9 Notable alumni of Mansoura University

Updated: May 03, 2026 EliteDegrees

Mansoura University is ranked #1,238 in the world and #4 in Egypt by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 9 notable alumni from Mansoura University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with Mansoura University won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.

Ahmed Tantawi

1. Ahmed Tantawi

1979-. (aged 47)
politician
Ahmed Mohamed Ramadan Tantawi known as Ahmed Tantawi also: Al-Tantawy is an Egyptian politician and journalist. As of July 2022, he was the former head of the Dignity Party and a former member of the Egyptian House of Representatives. In 2023, Tantawi announced his potential candidacy for the 2023 Egyptian presidential election but repressive tactics, including retaliatory detentions of his...
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Ahmed Mansour

2. Ahmed Mansour

1962-. (aged 64)
journalist writer
Ahmed Mansour is an Egyptian journalist, television presenter, television host, and interviewer on Al Jazeera since 1997, and writer. He is one of Al Jazeera's prominent journalists. He presents Bela Hodod (بلا حدود, Arabic for "without borders"), an Arab live television talk show from Cairo since 1999, which airs on Al Jazeera Channel weekly. He also presents the program Shahed...
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Ayman Nour

3. Ayman Nour

1964-. (aged 62)
lawyer politician
Ayman Abd El Aziz Nour is an Egyptian politician, a former member of the Egyptian Parliament, founder and chairman of the El Ghad party.
Tahani al-Gebali

4. Tahani al-Gebali

1950-2022 (aged 72)
lawyer judge politician
Tahani al-Gebali was an Egyptian judge and a past Vice President of the Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt.
Haidy Moussa

5. Haidy Moussa

1993-. (aged 33)
singer actor television actor
Haidy Moussa, is an Egyptian singer and actress. In 2016 and 2017 she received DG (Dear Gest) and MEMA Award (Middle East Music awards) for best rising singer. Haidy started her musical Career in Cairo Opera House which is considered one of the most significant places that related to music in Egypt.
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Kareem Abu-Elmagd

6. Kareem Abu-Elmagd

1952-. (aged 74)
academic surgeon
Kareem Abu-Elmagd is an Egyptian-American surgeon practicing abdominal organ transplantation and digestive system surgery. He is best known for development of clinical intestinal and multivisceral transplantation and its subsequent approval by Medicare. He served as the president of the Intestinal Transplant Association.
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Hesham Sallam

7. Hesham Sallam

paleontologist
Hesham Sallam is an Egyptian paleontologist and the founder of the Mansoura University Vertebrate Paleontology Center (MUVP-C), the first vertebrate paleontology program in the Middle East. He works as a full professor at Mansoura University. Sallam led the discovery and description of Mansourasaurus shahinae, a species of sauropod dinosaur from Egypt, which has improved understanding of the prehistory of Africa...
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Ibrahim Farghali

8. Ibrahim Farghali

1967-. (aged 59)
novelist writer journalist
Ibrahim Farghali is an Egyptian writer. He grew up in Oman and United Arab Emirates. He obtained a BA in Business Administration from Mansoura University in 1992 and worked as a journalist in Rose al Yousef weekly magazine, then in Nizwa magazine in Muscat - Sultanate of Oman before going back to Cairo again to work as a cultural editor...
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Khairat El-Shater

9. Khairat El-Shater

1950-. (aged 76)
university teacher politician entrepreneur engineer businessperson
Mohammed Khairat Saad el-Shater is an Egyptian engineer, businessman and Islamist political activist. A leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood, as the Deputy Supreme Guide, el-Shater was the initial candidate of the movement's Freedom and Justice Party during the 2012 Egyptian presidential election before being disqualified by the election commission. Previously, he was the deputy chairman of the Brotherhood.
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