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Egyptian politician, prime minister 1954-56 and from 1956 president of Egypt (the United Arab Republic 1958-71). |
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A popular writer of fiction and his work has been adapted for cinema, television and radio. |
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Abou El Fotouh was a high profile member of the Muslim Brotherhood’s reformist wing. |
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After the exclusion of the famous and popular Salafi candidate Hazem Abu Ismail, Selim Al Awa is now vying with Abou El Fotouh and Morsy for the Islamist vote. |
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The current chairman of the New Wafd party. He succeeded the party’s former leader, Mahmoud Abaza, in internal elections held in May 2010 that were remarkably undisputed, given the Wafd’s long legacy of leadership struggles. |
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An Executive Director, is the founding member and Chairman of Emaar Properties PJSC since the company's inception on July 29, 1997. He is also Chairman of the Executive Committee and the Nomination Committee of the company. |
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Syrian President Bashar Al Assad represents stability and continuity after the 30-year rule of his father Hafez Al-Assad. |
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Born 1928. He was elected president of Syria in 1971 and reelected in 1978, 1983, 1991, and 1999. He joined the Baath party in 1946 and became air force commander after the Baath took power in 1963. |
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The eighth General Guide of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. Born in Mahalla al-Kubra, Badie studied and taught veterinary medicine and is currently a professor in the Department of Pathology Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Beni Suef, Upper Egypt. |
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Chairperson of the Alliance for Arab Women (AAW), a voluntary organization headquartered in Cairo. |
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One of the first people to be directly elected to the Athletes' Commission of the International Olympic Committee. |
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The former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency and Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2005 for his efforts to curb nuclear proliferation, returned to Egypt in February 2010 with aspirations of revitalizing political life and mobilizing a grassroots opposition movement. |
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Born 1954, of the United Arab Emirates, is the Chief Executive Officer of the publicly traded Mashreq Bank, the family's most valuable holding, worth an estimated $8 billion. |
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Poet, writer, philosopher, musician and artist Gibran was born in Bsharre, north Lebanon. |
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Although he wrote novels, poems and essays, he is best remembered as a prolific playwright who played a key role in the development of Arabic drama. His output covers fifty volumes. He died in 1987. |
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President Gamal Abd al-Nasser bestowed on him the highest Egyptian decoration, normally, reserved for heads of state. In 1973, he received the United Nations Human Rights Award. |
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One of the most outstanding writers of plays and short stories in Egypt. He was born in a village in Egypt in 1927. |
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Self-made businessman, philanthropist and UNESCO Special Envoy for Education, Tolerance, and Cultures in the Middle East and UN Spokesperson for Global Forums on Reinventing Government. |
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Just before King Hussein of Jordan died in 1999, he named as his successor his eldest son, Abdullah. It was a decision which surprised the Jordanians, who were expecting Queen Noor's eldest son Hamzah to step into his father's shoes. |
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Was born in 1906 in Riyadh, the third son of a reigning monarch; five years after his father had captured Riyadh. |
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Born 14 Nov, 1935. Death 7 Feb, 1999. Became king of Jordan in 1953 after his father, Talal, was declared mentally unfit to rule. His grandfather, King Abdullah I, had been assassinated in 1951. |
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The first Arab writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was born in the al-Jamaliyya district of Cairo, Egypt, on December 11, 1911. |
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Mohamed Morsy is the President of the Muslim Brotherhood’s political party, and after Shater’s exclusion he has become the Brotherhood’s candidate in the Presidential race. |
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The Arab League’s secretary-general, Amr Moussa, might not be popular with Israel and the United States, but he enjoys a strong popularity across the Arab world. |
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Born in Casablanca, Morocco, El Moutawakel is an athlete and Olympic Gold medalist. She began as a cross country runner, switched to sprinting and the 400 meters before trying the hurdles. |
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47-year-old son of President Hosni Mubarak, is the head of the National Democratic Party’s Policies Committee. He joined the NDP in 2000 and quickly rose to a position in the party’s General Secretariat. |
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Egyptian President Mohammad Hosni Mubarak was born in 1928 in Al-Monofeya governorate in northern Egypt. After high school, Mr. Mubarak joined the Egyptian Military Academy, where he received his bachelor degree in Military Sciences. |
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Sheikh Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah is the leader of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement. He was born in 1960 in the Bourji Hammoud neighborhood east of the Lebanese capital, Beirut. |
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Established the al-Ghad Party in 2004 after defecting from the New Wafd in 2001 over a dispute with party leader Noman Gomaa. Recognized as a charismatic young politician, Nour was elected to the People’s Assembly as a representative of the Wafd in 1995. |
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The man and vision behind one of the world’s most successful international holding companies has been named twice by Forbes magazine as one of the smartest and most creative investors in the world. |
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Syrian poet and diplomat, born to a merchant family in Damascus. He was the grand-nephew of the pioneering Arab playwright Abu Khalil Qabbani. |
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Known for her business savvy, elegance and outspokenness, Queen Rania has divided opinion between those who feel she should take a more traditional role and those who see her as a shining example for Arab women. |
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Socialist Hamdeen Sabahy announces he’s running for president of Egypt as an independent candidate for the 2011 election. |
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Egyptian politician. Succeeding Nasser as president 1970, he restored morale by his handling of the Egyptian campaign in the 1973 war against Israel. |
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Widely acknowledged to be one of the most important poets in the Arabic language. He was a leader of the modernist movement in Arabic poetry in the mid-20th Century. |
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Writer and novelist Ghada Samman was born in al-Shamiya in Syria in 1942. Her primary schooling was at the French Lyceé in Damascus, and then she attended government school. |
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Saudi businessman made fortune securing contracting deals for construction of residential and industrial facilities in and around oil-rich Saudi Arabia's Al-Khobar region in the Eastern province. |
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Writer and women’s rights activist, she was nominated for the “1000 Women for Noble Peace Prize 2005”, and the same year received the Award of “ The Distinguished Woman in Governmental Position”, League of Arab States, Cairo, Egypt. |
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A lifelong feminist and nationalist activist who grew up in a wealthy family during the last of the harem years, Huda Shaarawi was born in Minya, Upper Egypy in 1879. |
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A man of military background, Shafiq has extensive connections to the Mubarak dictatorship. He was nominated air force commander in 1996, and then became Mubarak’s Civil Aviation Minister from 2002 to 2011. |
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Syria’s first ever Olympic gold medalist, and the second Syrian to win a medal in the Olympics. |
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One of the leading businessmen in Dubai. As executive chairman of Dubai’s Ports, Customs & Free Zone Corporation (PCFZ); chairman of Tejari.com, a B2B marketplace; and chairman of the recently established property development company Nakheel.. |
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On January 29 Omar Suleiman was appointed Egypt’s vice-president by President Hosni Mubarak in response to days of anti-government protests throughout the country. |
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Dramatist, theater producer and playwright, Wannous was born in Syria in a coastal village near Tartus. He received his early education there and went on to study journalism in Cairo. |
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Egyptian chemist, winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize “for his studies of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy". |
