69 Notable alumni of Ain Shams University

Ayman Aly Kamel is an Egyptian diplomat, and the former Ambassador of Egypt to Slovakia. He was previously the Assistant Foreign Minister for Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands, and served as Ambassador of Egypt to Japan from October 2017 to October 2021. He has also served as the First Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs in Egypt, and Consul-General...

Saadaldeen Talib is a Yemeni physician, businessman and politician. He served as the Yemeni Minister of Industry and Trade from December 2011 to 2014. He currently lives in Singapore and holds a position of a Goodwill Ambassador for UNDP Yemen.

Dr. Soliman Abdel-hady Soliman was an Egyptian professor of electrical engineering focusing on power and machines sector. Since 1997, he has been Professor of Electric Power System Analysis, Electrical Power & Machines Department, at Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt,

Gamal Eid is a leading Egyptian human rights activist and lawyer. He is the executive director of the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), the most prominent organization dealing with the defense of freedom of opinion, belief and expression in the Arab world. He founded the ANHRI in 2003. He graduated from the College of Law in Ain Shams...

Gamal El-Araby Ahmad is an Egyptian politician who served as Minister of Education from December 2011 to July 2012 in the Cabinet of Kamal Ganzouri.

Fawzia Abbas Fahim is an Egyptian biochemist and environmental biologist known for her work on the anti-tumoral effects of snake venom and iodoacetate. She is currently Professor of Biochemistry at Ain Shams University, Egypt. Fahim has also made important contributions to infant and occupational health, and pollution issues in Egypt.

Muhammad Abdul 'Ati is an Egyptian civil engineer, and a former Egyptian Minister of Irrigation and Water Resources.

Mohamed Abdel Kader Salem is an Egyptian academic and politician. He is the Former Egyptian Minister of Communications and Information Technology.

Basem Darwisch is an Egyptian–German composer, producer and oud virtuoso. He is the founder of Cairo Steps Ensemble, He is the first musician in the Middle East to be awarded the German golden jazz award in 2018 and 2021.

Hussein El Gebaly was an Egyptian artist.

Zahira Kamal is a Palestinian activist and politician of the Palestinian Democratic Union. From 2003 to 2006 she served as the Minister of Women Affairs in the Palestinian National Authority. Zahira was the first female leader of a Palestinian political party. She was detained for six years under town arrest, the longest time any woman has been held under town...

Magdi Youssef is an Egyptian professor of comparative literature and culture studies. He has taught at various universities in Europe and Egypt until his retirement. Al-Ahram (according to the Middle East Institute the equivalent of the New York Times in the Arab World) called Youssef “the renowned culture critic.” He is widely noted in the Arab world for his analytic...

May Telmissany is an Egyptian-Canadian novelist, translator, film critic and academic. She teaches Arabic studies and cinema at the University of Ottawa in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Abdel Latif Moubarak is an Egyptian poet. He is a member of the Egyptian Writers Union and a member of the Arab Writers on the Internet.

Raouf Abbas Hamed was an Egyptian historian and a professor of modern history at Cairo University, until his death in 2008. He served as the president of the Egyptian Society of Historical Studies. He filled various senior academic positions, most of which in the Cairo University.

Youssef Badawy is an Egyptian karateka and a world-classed champion. He won the gold medal in the men's kumite 84 kg event at the 2021 World Karate Championships held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. In 2019, he won the bronze medal in the men's kumite 84 kg event at the World Cadet, Junior & Under 21 Championships in Chile, marking...

Tarek Eltayeb is an Egyptian-Sudanese writer. He was born to Sudanese parents in Cairo, and has been a resident of the Austrian capital Vienna since 1984. He studied Social and Economic Sciences at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, and is currently professor at the International Management Center/University of Applied Sciences in Krems, Austria.

Aly Hindy is the Imam of the Salaheddin Islamic Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada once called "Toronto's million-dollar radical mosque” by the National Post.

Mustafa Jassem Al-Shamali is a Kuwaiti politician who has had held different cabinet posts. He served as Minister of Finance between 2007 and May 2012. He also served as oil minister from 4 August 2013 to January 2014.

Jenan Mohsin Ramadan Boushehri is a Kuwaiti politician. She was one of the first two women to run for election in Kuwait, and held various positions in the Cabinet until her resignation on 12 November 2019.

Hisham Arafat was an Egyptian politician who was Transport Minister in the cabinet headed by Sherif Ismail from 19 February 2017 to 27 February 2019 (in succession to Minister Galal Saeed) and resigned shortly after the Ramses Station rail disaster.

Zakiah Daradjat was an Indonesian Islamic psychologist, educator, and professor of psychology at the Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University Jakarta.

Omar Alieu Touray is a Gambian diplomat who has served as president of the Economic Community of West African States Commission since 2022. He was the Gambia's Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 2007 to 2008 and was Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from March 2008 to September 2009.

Omar Marwan is an Egyptian judge currently serving as Director of the Egyptian presidential office. Previously,He served as Minister of Justice. He also served as minister of Legal and Parliamentary Affairs before being redeployed to the Ministry of Justice in a cabinet reshuffle in 2022.

Salwa Bakr is an Egyptian critic, novelist and author. She is the author of seven volumes of short stories (including The Wiles of Men, AUC Press, 1997), seven novels, and a play. Her work has been translated into nine languages and holds international recognition.

Hisham Zazou is an Egyptian businessman and politician who is the former Egyptian minister of tourism. He was one of the ministers who are not affiliated with an Islamist party in the Qandil cabinet. Zazou remained in his post in the interim government of Egypt, until he was replaced by Khaled Abbas Rami. He was reappointed on 19 September 2015.

Samy Mohamed Rashad Mahmoud Ahmed Kandil El-Baz is an Egyptian who lives and performs in South Korea as a television personality. He was a cast member in the talk show Non-Summit. And also he was cast member in the variety show Hello! Stranger.

Paul Ghalioungui or Ghalioungi, MD (Cairo), MRCP (Lond), Professor of Medicine and former Chairman of Internal Medicine department, Ain Shams University Faculty of Medicine. An Egyptian endocrinologist, historian of Egyptian medicine, Egyptologist and an authority on Pharaonic medicine, he wrote a vivid history of Egyptian medicine in English, French, Arabic, German, and Spanish.

Abdel-Wahed El-Wakil is an Egyptian architect who designed over 15 mosques in Saudi Arabia and is considered by many as the foremost contemporary authority in Islamic architecture. For designing in traditional styles, he is also a representative of New Classical Architecture.

Aly Lotfy Mahmoud was an Egyptian politician who served as the 44th prime minister of Egypt from 1985 to 1985.

Wael Abbas Bilal is an internationally renowned Egyptian journalist, blogger, and human rights activist, who blogs at Misr Digital (Egyptian Awareness). He reported an incident of mob harassment of women, and broadcast several videos of police brutality. His actions led to the conviction of police for torture, but he has been harassed by the Egyptian government.

Ahmed Mourad Salah El-Din Zulfikar, was an Egyptian mechanical engineer and entrepreneur. He worked for three decades in the field of infrastructure. Zulfikar was one of the first founders of the modern irrigation systems technology in Egypt.

Mohamed Mahsoub Abdel Meguid is an Egyptian politician and former minister of state for parliamentary affairs, who served in the Qandil cabinet for a short time in 2012.

Tarek Heggy is an Egyptian liberal author, political thinker and international petroleum strategist. Heggy is one of Egypt’s more prominent authors on the subject of Egypt’s need for political reform. His extensive writings advocate the values of modernity, democracy, tolerance, and women's rights in the Middle East – advancing them as universal values essential to the region's progress. He has...

Mostafa A. El-Sayed is an Egyptian-American physical chemist, nanoscience researcher, member of the National Academy of Sciences and US National Medal of Science laureate. He is known for the spectroscopy rule named after him, the El-Sayed rule.

Nashwa Mustafa, is an Egyptian Actor. She is best known for the roles in the films; El-Rehla, El-Farah and in the television shows; The Family of Mr Shalash and Mahmoud the Egyptian.

Hany Azer is an Egyptian-German civil engineer. He was born in Tanta, Egypt to a Coptic family and moved to Cairo for high school and university. In 1973, after earning a BSc(Engg) degree from the Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, he moved to Germany to study for his post-graduate diploma in civil engineering in Bochum.

Ahmed Magdy is an Egyptian actor, artist and director.

Farouk Shousha was an Egyptian poet. He hosted the popular television program Umsiya Thaqafiya ("Cultural Evening") from 1977 through 2006.

Fatima Naoot is an Egyptian poet, translator and journalist. She has written 18 books, including seven collections of poetry, and is the chief editor of the literary magazine Qaws Qazah (The Rainbow). She has translated many novels and anthologies from English into Arabic. She is also a columnist and has written articles for Nesf El Donya, Al-Masry Al-Youm, and Youm7.

Osama Mounir is an Egyptian radio personality and singer, he is current CEO of Express Media groups.

Sheikh Isa bin Rashid bin Abdullah bin Isa bin Ali bin Khalifa bin Salman bin Ahmed Al-Fateh bin Mohammed Al Khalifa was a Bahraini poet. Born in Muharraq, he moved to Riffa and lived there for most of his life. He died after a struggle with illness.

Ahmed Okasha is an Egyptian psychiatrist. He is a professor of psychiatry at Ain Shams University Faculty of Medicine, Cairo, Egypt. He wrote books and articles about psychiatry and mental disorders. He is the first Arab-Muslim to be president of World Psychiatric Association from 2002 to 2005.

Nizar Awadallah is a Palestinian militant and politician who is serving as the member of Hamas Political Bureau in the Gaza Strip since 2009.

Ahmed Aboul Gheit is an Egyptian politician and diplomat. He has been Secretary-General of the Arab League since July 2016. He was reappointed for a second term on 3 March 2021. Aboul-Gheit served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Egypt from 11 July 2004 to 6 March 2011. Previously, between 1999 and 2004, he was Egypt's Permanent Representative to...

Mousa Mohammed Abu Marzook is a Palestinian politician and senior member of Hamas who served as the first chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau from 1992 until 1996 and deputy chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau from January 1997 until April 2013, where he was succeeded by Ismail Haniyeh.

Mahmoud Zulfikar was an Egyptian film director, film producer, screenwriter, and actor. He was a figure in Egyptian film industry. He started his career as an architect, before starting his film career as an actor in 1939. Zulfikar was one of the most prominent artists in Egypt. He was known for his boldness and adventure with the new talents he...

Sameh Hassan Shoukry is an Egyptian diplomat who served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2014 to 2024. Previously, Shoukry served as the Ambassador of Egypt to the United States from 2008 to 2012.

Assem Allam was an Egyptian-British businessman, based in the East Riding of Yorkshire from 1968. He was the owner of Allam Marine, an industrial generator manufacturer, and of EFL Championship club Hull City.

Youssef El Sherif is an Egyptian actor. His birth name is Mohamed Ismail Naji (Arabic: محمد إسماعيل ناجي).

Hamed Abdel-Samad is a German-Egyptian author critical of Islam.

Hijazi Muhammad Yusuf Sharif, better known by his nickname Abu Ishaq al-Huwayni, was an Egyptian Islamic preacher and scholar. A prominent scholar in the field of Hadith, he authored several books and appeared on several Islamic TV shows on several channels such as Al-Nas, Al-Rahma and Al-Hekma.

Dina Talaat Sayed Muhammad is an Egyptian belly dancer and actress. She was named as the "Last Egyptian Dancer" by the American magazine Newsweek. She has a master's degree in Philosophy.

Omar Mahmoud Suleiman was an Egyptian army general, politician, diplomat, and intelligence officer. A leading figure in Egypt's intelligence system beginning in 1986, Suleiman was appointed to the long-vacant vice presidency by President Hosni Mubarak on 29 January 2011. On 11 February 2011, Suleiman announced Mubarak's resignation and ceased being vice president; governing power was transferred to the Armed Forces...

Farouk El-Baz is an Egyptian American space scientist and geologist, who worked with NASA in the scientific exploration of the Moon and the planning of the Apollo program. He was a leading geologist on the program, responsible for studying the geology of the Moon, the selection of landing sites for the Apollo missions, and the training of astronauts in lunar...

Farag Foda was a prominent Egyptian professor, writer, columnist, and human rights activist.

Mahmoud al-Zahar is a Palestinian politician. He is a co-founder of Hamas and a member of the Hamas leadership in the Gaza Strip. Al-Zahar served as foreign affairs minister in the Hamas-dominated Palestinian Authority Government of March 2006 (also known as the First Haniyeh Government) that was sworn in on 29 March 2006 and lasted until 17 March 2007.

Naga's acting career began in 1977 when he was still a child with a part in the Egyptian film Madness of Love. Since then, he has appeared in various films, including psychological thrillers, romances, and musical comedies.

Mohammad "Mo" Gawdat is an Egyptian software engineer, entrepreneur, author, podcaster, and public speaker. He previously served as chief business officer for Google X and is the author of the books Solve for Happy and Scary Smart.

Sherif Ismail was an Egyptian engineer and politician who served as the 53rd prime minister of Egypt from 2015 to 2018. He was also the minister of petroleum and mineral resources from 2013 to 2015.

Mervat Mostafa Amin is an Egyptian actress.

Ahmed Ezz Eldine Ali Ezzat, is an Egyptian actor, with numerous accolades in his professional career spanning over 20 years and over 30 film and television credits to his name. His popularity stems from his versatility as an actor in comedy, drama, thriller and action films and television. In 2022, he starred in the epic action drama "Kira & El...

Yehia el-Fakharany is an Egyptian television and film actor.

Entissar Amer is the current First Lady of Egypt, since her husband Abdel Fattah el-Sisi became the sixth president of Egypt on 8 June 2014.

Ahmed El-Fishawy is an Egyptian actor, rapper and son of recognized Egyptian actor Farouk al-Fishawy.

Haya Rashed Al-Khalifa is a lawyer and diplomat from Bahrain. From 1999 to 2004, she served as Bahrain’s first female ambassador, accredited to France. She was also among the first women to practice law in Bahrain. From 2006 to 2007, she held the office of President of the United Nations General Assembly, becoming the third woman to occupy this position.

Sheikh Emad Effat was a senior Egyptian Sunni Islamic cleric at al-Azhar Mosque who was shot and killed during protest demonstrations on 16 December 2011. Effat had participated in the Arab Spring demonstrations in Egypt since the January uprising.

Ali Gomaa is an Egyptian Islamic scholar, jurist, and public figure who has taken a number of controversial political stances. He specializes in Islamic Legal Theory. He follows the Shafi`i school of Islamic jurisprudence and the Ash'ari school of tenets of faith. Gomaa is a Sufi.