List of Iraqi Americans explained
This is a list of notable Iraqi Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.
Academia/science
- Elias Alsabti, plagiarist medical researcher and Pennsylvania medical licensed
- Sinan Antoon, academic, writer, filmmaker
- Hind Rassam Culhane, professor
- Rafil A. Dhafir, physician
- Mona Hanna-Attisha, pediatrician, professor, Flint Water Crisis whistleblower and public health advocate
- Khidir Hamza, scientist and fraudulent
- Emanuel Kamber, physics professor at Western Michigan University
- Abraham Karem, designer of fixed and rotary-wing unmanned aircraft, regarded as the founding father of drone technology
- Majid Khadduri, academic and founder of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies Middle East Studies program
- Jessica Meir, NASA astronaut, marine biologist, and physiologist
- Thomas L. Saaty, Assyrian-Iraqi professor at the University of Pittsburgh
- Nada Shabout, art historian and Assistant Professor at the University of North Texas[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
- Ella Shohat, professor, author and activist
- Saadi Simawe, translator, novelist and teacher
- Donny George Youkhanna, archaeologist, anthropologist, author, curator, and scholar, and visiting professor at Stony Brook University in New York
Activists
Actors
- Yasmine Hanani, actress known for her role in Voices of Iraq and The Kingdom
- Nicholas Kadi, actor[9]
- Chris Kattan, comedian and actor; best known for his work on Saturday Night Live; paternal grandfather was of Iraqi Jewish descent
- Jemima Kirke, artist, actress and director
- Lola Kirke, actress and singer-songwriter
- Michael Nouri, actor; father is from Iraq
- Heather Raffo, award-winning playwright/actress most known for her role in 9 Parts of Desire
- Basam Ridha, actor
- Alia Shawkat, actress known as Maeby Fünke on Arrested Development, father is from Iraq
Architecture
Artists
Business
Comedians
Directors
Military
Models
- Amy Fadhli, fitness model, actress and winner of the Fitness America National Champion 1996
Musicians
- Hanan Alattar, soprano opera singer
- Rahim AlHaj, musician and composer
- Ahmed El Faleh, singer who participated in Super Star 3, the pan-Arabic version of Pop Idol
- Amir ElSaffar, musician and younger brother of Dena
- Sargon Gabriel, Chaldean singer
- Juliana Jendo, Chaldean singer
- Chemda Khalili, singer-songwriter and co-host of the Keith and The Girl podcast
- Stephan Said, musician, writer and political activist
- Ashur Bet Sargis, Chaldean singer
- Janan Sawa, Chaldean musician[11]
- TIMZ, rapper
Politics
- Rend al-Rahim Francke, politician, political activist and once held the position as Iraqi ambassador to the United States
- Ayham al-Samarie, politician
- Adam Benjamin, Jr., Assyrian-Iraqi, Indiana Congressman
- Wadie Deddeh, Chaldean, Assemblyman and California State Senator
- Anna Eshoo, Assyrian-Iraqi, California Congressman
- John Nimrod, Assyrian-Iraqi, Illinois Senator
- Qubad Talabani, Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) representative in Washington DC and son of Iraqi president Jalal Talabani
Sports
Writers and journalists
- Lorraine Ali, reporter, editor, culture writer and music critic for Newsweek[13]
- Ibrahim al-Marashi, academic plagiarized by the British government
- Alise Alousi, poet[14]
- Sinan Antoon, poet, novelist and translator[15]
- Leila Barclay, American journalist and storyteller
- Alon Ben-Meir, professor, writer and is the Middle East Project director at the World Policy Institute
- Sargon Boulus, Assyrian-Iraqi
- Abdul Ameer Yousef Habeeb, journalist
- Jack Marshall (author), poet and author
- Dunya Mikhail, poet
- Armand Nassery, author and filmmaker
- Greg Patent, author (born in Hong Kong to a Russian father and Iraqi mother)[16]
- Daniel Pearl, journalist (kidnapped and murdered in Pakistan)
- Ayad Rahim, journalist
- Mahmoud Saeed, Iraqi novelist[17]
- Zainab Salbi, writer, activist, co-founder and president of Women for Women International
- Cindy Sargon, Assyrian-Iraqi TV chef
- Anita Sarkeesian, Canadian-American feminist media critic and public speaker. Her parents are Armenians from Iraq who emigrated to Canada in the 1970s
- Rachel Wahba, writer
- Thura Al Windawi, author
- Obelit Yadgar, Assyrian-Iraqi-Radio Glendale, Wisconsin
Other
- Husham Al-Husainy, Sheikh of the Karbala Islamic Education Center
- Noor Almaleki, honor killing victim
- Hassan Al-Qazwini, religious leader
- Mohammed Odeh al-Rehaief, attorney who helped the United States armed forces rescue Jessica Lynch from Iraq
- Aban Elias, civil engineer (held hostage and has not been heard from)
- Samir Gegea, Iraqi interpreter who captured Saddam Hussein
- Jumana Hanna, involved in war propaganda
- Farris Hassan
- Steven Menashi, lawyer who serves as a US judge of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- Michael Mizrachi, professional poker player (Iraqi Jewish father)
- Robert Mizrachi, professional poker player and older brother of Michael Mizrachi
- Mohammad Munaf, terrorist
- Samuel Nalo, businessman, hijacker, burglar, and brother of Robert
- Nadya Suleman, gave birth to octuplets in January 2008
- Abdul Rahman Yasin, suspected terrorist
See also
Notes and References
- Book: Modern Arab Art: Formation of Arab Aesthetics: Books: NADA M. SHABOUT . 978-0813031507 . Shabout . Nada M. . 2007 . University Press of Florida .
- Web site: Added by carlmedr on December 20, 2005 . Iraqi Art: Continuity Through Contemporaneity by Nada Shabout at Carleton College Boliou Hall, Room 104 (Thursday, January 12, 2006) - Upcoming . https://archive.today/20120715200321/http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/46882/ . dead . 2012-07-15 . Upcoming.yahoo.com . 2005-12-20 . 2012-06-18 .
- Web site: News . Montreal Mirror . 2007-11-21 . 2012-06-18 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120630172746/http://www.montrealmirror.com/2007/111507/news3.html . 2012-06-30 .
- Web site: UNT Insider - May 2007 - Nada Shabout . Unt.edu . 2012-06-18.
- http://www.unt.edu/untresearch/lost.htm Research Magazine 2006 - The University of North Texas
- Web site: P.O. BOX 158 . Montalvo Arts Center | Nada Shabout . Montalvoarts.org . 2012-06-18.
- http://web.mit.edu/akpia/www/courses.htm Akpia@Mit
- News: 2020-02-05. This man brings hope to Arab youth, one Wikipedia page at a time. Christian Science Monitor. 2020-09-23. 0882-7729.
- Web site: Nicholas Kadi, actor with Iraqi roots . Ihrc.org.uk . 2012-06-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160303180534/http://www.ihrc.org.uk/show.php?id=1764 . 2016-03-03 . dead .
- Web site: Halla Ayla . Icanartworks.com . 2012-06-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160303170546/http://www.icanartworks.com/Halla%20Ayla.html . 2016-03-03 . dead .
- Web site: Janan Sawa Musical Networks . Janansawa.com . 2008-06-19 . 2012-06-18.
- Web site: Ishtar Broadcasting Corporation . Ishtartv.com . 2011-06-13 . 2012-06-18.
- Web site: Bios&Abstracts . Web.mit.edu . 2012-06-18.
- Web site: Smith . Brian . Women in Black quietly denounces Bush and bombs . Metrotimes.com . 2012-06-18.
- Web site: Sinan Antoon . Selvesandothers.org . 2004-05-25 . 2012-06-18 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120717022457/http://www.selvesandothers.org/view691.html . 2012-07-17 .
- https://abc7news.com/archive/5929805/ Author Greg Patent brings us scrumptious chocolate treats.
- The New Yorker Magazine 1/12-18/2010