- Philip The Arab
Marcus Julius Philippus or Philippus I Arabs (c. 204 - 249), known in English as Philip the Arab (after the origin of his family), was a Roman emperor from 244 to 249.
- Mostafa Arab
Mostafa Arab (born December 31, 1942 in ?, Iran) is a retired Iranian footballer. He usually played as a defender. After Hossein Kaebi, Arab is the second youngest Iran national football team player of all time debuting at the age of 17.
- Leila Arab
Leila (real name: Leila Arab) is an Iranian musician who moved to London after the 1979 Iranian Revolution. She has worked with prominent European musicians such as Björk, and has released music on both Richard D. James' Rephlex Records and XL Recordings. Her debut release "Don't Fall Asleep" was a hit. She is currently finishing her third studio album, "Blood, Looms and Blooms".
- Roya Arab
Roya Arab is the singer featured in the release of the DnB track Rainbows of Colour by Grooverider and Goldie. She was previously a member of Archive. She has also written and sang for her sister Leila Arab, Grooverider, Zend Avesta, Naab, and collaborated with Mike Figgis. Having taken time out from music, she is now a qualified archaeologist. Roya Arab was born in Iran and lives in the UK. Besides music she has a passion for all things Iranian, past and present.
- Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti was the fifth President of Iraq and Chairman of the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council from 1979 until his overthrow by US forces in 2003. He was executed after being found guilty of war crimes at his trial in 2006. He was a member of the revolutionary Ba'ath Party, which espoused secular pan-Arabism, economic modernization, and Arab socialism. Saddam played a key role in the 1968 coup that brought the party to long-term power.
- Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Muhammad bin 'Awad bin Laden, most often mentioned as Osama bin Laden or Usama bin Laden, is a Saudi militant Islamist and is reported to be the founder of the organization called al-Qaeda. He is a member of the wealthy bin Laden family. In conjunction with several other Islamic militant leaders, …
- Yasser Arafat
Mohammed Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini, popularly known as Yasser Arafat, was Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (1968-2004) and President of the Palestinian National Authority (1993-2004). In 1994, Arafat received the Nobel Peace Prize together with, Yitzhak Rabin, and Shimon Peres, for the negotiation of the 1993 Oslo Peace Accord. Arafat was a controversial and controlling figure throughout his lengthy career.
- Bashar Al-Assad
Dr Bashar al-Assad (') (born September 11, 1965) is the President of the Syrian Arab Republic, Regional Secretary of the Baath Party, and the son of former President Hafez al-Assad.
- Petronas
Petronas the Patrician (d. November 11, 865), was a Byzantine general and the brother of Empress Theodora and Bardas, uncle to the Byzantine emperor Michael III. After the death of Theophilus, young Michael ascended to the throne with the regency of Empress Theodora and the assistance of Bardas and Petronas. During a conflict with the Arabs of the Euphrates in 860, the emperor Michael III sustained a personal defeat from which Petronas retrieved a great victory.
- Amr Moussa
Amr Moussa is the current Secretary-General of the League of Arab Nations since his election to the position in May 2001. He is a former Egyptian Foreign Minister and diplomat He served as Cairo’s ambassador to India in 1967 and as Egypt’s ambassador to the United Nations in 1990. He was appointed Foreign Minister in the Ganzouri Cabinet in 1991 and remained in this position until 2001.
- Fouad Siniora
Fouad Siniora , the Prime Minister of Lebanon, is mightily vexed by Israel.A military solution to Israel’s savage war on Lebanon and the Lebanese people is both morally unacceptable and totally unrealistic. We in Lebanon call upon the international community and citizens everywhere to support my country’s sovereignty and end this foll
- Martin Kramer
Martin Kramer (b. 1954, Washington, DC) is an American scholar of the Middle East at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, the Shalem Center, and the Olin Institute, Harvard University. His focus is on Islam and Arab politics.
- Zacarias Moussaoui
Zacarias Moussaoui is a French citizen of Moroccan descent who was convicted of conspiring to kill Americans as part of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. As a result of his conviction, he is serving a life sentence at the Federal ADX Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado.
- Gamal Abdel Nasser
Gamal Abdel Nasser ("; Masri: جمال عبد الناصر - " also transliterated as Jamal Abd al-Naser, Jamal Abd an-Nasser and other variants; January 15 1918 - September 28 1970) was the President of Egypt from 1954 until his death in 1970. Nasser is seen as one of the most important political figures in recent Middle East history. Nasser was well-known for his Arab nationalist and anti-colonial foreign policy.
- Ahmed Yassin
Sheikh Ahmed Ismail Yassin was the co-founder (with Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi) and the spiritual leader of the militant Palestinian Islamist organization Hamas, originally calling it "the Palestinian Wing of the Muslim Brotherhood". In addition to being nearly blind, he was a paraplegic and had to use a wheelchair after a playground accident in his youth. He was assassinated by an Israeli helicopter gunship.
- Tariq Aziz
Mikhail Yuhanna, later and more popularly known as Tariq Aziz or Tareq Aziz was the Foreign Minister (1983 – 1991) and Deputy Prime Minister (1979 – 2003) of Iraq, and a close advisor of former President Saddam Hussein for decades. Their association began in the 1950s, when both were Ba'ath party activists, while the party was still officially banned. Since Saddam Hussein was both Prime Minister and President of Iraq, …
- Haifa Wehbe
Haifa Wehbe (also spelled "Haifa Wehbeh", "Haifa Wahbi", "Hayfa Wehbe", "Hayfa Wehbi"; born March 10 1976?), is a Lebanese model, actress, and singer who rose to fame in the Arab world as runner up for 'Miss Lebanon' and later the release of her debut album "Huwa az-Zaman"
- Ibn Khaldun
Ibn Khaldūn or Ibn Khaldoun (May 27, 1332 AD/732 AH - March 19, 1406 AD/808 AH), was a famous Arab Muslim polymath, historian, historiographer, demographer, economist, philosopher, sociologist and social scientist born in present-day Tunisia. He is regarded as a father of demography, historiography, the philosophy of history, sociology, and the social sciences, and is viewed as one of the forerunners of modern economics.
- Azmi Bishara
Azmi Bishara is a Palestinian Christian who was a Member of the Israeli Knesset and leader of the Balad party from 1996 until resigning in April 2007. His resignation took place amidst news of a series of "serious" but "unspecified" criminal charges being laid against him by Israeli security services, which were later revealed to be treason and espionage. By resigning, Bishara lost his parliamentary immunity and has chosen to remain abroad, …
- Abdul Aziz Al-Hakim
Abdul Aziz al-Hakim is an Iraqi theologian and politician and the leader of SIIC, the largest political party in the Iraqi Council of Representatives. He was a member of the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council and served as its president in December 2003. Brother of the Shia leader Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, he replaced him as leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq when Mohammed Baqir was assassinated in August 2003 in Najaf.
- Hafez Al-Assad
Hafez al-Assad (') (October 6, 1930 - June 10, 2000) was president of Syria for three decades. Assad's rule stabilized and consolidated the power of the country's central government after decades of coups and counter-coups. He was succeeded by his son and current president Bashar al-Assad in 2000.
- Ali Mohamed
Ali Abdul Saoud Mohamed, also known as Ali Mohammed (b. 1952) is an acknowledged Al Qaeda operative who was charged with the August 7, 1998 bombings of the United States' embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. In October 2000, he pleaded guilty to five counts of conspiracy to kill nationals of the United States and officers or employees of the U.S. government on account of their official duties, to murder and kidnap, …
- Queen Of Sheba
The Queen of Sheba,, referred to in the Bible books of 1 Kings and 2 Chronicles, the New Testament, the Qur'an, and Ethiopian history, was the ruler of Sheba, an ancient kingdom which modern archaeology speculates was located in present-day Eritrea, Ethiopia or Yemen. Unnamed in the biblical text, she is called Makeda (possibly meaning "not this way/not thus") in the Ethiopian tradition, and in Islamic tradition her name is Bilqis.
- Al-Kindi
"' (c. 801-873 CE), also known by the Latinized version of his name Alkindus"' to the West, was a Muslim Arab scientist, philosopher, mathematician, physician, astronomer and musician. Al-Kindi was the first of the Muslim peripatetic philosophers, and is well known for his efforts to introduce Greek philosophy to the Arab world. Al-Kindi was a descendant of the Kinda tribe. He was born and educated in Kufa, before going to pursue further studies in Baghdad.
- Rashid Khalidi
Rashid Khalidi Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia University and the author of The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood on the Israeli invasion of Gaza. What does Israel hope to achieve? Khalidi was in Palestine in November and early December of last year and says that Hamas and the Palestinian Authority were losing support.
- Daniel Barenboim
Daniel Barenboim (b. November 15, 1942) is a pianist and conductor. He lives in Berlin and holds citizenship in Argentina, Israel, and Spain. He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina; his parents were Russian Jews. Barenboim first came to fame as a pianist but now is as well-known as a conductor, and for his work with an orchestra of young Arab and Jewish musicians, based in Israel, called the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, …
- Abba Eban
Abba Eban (born February 2, 1915, died November 17, 2002) was an Israeli diplomat and politician. Born with the name Aubrey Solomon Meir in Cape Town, South Africa, Eban moved to England at an early age. He was educated at St Olave's Grammar School before studying Classics and Oriental languages at Queens' College, Cambridge. After graduating with a "Triple-Starred First", he researched Arabic and Hebrew as a Fellow of Pembroke College from 1938-1939.
- Hanan Ashrawi
Hanan Ashrawi is currently the Secretary-General of the Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy (MIFTAH). She was the Official Spokesperson for the Palestinian movement during the Madrid peace negotiations (1991-1993), and continues to be active in the efforts towards peace in the region. She was also a member of the Task Force on Higher Education convened by UNESCO and the World Bank.
- Omar Sharif
Omar Sharif (born April 10, 1932) is an Academy Award-nominated Egyptian actor who has starred in many Hollywood films. He has acted in Arabic, French, and English feature films. Sharif is most famous for his roles in "Doctor Zhivago" and "Lawrence of Arabia".
- Avicenna
Ibn Sina, also known as Avicenna) was a Persian ("Tājīk") Muslim universal genius who made signficant contributions to medicine, astronomy, alchemy, chemistry, logic, mathematics, metaphysics, philosophy, physics, poetry, science, and theology, and he was also a statesman and soldier. Avicenna was born around 980 (370 AH) in Afshana near Bukhara in Khorasan (now part of Uzbekistan), and died in 1037 (428 AH) in Hamadan (now in Iran).
- Lakhdar Brahimi
Lakhdar Brahimi (born January 1, 1934 in Algeria) was a veteran United Nations envoy and advisor. He retired from his duties at the end of 2005. Brahimi is a member of the Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor, the first global initiative to focus specificially on the link between exclusion, poverty and law. He was the United Nations special representative for Afghanistan and Iraq. Before his appointment in 2001 by Secretary-General Kofi Annan, …
- Ibn Ishaq
Muhammad ibn Ishaq ibn Yasar, or simply Ibn Ishaq (meaning "the son of Isaac") (died 767, or 761 (Robinson 2003, p. xv)) was an Arab Muslim historian. He collected oral traditions that formed the basis of first biography of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. This biography usually called "Sirat Rasul Allah" ("Life of Allah's Messenger").
- Baruch Goldstein
Baruch Kappel Goldstein (December 9 or December 12, 1956-February 25, 1994,) was an American-Israeli physician who perpetrated the 1994 Cave of the Patriarchs massacre in the city of Hebron, killing 29 Arab attendants of the Ibrahimi Mosque (within the Cave of the Patriarchs) and wounding another 150 in a shooting attack.
- Pierre Gemayel
Sheikh Pierre Gemayel (November 6, 1905 – August 29, 1984) (last name also spelt Jmayyel, Jemayyel or al-Jumayyil, Sheikh is an honorific title in Arab countries), was a Lebanese political leader. He is remembered as the founder of the Kataeb Party (also known as the Phalangist Party), as a parliamentary powerbroker, and as the father of Bachir Gemayel and Amine Gemayel, …
- Oriana Fallaci
Oriana Fallaci (June 29 1929 - September 15 2006) was an Italian journalist, author, and political interviewer. A former partisan during World War II, she died in her native Florence, Italy, at age 77. She was called "our most celebrated female writer" by Ferruccio De Bortoli, former director of the newspaper "Corriere della Sera".
- George Habash
George Habash, to a family of Christian Palestinian merchants. Sometimes he is known by his nom de guerre "Al-Hakim", الحكيم, meaning "the govenor", is the founder and former Secretary-General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
- Khaled Abu Toameh
Khaled Abu Toameh is an Israeli Arab Muslim journalist, documentarian and the West Bank and Gaza correspondent for the Jerusalem Post and U.S. News and World Report. He is also the Palestinian affairs producer for NBC News since 1988. His articles are published in numerous publications such as "The Sunday Times", "Daily Express" and the "New Republic". Khaled Abu Toameh was previously a senior writer for The Jerusalem Report, …
- 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.
- Adnan Al-Dulaimi
Adnan al-Dulaimi is an Sunni Iraqi politician and the leader of the General Council for the People of Iraq, a component of the Iraqi Accord Front which won 44 seats in the December 2005 general election. In April 2007 it was reported that the Supreme Judicial Council had requested that the Concil of Representatives lift his parliamentary immunity so he could be prosecuted for supporting Iraqi insurgents and deporting Shiites from west Baghdad.
- Tariq Al-Hashimi
Tariq al-Hashimi is an Iraqi politician and the general secretary of the Iraqi Islamic Party. Along with Adil Abdul Mahdi, he is a Vice President of Iraq in the government formed after the December 2005 elections. As a Sunni, he took the place of fellow Sunni politician Ghazi al-Yawar. Three of his siblings (two brothers and one sister) were killed by Shiite death squads in 2006.