Category: Non-Resident / PAO (Persons of Arab Origin / Descent)

Arab Space Scientist : Diana AlSindy

Diana AlSindy – Rocket Scientist. Propulsion Development Engineer.

Designs propulsion pressurant systems for rockets at private space agency Virgin Orbit.

Founder – @TheArabianStargazer ‘The Arabian StarGazer’

Promotes STEM to Arab youth from all over the world. Bi-lingual.

pix: brookeowensfellowship.org

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American / Iraqi-American

Louis Chedid – Conferred France’s Medal of ‘Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters : October 2016

Louis Chedid : Singer, Songwriter, Composer and Author

-Louis Chedid’s First album was “Balbutiements” (Mumblings – 1973) He followed up with titles like “La Belle” and “T’as beau pas être beau”(1977).

In 1981, “Ainsi soit-il” (Amen) rose to the top of the charts, followed four years later by “Anne ma sœur Anne” (My sister Anne)

-Composer of Pierre-Dominique Burgaud’s “Le Soldat Rose” (The Pink Soldier, 2006), a fairytale musical

-Autobiographical novel – 40 Berges Blues (1992)

Awards:

-Conferred the Medal ‘Commander of the Order of Art and Letters’ (October 2016)

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pix : twitter.com / @ParisMatch

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France / Egyptian-Lebanese

Tawakkol Karman , First Arab Woman Nobel Peace Laureate (and Youngest) – 2011

Tawakkol Abdel-Salam Khalid Karman, Yemeni Journalist, Politician and Human Rights Activist.

Earned nicknames in Yemen ‘Iron Woman’ (aka) ‘Mother of the Revolution’

Nobel Peace Prize :

  • co-winner . Tawakkol Karman along with Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Leyman Gbowee were the co-recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize 2011

First/s :

  • First Female Arab to win the Nobel Peace Prize
  • Youngest Person to win the Nobel Peace Prize
  • First Yemeni to win the Nobel Peace Prize
  • Second Muslim Woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize

Awards, Others:

  • Social Entrepreneur of the Year – The Asian Awards (2019)
  • Awarded 1st Position ‘Top 100 Global Thinkers’ – by Foreign Policy (2011)

Other/s :

  • Member – International Advisory Board of the MBI Al Jaber Media Institute, Yemen
  • Member – Yemeni Journalists Syndicate
  • Content oversight in charge : Facebook (2020)

Co-Founder :

  • Women Journalists Without Chains

www.tawakkolkarman.net/en

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Taz Governorate, Yemen / Turkey

Halima Aden, First fully covered American Muslim Teen Contestant in Miss. Minnesota US : 2016

Halima Aden is the first american muslim teen to wear a hijab in the Miss. Minnesota USA pageant.

Supermodel, activist and humanitarian

First’s:

  • First woman to wear a hijab in the Miss. Minnesota USA pageant.
  • First contestant to wear a burkini and a hijab
  • First hijab wearing model featured on the covers of Vogue Arabia, Allure and British Vogue
  • First Somali-American to participate in student government in college
  • Crowned first Muslim Homecoming Teen, St.Cloud’s Apollo High School, Minnesota

Honours :

  • UNICEF Ambassador, to support UNICEF’s mission to put children first ( July 2018).

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American / Somali-American

Moncef Slaoui appointed by US President Trump to Lead Covid-19 Vaccine Team : May 2020

Moncef Slaoui (aka) Moncef Mohamed Slaoui, immunology expert, has been appointed by U.S. President Donald Trump to head up the U.S. Government’s development of vaccine to treat coronavirus disease in ‘ Operation Warp Speed ‘.

Last Post Held:

  • Head of GlaxoSmithKline’s Vaccine Department

Education :

  • Ph.D – Molecular biology and Immunology – Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
  • MBA – International Institute for Management Development, Lausanne,
  • M.S. – Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
  • B.S. – Biology – Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

Awards / Honours:

  • Honorary Doctorate of Science – Gettysburg College (2017)
  • ’25 of the Most Influential People in Biopharma Today’ – by FierceBiotech (2012)
  • ‘The World’s 50 Greatest Leaders’ – by Fortune (2010)
  • ‘World’s Top 100 Medicine Makers’ – by The Medicine Makers (2018)

Books/ Papers Published:

Several

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American / Belgian-American / Moroccan

Miriam Merad elected to U.S’s ‘National Academy of Sciences’ : May 2020

Immunologist Dr. Miriam Merad elected to the prestigious American National Academy of Sciences.

Presently:

  • Professor – Cancer Immunology
  • Director – Precision Immunology Institute , ICahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, New York City, New York
  • Vice President – International Union of Immunological Sciences

Awards:

  • William B Coley Award for Distinguished Research in Basic & Tumour Immunology (2018)
  • Leukemia Research Foundation Award (2006)
  • Member – U.S. National Academy of Sciences
  • Member – American Society for Clinical Investigation

Education:

  • M.D. – Algiers 1 University / – Paris Diderot University
  • PhD – Stanford University

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American / French-Arab / Algeria

Abdel Nader – Professional NBA Basketball Player : USA

Abdel Nader – professional Basketball player for ‘ Oklahoma City Thunder’ of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

Plays in the position of Small forward / Shooting guard

Awards / Highlights :

  • NBA D-League Rookie of the Year (2017)
  • All-NBA D-League Second Team (2017)
  • NBA D-League All-Rookie Team (2017)
  • NBA D-League All-Star (2017)
  • MAC All-Freshman Team (2012)

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American / American-Arab / Egyptian-American

Abbas El Gamal Wins ‘Claude E Shannon Award’ : 2012

Dr. Abbas El Gamal – Electrical engineer wins several awards and one of amongst them listed above.

Best known for his works on network information theory, field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) and CMOS imaging sensors and systems.

Work :

  • Chair – Department of Electrical Engineering , Stanford University
  • Hitachi America Professor of Engineering, Stanford University
  • Director – Information Systems Laboratory, Stanford University
  • Assistant Professor – Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University

Education :

  • Ph.D :
  • M.S : Statistics
  • M.S: Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
  • B.S (Hons) : Cairo University, Egypt

Awards :

  • 2016 IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal
  • 2014 Viterbi Lecture, University of Southern California
  • 2013 Shannon Memorial Lecture, UCSD
  • 2013 Member of the National Academy of Engineering
  • 2012 Claude E. Shannon Award , IEEE Information Theory Society
  • 2000 Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers

Books :

Network Information Theory, (Cambridge University Press, 2011) – with Young-Han Kim

Business :

  • LSI Corporation – Director – 1984
  • Actel Corporation – Co-Founder – 1986
  • Silicon Architects – Founder – 1990
  • Pixim Inc – Co-Founder – 1998
  • InscoPix – Co-Founder – 2011

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American / American-Arab / Egyptian-American

Lars Salem Al Fakir Wins Swedish Grammy Awards : 2008

Swedish Lars Salem Al Fakir (aka) Salem Al Fakir (aka) Logola, Damien Adore wins multiple Swedish Grammy’s.

Salam Al Fakir Swedish singer, Songwriter, Producer and Musician

Awards :

  • Swedish Grammy Awards – Multiple : 2008, 2014, 2015
  • Several other Awards .,

Highlights:

  • Performed at the Swedish Royal Wedding of Prince Carl Philip and Sofia Hellqvist

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Sweden / Swedish Arab / Syria

Lebanese Restaurant ‘Leila’ named ‘One of the Best New Eateries in America’

Leila, a Detroit (MI) based Lebanese restaurant founded by Samy Eid.

  • One of the Best New Eateries in America – GQ magazine in their ‘ GQ’s Best New Restaurants in America for 2020 . (GQ was formerly Gentleman’s Quarterly)

Earlier by :

  • 2020 Detroit Free Press ‘Restaurant of the Year ‘.

www.leiladetroit.com

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USA / Lebanese-American / Lebanon