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