American University in Cairo - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

  • Rania al Abdullah, HM The Queen of Jordan.
  • Juan Cole, American scholar, public intellectual, and historian of the modern Middle East and South Asia
  • Nicholas Kristoff, journalist
  • Wael Ghonim, Google executive, social activist, social entrepreneur
  • Shams Elwazer, Senior Producer, CNN
  • Mona Eltahawy, journalist
  • Mona El-Shazly,Egyptian talk show host
  • Yousef Gamal El-Din, regional correspondent and host of Access: Middle East, CNBC Europe
  • Aida el Ayoubi, Famous Egyptian singer, songwriter and guitarist.
  • Tarek Amer, deputy governor of Egypt's Central Bank
  • Khaled Bichara, CEO of Orascom Telecom and founder of LinkDOTNet
  • Omar Samra, First Egyptian to climb Mount Everest
  • Dan Stoenescu, Romanian diplomat, political scientist and journalist
  • Haifa Al-Mansour, Saudi Arabia's first female filmmaker
  • Hisham Abbas, singer,
  • Yuriko Koike, former Japanese Minister of Defense
  • Melanie Craft, Romance Novelist, Larry Ellison's Wife (Oracle Corporation CEO)


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