- James Zogby
James ("Jim") J. Zogby(Arabic,جيمس زغبي), PhD, is the founder and president of the Washington, D.C.-based Arab American Institute, which conducts policy research and engages in political advocacy for the Arab American community. In 2001, Zogby was elected to the Executive Committee of the United States Democratic National Committee (DNC). Zogby is also a senior analyst with the polling firm Zogby International, founded and managed by his brother John Zogby, … - Edward Said
Edward Wadie Saïd was a Palestinian-American literary theorist and outspoken Palestinian activist. He was University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, and is regarded as a founding figure in postcolonial theory. - Ralph Nader
Ralph Nader (born February 27, 1934) is an American attorney and political activist, who has promoted a wide range of issues, including consumer rights, feminism, humanitarianism, environmentalism and democratic government. Nader has been a staunch critic of American foreign policy in recent decades, which he views as corporatist, imperialist, and contrary to the fundamental values of democracy and human rights. - Khalil Gibran
Khalil Gibran (also known as Kahlil Gibran; born Gibran Khalil Gibran, Arabic: جبران خليل جبران, Syriac: ܓ̰ܒܪܢ ܚܠܝܠ ܓ̰ܒܪܢ) (January 6, 1883 - April 10, 1931) was a Lebanese American artist, poet and writer. He was born in Lebanon and spent much of his productive life in the United States. - Ray Hanania
Ray Hanania (b. Chicago, Illinois, 1953) is an Arab-American journalist also known for his stand-up comedy. Hanania writes a syndicated column with a particular focus on the Middle East, and after the September 11 attacks, created a comedy act with the hope of defusing mutual suspicion. - Dean Obeidallah
Dean Obeidallah is an Arab/Italian-American comedian, who was born in Lodi, New Jersey. His father was born in Battir, Palestine, a small village near Bethlehem; his mother's parents were born in Sicily. He is part of a small but growing number of Middle Eastern-American comedians who've increasingly received media attention in the past few years, as they use comedy to both entertain and dispel negative stereotypes of Middle Eastern-Americans. - Darrell Issa
Darrell E. Issa (pronounced "Eye"-suh) (born November 1 1953) is an American politician and former CEO of a consumer electronics company. A Republican, since 2001 he has been a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing the 49th District of California. His district consists of portions of southern Riverside County and northern San Diego County. - Hussein Ibish
Hussein Yusuf Kamal Ibish was born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1963 to a family of Kudish origin. He has a PhD in Comparative literature and is active in advocacy for Arab causes in the United States. He is also a self-identified progressive Muslim working to reform Islam. - John Zogby
John Zogby (born 1948) is a noted American political pollster and first senior fellow at The Catholic University of America's Life Cycle Institute. He is known for both his phone polling and interactive, Internet-based polling. - Spencer Abraham
Edward Spencer Abraham (born June 12, 1952 in East Lansing, Michigan) is an American politician, of Lebanese descent. He had served as the 10th United States Secretary of Energy, serving under President George W. Bush. After leaving office, Abraham opened The Abraham Group, a Washington DC based international strategic consulting firm. In 2006, Spencer Abraham was named director of Areva Inc., the US subsidiary of the French nuclear energy company - Naomi Shihab Nye
Naomi Shihab Nye was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to a Palestinian father and an American mother. She spent most of her childhood in the United States but also lived in Jerusalem for a few years. A poet, songwriter, and storywriter, she lives in San Antonio, Texas. She has twice traveled abroad-to the Middle East and to the Far East-as a participant in the Arts America program. Her poetry has been published internationally and has won several literary prizes. - James Abourezk
James Abourezk served as the U.S. Congressman and Senator from South Dakota from 1973-1979. His memoir, Advise & Dissent: Memoirs of South Dakota and the U.S. Senate, was published in 1989. Abourezk founded the Arab- American Anti-Discrimination Committee, and he is a signer of the Call from World Cant Wait-Drive Out the Bush Regime which is holding protests in over 150 cities on October 5, 2006. - Joseph Massad
Joseph Andoni Massad is an Associate Professor of Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History at Columbia University. He is of Palestinian Arab descent from a Christian family. He became the center of a controversy over Anti-Zionism, antisemitism, and academic freedom in 2004 and 2005. - Tony Shalhoub
Tony Shalhoub, (born October 9, 1953) is a three-time Emmy Award and Golden Globe-winning American television and film actor. He is currently the star and executive producer of the USA Network television show "Monk" in which he plays an obsessive-compulsive detective who is often called on by the San Francisco Police Department to solve crimes no one else can. Before he played Adrian Monk, he was also well known for his role as the Italian cabdriver, … - Ziad Asali
- John Abizaid
John Philip Abizaid (born April 1, 1951) is a retired General in the United States Army and former Commander of the United States Central Command (CENTCOM), overseeing American military operations in a 27-country region, from the Horn of Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, to South and Central Asia, covering much of the Middle East. CENTCOM oversees 250,000 US troops. Abizaid succeeded General Tommy Franks as Commander, USCENTCOM, on July 7, 2003, … - Suheir Hammad
Suheir Hammad was born in Amman, Jordan to parents that were Palestinian refugees on October 25 1973. Hammad’s family immigrated to Brooklyn in New York City when she was five years old. She grew up there, her parents later moving to Staten Island. Her poetry has allowed Hammad to travel the world, reading her poems in Ivy League Universities and on Brooklyn’s street corners. Her work has appeared in award winning anthologies, … - Nick Rahall
Nicholas Joe "Nick Joe" Rahall II (born May 20, 1949), American politician of Lebanese descent, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, representing West Virginia's 3rd Congressional District since 1977(map). He is the Dean of the West Virginia Delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives. The district includes much of the southern portion of the state, including Huntington, Bluefield and Beckley. - Ray Lahood
Raymond H. "Ray" LaHood (born December 6 1945), American politician, has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1995, representing downstate (map). He has gained national notoriety, especially among C-SPAN viewers, as the presiding officer of more debates than any other member. Most notably, he presided over the impeachment vote against President Bill Clinton. - Danny Thomas
Danny Thomas (January 6 1914 - February 6 1991) was an American nightclub comedian and television and film actor, best known for starring in the television sitcom "Make Room for Daddy", later retitled "The Danny Thomas Show" to capitalize on Thomas's popularity. Danny Thomas was born Amos Alphonsus Muzyad Yaqoob in Deerfield, Michigan, to Charles and Margaret Jacobs. He was of Lebanese descent, of Maronite Catholic belief. - Mary Rose Oakar
Mary Rose Oakar (b. March 5, 1940) is an American Democratic politician and former member of the United States House of Representatives. Oakar, who graduated with a B.A. from Ursuline College in 1962 and an M.A. from John Carroll University in 1966, taught at Lourdes Academy, a Catholic high school for women, directed plays, … - Simon Shaheen
Simon Shaheen is an Arab Israeli (Palestinian) oud and violin virtuoso and composer. At the age of 2, Shaheen moved with his family to Haifa. - Alex Odeh
Alex Odeh was an Arab-American who was killed in a October 11, 1985 bombing at his office in Santa Ana, California. Odeh was regional director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC). Born into a Palestinian Christian family in Jifna, the West Bank, Odeh immigrated to the US in 1972. Odeh's murder was never solved by the FBI, and there is still a $1 million reward for the capture of his killer. - Anthony Shadid
Anthony Shadid was born in Oklahoma of Lebanese descent. He is a staff writer for "The Washington Post" where he is an Islamic affairs correspondent based in the Middle East. Before the Post, Shadid worked as Middle East correspondent for the Associated Press based in Cairo and as news editor of the AP bureau in Los Angeles. He spent two years covering diplomacy and the State Department for the Boston Globe before joining the Post's foreign desk. - Casey Kasem
Casey Kasem (born Kemal Amin Kasem on April 27 1932, in Detroit, Michigan, USA, of Palestinian/Lebanese heritage) is an American radio personality and voice actor. He currently hosts four weekly syndicated radio programs based on the popular American Top 40 franchise, which he founded in 1970. "American Top 20 with Casey Kasem", "American Top 10 with Casey Kasem", "Casey Kasem's American Top 40: The 70s", … - Najeeb Halaby
Najeeb Halaby (September 19 1915 - July 2 2003) was a U.S. businessman, government official, and the father of Queen Noor of Jordan. - Will Youmans
Will Youmans (born in Detroit, MI in 1978) is a Palestinian-American writer, activist and hip-hop artist. Youmans is an outspoken advocate for the cause of Palestinian human rights and a critic of American foreign policy in the Middle East. He co-hosts and co-produces a show, "What's Happening?," on the American channel of the international satellite TV station Arab Radio and Television (ART). He has written extensively in various media outlets, … - Etel Adnan
Etel Adnan, born in 1925 in Beirut, is a Lebanese-American poet, essayist, and visual artist. In 2003 "MELUS", the journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, called Adnan "arguably the most celebrated and accomplished Arab American author writing today." She has said, "As for any serious writer, the audience of an Arab–American cannot be confined to his or her fellow Arabs. - John E. Sununu
John Edward Sununu (born September 10, 1964) is a Republican United States Senator from New Hampshire. - Charles Boustany
Charles William Boustany Jr. (born February 21, 1956) represents Louisiana's historically Democratic 7th Congressional District (map) as a Republican since 2004. Boustany (pronounced boo-STAN-ie) won an open race in 2004, when Christopher "Chris" John, the incumbent Democrat, did not seek re-election in order to run for the U.S. Senate. Boustany, two Democrats and another Republican, David Thibodaux (1953–2007), a member of the Lafayette Parish School Board, … - Queen Noor Of Jordan
Queen Noor is the fourth wife and widow of the late King Hussein of Jordan; as such she is queen Dowager of Jordan. She was born an American of Syrian, Swedish, Scottish, and English descent. She is the current president of the United World Colleges movement. - Diane Rehm
Diane Rehm is a native Washingtonian who began her radio career in 1973 as an assistant producer for talk shows at WAMU. She became host and producer of two health-oriented programs, and in 1979 was selected to host WAMU's local morning talk show, Kaleidoscope , which was renamed The Diane Rehm Show in 1984. Since 1995, National Public Radio has distributed the program to stations across the nation. - Marlo Thomas
Marlo Thomas (born Margaret Julia Thomas on November 21, 1937 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American actress, who first achieved fame on the TV series "That Girl" in the 1960s. She is the daughter of the late Lebanese-American comedian Danny Thomas and sister of Tony Thomas, a TV and film producer, and Terre Thomas, a former actress. Her mother, Rose Marie Mantell, was the adopted daughter of Italian Americans and died in 2000. - Shannon Elizabeth
Shannon Elizabeth (born September 7, 1973) is an American actress, poker player, and former fashion model. Elizabeth came to prominence in the 1999 comedy film "American Pie". - Kathy Najimy
Kathy Ann Najimy (born February 6, 1957) is an American actress, best known as Olive Massery on the television series "Veronica's Closet", Sister Mary Patrick in "Sister Act" and the voice of Peggy Hill on the animated television series "King of the Hill". - Kamal Nawash
Kamal Nawash is a American lawyer in Washington, D.C. and the first Arab American and Muslim to have been nominated to run for the Virginia State Senate (2003). In 2004 he founded the first American Muslim organization dedicated to combating extremism and support for terrorism among extremist Muslims. The name of the organization is the Free Muslim Coalition Against Terrorism. - John H. Sununu
John Henry Sununu, PhD (born July 2, 1939 in Havana, Cuba) is a former Governor of New Hampshire (1983-89) and former White House Chief of Staff under President George H. W. Bush. - Ibrahim Abu-Lughod
Ibrahim Abu-Lughod was a Palestinian (later American) academic, characterised by Edward Said as "Palestine's foremost academic and intellectual" and by Rashid Khalidi as one of the first Arab-American scholars to have a really serious effect on the way the Middle East is portrayed in political science and in America". - John Baldacci
Governor John Baldacci has offered the citizens of Maine a truly unique opportunity to determine the future of Sears Island, and thereby resolve a public controversy that has caused uncertainty and conflict about this island, an important asset of upper Penobscot Bay, for more than 30 years. - Jamal Dajani
Jamal Dajani , Senior Director, Middle Eastern Programming, has produced more than 1,600 episodes of the Peabody Award-winning news show, Mosaic: World News from the Middle East . He is the host of the Mosaic Intelligence Report and has worked as producer and in an editorial capacity on several Link TV productions including Who Speaks for Islam? and Occupied Minds . Jamal is a frequent commentator on national and international television and radio networks.
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