# Notable Alumni

**Source**: https://www.aucegypt.edu/academics/casa/notable-alumni
**Parent**: https://www.aucegypt.edu/academics/CASA

## CASA and Arabic Studies Alumni

### BEN WEDEMAN (YAB ’81)

Senior International Correspondent, CNN

### LAWRENCE WRIGHT (MA ’71)

Screenwriter; Playwright; Staff Writer, The New Yorker; Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author

### DAVID BONDERMAN (CASA '69)

Businessman; Philanthropist; Chairman and Founding Partner, TPG

### THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN (ALU ’74)

Op-Ed Columnist, The New York Times; Best-Selling Author

Three-Time Pulitzer Prize Winner

### YURIKO KOIKE (ALU ’71)

First Female Governor of Tokyo

Former Minister of Defense and Former Minister of the Environment, Japan.

### COLETTE GHUNIM (YAB ’13)

Documentary Filmmaker; Digital Media Associate, Skill Scout

### STEPHEN KALIN (CASA '12)

Journalist; Iraq Correspondent, Reuters

### TODD MOSTAK (CASA '10)

CEO and Founder, MapD

### EVELYN A. EARLY (CASA '71)

Policy and Development Consultant

Former Counselor for Press and Cultural Affairs U.S. Embassy in Rabat; Former Senior State Department Adviser, Air University.

### MARGARET LITVIN (CASA '11)

Associate Chair, Department of World Languages and Literature

Associate Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature, Boston University

### NICHOLAS KRISTOF (ALU ’84)

Op-Ed Columnist, The New York Times; Best-Selling Author

Two-Time Pulitzer Prize Winner.

### JOHN O. BRENNAN (SAB ’75)

Director, Central Intelligence Agency (2013 - 2017)

### JUAN COLE (MA ’78)

Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History, University of Michigan

Award-Winning Blogger.

### EDWARD “SKIP” GNEHM, JR. (YAB ’67)

Former U.S. Ambassador; Kuwait Professor of Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Affairs

Director of the Middle East Policy Forum, Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University.

### ANTHONY SHADID (CASA '92)

Foreign correspondent for The New York Times and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner

*\*Photo credit:*[*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony\_Shadid*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Shadid)

**ALU:**Arabic Language Unit

**SAB:** Semester Abroad

**YAB:**Year Abroad