic)
• Umayya Touqan (Finance Minister, and former Governor of the Central Bank of Jordan)
• Akram Zu'eiter (Foreign Minister, Ambassador and Writer)
• Abdul Hamid Shoman (Former chairman of Arab Bank)
• Samih Darwazah (Founder of Hikma Pharmaceuticals, one of the United Kingdom's largest pharmaceutical businesses)
• Talal Abu-Ghazaleh (Founder of Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Organization)
• Khaled Touqan (Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research and Chairman of Jordan Atomic Energy Commission)
• Ja'afar Tuqan (Architect)
• Laith Shubeilat (Politician)
• Maha Khatib (Tourism Minister)
• Saleh Burgan (Doctor, MP, Minister of Health and Labor and Assistant Director General of I.L.O.)
• Muhanad Manna (Researcher)
• Nora Al Saadi (Politician)

Kuwait

• Abdul Rahman Al Awadhi (former minister of health)
• Ahmad Al Khatib (One of the earliest parliamentarians)
• Rula Dashti (Cabinet minister - One of the first four women members of Parliament - Transferred to California State University - Chico during the Lebanese War)
• Hassa Saad Al Abdullah Al Sabah (President of Kuwaiti Business Women Committee since 1999)
• Hussa Al Humaidhi (co-founder of Nuqat Creative Conference)

Lebanon

• Salim Al-Hoss (Prime Minister)
• Mohammad Safadi (Minister of Finance)
• Gebran Bassil (Minister of Energy)
• Saleh Barakat (Art curator)
• Bassel Fleihan (Minister of Economy, assassinated in 2005))
• Anis Freiha (Author)
• Bilal Hamad (former Mayor of Beirut)
• Ahmad Qamaruddun (Mayor of Tripoli)
• Nadim Abou Rizk (Vice Mayor of Beirut)
• Lucien Dahdah (Economist)
• Wafaa Dikhah Hamze (one of Lebanon's first two women ministers)
• Nadine Yared (Infectiologist and Professor of internal Medicine)
• Maan Hamadeh (Pianist-composer, Musician)
• Walid Jumblat (Leader of the Progressive Socialist Party, member of parliament and former cabinet minister)
• Nadim Karam (Artist)
• Philip Khuri Hitti (Historian)
• Nazem El Khoury (Minister of Environment)
• Charles Malik (Philosopher, key drafter of Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Former President of the UN General Assembly; President of the UN Economic and Social Council; Foreign Minister of Lebanon)
• Nazih El-Bizri (Minister in several Lebanese cabinets and long serving member of parliament; also physician)
• Wadad Kadi (Established Avalon Distinguished Professor of Islamic Studies, University of Chicago)
• Najib Mikati (Prime Minister, billionaire and co-founder of Investcom)
• Hamed Sinno (Lead singer, Mashrou' Leila)
• Salim Bey Karam (Minister)
• Emily Nasrallah (Writer and women's rights activist)
• Adel Osseiran (Founding figure of modern Lebanon; Speaker of Parliament and Cabinet Minister)
• Hassan Kamel Al-Sabbah (Engineer, mathematician and inventor)
• Walid Sadek (Artist and writer)
• Riad Salameh (Governor of the Central Bank of Lebanon)
• Kamal Salibi (Historian)
• Fawzi Salloukh (Diplomat and politician)
• Fouad Siniora (Prime Minister)
• Fouad Sleem (One of the major commanders and martyrs of The 1925 Syrian Revolt)
• Ghassan Tueni (Journalist and publisher of An-Nahar newspaper)
• Michael Young (Journalist)
• Pierre Zalloua (Biologist)
• Huda Zoghbi (Professor of Pediatrics, Molecular and Human Genetics, and Neurology and Neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine. Her work has helped uncover genes and mechanisms responsible for Rett syndrome and spinocerebellar ataxia neurological disorders)
• Ahmed El Rahyel (Medical Student, Entrepreneur and Philanthropist)
• Vera El Khoury Lacoeuilhe (Diplomat and professor)

Malaysia

• Mohamad Noah bin Omar, First speaker of Malaysian Parliament (Dewan Rakyat), also the father-in-law of the second and third prime minister of Malaysia.

The Maldives

• Mohamed Waheed Hassan, (President of The Maldives - appointed in 2013 when President Mohamed Nasheed resigned)
• Abdulla Yameen (President of The Maldives - elected in 2013)
• Ibrahim Naeem (Auditor General of The Maldives)
• Zahiya Zareer (Minister of Education of The Maldives - held office from 2005-2008; High Commissioner of Maldives for Sri Lanka (2013))
• Aishath Mohamed Didi (Minister of Gender and Family of The Maldives - held office from 2005-2008)

Palestine

• Haidar Abdul-Shafi (Gaza politician and physician)
• Salma Al-Khadra Al-Jayyusi (Academic and poet)
• Suad Amiry (Writer and architect)
• Hanan Ashrawi (Academic and politician)
• Gabi Baramki (former president of Bir Zeit University)
• Mohammed Dajani Daoudi (Professor and peace activist)
• Salam Fayyad (Prime Minister of the Palestinian authority)
• George Habash (Physician and Politician – leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine)
• Khalil Hindi (Current president of Bir Zeit University)
• Nabeel Kassis (Nuclear physicist and politician)
• Hanna Nasser (Founding president of Birzeit University)
• Kamal Nasser (Famous Poet, political leader and member of the Jordanian parliament)
• Raja Shehadeh (Orwell Prize-winning author and lawyer)
• Ahmad Shukeiri (was the first Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization)
• Ibrahim Touqan (Famous Poet)
• Leila Khaled (Political activist)

Saudi Arabia

• Thuraya Al-Arrayed (Poet, writer, and member of the Consultative Council (Majlis Ash-Shura) of Saudi Arabia, appointed on January 10, 2013)
• Yaqoub Rasheed Ad-Dughaither (Historian)
• Abdullah Jum'ah (Former President, Director, and CEO of Saudi Aramco)
• Abdul Aziz Al-Mu'ammar - Special Royal Advisor during the reign of King Saud ibn Abdul Aziz (1953–1964)
• Hayat S. Olayan (Businesswoman)
• Hutham S. Olayan (Businesswoman and member of the Board of Trustees of the American University of Beirut)^[1]
• Omar al-Saqqaf - (former Minister of Foreign affairs)
• Farida Al-Sulayman (First Saudi woman medical doctor)

Sudan

• Ismail al-Azhari (First President of independent Sudan)
• Yusuf Badri (Founder of Al-Ahfad University, Sudan's first private university)

Syria

• Nazim al-Qudsi (President and Prime Minister)
• Fares al-Khoury (Prime Minister and Speaker of the House)
• Mansur al-Atrash (Head of the National Revolutionary Council 1965–1966)
• Abdel Rahman Ash-Shahbandar (Physician, nationalist leader and minister)
• Madani al-Khiyami (Health Minister and physician)
• Ghada al-Samman (Novelist and writer)
• Omar Abu Rishah (Ambassador and famous poet)
• Ignatius IV of Antioch (Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch between July 1979 and December 2012)
• Hassaan Mureiwid (Foreign Minister)
• Raoul Gregory Vitale (Musicologist)
• Constantin Zureiq (Academic and historian)

USA

AUB Alumni and American Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad at the World Economic Forum

• Osama Abi-Mershed (Director, Georgetown University Center for Contemporary Arab Studies)
• Miles Copeland III (Manager of The Police)
• Ismail al-Faruqi (Philosopher)
• Emile Haddad (President & CEO, Fivepoint Communities)
• Yusuf Hannun (Director, Stony Brook University School of Medicine Cancer Center, Vice Dean for Cancer Medicine)
• Charles W Hostler (Former American Ambassador to Bahrain)
• Ray Irani (Chairman & CEO, Occidental Petroleum)
• Abdulfattah John Jandali (Steve Jobs' biological father)
• Malcolm H. Kerr (Academic, former president of AUB, former professor at UCLA)
• Zalmay Khalilzad (Former American Ambassador to the United Nations and Afghanistan)
• Lina Obeid (Dean for Research, Professor of medicine at Stony Brook School of Medicine)
• Hassan Kamel Al-Sabbah (Mathematician, inventor, and electrical engineer)
• Farid Hourani (Author, Physician, Academic)
• Sami Jabara (Director of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at Kaiser Los Angeles, Clinical Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at the Keck School of Medicine of USC )
• Herant Katchadourian (Psychiatrist, Stanford University; Former president of the Flora Family Foundation; Former dean of undergraduate studies and vice provost of undergraduate education, Stanford University)

Yemen

• Farea Al-Muslim (Activist)

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