Notable Alumni
- Academics
- Center for Arabic Study Abroad @AUC (CASA@AUC)
- CASA Notable Alumni
CASA and Arabic Studies Alumni
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BEN WEDEMAN (YAB ’81)
Senior International Correspondent, CNN
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LAWRENCE WRIGHT (MA ’71)
Screenwriter; Playwright; Staff Writer, The New Yorker; Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author
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DAVID BONDERMAN (CASA '69)
Businessman; Philanthropist; Chairman and Founding Partner, TPG
![Thomas Friedman](/sites/default/files/styles/faculty_profile_345_420_/public/2022-06/58.jpg?itok=ueOpQv_2)
THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN (ALU ’74)
Op-Ed Columnist, The New York Times; Best-Selling Author
Three-Time Pulitzer Prize Winner
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YURIKO KOIKE (ALU ’71)
First Female Governor of Tokyo
Former Minister of Defense and Former Minister of the Environment, Japan.
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COLETTE GHUNIM (YAB ’13)
Documentary Filmmaker; Digital Media Associate, Skill Scout
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STEPHEN KALIN (CASA '12)
Journalist; Iraq Correspondent, Reuters
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TODD MOSTAK (CASA '10)
CEO and Founder, MapD
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EVELYN A. EARLY (CASA '71)
Policy and Development Consultant
Former Counselor for Press and Cultural Affairs U.S. Embassy in Rabat; Former Senior State Department Adviser, Air University.
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MARGARET LITVIN (CASA '11)
Associate Chair, Department of World Languages and Literature
Associate Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature, Boston University
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NICHOLAS KRISTOF (ALU ’84)
Op-Ed Columnist, The New York Times; Best-Selling Author
Two-Time Pulitzer Prize Winner.
![JOHN O. BRENNAN](/sites/default/files/styles/faculty_profile_345_420_/public/2018-10/john_brennan_cia_official_portrait-120x150.jpg?itok=4WlQ8nP8)
JOHN O. BRENNAN (SAB ’75)
Director, Central Intelligence Agency (2013 - 2017)
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JUAN COLE (MA ’78)
Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History, University of Michigan
Award-Winning Blogger.
![EDWARD GNEHM](/sites/default/files/styles/faculty_profile_345_420_/public/2018-10/gnehm-edward.jpg?itok=_-2mNxHd)
EDWARD “SKIP” GNEHM, JR. (YAB ’67)
Former U.S. Ambassador; Kuwait Professor of Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Affairs
Director of the Middle East Policy Forum, Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University.
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ANTHONY SHADID (CASA '92)
Foreign correspondent for The New York Times and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner
*Photo credit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Shadid
ALU: Arabic Language Unit
SAB: Semester Abroad
YAB: Year Abroad