Middle Eastern Americans are
Americans
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of
Middle East
The Middle East ( ar, الشرق الأوسط, ISO 233: ) is a geopolitical region commonly encompassing Arabian Peninsula, Arabia (including the Arabian Peninsula and Bahrain), Anatolia, Asia Minor (Asian part of Turkey except Hatay Pro ...
ern background. According to the
United States Census Bureau
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, the term "Middle Eastern American" applies to anyone of
West Asian
Western Asia, West Asia, or Southwest Asia, is the westernmost subregion of the larger geographical region of Asia, as defined by some academics, UN bodies and other institutions. It is almost entirely a part of the Middle East, and includes An ...
or
North Africa
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n origin. This includes people whose background is from the various Middle Eastern and West Asian ethnic groups, such as the
Kurds ug:كۇردلار
Kurds ( ku, کورد ,Kurd, italic=yes, rtl=yes) or Kurdish people are an Iranian ethnic group native to the mountainous region of Kurdistan in Western Asia, which spans southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Ir ...
and
Assyrians, as well as immigrants from modern-day countries of the
Arab world
The Arab world ( ar, اَلْعَالَمُ الْعَرَبِيُّ '), formally the Arab homeland ( '), also known as the Arab nation ( '), the Arabsphere, or the Arab states, refers to a vast group of countries, mainly located in Western A ...
,
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...
,
Israel
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...
,
Turkey
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, and sometimes
Armenia
Armenia (), , group=pron officially the Republic of Armenia,, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of Western Asia.The UNbr>classification of world regions places Armenia in Western Asia; the CIA World Factbook , , and ''Ox ...
.
Although once considered
Asian Americans
Asian Americans are Americans of Asian ancestry (including naturalized Americans who are immigrants from specific regions in Asia and descendants of such immigrants). Although this term had historically been used for all the indigenous people ...
, the modern definition of "Asian American" now excludes people with West Asian backgrounds.
History
One of the first large groups of immigration from the Middle East to the United States came by boat from the
Ottoman Empire
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in the late 1800s. Although U.S. officials referred to them as Turkish, most referred to themselves as Syrian, and it is estimated that 85 percent of these Ottoman immigrants came from modern Lebanon. Later, new categories were created for Syrians and Lebanese.
The number of Armenians who migrated to the US from 1820 to 1898 is estimated to be around 4,000 and according to the
Bureau of Immigration Bureau of Immigration may refer to:
*Bureau of Immigration (India)
*Bureau of Immigration (Philippines)
* Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization (Liberia)
*Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement
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, 54,057 Armenians entered the US between 1899 and 1917, with the vast majority coming from the Ottoman Empire. The largest
Armenian American
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communities at that time were located in
New York City
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;
Fresno
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;
Worcester, Massachusetts
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;
Boston
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;
Philadelphia
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;
Chicago
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Jersey City
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;
Los Angeles
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;
Troy, New York
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; and
Cleveland
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.
Another wave of immigration from the Middle East began in 1946, peaking after the 1960s. Since 1968, these immigrants have arrived from such countries as Iran, Iraq, Israel, Palestine, Syria, Egypt, and Lebanon.
Population
The population of Middle Eastern Americans totals at least 10 million. In 2012 Pew Research estimated the population of
Arab Americans
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According to the Arab American Inst ...
to be 3.7 million people
) and in 2014 the U.S. Secretary of Commerce stated that there were over 1 million
Turkish Americans
Turkish Americans ( tr, Türk Amerikalılar) or American Turks are Americans of ethnic Turkish origin. The term "Turkish Americans" can therefore refer to ethnic Turkish immigrants to the United States, as well as their American-born descend ...
in the U.S.
The population of Middle Eastern Americans includes both Arabs and non-Arabs. In their definitions of Middle Eastern Americans,
United States Census Bureau
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and the
National Health Interview Survey The National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) is an annual, cross-sectional survey intended to provide nationally representative estimates on a wide range of health status and utilization measures among the nonmilitary, noninstitutionalized populat ...
include peoples (diasporic or otherwise) from present-day
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...
,
Israel
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...
,
Turkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...
, and
Armenia
Armenia (), , group=pron officially the Republic of Armenia,, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of Western Asia.The UNbr>classification of world regions places Armenia in Western Asia; the CIA World Factbook , , and ''Ox ...
.
As of 2013, an estimated 1.02 million immigrants from the
Middle East and North Africa
MENA, an acronym in the English language, refers to a grouping of countries situated in and around the Middle East and North Africa. It is also known as WANA, SWANA, or NAWA, which alternatively refers to the Middle East as Western Asia (or a ...
(MENA) lived in the United States, making up 2.5 percent of the country's 41.3 million immigrants.
Middle Eastern and North African immigrants have primarily settled in
California
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(20%),
Michigan
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(11%), and
New York
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* New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States
New York may also refer to:
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(10%). Data from the
United States Census Bureau
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shows that from 2009 to 2013, the four counties with the most MENA immigrants were
Los Angeles County, California
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;
Wayne County, Michigan
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(Detroit),
Cook County, Illinois
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(Chicago), and
Kings County, New York
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*One of several works known as the "Book of Kings":
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(Brooklyn); these four counties collectively "accounted for about 19 percent of the total MENA immigrant population in the United States."
By ethnicity
Although the
United States census has
recorded race and ethnicity since the first census in 1790, this information has been voluntary since the end of the
Civil War
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The aim of one side may be to take control of the country or a region, to achieve independence for a region, or to change government policies ...
(
non-whites
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were
counted differently from 1787 to 1868 for the purpose of determining congressional representation). As such, these statistics do not include those who did not volunteer this optional information, and so the census underestimates the total populations of each ethnicity actually present.
Although tabulated, "religious responses" were reported as a single total and not differentiated, despite totaling 1,089,597 in 2000.
[
Independent organizations provide improved estimates of the total populations of races and ethnicities in the US using the raw data from the US Census and other surveys.
Similarly, the ]Arab American Institute
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estimated the population of Arab Americans
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According to the Arab American Inst ...
at 3.7 million in 2012.
According to a 2002 Zogby International
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survey, the majority of Arab Americans
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According to the Arab American Inst ...
are Christian
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; the survey showed that 24% of Arab Americans were Muslim, 63% were Christian and 13% belonged to another religion or no religion. Christian Arab Americans include Maronites
The Maronites ( ar, الموارنة; syr, ܡܖ̈ܘܢܝܐ) are a Christian ethnoreligious group native to the Eastern Mediterranean and Levant region of the Middle East, whose members traditionally belong to the Maronite Church, with the largest ...
, Melkites
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, Chaldeans, Orthodox Christians
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, and Copts
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; Muslim Arab Americans primarily adhere to one of the two main Islamic denominations, Sunni
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and Shia
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.
Notable people
Academia
*Elias J. Corey
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, organic chemistry professor at Harvard University, winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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(Lebanese parents)
* Ahmed Zewail
Ahmed Hassan Zewail ( ar, أحمد حسن زويل, ; February 26, 1946 – August 2, 2016) was an Egyptian-American chemist, known as the "father of femtochemistry". He was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on femtochemistry ...
, Egyptian American scientist, known as the "father of femtochemistry
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", winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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*Michael E. DeBakey
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, pioneering Lebanese American cardiovascular surgeon and researcher, 1963 Lasker Award
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laureate
* Omar M. Yaghi, Jordanian American reticular chemistry pioneer; winner of the 2018 Wolf Prize in Chemistry
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Laure ...
*Mostafa El-Sayed
Mostafa A. El-Sayed (Arabic: مصطفى السيد) is an Egyptian-American physical chemist, a leading nanoscience researcher, a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a US National Medal of Science laureate. He was the editor-in-chief ...
, Egyptian American US National Medal of Science
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laureate; leading nanoscience researcher; known for the spectroscopy
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rule named after him, the El-Sayed rule
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* Farouk El-Baz
Farouk El-Baz ( arz, فاروق الباز, ''Pronunciation'': ) (born January 2, 1938) 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. ...
Egyptian American space scientist who worked with NASA
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NASA was established in 1958, succeeding t ...
to assist in the planning of scientific exploration of the Moon
* Huda Zoghbi
Huda Yahya Zoghbi (Arabic: هدى الهبري الزغبي ''Hudā al-Hibrī az-Zughbī''; born 1954), born Huda El-Hibri, is a Lebanese-born American geneticist, and a professor at the Departments of Molecular and Human Genetics, Neuroscience a ...
, Lebanese American physician and medical researcher who discovered the genetic cause of the Rett syndrome
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* Huda Akil
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, pioneering Syrian American neuroscientist and medical researcher
* Yasmine Belkaid
Yasmine Belkaid ( ar, ياسمين بلقايد; born 1968) is an Algerian immunologist and senior investigator at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania. She is b ...
, Algerian American immunologist, professor and a senior investigator at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
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* Hunein Maassab
Hunein (John) Maassab ( ar, حنين معصّب) (born Hunein Maassab) was a Syrian-American professor of epidemiology known for developing the live attenuated influenza vaccine
Maassab was born June 11, 1926, in Damascus, Syria, he immigrated to ...
, Syrian American professor of epidemiology
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It is a cornerstone of public health, and shapes policy decisions and evidenc ...
and the inventor of the live attenuated influenza vaccine
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It is an attenuated vaccine, unlike most influenza vaccines, which are inactivated vaccine ...
* Joanne Chory
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, plant biologist and geneticist (Lebanese)
* Anthony Atala
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, director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine
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WFIRM's goal is to apply the principles of regenerative ...
(Lebanese)
* Noureddine Melikechi, Algerian American Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physicist, member of the Mars Science Laboratory
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*Michel T. Halbouty Michel Thomas Halbouty (21 June 1909 in Beaumont, Texas – 6 November 2004 in Houston, Texas) was an American geologist, petroleum engineer, and wildcatter. Credited with discovering more than 50 oil and gas fields, he twice declared bankruptcy ...
, Lebanese American geologist and geophysicist; pioneer in oil field research
* Adah al-Mutairi (Saudi Arabian), inventor and scholar in nanotechnology and nanomedicine
* M. Amin Arnaout
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, Lebanese American nephrologist and biologist
* Essam Heggy, Egyptian American Planetary scientist
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* Shadia Habbal
Shadia Rifa'i Habbal (Arabic: شادية رفاعي حبال) is a Syrian-American astronomer and physicist specialized in Space physics. A professor of Solar physics, her research is centered on Solar wind and Solar eclipse.
Life and education
S ...
, Syrian American astronomer and physicist specialized in Space physics Space physics, also known as solar-terrestrial physics or space-plasma physics, is the study of plasmas as they occur naturally in the Earth's upper atmosphere (aeronomy) and within the Solar System. As such, it encompasses a far-ranging number of ...
*Mohamed Atalla
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, engineer, inventor of MOSFET
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(metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor
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), pioneer in silicon
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semiconductors
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and security systems
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, founder of Atalla Corporation
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* Charles Elachi
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. ''Cedars Network''. Retrieved on February 20, 2008.) is a ...
, Lebanese American professor of electrical engineering and planetary science at Caltech
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and the former director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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Founded in the 1930s by Caltech researchers, JPL is owned by NASA an ...
* Fawwaz T. Ulaby
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Syrian American professor of electrical engineering and computer science, former vice president of research for the University of Michigan
, mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth"
, former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821)
, budget = $10.3 billion (2021)
, endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...
; first Arab American winner of the IEEE Edison Medal
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*Taher ElGamal
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, Egyptian American cryptographer, inventor of the ElGamal discrete log cryptosystem and the ElGamal signature scheme
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The ElGamal signature ...
* Ali H. Nayfeh
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, Palestinian American mechanical engineer, the 2014 recipient of Benjamin Franklin Medal in mechanical engineering
* Dina Katabi
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Academic biography
Katabi received a bachelor's degree from the ...
, Syrian American professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT
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and the director of the MIT Wireless Center.
*Abbas El Gamal
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, Egyptian American electrical engineer, educator and entrepreneur, the recipient of the 2012 Claude E. Shannon Award
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* Oussama Khatib
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, roboticist and a professor of computer science
* Elias Zerhouni
Elias Zerhouni (in Arabic إلياس زرهوني) (born April 12, 1951) is an Algerian-born American scientist, radiologist and biomedical engineer.
He spent much of his career on the faculty of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, ...
, former director of the National Institutes of Health
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(Algerian)
* Hassan Kamel Al-Sabbah
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Biography
He studied at the Ameri ...
, Lebanese American technology innovator. He received 43 patents covering his work. Among the patents were reported innovations in television transmission.
* Mohammad S. Obaidat
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(Jordanian), computer science/engineering academic and scholar
*Charbel Farhat
Charbel Farhat is the Vivian Church Hoff Professor of Aircraft Structures in the School of Engineering and the inaugural James and Anna Marie Spilker Chair of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, at Stanford University. He is also Profe ...
, Vivian Church Hoff Professor of Aircraft Structures; Director of the Army High Performance Computing Research Center; Chair of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University (Lebanese)
*Hany Farid
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, professor of computer science at Dartmouth College
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, pioneer in Digital forensics
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(Egyptian)
* Ahmed Tewfik, Egyptian American electrical engineer, Professor and college administrator
*Munther A. Dahleh
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Dahleh is internatio ...
, professor and director at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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(Palestinian)
*Ismail al-Faruqi
Ismaʻīl Rājī al-Fārūqī ( ar, إسماعيل راجي الفاروقي January 1, 1921 – May 27, 1986) was a Palestinian- American philosopher. He spent several years at Al-Azhar University in Cairo, then taught at several universitie ...
, philosopher, professor (Palestinian)
*Fouad Ajami
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, professor of international relations (Lebanese)
* Saddeka Arebi, professor of anthropology at UC Berkeley
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(Libyan)
*Mohammed Adam El-Sheikh
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Biography
El-Sheikh was born in Sudan.
Education
El-Sheikh graduated from the faculty of Shari'ah and Law of Omdurma ...
, executive director of the Fiqh Council of North America
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(Sudanese)
*Samih Farsoun Samih K. Farsoun, (1937 in Haifa, Palestine – June 9, 2005) was a professor emeritus of sociology at American University, where he taught for thirty years until his retirement in 2003. He graduated from Hamilton College in New York. He received a ...
, sociology professor at the American University (Palestinian)
*Philip Khuri Hitti
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, historian of Arab culture and history (Lebanese)
* Philip S. Khoury, Ford International professor of history and associate provost at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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(Lebanese)
*Laura Nader
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, cultural anthropologist (Lebanese)
*Edward Said
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, Palestinian-Lebanese American literary theorist and former professor at Columbia University
* Ahmed Ismail Samatar, prominent writer, professor and former dean of the Institute for Global Citizenship at Macalester College
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; Somali ancestry
* Nada Shabout
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, art historian and professor of art history at University of North Texas
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(Palestinian-Iraqi)
* Naseer Aruri
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, chancellor professor of political science at University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth (Palestinian)
* Nadia Abu El Haj
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The author of '' Facts on the G ...
, author and professor of anthropology at Barnard College
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and subject of a major tenure controversy case at Columbia University
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(Palestinian)
* Ibrahim Abu-Lughod
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, former director of Graduate Studies at Northwestern University
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Charte ...
, father of Lila Abu-Lughod
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(Palestinian)
* Lila Abu-Lughod
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, professor of anthropology and women's and gender studies at Columbia University (Palestinian)
* Leila Farsakh, professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts, Boston (Palestinian)
* Samih Farsoun Samih K. Farsoun, (1937 in Haifa, Palestine – June 9, 2005) was a professor emeritus of sociology at American University, where he taught for thirty years until his retirement in 2003. He graduated from Hamilton College in New York. He received a ...
, professor of sociology at American University
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and editor of ''Arab Studies Quarterly
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'' (Palestinian)
* Nadia Hijab
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Biography
Hij ...
, Journalist with ''Middle East Magazine'' and Senior Fellow at the Institute for Palestine Studies
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(Palestinian)
* Rashid Khalidi
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, Edward Said
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Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University (Palestinian-Lebanese)
* Joseph Massad
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, professor at Columbia University known for his work on nationalism
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and sexuality in the Arab world (Palestinian)
* Hisham Sharabi Hisham Sharabi ( ar, هشام الشرابي) (1927 Jaffa, Mandatory Palestine – 2005 Beirut, Lebanon) was Professor Emeritus of History and Umar al-Mukhtar Chair of Arab Culture at Georgetown University, where he was a specialist in European inte ...
professor emeritus of history and Umar al-Mukhtar
Omar al-Mukhṭār Muḥammad bin Farḥāṭ al-Manifī ( ar, عُمَر الْمُخْتَار مُحَمَّد بِن فَرْحَات الْمَنِفِي ; 20 August 1858 – 16 September 1931), called The Lion of the Desert, known among ...
Chair of Arab Culture at Georgetown University
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(Palestinian)
* Rosemarie Said Zahlan
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, historian, journalist, and author, sister of Edward Said
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(Palestinian-Lebanese)
* Steven Salaita
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, former professor of English at Virginia Tech
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, winner of Myers Outstanding Book Award for the Study of Human Rights 2007 (Palestinian)
* Majid Khadduri
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, academic and founder of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies
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Middle East Studies
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program (Iraqi)
* Thomas L. Saaty
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, Assyrian-Iraqi University Professor at the University of Pittsburgh
* Ella Shohat
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...
, professor, author and activist (Iraqi-Jewish)
* Saadi Simawe, translator, novelist and teacher (Iraqi)
* Aziz Sancar
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, biochemist and molecular biologist specializing in DNA repair, cell cycle checkpoints, and circadian clock. Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2015 (Turkish)
* Donny George Youkhanna
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, Iraqi archaeologist, anthropologist, author, curator, and scholar, and a visiting professor at Stony Brook University in New York, internationally known as "the man who saved the Iraqi National Museum."
*Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad
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, teaches religion
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, science
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Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence for ...
, and freedom
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at the University of Maryland, College Park
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; directs the Minaret of Freedom Institute
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*Muhsin Mahdi Muḥsin Sayyid Mahdī al-Mashhadani ( ar, محسن مهدي; cited Muhsin S. Mahdi) (June 21, 1926 – July 9, 2007) was an Iraqi-American islamology, Islamologist and Arabist. He was a leading authority on Arabian history, philology, and philosop ...
, Iraqi American Islamologist and Arabist
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Origins
Arabists began in medieval Muslim Spain, which lay on the ...
.
*Talal Asad
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, anthropologist at the CUNY Graduate Center
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. (Saudi Arabian)
*Mitch Daniels
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, president of Purdue University
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(Syrian)
*Donna Shalala
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, president of the University of Miami
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(Lebanese)
* Joseph E. Aoun, president of Northeastern University
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(Lebanese)
*Robert Khayat
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, chancellor of the University of Mississippi
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...
(Lebanese)
*Behnaam Aazhang
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Early life and education
Aazhang was born in Bandar-Anzali ...
, J. S. Abercrombie Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering
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at Rice University
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(Iranian)
*Kamyar Abdi
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, archaeologist, former assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology, Dartmouth College
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(Iranian)
*Alexander Abian
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, mathematician, Iowa State University
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(Iranian-Armenian)
* Mohammad Javad Abdolmohammadi, John E. Rhodes Professor of Accounting at Bentley University
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since 1988. (Iranian)
*Ervand Abrahamian
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, historian of Middle Eastern (particularly Iranian) history at City University of New York
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(Iranian)
*Janet Afary
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C ...
, author, feminist activist, and professor of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara
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. (Iranian)
*Gholam Reza Afkhami
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, senior scholar and director of Social Science Research and International Studies at the Foundation for Iranian Studies
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The director ...
*Shahriar Afshar
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, physicist and inventor who is the namesake of the Afshar experiment
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*Newsha Ajami
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, hydrologist specializing in urban water policy and sustainable water management; professor and director of Urban Water Policy program at Stanford University
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*Abass Alavi
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, professor of radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Neurology at the University of Pennsylvania
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*Leonardo Alishan
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, professor of Persian and Comparative Literature at the University of Utah
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(1978–1997)
*Abbas Alizadeh
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, archeologist of ancient Iran; former senior research associate and director of the Iranian Prehistoric Project at the University of Chicago
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*Abbas Amanat
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, professor of history and international studies at Yale University
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*Hooshang Amirahmadi
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, academic and political analyst. Professor of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University
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*Nahid Angha
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, Sufi
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scholar,. Co-director and co-founder of the International Association of Sufism
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(IAS), founder of the International Sufi Women Organization, and executive editor of the journal ''Sufism: An Inquiry''
*Anousheh Ansari
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, first Iranian in space and the first female space tourist
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During the period from 2001 to 2009, seven space tourists made eight s ...
;
*Nima Arkani-Hamed
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and professor at the Institute for Advanced Study
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in Princeton, New Jersey
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*Abbas Ardehali
Abbas Ardehali is an Iranian- American cardiothoracic surgeon. He is the surgical director of UCLA's Heart, Lung, and Heart-Lung Transplant programs, and was the principal investigator behind technology that allows for the transportation of a breat ...
, surgical director of UCLA
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California St ...
's Heart and Lung Transplant program
*Saïd Amir Arjomand
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, professor of sociology
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at Stony Brook University
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, and director of the Stony Brook Institute of Global Studies. Founding editor of the ''Journal of Persianate Studies
''Journal of Persianate Studies'' is a peer review, peer-reviewed academic journal publishing articles on the culture of a vast geographical area (including Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan, as well as the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Indian subco ...
''
* Yahya Armajani, professor of history and soccer coach at Macalester College
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*Reza Aslan
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, scholar of religious studies, television host, and author of '' No God but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam'' and '' Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth''. Currently a professor of creative writing
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at University of California, Riverside
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. Board member of the National Iranian American Council
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(NAIC)
* Abolhassan Astaneh-Asl, structural engineer and professor at University of California, Berkeley
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; investigated the collapse of the World Trade Center
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* World Trade Center (2001–present), a building complex that includes five skyscrapers, a ...
towers due to the September 11 attacks
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*Fakhreddin Azimi
Fakhreddin Azimi is a professor of history at the University of Connecticut.
Selected publications
*''The Quest for Democracy in Iran: a Century of Struggle against Authoritarian Rule'' (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press
Harvard ...
, professor of history at the University of Connecticut
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*Babak Azizzadeh
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Dr. Azizzadeh is ...
, facial plastic and reconstructive surgeon, Keck School of Medicine of USC
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*Sussan Babaie
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, art historian and curator, specialist in Persian art
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and Islamic art
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of the early modern period.especially the Safavid dynasty
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*Shaul Bakhash
Shaul Bakhash (in fa, شائول بخاش), is an Iranian-American historian in Iranian studies at George Mason University where he is a "Clarence J. Robinson Professor of History."
Bakhash is Jewish and was born in Iran. He is a former Guggen ...
, historian, expert in Iranian studies, George Mason University
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, Clarence J. Robinson Professor of History
*Laleh Bakhtiar
Laleh Mehree Bakhtiar (born Mary Nell Bakhtiar; July 29, 1938 – October 18, 2020) was an Iranian-American Islamic and Sufi scholar, author, translator, and clinical psychologist.
Bakhtiar was the first American woman to translate the Quran i ...
, author and translator of 25 books about Islam, many of which deal with Sufism
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. She is best known for her 2007 translation of the Qur'an
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, known as ''The Sublime Quran'',
*Mehrsa Baradaran
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, law professor specializing in banking law
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at University of Georgia
, mottoeng = "To teach, to serve, and to inquire into the nature of things.""To serve" was later added to the motto without changing the seal; the Latin motto directly translates as "To teach and to inquire into the nature of things."
, establ ...
*Iraj Bashiri
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, professor of history
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at the University of Minnesota
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specialist in the fields of Central Asian
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studies and Iranian studies
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*Asef Bayat
Asef Bayat ( fa, آصف بیات) is an Iranian-American scholar. He is currently the Catherine and Bruce Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies and Professor of Sociology and Middle Eastern studies at University of Illinois at Urban ...
, professor of sociology and Middle Eastern studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
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* Manuel Berberian, earth scientist, specializing in earthquake seismology
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, geophysics
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, archaeoseismology
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, and environmental geoscience
*Mina Bissell
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Early life and educatio ...
, scientist and biologist known for research on breast cancer
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; former head of life science at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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*George Bournoutian
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, historian, professor of history at Iona College
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, and author of over 30 books on the history of Armenia, Iran, and the Caucasus
* Jennifer Tour Chayes, mathematical physicist and theoretical computer scientist, and world renowned leading expert on the modeling & analysis of dynamically growing graphs. Founder, Technical Fellow, & Managing Director of Microsoft Research New England & Microsoft Research New York
*Houchang Chehabi
Houchang Esfandiar Chehabi is a scholar of Iranian studies at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University where he is Professor of International Relations and History.
Chehabi is Iranian-German and was born in Tehran, I ...
, historian, expert in Iranian studies at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies
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, Boston University
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, where he is professor of international relations
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and History
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* Aaron Cohen-Gadol, internationally renowned neurosurgeon
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specializing in surgical treatment of brain tumor
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s and aneurysm
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s
*Hamid Dabashi
Hamid Dabashi ( fa, حمید دباشی; born 1951) is an Iranian-American professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York City.
He is the author of over twenty books. Among them are ''Theology of Disc ...
, professor of Iranian studies
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and comparative literature
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at Columbia University
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in New York City
*Jaleh Daie Jaleh Daie is an American scientist, educator and entrepreneur. She is currently a managing partner at Aurora Equity and seed investor for Band of Angels. Daie was the first woman to serve on the U.S. Space Foundation board of directors and was ind ...
, scientist, former professor of biology
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and department chairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
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and Rutgers University
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*Richard Danielpour
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Early life
Danielpour was born in New York City of Persian Jewish descent and grew up in New York City and West Palm Beach, Florida. He studied at Oberlin College and the New En ...
, professor of composition, Manhattan School of Music
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*Touraj Daryaee
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, Iranologist and historian at the University of California, Irvine
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*Armen Der Kiureghian
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He ...
, professor of civil engineering at University of California, Berkeley
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, member of U.S. National Academy of Engineering, current president of the American University of Armenia
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*Sibel Edmonds
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The FBI hired her as a translator shortly after September 11 attacks ...
, former translator who worked as a contractor for the Federal Bureau of Investigation
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(FBI); founder of the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition The National Security Whistleblowers Coalition (NSWBC), founded in 2004 by former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds in league with over 50 former and current United States government officials from more than a dozen agencies, is an independent, nonpartis ...
(NSWBC)
* Azita Emami, Andrew and Peggy Cherng professor of electrical engineering and medical engineering at Caltech
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; Executive Officer of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Caltech
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*Nader Engheta
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, H. Nedwill Ramsey professor of electrical and systems engineering at the University of Pennsylvania
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. He has made pioneering contributions to the fields of metamaterials
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, transformation
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Science and mathematics
In biology and medicine
* Metamorphosis, the biological process of changing physical form after birth or hatching
* Malignant transformation, the process of cells becoming cancerous
* Trans ...
and plasmonic
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optics, nano-
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and graphene
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* Dara Entekhabi, Bacardi and Stockholm Water Foundations Professor in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering and the Department of Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences at MIT
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. His main expertise is in the field of hydrology
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.
*Haleh Esfandiari
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, Middle East scholar and former director of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
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. She is an expert on contemporary Iranian intellectual currents and politics, as well as women's issues and democratic developments in the Middle East
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. She was one of the four Iranian Americans
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Iranian Americans are among the most highly educated people in the United States. They have historically excelled in busine ...
falsely convicted and detained by the Iranian government in May 2007.
*Kamran Eshraghian
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Personal life
Kamran Eshraghian was born in Tehran on 13 June 1945, in a Baha'i family. On his fathe ...
, electrical engineer, notable for his work on VLSI
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and CMOS
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VLSI
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design
*Fariba Fahroo
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, mathematician, program manager at the Air Force Office of Scientific Research
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. Along with I. M. Ross, she has published papers in pseudospectral optimal control
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theory. The Ross–Fahroo lemma Named after I. Michael Ross and F. Fahroo, the Ross–Fahroo lemma is a fundamental result in optimal control theory.
I. M. Ross and F. Fahroo, A Pseudospectral Transformation of the Covectors of Optimal Control Systems, Proceedings of the First I ...
and the Ross–Fahroo pseudospectral method
Introduced by I. Michael Ross and F. Fahroo, the Ross–Fahroo pseudospectral methods are a broad collection of pseudospectral methods for optimal control.N. Bedrossian, M. Karpenko, and S. Bhatt,
"Overclock My Satellite: Sophisticated Algorit ...
are named after her
* Fereydoon Family, leading physicist in the field of nanotechnology and solid-state physics. He is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Physics at Emory University
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*Allah Verdi Mirza Farman Farmaian
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, professor and head of Biology department at Rutgers University
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* Sattareh Farmanfarmaian, founder and director of the Tehran School of Social Work. Co-founder of the Family Planning Association of Iran, and former vice-president of the International Planned Parenthood Federation
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* Alimorad Farshchian, medical doctor, medical author, and founder and director of The Center of Regenerative Medicine in Miami, Florida
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*Nariman Farvardin
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, president of Stevens Institute of Technology
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, and former provost of University of Maryland
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*Bobak Ferdowsi
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Ferdowsi gained brief medi ...
, systems engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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Founded in the 1930s by Caltech researchers, JPL is owned by NASA an ...
; served on the ''Cassini–Huygens
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'' and Mars Science Laboratory
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''Curiosity
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'' mission.
*Alexander L. George
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(born Alexander L. Givargis), behavioral scientist specialist in the psychological effects of nuclear crisis management, Graham H. Stuart professor emeritus of political science at Stanford University
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* Mohammadreza Ghadiri, chemist
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and professor of chemistry
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at The Scripps Research Institute
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. Awarded the Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology
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in 1998
*Roozbeh Ghaffari
Roozbeh Ghaffari is a biomedical engineer and neuroscientist. He is currently CEO and co-founder of Epicore Biosystems, research associate professor at Northwestern University's Biomedical Engineering Department, and Director of Translational Re ...
, inventor, bioelectronics entrepreneur, biomedical engineering research faculty at Northwestern University
Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. Founded in 1851, Northwestern is the oldest chartered university in Illinois and is ranked among the most prestigious academic institutions in the world.
Charte ...
*Zoubin Ghahramani
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, professor of information engineering at the University of Cambridge
, mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts.
Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge.
, established =
, other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...
*Kambiz GhaneaBassiri
Kambiz GhaneaBassiri is Thomas Lamb Eliot Professor of Religion and Humanities at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. He is the author of ''A History of Islam in America'': ''From the New World to the New World Order'' and ''Competing Visions of Isl ...
, professor of religion at Reed College
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, and author of ''A History of Islam in America'' and ''Competing Visions of Islam in the United States''.
* M.R. Ghanoonparvar, professor emeritus of Persian and comparative literature at the faculty of Middle Eastern studies
Middle Eastern studies (sometimes referred to as Near Eastern studies) is a name given to a number of academic programs associated with the study of the history, culture, politics, economies, and geography of the Middle East, an area that is gene ...
at the University of Texas, Austin
*Morteza Gharib, Hans W. Liepmann Professor of Aeronautics and Bio-Inspired Engineering at Caltech
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.
*Jamshid Gharajedaghi, organizational theorist, management consultant, & adjunct professor of Systems thinking at Villanova University. B
*John Ghazvinian, author, historian and former journalist. Associate Director of the Middle East Center at the University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...
.
*Doreen Granpeesheh, clinical psychologist, and producer of the documentary ''Recovered: Journeys Through the Autism Spectrum and Back''.
*Vartan Gregorian, president of The Carnegie Corporation of New York and former University president, president of Brown University
*Mohammad Hajiaghayi, computer scientist known for his work in algorithms, game theory, network design, and big data. Jack and Rita G. Minker professor at the University of Maryland Dept. of Computer Science.
*Ali Hajimiri, inventor, technologist, and Thomas G. Myers Professor of Electrical Engineering at Caltech
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. Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI)
*Reza Hamzaee, economist and BOG-Distinguished Professor of Economics at Missouri Western State University. Specialist in banking and managerial economics
*Babak Hassibi, electrical engineer, the inaugural Mose and Lillian S. Bohn Professor of Electrical Engineering. Specialist in communications, signal processing and control.
*Payam Heydari, professor of electrical engineering and computer science, University of California, Irvine
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*Shireen Hunter, research professor at the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University
Georgetown University is a private university, private research university in the Georgetown (Washington, D.C.), Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded by Bishop John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore), John Carroll in 1789 as Georg ...
.
*Ahmad Iravani, philosopher, scholar, and clergyman. Professor of theology at the University of California, Davis. Founder, president, and executive director of "Center for the Study of Islam and the Middle East"
*Ali Jadbabaie, systems theorist, network scientist, and the JR East Professor of Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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*Ali Jafari, professor of computer and information technology at Purdue University
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, director of the CyberLab at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)
*Hamid Jafarkhani, leading communication theorist and chancellor's professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California, Irvine
The University of California, Irvine (UCI or UC Irvine) is a public land-grant research university in Irvine, California. One of the ten campuses of the University of California system, UCI offers 87 undergraduate degrees and 129 graduate and pr ...
*Ramin Jahanbegloo, philosopher at University of Toronto
*Farnam Jahanian, computer scientist and the 10th president of Carnegie Mellon University
*Ali Javan, physicist, inventor of gas laser; Professor Emeritus of Physics at MIT
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the mo ...
*Hassan Jawahery, physicist, former spokesman of the BaBar experiment, BaBar Collaboration, and professor of physics at the University of Maryland
*Majd Kamalmaz, psychotherapist who has been illegally detained in Syria since 2017
*Sepandar Kamvar, computer scientist, Stanford University
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*Mehran Kardar, physicist and professor of physics at MIT
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, and co-faculty at the New England Complex Systems Institute
*Morvarid Karimi, neurologist and medical researcher, specialist in neuroimaging of the pathophysiology of movement disorders. She was an assistant professor of Neurology in the Movement Disorders Section at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri
*Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, Iranist, scholar of modern Persian literature, and professor and founding director of the Roshan Center for Persian Studies at the University of Maryland
The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the University System of M ...
*Elham Kazemi, mathematics educator and educational psychologist; Geda and Phil Condit Professor in Math and Science Education in the College of Education of the University of Washington
*Firuz Kazemzadeh, historian of Russian and Iranian history, and professor emeritus of history at Yale University
Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...
.
*Homayoon Kazerooni, roboticist and professor of mechanical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley
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; director of the Berkeley Robotics and Human Engineering Laboratory
*Fatemeh Keshavarz, scholar of Rumi and Farsi language & poetry, and poet in Persian and English; Director & Chair of Roshan Institute for Persian Studies at the University of Maryland. Previously, was a professor of Persian Language and Comparative Literature at Washington University in St. Louis
*Ali Khademhosseini, Levi Knight Endowed Professor at the University of California-Los Angeles. Holds a professorship in bioengineering, radiology, chemical, and biomolecular engineering.
*Laleh Khalili, professor of Middle Eastern Politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. She also writes regularly for Iranian.com
*Farid Khavari, economist, specialist in economics, environment, oil, healthcare, & the Middle East.
*Samira Kiani, health systems engineer at Arizona State University. Her work combines CRISPR technology with synthetic biology. She is a 2019 American Association for the Advancement of Science, AAAS Leshner Fellow.
*Farinaz Koushanfar, professor and Henry Booker Faculty Scholar of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, San Diego
*Habib Levy, historian, specialist in the history of Jews in Iran; author of ''Comprehensive History of the Jews of Iran: The Outset of the Diaspora''.
*Esfandiar Maasoumi, econometrician and economist. He is a distinguished professor at Emory University
Emory University is a private research university in Atlanta, Georgia. Founded in 1836 as "Emory College" by the Methodist Episcopal Church and named in honor of Methodist bishop John Emory, Emory is the second-oldest private institution of ...
and a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society
*Mohammad Jafar Mahjoub, prominent Iranian scholar of Persian literature, essayist, translator, and professor. Moved to the U.S. in 1991 and taught at the University of California, Berkeley
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*Hooman Majd, Hoooman Majd, journalist, author, and commentator
*G. A. Mansoori, professor of chemical engineering at University of Illinois at Chicago
*Alireza Mashaghi, biophysicist and medical scientist at Leiden University and Harvard University
*Bahram Mashhoon, general relativity physicist and professor of physics at the University of Missouri. Through his research works, he has given important contributions to general relativity, particularly to the gravitomagnetic clock effect. He is also active in the field of non-local gravity
*Daron Acemoglu, economist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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*Viken Babikian, professor at Boston University School of Medicine
*Peter Balakian, professor of Humanities at Colgate University
*Paul Boghossian, professor of philosophy at New York University
*Peter Boghossian, professor of philosophy at Portland State University
*Aram Chobanian, dean of Boston University School of Medicine
*Harry Daghlian, academic scientist
*Richard Dekmejian, professor at University of Southern California
*James Der Derian, Watson Institute professor of International Studies and Political Science at Brown University
*Edward Goljan, professor of Pathology at Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences
*Hrach Gregorian, writer and teacher on international conflict management and post-conflict peace building
*Vartan Gregorian, former president of Brown University and current president of the Carnegie Corporation
*Marjorie Housepian Dobkin (1922–2013), professor emerita of English at Barnard College.
*Richard G. Hovannisian, professor of Armenian History at UCLA
*Raffi Indjejikian, professor of accounting at University of Michigan
, mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth"
, former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821)
, budget = $10.3 billion (2021)
, endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...
*Joseph Albert Kechichian, author
*Mark Krikorian, executive director of Center for Immigration Studies
*Robert Mehrabian, president of Carnegie Mellon
*Gevork Minaskanian, professor of organic chemistry at Virginia Commonwealth University
*Josh Pahigian, professor of global humanities at the University of New England (United States), University of New England
*George Piranian, professor of mathematics at the University of Michigan
, mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth"
, former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821)
, budget = $10.3 billion (2021)
, endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...
*Barbara Sahakian, professor of Clinical Neuropsychology at University of Cambridge
, mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts.
Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge.
, established =
, other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...
*Mark Saroyan, professor of Soviet studies at Harvard and UC Berkeley
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*Rashid Massumi, cardiologist and clinical professor, best known for his pioneering research in the field of electrophysiology. He was also known for bringing modern cardiology to Iran, and for being the cardiologist to the last Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran and, until 1980, Ayatollah Khomeini
*Noah Mckay, Noah McKay (born Nasser Talebzadeh Ordoubadi), physician and author of ''Wellness at Warp Speed''
*Robert Mehrabian, material scientist, former president of Carnegie Mellon University, and chair, president, and CEO of Teledyne Technologies
*Houra Merrikh, microbiologist and a full professor at Vanderbilt University
*Abbas Milani, director of Iranian studies
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program at Stanford University
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; research fellow & co-director of the "Iran Democracy Project" at Stanford's Hoover Institution
*Farzaneh Milani, professor of Persian Literature & Women's Studies at the University of Virginia, and the chair of the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages & Cultures.
*Mohsen Milani, foreign policy analyst, and professor of politics at the University of South Florida
*Abbas Mirakhor, economist; former executive director and dean of board of the International Monetary Fund (INF); Distinguished Scholar and chair in Islamic Finance at Malaysia's International Centre for Education in Islamic Finance, INCEIF (International Centre for Education in Islamic Finance)
*Maryam Mirzakhani, Stanford University professor; first female winner of the Fields Medal
*Afshin Molavi, author and expert on global geo-political risk and geo-economics, particularly the Middle East and Asia.
*Jasmin Moghbeli, NASA
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NASA was established in 1958, succeeding t ...
astronaut candidate of the class of 2017
*Mehryar Mohri, professor of computer science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. Specialist in machine learning, automata theory and algorithms, speech recognition and natural language processing
*Parviz Moin, fluid dynamicist, professor of mechanical engineering at Stanford University
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. 2011 inductee to the United States National Academy of Sciences
*Mohsen Mostafavi, architect and educator, Dean (education), dean and Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design
*Farzad Mostashari, internal medicine physician, former national coordinator for health information technology at U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
*Hossein Khan Motamed, surgeon, founder of the Motamed Hospital in Tehran, Iran, and personal physician of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Mohammad Reza Shah.
*Negar Mottahedeh, cultural critic and film theorist
*Roy Mottahedeh, Gurney Professor of History, Emeritus at Harvard University, specialist in pre-modern social and intellectual history of the Islamic Middle East. Former director of Harvard's Center for Middle Eastern Studies (1987–1990), and inaugural director of Harvard's Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program (2005–2011)
*Hamid Mowlana, professor emeritus of international relations and founding director of the Division of International Communication at the School of International Service at American University
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. In 2003, he was honored as a ''"Chehrehaye Mandegar" (Eternal One)'' by Iranian universities and academies.
*Eden Naby, Iranian-Assyrian cultural historian of Central Asia and the Middle East
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, who is notable for her publications, research, and preservation work on Assyrian people, Assyrian culture and history
*Firouz Naderi, former NASA
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NASA was established in 1958, succeeding t ...
director of Mars project. Has also served in other various technical and executive positions at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a federally funded research and development center and NASA field center in the City of La Cañada Flintridge, California, United States.
Founded in the 1930s by Caltech researchers, JPL is owned by NASA an ...
.
*Hamid Naficy, scholar of cultural studies of diaspora, exile, & postcolonial cinemas and media, and of Iranian cinema, Iranian & Middle Eastern cinemas. Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor in Communication at Northwestern University
Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. Founded in 1851, Northwestern is the oldest chartered university in Illinois and is ranked among the most prestigious academic institutions in the world.
Charte ...
.
*Paul M. Naghdi, professor of mechanical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley
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. Specialist in continuum mechanics
*Majid M. Naini (مجید ناینی), Rumi scholar, computer scientist, former professor at University of Pennsylvania
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, writer on poetry, science, technology, and mysticism
*Kayvan Najarian, associate professor of computer science, Virginia Commonwealth University
*Seyyed Hossein Nasr, professor of Islamic studies at George Washington University; prominent Islamic philosopher
*Vali Nasr, author and scholar on the Middle East and Islamic world; Served as Dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington D.C.
*Angella Nazarian (née Angella Maddahi), former professor of psychology at Mount St. Mary's University, California State University, Long Beach & the Los Angeles Valley College. Co-founder of Looking Beyond
*Camran Nezhat, Laparoscopy, laparoscopic surgeon and director of Stanford Endoscopy Center for Training & Technology, Stanford University
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*Kathy Niakan, human developmental and stem cell biologist. In 2016, she became the first scientist in the world to gain regulatory approval to edit the genomes of human embryos for research.
*Reza Olfati-Saber, roboticist and assistant professor of engineering at Dartmouth College
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*Kaveh Pahlavan, professor of computer and electrical engineering, professor of computer science, and director of the Center for Wireless Information Network Studies (CWINS) at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute
*Firouz Partovi, physicist; founder and former chairman of the Faculty of Physics at the Sharif University of Technology. He has also taught at MIT
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and Harvard University.
*Massoud Pedram, computer engineer known for his research in green computing, power optimization (EDA), low power electronics and design, and electronic design automation.
*Gholam A. Peyman, ophthalmologist, retina surgeon, and inventor of LASIK eye surgery
*Nader Pourmand, professor of biomolecular engineering at the Baskin School of Engineering
*Ali R. Rabi, scholar at the Center for International Development and Conflict Management at University of Maryland, College Park
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; founding chair of the Middle Eastern Citizens Assembly; Initiated the International University of Iran in 2001.
*Samuel Rahbar, biomedical scientist, discovered the linkage between HbA1C and diabetes
*Hazhir Rahmandad, engineer and expert in dynamic modeling and system dynamics. Associate Professor in the System Dynamics group at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
*Yahya Rahmat-Samii, professor and the Northrop Grumman Chair in Electromagnetics at Electrical Engineering Department at UCLA
*Behzad Razavi, professor of electrical engineering and director of the Communications Circuit Laboratory at the University of California, Los Angeles. Telecommunication circuit, y
*Manijeh Razeghi, Walter P. Murphy professor and director of the Center for Quantum Devices at Northwestern University
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Charte ...
, pioneer in semiconductors
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and optoelectronic devices.
*Zabihollah Rezaee, accountant, Thompson-Hill Chair of Excellence and professor of accounting at the University of Memphis
*Sakineh (Simin) M. Redjali, psychologist and author. She was the first female professor at the National University of Iran
*Darius Rejali, professor of political science at Reed College
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and scholar specialized in the study of torture. He has served on the board of the ''Human Rights Review'' since 2000.
*Nouriel Roubini, one of the leading economists of our age; professor of economics at the Stern School of Business, New York University; chairman of RGE Monitor
*Pardis Sabeti, world-renowned computational geneticist, assistant professor, Center for Systems Biology and Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
*Ahmad Sadri, sociologist and professor of sociology
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and anthropology at Lake Forest College, and the James P. Gorter Professor of Islamic World Studies since 2007. Active in the Iranian reform movement, reform movement in Iran.
*Mahmoud Sadri, professor of sociology
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at the Federation of North Texas Area Universities. His major interests are in religious, cultural & theoretical sociology, reform Islam and interfaith dialogue.
*Omid Safi, professor of Asian and Middle Eastern studies at Duke University, director of the Duke Islamic Studies Center, and columnist for ''On Being''. Scholar of Islamic mysticism (Sufism
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)
*Mehran Sahami, professor and the associate chair for education in the Computer Science department at Stanford University
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. Robert and Ruth Halperin University Fellow in Undergraduate Education at Stanford.
*Muhammad Sahimi, professor of chemical engineering and materials science and current NIOC chair in petroleum engineering at University of Southern California, USC
*Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, professor of economics at Virginia Tech
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, and visiting fellow at the Middle East Youth Initiative at the Wolfensohn Center for Development at the Brookings Institution. His expertise is on demographic & energy economics and the economics of Iran & the larger Middle East
*David B. Samadi, vice chairman of the Department of Urology and Chief of Robotics and Minimally Invasive Surgery at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
*Eliz Sanasarian, professor of political science at the University of Southern California. Specialist ethnic politics and feminism, particularly regarding the Middle East
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and Iran
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*Kamal Sarabandi, professor of engineering at the University of Michigan
, mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth"
, former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821)
, budget = $10.3 billion (2021)
, endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...
*Homayoun Seraji, senior research scientist at NASA
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NASA was established in 1958, succeeding t ...
's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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Founded in the 1930s by Caltech researchers, JPL is owned by NASA an ...
and Caltech
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, former professor at Sharif University of Technology. Works in the field of robotics and space exploration.
*Cyrus Shahabi, chair of the Computer Science Department, University of Southern California
*Mohammad Shahidehpour, Carl Bodine Distinguished Professor and chairman in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Illinois Institute of Technology
*Ghavam Shahidi, electrical engineer and IBM Fellow, Director of Silicon Technology at IBM's Watson's Laboratory
*Alireza Shapour Shahbazi, lecturer in Achaemenid archeology and Iranology at Harvard University, full professor of history in Eastern Oregon University
*Manuchehr Shahrokhi, professor of Global Business-Finance at California State University; Founding Editor of ''Global Finance Journal''; executive director of Global Finance Association
*Fatemeh Shams, contemporary Persian poet, and assistant professor of Persian literature at the University of Pennsylvania
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*Shahrokh Shariat, urologist; professor & chairman of the Department of Urology of the Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; adjunct professor of urology and medical oncology at Weill Cornell Medical Center & at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
*Nasser Sharify, distinguished professor and dean emeritus of the School of Information and Library Science at Pratt Institute
*Siamack A. Shirazi, scientist, professor and graduate coordinator of the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of Tulsa.
*Hamid Shirvani, architecture scholar, former president of Briar Cliff University, former chancellor of North Dakota University System.
*Rahmat Shoureshi, former president of Portland State University; former president, provost and professor at New York Institute of Technology
*Sam Sofer, scientist who specializes in biological processes and bioreactor design.
*Saba Soomekh, professor of religious studies, women's studies, and Middle Eastern history at UCLA and Loyola Marymount University. Author of books and articles on contemporary and historical Persian Jews, Persian Jewish culture
*Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh, university lecturer at Sciences Po, researcher, and United Nations consultant in peacekeeping, conflict resolution, counter-terrorism and radicalization. Best known for her work in "Human Security"
*Kian Tajbakhsh, social scientist, urban planner, and professor of urban planning at Columbia University
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. One of the four Iranian-Americans falsely convicted and detained by the Iranian government in May 2007
*Ray Takeyh, Middle East scholar and senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations
*Kamran Talattof, Persian literature and Iranian culture; director of Persian Program University of Arizona
*Vahid Tarokh, professor of electrical and computer engineering, Bass Connections Professor, a professor of mathematics (secondary), and computer science (secondary) at Duke University
*Nader Tehrani, designer, Dean of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at Cooper Union, and former professor of architecture and department chair at the MIT School of Architecture and Planning.
*Cumrun Vafa, string theorist and Donner Professor of Science at Harvard University. Recipient of the 2008 Dirac Medal and the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.
*Saba Valadkhan, biomedical scientist, assistant professor and RNA researcher at Case Western Reserve University, recipient of Young Scientist Award in 2005 for the mechanism of spliceosomes
*Roxanne Varzi, associate professor of anthropology and film studies, film and media studies at the University of California, Irvine
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, documentary filmmaker, and writer
*Ehsan Yarshater, founder and editor in chief of ''Encyclopaedia Iranica'', first full-time professor at a U.S. university since World War II; Hagop Kevorkian Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies; director of the Center for Iranian Studies, Columbia University
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;
*Seema Yasmin, director of the Stanford Health Communication Initiative at Stanford University
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*Mohammad Yeganeh, economist, former governor of the Central Bank of Iran (1973–1975), a professor of economics at Columbia University
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(1980–1985)
*Houman Younessi, researcher and educator in informatics, computer science, and molecular biology. Former research professor at the University of Connecticut
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;
*Lotfi A. Zadeh, mathematician, computer scientist, and a professor emeritus of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley
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; father of fuzzy logic and fuzzy sets
*Norm Zada, former adjunct mathematics professor, and founder of Perfect 10 (magazine), ''Perfect 10''; son of Lotfi A. Zadeh
*Reza Zadeh, computer scientist at Stanford University
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*Iraj Zandi, emeritus professor of systems, University of Pennsylvania
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*Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody's Analytics,
*Edip Yüksel, Islamic philosopher and intellectual, considered one of the prime figures in the modern Islamic reform and Quranism movements.
*John Shahidi, software developer and manager, brother of Sam
*Sam Shahidi, software developer and manager, brother of John
*Arif Dirlik
*Daron Acemoglu, economist, of Armenian descent
*Taner Akçam, University of Minnesota
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professor, historian specializing in the Armenian genocide
*İlhan Aksay, professor, Princeton University
*Ciğdem Balım
*Asım Orhan Barut, University of Colorado at Boulder, University of Colorado-Boulder physicist
*Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, associate professor of the practice in statistics at Duke University
*Faruk Gül, professor of economics, Princeton University
*Feza Gürsey, mathematician and physicist
*M. Şükrü Hanioğlu, professor of Near Eastern studies, Princeton University
*Alp Ikizler, nephrologist, holder of the Catherine McLaughlin Hakim Chair in Medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
*Merve Kavakçı, George Washington University professor and former Virtue Party, Fazilet Party Parliament of England, Parliamentarian exiled from Turkey
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for violating the Secularism in Turkey, Public Head Scarf Ban
*Hasan Özbekhan
*Mehmet Toner, cryobiologist, professor of surgery at the Harvard Medical School, and professor of biomedical engineering at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
*Turgay Uzer, Turgay Üzer, Georgia Institute of Technology physicist
*Vamık Volkan, Princeton University professor emeritus of psychiatry
*Nur Yalman, octolingual Harvard University professor of social anthropology and Middle Eastern studies
*Osman Yasar, Osman Yaşar, professor and chair of the computational science department at State University of New York College at Brockport
*K. Aslihan Yener, K. Aslıhan Yener, University of Chicago
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archaeologist who uncovered a new source of Bronze Age Anatolian tin mines
Business
The most famous ones include
*Mohamed Atalla
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, engineer, inventor of MOSFET
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(metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor
The field-effect transistor (FET) is a type of transistor that uses an electric field to control the flow of current in a semiconductor. FETs (JFETs or MOSFETs) are devices with three terminals: ''source'', ''gate'', and ''drain''. FETs contro ...
), most frequently manufactured device in history. Pioneer in silicon
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semiconductors
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and security systems
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, founder of Atalla Corporation
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* Bob Miner, co-founder of Oracle Corporation and the producer of its relational database management system
* Melih Abdulhayoğlu, founder, CEO, and president of Comodo Group
* Joseph Lubin (entrepreneur), Joseph Lubin (entrepreneur), Canadian-American founder of blockchain software technology company ConsenSys, co-founder of Ethereum
* Sina Tamaddon, senior vice president of Application software, applications for Apple Computer
*Sam Gores, founder of talent agency Paradigm Agency; on the ''Forbes'' list of billionaires (LebanesePalestinian)
*Najeeb Halaby, former head of Federal Aviation Administration and CEO of Pan-American Airlines, and father of Queen Noor of Jordan (Lebanese-Syrian father)
*Mario Kassar, formerly headed Carolco Pictures (Lebanese)
*John J. Mack, CEO of investment bank Morgan Stanley (Lebanese parents)
Literature
*Khalil Gibran, writer, poet, and member of the New York Pen League; the third-best-selling poet of all time (Lebanese)
*William Peter Blatty, American writer best known for his 1971 horror novel ''The Exorcist (novel), The Exorcist'' (Lebanese)
*Laila Lalami, Pulitzer Prize-nominated novelist, journalist, essayist, and professor (Moroccan)
*Mikhail Naimy, Nobel Prize-nominated author; member of the New York Pen League; well-known works include ''The Book of Mirdad'' (Lebanese)
*Edward Said
Edward Wadie Said (; , ; 1 November 1935 – 24 September 2003) was a Palestinian-American professor of literature at Columbia University, a public intellectual, and a founder of the academic field of postcolonial studies.Robert Young, ''White ...
, literary theorist, thinker, and the founder of the academic field of postcolonial studies (Palestinian)
*Ameen Rihani, "father of Arab American literature," member of the New York Pen League and author of ''The Book of Khalid,'' the first Arab American novel in English; also an ambassador
*Mona Simpson (novelist), Mona Simpson, author of ''Anywhere but Here (film), Anywhere but Here'' (Syrian father)
*Stephen Adly Guirgis, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright (Egyptian father)
*Elmaz Abinader, poet, playwright, memoirist, writer (Lebanese)
*Diana Abu-Jaber, novelist and professor, author of ''Arabian Jazz'' and ''Crescent'' (Jordanian)
*Elia Abu Madi, poet, publisher and member of the New York Pen League (Lebanese)
*Etel Adnan, poet, essayist, and visual artist (Syrian father)
*Catherine Filloux, French-Algerian-American playwright
*Suheir Hammad, poet, playwright, artist, Tony Award winner, 2003 (Russel Simmons Presents Def Poetry Jam on Broadway)
*Samuel John Hazo, State Poet of Pennsylvania
*Lawrence Joseph, poet
*Lisa Suhair Majaj, poet and literary scholar
*Jack Marshall (author), Jack Marshall, poet and author (Iraqi father/Syrian mother)
*Khaled Mattawa, poet, recipient of an Academy of American Poets award
*Claire Messud, author, Algerian
*Naomi Shihab Nye, poet
*Abraham Rihbany, writer on politics and religion
* Steven Salaita
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, expert on comparative literature and post-colonialism, writer, activist (Palestinian/Jordanian)
* Colet Abedi, young adult novelist and television producer
* Salar Abdoh, novelist and essayist. Current director of the graduate program in Creative Writing, creative writing at the City College of New York.
* Kaveh Akbar, poet and scholar
* Laleh Bakhtiar
Laleh Mehree Bakhtiar (born Mary Nell Bakhtiar; July 29, 1938 – October 18, 2020) was an Iranian-American Islamic and Sufi scholar, author, translator, and clinical psychologist.
Bakhtiar was the first American woman to translate the Quran i ...
, writer and scholar
* Fereydoon Batmanghelidj, writer of books on health and wellness.
* Najmieh Batmanglij, acclaimed chef and cookbook author
* William D. S. Daniel, Iranian-Assyrian author, poet, and musician
* Parvin Darabi, writer and women's rights activist. Best known for book ''Rage Against the Veil''
* Jasmin Darznik, author of ''The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother's Hidden Life'' and ''Song of a Captive Bird''
* Firoozeh Dumas, author of ''Funny in Farsi, Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America''
* FM-2030, author, teacher, Transhumanism, transhumanist philosopher, futurist; author of ''Are You a Transhuman?: Monitoring and Stimulating Your Personal Rate of Growth in a Rapidly Changing World'' (1989)
* Sara Farizan, writer of young adult literature. Best known for novel, ''If You Could Be Mine'' (2013)
* Ezzat Goushegir, fiction writer & playwright
* Roya Hakakian, writer, poet, and journalist
* Hakob Karapents, novelist and short story writer whose works were written in both Armenian language, Armenian and English language, English. Settled in the U.S. in 1947.
* Laleh Khadivi, novelist and documentary filmmaker
* Porochista Khakpour, novelist, essayist, and writer
* Tahereh Mafi, novelist of young adult fiction
* Mahtob Mahmoody, author of autobiographical memoir ''My Name is Mahtob'' and daughter of Betty Mahmoody, the author of ''Not Without My Daughter (book), Not Without My Daughter''
* Faranak Margolese, writer, best known as author of ''Off the Derech''
* Marsha Mehran, novelist, author of international bestsellers ''Pomegranate Soup'' (2005) and ''Rosewater and Soda Bread'' (2008)
* Shokooh Mirzadegi, novelist and poet, who worked for ''Ferdowsi'' magazine and ''Kayhān'' daily in the late 1960s in Iran.
* Azadeh Moaveni, author of ''Lipstick Jihad'' and co-author of ''Iran Awakening'' with Shirin Ebadi, and reporter for Time magazine, ''Time'' magazine on Iran and the Middle East
* Melody Moezzi, writer, attorney, and author of ''Haldol and Hyacinths: A Bipolar Life'' and ''War on Error: Real Stories of American Muslims''.
* Ottessa Moshfegh, writer, author of ''Eileen (novel), Eileen''
* Farnoosh Moshiri, novelist, playwright, and librettist. Professor of creative writing
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and literature at the University of Houston-Downtown
* Dora Levy Mossanen, author of historical fiction
* Azar Nafisi, writer, best known for ''Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books''
* Gina Nahai, author of ''Cry of the Peacock (novel), Cry of the Peacock'', ''Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith'', and ''Caspian Rain''
* Steven Naifeh, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Jackson Pollock and Vincent van Gogh, co-author of 18 other books with Gregory White Smith, businessman, and artist
* Dina Nayeri, novelist, essayist, and short story writer. Author of ''A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea'' and ''Refuge''
* Abdi Nazemian, author and screenwriter. Best known for ''The Walk-In Closet''
* Ghazal Omid, nonfiction political writer, nonfiction children's book writer, speaker, NGO executive
* Shahrnoosh Parsipour, writer
* Susan Atefat Peckham, poet
* Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, memoirist, playwright, and fiction writer
* Dalia Sofer, writer, best known for ''The Septembers of Shiraz''
* Neda Soltani, writer of ''My Stolen Face'' and political exile
* Mahbod Seraji, writer, best known for ''Rooftops of Tehran (novel), Rooftops of Tehran''
* Mahmoud Seraji, a.k.a. "M.S. Shahed," poet best known for his trilogy ''Mazamir Eshgh'' (مزامیر عشق). Father of Mahbod Seraji
* Solmaz Sharif, poet, known for her debut poetry collection, ''Look''. Currently a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University
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* Andrew David Urshan, evangelist and author. Known as the "Persian Evangelist", ks
* Sholeh Wolpe, poet, editor and literary translator
* Walter Abish, novelist, poet, and short story writer
* Herman Wouk, novelist and non-fiction writer
* Anzia Yezierska, novelist
* Ed Lacy, Leonard S. Zinberg (Ed Lacy), novelist
Politics
* Mark Esper, 27th Secretary of Defense (2019–2020) (Lebanese)
* Alex Azar, Secretary of Human Health and Service (2018–2021) (Lebanese)
* William Barr, Attorney General (2019–2021)
* Steven Mnuchin, 77th secretary of Treasury (2017–2021)
*James Abdnor, U.S. Senator (R-South Dakota) (1981–1987)
*John Abizaid, retired general (Lebanese)
*James Abourezk, U.S. Senator (D-South Dakota) (1973–1979) (Lebanese ancestry)
*Spencer Abraham, U.S. Secretary of Energy (2001–2005) and U.S. Senator (R-Mich.) Secretary of Energy under Bush (1995–2001) (Lebanese ancestry)
*Justin Amash, U.S. Representative (R-Michigan) (2011–2021), Palestinian and Syrian descent
*Victor G. Atiyeh, Governor of Oregon (R) (1979–1987) (Syrian)
*John Baldacci, Governor of Maine (D) (2003–2011) (Lebanese mother)
*Rosemary Barkett, U.S. federal judge and the first woman Supreme Court Justice and Chief Justice for the state of Florida (Syrian)
*Charles Boustany, U.S. Representative from Louisiana; cousin of Victoria Reggie Kennedy (Lebanese)
*Pat Danner, U.S. Congresswoman (D-Mo.) (1993–2001)
*Brigitte Gabriel, Israel lobby in the United States, pro-Israel activist and founder of the American Congress For Truth (Lebanese)
*Philip Charles Habib, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs and Special Envoy to Ronald Reagan (Lebanese)
*Lisa Halaby (a.k.a. Queen Noor), Queen-consort of Jordan and wife of King Hussein of Jordan (father is of Syrian descent)
*Darrell Issa, U.S. Congressman (R-California) (2001–) (Lebanese father)
*Joe Jamail, Renown American trial lawyer and billionaire, also known as the "King of Torts" (Lebanese)
*James Jabara, colonel and Korean War flying ace (Lebanese)
*Chris John (politician), Chris John, U.S. Congressman (D-Louisiana) (1997–2005) (Lebanese ancestry)
*George Joulwan, retired general, former NATO commander-in-chief (Lebanese)
*George Kasem, U.S. Congressman (D-California) (1959–1961)
*Abraham Kazen, U.S. Congressman (D-Texas) (1967–1985) (Lebanese ancestry)
*Jill Kelley, global advocate and American socialite (Lebanese)
*Victoria Reggie Kennedy, attorney and widow of late Senator Ted Kennedy (Lebanese)
*Muna Khalif, fashion designer and MP in the Federal Parliament of Somalia (Somali)
*Johnny Khamis, Councilmember from San Jose (Lebanese)
*Ray LaHood, U.S. Congressman (R-Illinois) (1995–2009), U.S. Secretary of Transportation (2009–2013) (Lebanese and Jordanian ancestry)
*Darin LaHood, U.S. Congressman (R-Illinois) (born 2015), son of Ray Lahood
*George J. Mitchell, U.S. Senator (D-Maine) (1980–1995) United States of America special envoy to the Middle East under the Obama administration, U.S. senator from Maine, Senate Majority Leader (Lebanese mother)
*Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, President of Somaila (2017-) former prime minister of Somalia (Somali descent)
*Ollie Mohamed, President pro tempore of the Mississippi State Senate (1992) (Lebanese ancestry)
*Ralph Nader, politician and consumer advocate, author, lecturer, and attorney, candidate for US Presidency
*Jimmy Naifeh, Speaker (politics), Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives (D) (Lebanese ancestry)
*Mary Rose Oakar, U.S. Congresswoman (D-Ohio) (1977–1993)
*Abdisalam Omer, Foreign Minister of Somalia (Somali descent)
*Ilhan Omar, U.S. Congresswoman (D-Minnesota) (born 2019), DFL Party member of the Minnesota House of Representatives (Somali/Yemeni)
*Jeanine Pirro, former Westchester County District Attorney and New York
New York most commonly refers to:
* New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York
* New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States
New York may also refer to:
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* '' ...
Republican attorney general candidate (Lebanese parents)
*Dina Powell, U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategy (2017–2018) (Egyptian)
*Nick Rahall, U.S. Congressman (D-West Virginia) (1977–2015) (Lebanese ancestry)
*Selwa Roosevelt (Lebanese), former Chief of Protocol of the United States and wife of the late Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt, Jr., grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt
* Zainab Salbi, co-founder and president of Women for Women International (Iraqi)
*Donna Shalala
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, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (1993–2001) (Lebanese parents)
*Chris Sununu, Governor of New Hampshire (R) (2017–), son of Governor John H. Sununu
*John E. Sununu, U.S. Senator (R-New Hampshire) (2003–2009) (father is of Lebanese and Palestinian ancestry)
*John H. Sununu, Governor of New Hampshire (R) (1983–1989) and White House Chief of Staff, chief of staff to George H. W. Bush (Lebanese and Palestinian ancestry)
*James Zogby (Lebanese), founder and president of the Arab American Institute
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*Hady Amr, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Israeli-Palestinian Affairs and Press and Public Diplomacy (2021-), founding director of Brookings Doha Center (Lebanese father)
* Parry Aftab, Internet privacy and security lawyer, considered one of the founders of IT law, cyberlaw. Founder of the cybersafety organizations WiredSafety, StopCyberbullying and the consulting firm, WiredTrust
* Roozbeh Aliabadi, advisor and commentator on geopolitical risk and geoeconomics. Current partner at global affair practice at GGA in New York City
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, former Senior Advisor to the Department of Strategic Initiatives, Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Iran
* Mahnaz Afkhami, women's rights activist who served in the Cabinet of Iran from 1976 to 1978; executive director of the Washington-based Foundation for Iranian Studies
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The director ...
, and the founder and president of the Women's Learning Partnership (WLP)
* Goli Ameri, former Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Values and Diplomacy for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs, former U.S. public delegate to the United Nations General Assembly, and former Republican candidate for the United States House of Representatives from the 1st district of Oregon.
* Cyrus Amir-Mokri, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Institutions at the U.S. Treasury Department
* Jamshid Amouzegar, economist and politician who served as Prime Minister of Iran (1977–1978). Immigrated to U.S. in 1978
* Hushang Ansary, former Iranian Ministry of Economic Affairs and Finance (Iran), Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance, former Iranian ambassador to the United States, Ambassador of Iran to the United States (1967–1969) and chairman of National Finance Committee of George W. Bush presidential campaign, 2004, Bush-Cheney 2004 campaign.
* Gholam Reza Azhari, military leader and Prime Minister of Iran
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(1978–1979). Immigrated to the U.S. in 1979
* Pantea Beigi, human rights advocate, known for her media appearances commenting on the human rights conditions in Iran in the wake of the 2009 Iranian presidential election protests. She has served as an AmeriCorps member for the PeaceJam foundation, notably working with Dr. Shirin Ebadi in her efforts to address social and economic injustices of the youth in Iran
* Michael Benjamin Bonheur, Michael Benjamin, 1996 Republican Party (United States), Republican candidate for the United States House of Representatives, U.S. House from the New York's 8th congressional district, 8th district of New York, and 2004 United States Senate Republican Primary candidate from New York
New York most commonly refers to:
* New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York
* New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States
New York may also refer to:
Film and television
* '' ...
* Makan Delrahim, United States Assistant Attorney General for the United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division under the Trump Administration
* Jimmy Delshad, former mayor of Beverly Hills, California (2007–2008, 2010–2011), first Iranian-born mayor of an American city
* Eugene Dooman, counselor at the United States Embassy in Tokyo during the period of critical negotiations between the U.S. and Japan before World War II
* Abdullah Entezam, Iranian diplomat, Iranian ambassador to France (1927) and to West Germany, secretary of the Iranian embassy in the United States. Father of Hume Horan
* Anna Eshoo, United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative of California's 18th congressional district
* Anna Eskamani, member of the Florida House of Representatives.
* Abbas Farzanegan, former governor of the state of Esfahan, communications minister and diplomat during Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's reign. Key figure in facilitation of the 1953 Iranian coup d'état. Immigrated to the U.S. in 1975
* Shireen Ghorbani, at-large member of the Salt Lake County Council, representing 1.1 million residents
* Rostam Giv, 3rd representative of Iranian Zoroastrians in Iranian parliament, senator of the Iranian Senate, and philanthropist to the Zoroastrian community in Iran, then United States, and the world. Immigrated to the U.S. in 1978.
* Ferial Govashiri, served as the Secretary to the President of the United States, personal secretary to U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House (2014–2017). Currently is the chief of staff to the chief content officer of Netflix
* Hrach Gregorian, political consultant, educator, and writer. His work has taken him internationally as a consultant on international conflict management, and post-conflict peacebuilding
* Cyrus Habib, 16th Lieutenant Governor of Washington, and president of the Washington State Senate. First and so far only Iranian-American elected to state office
* Kamal Habibollahi, last commander of the History of the Iranian Navy#Pahlavi era, Imperian Iranian Navy until the Iranian Revolution and the last CNO commander of the Pahlavi dynasty. Also held several minister positions under the military government of Gholam Reza Azhari in 1978. Immigrated to the U.S. after the Iranian Revolution
* Shamsi Hekmat, women's rights activist who pioneered reforms in women's status in Iran. Founded the first Iranian Jewish women's organization (''Sazman Banovan Yahud i Iran'') in 1947. After her migration to the U.S., she established the ''Iranian Jewish Women's Organization of Southern California'' s.
* Shahram Homayoun, political dissident of the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and owner of "Channel One," a Persian language, Persian satellite TV station based in Los Angeles
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that broadcasts into Iran daily
* Hume Horan, diplomat and former U.S. ambassador to Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, and the Ivory Coast. Son of Abdullah Entezam
* Fereydoon Hoveyda, former Iranian ambassador to the United Nations (1971–1979). Since his exile to the U.S., senior fellow and member of the executive committee of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy (NCAFP)
* Shaban Jafari, Iranian political figure, practitioner of Pahlevani and zoorkhaneh rituals. Key figure in the facilitation of the 1953 Iranian coup d'état. Exiled to the United States soon after the 1979 revolution
* Anna Kaplan (née Anna Monahemi), first Iranian-American elected to New York State Senate
* Zahra Karinshak, attorney and politician.
* Mehdi Khalaji, political analyst, writer, and scholar of Shia Islamic studies. Senior research fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a Washington D.C., D.C.-based foreign policy think tank. He has frequently contributed to journalistic outlets such as BBC, ''The Guardian'', ''The Washington Post'', and ''The New York Times''
* Alan Khazei, social entrepreneur; founder and CEO of "Be The Change, Inc", dedicated to building coalitions among non-profit organizations and citizen . Co-founder and former CEO of City Year, an AmeriCorps national service program
* Bijan Kian, businessman, member of the board of directors of the Export–Import Bank of the United States, partner of Michael Flynn in the Flynn Intel Group, and worked with the Presidential transition of Donald Trump, Trump administration transition team in regards to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence
* Paul Larudee, political activist and a major figure in the pro-State of Palestine, Palestinian movement. He is involved in the International Solidarity Movement and the founder of the Free Gaza Movement and the Free Palestine Movement
* Ahmad Madani, former commander of the History of the Iranian Navy, Imperial Iranian Navy (1979), governor of the Khuzestan province, and candidate of the 1980 Iranian presidential election, first Iranian presidential election. After his exile to the United States in 1980, he was the chairman of the National Front (Iran), National Front outside of Iran.
* Cyrus Mehri, attorney and partner at Mehri & Skalet. Best known for helping establish the National Football League's (NFL) Rooney Rule
* Mariam Memarsadeghi, democracy and human rights advocate
* Ross Mirkarimi, former member of San Francisco, California, San Francisco City Council and former San Francisco, California, San Francisco Sheriff. Co-founder of the Green Party of California
* Mohammad Hassan Mirza II, last Crown Prince of Iran
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from the rule of the Qajar dynasty & heir apparent to the Qajar Sun Throne. Currently lives in Dallas, Texas.
* Shayan Modarres, civil right activist known for his representation of the family of Trayvon Martin, and a 2014 Democratic Party (United States), Democratic primary candidate for the United States House of Representatives, U.S. House from the Florida's 10th congressional district, 10th district of Florida
* Esha Momeni, women's rights activist and a member of the One Million Signatures campaign
* David Nahai, environmental attorney, political activist, former head of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power
* Adrin Nazarian, Member of the California State Assembly from the 46th district. First Iranian-American elected to the California State Legislature
* John J. Nimrod, minority rights activist and Illinois state senator of District 4 (1973–1983) of Iranian-Assyrian descent; notable for his promotion of Assyrian people, Assyrian causes and for the rights of other under-represented minority groups throughout the world, such as Uyghurs and Tibetan people, Tibetans
* Alex Nowrasteh, immigration policy analyst currently at the Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity at the Cato Institute, and previously at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. He is a national expert on immigration policy
* Vali Nasr, Shia scholar and poetical scientist. Senior Fellow in foreign policy at the Brookings Institution
* Abdul Reza Pahlavi, Prince Abdul Reza Pahlavi, son of Reza Shah and half-brother of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Immigrated to the U.S. with other relatives immediately prior to the Iranian revolution, Islamic revolution of 1979
* Ali Reza Pahlavi (born 1966), Prince Ali-Reza Pahlavi, younger son of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Farah Pahlavi. He was second in the order of succession to the Iranian throne prior to the Iranian revolution.
* Ashraf Pahlavi, Princess Ashraf Pahlavi, twin sister of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Considered to be the "power behind her brother" and instrumental in the 1953 Iranian coup d'état, 1953 coup d'état which led him taking the throne. Served her brother as a Palace advisor and a strong advocate for women's rights.
* Farah Pahlavi, widow of Mohammad Reza Shah and former ''shahbanu'' (empress) of Iran
* Farahnaz Pahlavi, Princess Farahnaz Pahlavi, eldest daughter of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Farah Pahlavi. Currently resides in New York City
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* Reza Pahlavi, Crown Prince of Iran, last heir apparent of the Pahlavi Dynasty, Imperial State of Iran and current head of the exiled Pahlavi Dynasty, House of Pahlavi. Oldest son of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Farah Pahlavi. Founder and former leader of the National Council of Iran. Currently resides in Bethesda, Maryland.
* Shams Pahlavi, elder sister of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Former president of the Red Lion and Sun Society. Exiled to the United States after the 1979 revolution
* Yasmine Pahlavi, lawyer and wife of Reza Pahlavi, Crown Prince of Iran. Co-founder and former director of the Foundation for the Children of Iran. Currently resides in Bethesda, Maryland
* Mehrdad Pahlbod, Iranian royal and first culture minister of Iran (1964–1968). He was the second husband of Princess Shams Pahlavi. Immigrated to the U.S. and resided in Los Angeles
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after the 1979 revolution
* Trita Parsi, founder and current president of the National Iranian American Council
The National Iranian American Council (NIAC; fa, شورای ملی ایرانیان آمریکا) is a NGO based in Washington, D.C. The NIAC Action, the sister organization of NIAC, was formed in 2015 to build political power for Iranian American ...
. He regularly writes articles and appears on TV to comment on foreign policy
* Noraladin Pirmoazzen, Iranian politician who served as a member of the Iranian legislative election, 2000, 6th and Iranian legislative election, 2004, 7th Islamic Consultative Assembly from the electorate of Ardabil, Nir County, Nir, Namin County, Namin and Sareyn. Immigrated to the U.S. in 2008.
* Azita Raji, former United States Ambassador to Sweden appointed by Barack Obama
* Farajollah Rasaei, Islamic Republic of Iran Navy, Commander of the Imperial Iranian Navy (1961–1972), the most Senior Naval Commander of the Iranian Navy. Exiled to the U.S. after the 1979 revolution
* Parviz Sabeti, former SAVAK deputy under the regime of Mohammad Reza Shah. One of the most powerful men in the last two decades of the Pahlavi dynasty, Pahlavi regime. Exiled to the U.S. in 1979.
* Ahsha Safaí, elected member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors representing Supervisorial District 11
* David Safavian, disgraced former chief of staff of the United States General Services Administration
* Karim Sanjabi, Iranian politician of the National Front of Iran. Settled in the U.S. after the 1979 revolution
* Hajj Sayyah, famous world traveler and political activist. He is the first Iranian to obtain an American citizenship. Played a major role in the Constitutional Revolution of 1906 in Persia.
* Mohsen Sazegara, pro-democracy political activist and journalist. He held several offices in the government of Mir-Hossein Mousavi. His reformist policies clashed with the Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, eventually resulting in his arrest and later exile. He currently resides in the U.S.
* Farhad Sepahbody, former ambassador of Iran to Morocco (1976–1979). Exiled to the U.S. after the Iranian Revolution
* Soraya Serajeddini, Iranian-Kurdish human rights activist. Former executive vice president of the ''Kurdish National Congress of North America''.
* Mehdi Shahbazi, political activist and businessman. He was known for protest against major oil companies at the grounds of his Shell Oil Company, Shell Oil gas station franchises
* Azadeh N. Shahshahani, human rights attorney
* Ali Shakeri, activist and businessman. Serves on the Community Advisory Board of the Center for Citizen Peacebuilding at the University of California, Irvine
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, and is the founder and active member of United Republicans of Iran, Ettehade Jomhourikhahan-e Iran (EJI), which advocates for a democracy, democratic and secularism, secular republic in Iran. He was one of the four Iranian-Americans detained by the Iranian government in May 2007.
* Jafar Sharif-Emami, former prime minister of Iran (1960–1961, 1978–1979), former president of the Iranian Senate (1964–1978), and former List of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Iran, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran (1960). Exiled to the U.S. in the wake of the Iranian Revolution
* Faryar Shirzad, former Deputy National Security Advisor and White House Deputy Assistant for International Economic Affairs to President George W. Bush
* Yasmine Taeb, human rights attorney and Democratic National Committee official. She is a senior policy counsel at the Center for Victims of Torture
* Ramin Toloui, Assistant Secretary for International Finance, United States Department of the Treasury
* Bob Yousefian, former mayor of Glendale, California
* Steven Derounian, Republican, New York
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* New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York
* New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States
New York may also refer to:
Film and television
* '' ...
(1953–1965)
* Adam Benjamin, Jr., Democrat, Indiana (1977–1982)
* Chip Pashayan, Republican, California
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(1979–1991)
* Anna Eshoo, Democrat, California (1993–2013)
* John E. Sweeney, Republican, New York (1999–2007)
* Jackie Speier, Democrat, California (2008–)
* Anthony Brindisi, Democrat, New York (2019–2021)
*Robert Mardian, United States Assistant Attorney General (1970–1972)
*George Deukmejian, Republican, California (1983–1991)
*George Deukmejian, California Attorney General (1979–1983)
*Julia Tashjian, Secretary of the State of Connecticut (1983–1991)
*Dickran Tevrizian, United States District Court for the Central District of California (1985–2005)
* Marvin R. Baxter, associate justice of the Supreme Court of California (1991–2015)
* Brad Avakian, commissioner of the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries (2008–2019)
*Rachel Kaprielian, Massachusetts Registrar of Motor Vehicles (2008–2014); Massachusetts Secretary of Labor and Worforce Development
* George Deukmejian, 35th governor of California, 27th attorney general of California, member of the California State Senate (1967–1979) and State Assembly (1963–1967)
* Joe Simitian, member of the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors (2013-)
See also
* Middle East
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* Greater Middle East
* Anti-Middle Eastern sentiment
References
Further reading
*Maghbouleh, Neda (2017)
''The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race''
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
{{Middle Eastern American
American people of Middle Eastern descent
Middle Eastern American
Middle Eastern people
Middle Eastern diaspora
Ethnic groups in the United States