- male
- Mahmoud Mokhtar was an Egyptian sculptor. Notwithstanding his prematurely early death, his impact on contemporary Egyptian art has been colossal....
- male, 65 years old
- Mourid Barghouti (born July 8, 1944, in Deir Ghassana near Ramallah on the West Bank) is a Palestinian poet and writer. Barghouti grew up in...
- male, 75 years old
- Ahmed Osman (born 1934) is an Egyptian-born author and Egyptologist. He has put forward several theories which are mainly rejected by mainstream...
- female
- Amina Wadud is a controversial Islamic feminist and scholar. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, and, during graduate school,...
- male, 74 years old (london, United Kingdom)
- Sir Magdi Habib Yacoub FRS, FRCS, (born November 16, 1935), is an eminent heart surgeon. He was born in Belbis, Egypt, to a Coptic Orthodox family...
- male, 69 years old
- Adel Emam, , born May 17, 1940, is a popular Egyptian movie and stage actor. He is primarily a comedian, but he has starred in more serious works...
- male
- Yosri Fouda born in Egypt, is a journalist who initially worked for the BBC's short-lived Arabic-subsidiary covering the ongoing struggle in Bosnia...
- female
- Dr. Farkhonda Hassan is a professor of Geology at the American University in Cairo (AUC) and is chair of the Commission on Human Development and...
- male, deceased (1969)
- Arthur John Arberry (1905-1969) was a respected scholar of Arabic, Persian, and Islamic studies. Formerly Head of the Department of Classics at...
- male, 65 years old
- Mohamed ElMasry (born December 24, 1943) is an Egyptian-Canadian professor of computer engineering at the University of Waterloo and activist for...
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