List of Druze explained

The list of Druze includes prominent Druze figures who are notable in their areas of expertise.

Literature

• Naim Araidi – Israeli writer and poet in Hebrew and Arabic.^[1]
• Reda Mansour – Israeli Hebrew poet and writer and former ambassador in Ecuador
• Rami Zeedan- Israeli Druze political scientist, historian, and author.^[2]
• Salman Masalha – Israeli poet, essayist and researcher
• Samih al-Qasim – Palestinian-Israeli poet.^[3]
• Sami Makarem – Lebanese-American writer and painter

Media

• Mona Abou Hamza – Lebanese TV presenter
• Raghida Dergham – Lebanese American journalist.^[4]
• Casey Kasem – American TV and radio presenter, of Lebanese descent.^[5]
• Nahida Nakad – Lebanese French senior correspondent and TV executive
• Faisal al-Qassem – Syrian television talkshow host
• Asmahan (Amaal al-Atrash) – Syrian female singer, and actress.
• Farid al-Atrash – Syrian male singer, composer, and actor.^[6]
• Ramy Ayach – Lebanese singer
• Fahd Ballan – Syrian male singer.^[7]

Politics

Canada

• Ziad Aboultaif – Canadian MP for Edmonton Manning.^[8]

Israel^[9]

• Labib Hussein Abu Rokan – Israeli MP and religious judge.^[10]
• Abdullah Abu Ma'aruf – Israeli MP and physician.^[11]
• Hamad Amar – Israeli MP.^[12]
• Assad Assad – Israeli MP, army colonel, and diplomat
• Zeidan Atashi – Israeli MP and diplomat
• Amal Nasser el-Din – Israeli MP and author
• Salah-Hassan Hanifes – Israeli MP
• Ayoob Kara – Israeli MP, deputy speaker, and deputy minister
• Jabr Moade – Israeli MP and deputy minister
• Gadeer Mreeh – Israeli MP and former television anchor
• Mohamed Nafa – Israeli MP
• Said Nafa – Israeli MP and lawyer
• Shachiv Shnaan – Israeli member of parliament
• Salah Tarif – Israeli minister, MP, and army captain
• Majalli Wahabi – Israeli MP, IDF lieutenant-colonel, and acting president

Lebanon

• Akram Chehayeb – Lebanese Minister and MP
• Ghazi Aridi – Lebanese minister and MP
• Majid Arslan – Lebanese Defense Minister for over 40 years
• Shakib Arslan – Lebanese politician, writer, poet and historian
• Talal Arslan – Lebanese minister and MP
• Fakhr-al-Din II – Ruler (emir) of Lebanon from 1590 to 1633; united Lebanon and parts of Syria and Palestine under his rule
• Kamal Jumblatt – Lebanese MP, minister, writer, author, and poet
• Walid Jumblatt – Lebanese minister and leader of the Progressive Socialist Party
• Marwan Hamadeh – Lebanese minister and MP
• Marwan Kheireddin – Lebanese minister
• Faisal Al Sayegh – Lebanese MP
• Wiam Wahhab – Lebanese Politician

Syria

• Sultan Pasha al-Atrash – Syrian Leader and Commander of the Syrian Revolt.^[13]
• Mansur al-Atrash – Syrian politician, Interim head of state.^{[14] [15]}
• Shibli al-Aysami – former Syrian Vice president and Gen Sec of the Ba'th Arab Socialist Party
• Issam Zahreddine – Major General of the Syrian Republican Guard who has played a major role in the Syrian Civil War, leading Syrian Government forces on several fronts.

Jordan

• Ayman Safadi – Deputy Prime Minister and Jordan's Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Venezuela

• Tarek El Aissami – Venezuelan interior and justice minister.^[16]

Religion

• Suliman Bashear – Palestinian-Israeli scholar of Islam
• Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah – central religious figure of the faith and sixth Imam-Caliph of the Fatimid Caliphate
• Hamza ibn-'Ali ibn-Ahmad – founding religious leader
• Amin Tarif (1898–1993) – Israeli religious leader
• Mowafak Tarif – Israeli religious leader
• Abu Mohammad Jawad Walieddine (1916–2012) – Head of Authority of Senior Sheikhs

Security

• Imad Fares – Israeli Brigadier General
• Salim Hatoum – Syrian Major. Led overthrow of the government of Amin al-Hafez in 1966.
• Yousef Mishleb – Israeli general
• Nada Nadim Prouty – Lebanese security agent
• Ghassan Alian – Commander of Golani brigade in IDF

Sports

• Zidan Amar – Israeli footballer.^[17]
• Ahad Azam – Israeli footballer
• Wiyam Amashe – Israeli footballer
• Amir Nasar A Din – Israeli footballer
• Sari Falah – Israeli footballer
• Amir Halaby – Israeli footballer.^[18]
• Mahran Lala – Israeli footballer
• Nazar Mahmud – Israeli figure skater
• Raja Rafe – Syrian footballer
• Kenny Hasan Sayef – American-Israeli footballer.^[19]

Visual arts

• Farid Mansour – Lebanese sculptor and painter
• Nabil Kanso – Lebanese-American painter
• Michael Netzer (Nassar) – American-Israeli graphical artist

Others

• Nadia Aboulhosn – Lebanese-American plus-size model and blogger
• Emin Arslan – Born in current-day Lebanon (Ottoman Syria), diplomat, writer and editor
• Azzam Azzam – Israeli textile worker, former Israeli prisoner in Egypt.
• Amal Clooney – Lebanese-British lawyer, married to George Clooney
• Angelina Fares – Israeli beauty pageant.^[20]
• Majdi Halabi – disappeared and discovered Israeli soldier
• Samir Kuntar – Lebanese militant.^[21]

See also

• List of Israeli Druze

Notes and References

1. News: Druze professor appointed ambassador to New Zealand . Itamar Eichner . Ynetnews . 2012-04-22 . ynet . 2012-12-24.
2. Web site: Rami Zeedan: Finding his place in Israel and in Lawrence - Kansas City Jewish Chronicle . 2022-03-03 . www.kcjc.com.
3. A Bilingual Anthology of Arabic Poetry – Victims of A Map by Samih al-Qasim, Adonis, and Mahmoud Darwish. Al-Saqi Books 26 Westbourne Grove, London W2 1984
4. Web site: Julia . Makarem . Druze Women . AmericanDruzeHeritage.com . 2012-12-07.
5. News: Casey Kasem: Our Arab American Star . archived September 26, 2005 . Washington Watch . The Arab American Institute . April 18, 1996 . https://web.archive.org/web/20050926150218/http://www.aaiusa.org/wwatch_archives/041896.htm . September 26, 2005 .
6. Book: Provence, Michael . The great Syrian revolt and the rise of Arab nationalism. University of Texas Press. 2005. illustrated. 72. 978-0-292-70680-4.
7. Book: Zuhur, Sherifa . Colors of enchantment: theater, dance, music and the visual arts of the Middle East . limited . Sherifa Zuhur . 296 . 2001 . . 978-977-424-607-4 .
8. Web site: The CDS Fundraiser is this Saturday and we added another Special Guest! – Canadian Druze Society.
9. QED
10. https://www.knesset.gov.il/mk/eng/mk_eng.asp?mk_individual_id_t=233 Laviv-Hussein Abu-Rochan: Public Activities
11. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4639073,00.html Meet Israel's new lawmakers
12. https://www.knesset.gov.il/mk/eng/mk_eng.asp?mk_individual_id_t=837 Hamad Amar
13. Book: Provence , Michael . The Great Syrian Revolt and the Rise of Arab Nationalism . limited . University of Texas Press . 2005 . 3 . 0-292-70680-4.
14. Book: Moubayed, Sami M. . Sami Moubayed . Steel & Silk: Men and Women who shaped Syria 1900–2000 . Cune Press . 2006 . 978-1-885942-41-8 . 178.
15. Book: Batatu, Hanna . Syria's Peasantry, the Descendants of Its Lesser Rural Notables, and Their Politics . Princeton University Press . 2012. 978-0-691-00254-5 . 28.
16. Mary Anastasia O'Grady, "The Iran-Cuba-Venezuela Nexus: The West underestimates the growing threat from radical Islam in the Americas", The Wall Street Journal, November 23, 2014.
17. http://www.hona.co.il/news.aspx?cid=168&aid=900 Zidan Yusef Amar from Julis – I Aspire to play for Arsenal in England
18. Web site: Amir Halaby. footballdatabase.eu.
19. Web site: Five Things to Know About U.S. MNT Midfielder Kenny Saief. www.ussoccer.com. 10 May 2016 .
20. Nathan Burstein, Sister of Druze Miss Israel Contestant is Murdered, Forward.com, 3 August 2011 http://forward.com/sisterhood/140819/sister-of-druze-miss-israel-contestant-is-murdered/
21. News: For Lebanese, killer is a hero. The New York Times . Craig S. . Smith . July 15, 2008 . August 21, 2013 .