Distinguished Alumni
- Academics
- Arabic Language Instruction Programs and Courses
- Distinguished Alumni

Kristen Brustad
Associate Professor of Arabic Studies in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies- University of Texas at Austin

Navdeep Suri
Former Ambassador of India in Egypt

Takehiro Kagawa
Ambassador of Japan in Egypt

Elliot Colla
Associate professor in the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University

Lawrence Wright
Staff writer, The New Yorker. Author and Pulitzer prize winner

William Granara
Director of the Arabic language program at Harvard University

Thomas Friedman
OP-ED Columnist, The New York Times, Author and Pulitzer Prize Winner

Michael Cooperson
Professor of Arabic at UCLA

Margaret Larkin
Professor of Arabic Literature-Columbia University

Neil Macfarquhar
UN bureau chief of the New York Times

Dwight Reynolds
Professor of Arabic Language and Literature in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California in Santa Barbara

John Swanson
Joint Professor of Egyptology and History, AUC

Ann Lesch
Former Associate provost for international programs. Professor Emerita, Department of Political Science

Stephen Kalin
Journalist, Iraq correspondent, Reuters

Edward Walker
US Ambassador

Lisa Anderson
Former president of AUC

Yuriko Koike
Governor of Tokyo

Ben Wedeman
Senior International Correspondent, CNN

Vickie Langohr
Associate Professor, Political Science Department, Columbia University

Nicholas Kristof
Op-Ed Columnist, The New York Times; Best-Selling Author, Two-Time Pulitzer Prize Winner