- Wafa Sultan
Wafa Sultan is a vocal critic of Islam. - Moustapha Akkad
Moustapha Akkad was a Syrian-American film producer and director, best known for producing the series of "Halloween" films and directing "Mohammad, Messenger of God" and "Lion of the Desert". - Antoin Rezko
Antoin "Tony" Rezko is an Illinois restaurant and real estate developer currently facing federal charges of attempted extortion, money laundering, and fraud. Rezko was born in 1955 in Aleppo, Syria to a Christian family. After graduating from high school there, Rezko moved to Chicago and earned an engineering and construction degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology. Rezko then moved into a career as a real estate developer. - Steve Jobs
Steven Paul Jobs (born February 24 1955) is the co-founder and CEO of Apple and was the CEO of Pixar until its acquisition by Disney. He is currently the largest Disney shareholder and a member of Disney's Board of Directors. He is considered a leading figure in both the computer and entertainment industries. Jobs' history in business has contributed greatly to the mythos of the quirky, individualistic Silicon Valley entrepreneur, … - Michael Ansara
Michael Ansara (born April 15, 1922) is a stage, screen and voice actor. Ansara was born in Syria. His family emigrated to the United States when he was two years old. He originally wanted to be a physician but developed a passion for acting when he began acting classes to overcome his shyness. It was the popular TV series "Broken Arrow" (1956) where he played the lead role of Cochise, raising Ansara's profile and making him a household name on television. - Kinda Hibrawi
Kinda Hibrawi is an Arab American artist. Hibrawi’s original artwork is sought by collectors and is currently exhibited in group and solo shows across California. Of Syrian descent, she grew up between Saudi Arabia, Syria, Lebanon, and the United States. Her formative years in the Middle East gave her the opportunity to study the power of the Arabic language in all of its art forms. - Mitch Daniels
Mitchell Elias "Mitch" Daniels, Jr. (born April 7, 1949 in Monongahela, Pennsylvania) is the current Governor of the U.S. state of Indiana. A Republican, he began his four-year term on January 10, 2005. - Jerry Seinfeld
Jerome Seinfeld (born April 29, 1954) is a Golden Globe- and Emmy award-winning American comedian, actor, and writer. Seinfeld is often described as an observational comedian. He is best known for playing a semi-fictional version of himself in the long-running sitcom "Seinfeld", which he co-created, helped write, and executive produced. - Hala Gorani
Hala Gorani (b. March 1, 1970), is an American anchor/correspondent for "CNN International" based in the network's headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. Previously based at the London bureau, she anchors "CNN International"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s "Your World Today" along with Jim Clancy. The program is seen on CNN/US from 12-1 p.m. Eastern Time. She also hosts a monthly program on CNN called "Inside the Middle East" and often reports from the region. - Paula Abdul
Paula Julie Abdul (born June 19, 1962) is an American television personality, jewelry designer, multi-platinum selling singer, and Emmy Award-winning choreographer. In the 1980s, Abdul rose from being a cheerleader for the Los Angeles Lakers NBA basketball team to being a sought-after choreographer at the height of the music video era, then to being a Pop-R&B singer with a string of hits in the late 1980s and early 1990s. - 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 - 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. - Mona Simpson
Mona Simpson (born June 14, 1957 in Green Bay, Wisconsin) is a novelist and essayist. She was born to an American mother, Joanne Carole Schieble, and a Syrian father, political science professor Abdulfattah John Jandali. She is the younger sister of Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple Inc. Jobs was given up for adoption as a baby by his then-unmarried mother; the two siblings only met each other as adults. She attended the University of California at Berkeley, … - Kurtis Mantronik
Kurtis el Khaleel (born September 4, 1965), known by the stage name Kurtis Mantronik, is an American hip-hop, electro funk, and dance music artist, DJ, remixer, and producer. Mantronik was the former leader, DJ, and keyboardist of the influential 1980s old school hip-hop and electro-funk group Mantronix. Currently, Mantronik lives in Britain, where he has produced and remixed house and techno music tracks by artists such as Kylie Minogue, Fatboy Slim, … - 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. - Vic Tayback
Victor "Vic" Tayback was a New York City-born American actor of Syrian descent. - Tige Andrews
Tige Andrews (March 19, 1920 - January 27, 2007) was a Syrian--American character actor. He was best known for his role as "Captain Adam Greer" on the television series "The Mod Squad". Andrews was born Tiger Andrews in Brooklyn, New York; his parents, following Syrian custom, named him after a strong animal to ensure good health. His mother died when he was three years old, and his father later remarried. - 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". - F. Murray Abraham
Fahrid Murray Abraham (born October 24, 1939) is an Academy Award-winning American actor. He became known during the 1980s, after winning the Oscar for Best Actor for his role in "Amadeus", and has since appeared in many roles, both leading and supporting, in films, television, and mainly on stage. - Louay M. Safi
Louay M. Safi is a Syrian-American author. Safi was born in Damascus and received his B.Sc. in civil engineering as well as an M.A. and a Ph.D. from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. Safi has written numerous books on socio-political development, modernization, democracy, human rights, and Islamic resurgence. Safi has served as Executive Director and Director of Research for the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), … - Yasser Seirawan
Yasser Seirawan (born March 24, 1960) is a chess grandmaster and 4-time US-champion. He was winner of the World Junior Chess Championship in 1979. He was born in Damascus, Syria. His father was Arab and his mother an English nurse from Nottingham, where he spent some time in his early childhood. When he was seven, his family emigrated to Seattle (USA), where he attended McClure Middle School and Garfield High School, and honed his game at a (now-defunct) coffeehouse, … - Victor Kamber
Victor Kamber (born 1943) is a labor union activist and political consultant in the United States. A Republican, he worked for the AFL-CIO in the 1970s before forming The Kamber Group, a public relations firm, in 1980. The Kamber Group worked for Democratic Party candidates and labor unions for 25 years, becoming one of the most well-known "boutique" P.R. firms in Washington, D.C. Kamber sold The Kamber Group in 2005 to Carmen Group Lobbying, … - Hi Jolly
Hadji "Hi Jolly" Ali was a Greek-Syrian specialist who was one of the first camel drivers ever hired by US Army in 1856 to lead the camel driver experiment in the Southwest. Hi Jolly became a living legend until his death in Arizona. Once, insulted because he had not been invited to a German picnic in Los Angeles, he broke up the gathering by driving into it on a yellow cart pulled by two of his pet camels. - Warren David
Warren Will David (born June 29, 1952) a third-generation Arab American of Lebanese and Syrian heritage, a community leader and public relations advocate in the Detroit Arab American community for more than 25 years. A dedicated curator of Arab culture, Mr. David has invested his time and personal resources to document and tell the story of the Arab American experience. - Robert M. Isaac
Robert Michael 'Bob' Isaac (born January 27, 1928 in Colorado Springs) was the Republican Mayor of Colorado Springs, Colorado. Elected in April 1979, he was the first popularly elected Mayor of the history of Colorado Springs, serving five four-year terms through 1997. The longest-serving of Colorado Springs mayors, he is referred to popularly and in the media as "Mayor Bob". - Dan Hedaya
Dan Hedaya (July 24, 1940) is a prolific American character actor. - Boris Said
Boris Said (born September 18, 1962) is an American race car driver from Carlsbad, California. His father, Bob Said, was an Formula 1 racer and US Olympic bobsled driver in 1968 and 1972. He currently drives the #60 SoBe No Fear Energy Drink Ford Fusion. Although he is now making the move to full-time NASCAR competition as co-owner of his SoBe No Fear team alongside crew chief Frank Stoddard and a third partner, Mark Simo, … - Paul Anka
Paul Albert Anka, OC (born July 30, 1941, in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian singer, songwriter and actor. He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1990. Anka first became famous as a teen idol in the late 1950s and 1960s, with hits songs like "Diana," "Lonely Boy," and "Put Your Head on my Shoulder." He went on to write such well-known music as the theme for "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson", Tom Jones' biggest hit, "She's A Lady", … - Tiffany
Tiffany Renee Darwish (born October 2 1971), known popularly as Tiffany, is an American singer who had a number of teen pop hits during the late 1980s. - Salha "mama" Bobo
Salha "Mama" Bobo, was a Syrian-American Jewish businesswoman, philantropist, and matriarch of the Bobo family, based in Tampa, Florida. Born in the first decade of the 20th century in Aleppo, Syria, she emigrated to the United Stated while still a teenager and lived in New York City, Jacksonville, Florida, and Macon, Georgia, until eventually settling in Tampa in 1947, with her husband, the Egyptian-born Ralph Bobo. She was the head of the Blue Ribbon, an Ybor City landmark grocery store. - Maher Arar
Maher Arar (born 1970 in Syria) is a Canadian software engineer who is perhaps the most well-known victim of the United States policy of extraordinary rendition, a process where detainees are transferred from one country to another, with the expectation that they may be tortured in the country to which they are rendered. - Abdul Aziz Said
Abdul Aziz Said a Syrian-born writer and senior ranking professor of international relations in the School of International Service at American University where he has taught for fifty years. - Bassam Tibi
Bassam Tibi, born 1944 in Damascus, is a German political scientist of Syrian origin. He is a Muslim, and is known for his analysis of international relations concerning Islamic countries and civilization. He studied in Frankfurt am Main and habilitated in Hamburg, Germany. Since 1973, he teaches international politics at Göttingen University. In 1982, he was Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, and is currently an A.D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. - Raphael Of Brooklyn
Saint Raphael of Brooklyn was born as Raphael Hawaweeny in Damascus, Syria. He was educated at the Patriarchal School in Damascus, the Patriarchical Halki seminary in Turkey, and at the Theological Academy in Kiev, Russian Empire (now Ukraine). In 1904 he became the first Orthodox bishop to be consecrated in North America; the consecration was performed by Archbishop (Saint) Tikhon of Moscow and Bishop Innocent in New York City. - Husni Al-Za'Im
Husni al-Za'im was a Syrian military man and politician. Husni al-Za'im, a member of Syria's Kurdish minority, had been an officer in the Turkish Army. After France instituted its colonial mandate over Syria after the First World War, he became an officer in the French Army. After Syria's independence he was made Chief of Staff, and led the Syrian Army into war with Zionist militias in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. - Abraham Mitrie Rihbany
Abraham Mitrie Rihbany (1869-1944) was a Syrian immigrant to America who wrote on matters of religion and politics. His most famous book "The Syrian Christ" was published in 1916. - Nazim Al-Kudsi
Nazim al-Kudsi, also spelled "al-Qudsi" or "al-Cudsi", was a Syrian politician and head of state (December 14, 1961 - March 8, 1963), He was born in and raised in Aleppo. He obtained his undergraduate degree in law from Damascus University, his MA from the American University of Beirut (AUB), and his PhD from the University of Geneva. - Jason Hamacher
Jason Hamacher is an American musician. He was the drummer for the bands Frodus and Decahedron and the mid-1990s straight-edge band Battery. He also sang under the pseudonym "Ponan" for the Washington, DC spazzcore band (Part Man... Part Pancake...) Mancake, which released an EP on Art-Monk Construction in 1999 entitled "We will destroy you". - George Tomeh
Dr. George J Tomeh, born in Damascus, Syria in 1922, has been an eloquent spokesman of the Arab cause in the United States for more than a decade. Obtaining his M.A degree from the American University of Beirut, he continued his higher education and received his Ph.D. from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Author and lecturer, Dr. Tomeh has represented the Syrian government in various capacities since 1945. - Lawrence Joseph
Lawrence Joseph was born in 1948 in Detroit, Michigan. He is the author of the books of poems Into It ; Codes, Precepts, Biases, and Taboos: Poems 1973-1993 ; Before Our Eyes ; Curriculum Vitae ; and Shouting at No One . He is also the author of Lawyerland , a book of prose. He lives in New York City and teaches law at St. John's University School of Law.
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