List of American University of Beirut alumni explained
The American University of Beirut is a private international university which has its campus in Beirut, Lebanon., the university has 9,495 students, 1,214 faculty and over 70,000 alumni.[1]
Afghanistan
| Name | Class year | Notability | |
|---|
| 1973 | Minister of Commerce and Industry (2010–2013), Minister of Finance (2004–2009) | |
| 1973 | chairman, Movement for Peaceful Transformation of Afghanistan. Ex-minister of education, ex-minister of refugees & repatriates | |
| 1973 | president of Afghanistan 2014-2021 | [2] |
| 1973 | Minister of urban development (2002, 2004–2009), governor of Kandahar Province (2003) | [3] |
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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 dean at the University of Bahrain-College of Health Sciences, director of Quality and Excellence Centre 2010–2017 – 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)
Canada
China
- Ma Haide (1910–1988) (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)
Germany
- Brigitta Siefker-Eberle (ambassador to Jordan and former ambassador to Lebanon)
Iran
Iraq
Israelis (Mandatory Palestine)
Japan
Jordan
- Zuheir A. Malhas, MD (minister of health)
- Hussein Fakhri Al-Khalidi (prime minister)
- Suleiman 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 member of the board of directors, Global Challenges Forum, Switzerland)
- Mohammad Salameh Al Nabulsi (Minister of Youth)
- 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 (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.)
- Farid Yaghnam (plastic surgeon)
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)
Lebanon
- Gebran Bassil (minister of energy)
- Saleh Barakat (art curator)
- Nazih El-Bizri (minister in several Lebanese cabinets and long-serving member of parliament; also physician)
- Lucien Dahdah (economist)
- Bassel Fleihan (minister of economy, assassinated in 2005))
- Anis Freiha (author)
- Ghada El-Hajj Fuleihan (medical doctor, professor, researcher)
- Bilal Hamad (former mayor of Beirut)
- Maan Hamadeh (pianist-composer, musician)
- Wafaa Dikhah Hamze (one of Lebanon's first two women ministers)
- Ali A Haydar (Lebanese physician)
- Philip Khuri Hitti (historian)
- Salim Al-Hoss (prime minister)
- Walid Jumblat (leader of the Progressive Socialist Party, member of parliament and former cabinet minister)
- Wadad Kadi (established Avalon Distinguished Professor of Islamic Studies, University of Chicago)
- Nadim Karam (artist)
- Salim Bey Karam (minister)
- Angela Jurdak Khoury (Lebanon's first woman diplomat)
- Nazem El Khoury (minister of environment)
- Vera El Khoury Lacoeuilhe (diplomat and lecturer)
- 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)
- Rouba Mhaissen (activist and economist)
- Najib Mikati (prime minister, billionaire and co-founder of Investcom)
- Aya Mouallem (co-founder, co-director, and board advisory member of All Girls Code)
- Emily Nasrallah (writer and women's rights activist)
- Adel Osseiran (founding figure of modern Lebanon; Speaker of Parliament and Cabinet Minister)
- Ahmad Qamaruddun (mayor of Tripoli)
- Hassan Khalil Ramadan (director general)
- Hassan Kamel Al-Sabbah (engineer, mathematician and inventor)
- Manal Abdel Samad (politician)
- Walid Sadek (artist and writer)
- Iskandar Safa (billionaire French Lebanese CEO of P.I. Dev SAL)
- Dalal Khalil Safadi (writer)
- Mohammad Safadi (minister of finance)
- Edvick Jureidini Shayboub (activist, educator and journalist)
- Riad Salameh (governor of the Central Bank of Lebanon)
- Kamal Salibi (Historian)
- Fawzi Salloukh (diplomat and politician)
- Sami Sidawi (Civil Engineer, Entrepreneur)
- Fouad Siniora (prime minister)
- Hamed Sinno (lead singer, Mashrou' Leila)
- Ghassan Tueni (journalist and publisher of An-Nahar newspaper)
- 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)
- Alfred Tarazi (artist)
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 to 2008; high commissioner of Maldives for Sri Lanka (2013))
- Aishath Mohamed Didi (minister of gender and family of The Maldives – held office from 2005 to 2008)
Palestine
Saudi Arabia
Somaliland
- Ubah Ali (activist opposing female genital mutilation)
Sudan
- Ismail al-Azhari (1900–1969), (first president of independent Sudan)
- Yusuf Badri (founder of Al-Ahfad University, Sudan's first private university)
- Hassan Abdelwahab Mohieldin (Director General of the General Directorate of Pharmacy and The Chief Pharmacist of Sudan 1989-2005)
Syria
United States
- Osama Abi-Mershed (director, Georgetown University Center for Contemporary Arab Studies)http://ccas.georgetown.edu
- Zayn Alexander (filmmaker)
- Miles Copeland III (manager of The Police)
- Jawad Fares (researcher at Northwestern University)
- Ismail al-Faruqi (philosopher)
- 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 and CEO, Occidental Petroleum)
- Malcolm H. Kerr (academic, former president of AUB, former professor at UCLA)
- Zalmay Khalilzad (former American ambassador to the United Nations and Afghanistan)
- Lina M. 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)
- 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)
- Tony Nader (international leader of the Transcendental Meditation movement, neuro-scientist, researcher,university president, author)
- Hagop Panossian (aerospace engineer, academic and philanthropist)
Yemen
Notes and References
- American University of Beirut Facts and Figures 2020. American University of Beirut. January 2020. 4, 19, 33.
- News: 2021-01-01. December 22, 2019. Afghanistan's Ashraf Ghani in key dates. Agence France-Presse. The Express Tribune.
- Book: Adamec, Ludwig W.. Ludwig W. Adamec. Historical Dictionary of Afghanistan. 339. 2012. Historical Dictionaries series. Scarecrow Press. 978-0-8108-7815-0.
- Avedis Donabedian: father of quality assurance and poet. Best. M. Quality and Safety in Health Care. BMJ. 13. 6. 2004. 472–473. 1475-3898. 10.1136/qshc.2004.012591. 15576711. 1743903. free.
