# Distinguished Alumni

**Source**: https://www.aucegypt.edu/academics/arabic-language-instruction/distinguished-alumni
**Parent**: https://www.aucegypt.edu/academics/arabic-language-instruction

### Kristen Brustad

Associate Professor of Arabic Studies in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies- University of Texas at Austin

### Navdeep Suri

Former Ambassador of India in Egypt

### Takehiro Kagawa

Ambassador of Japan in Egypt

### Elliot Colla

Associate professor in the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University

### Lawrence Wright

Staff writer, The New Yorker. Author and Pulitzer prize winner

### William Granara

Director of the Arabic language program at Harvard University

### Thomas Friedman

OP-ED Columnist, The New York Times, Author and Pulitzer Prize Winner

### Michael Cooperson

Professor of Arabic at UCLA

### Margaret Larkin

Professor of Arabic Literature-Columbia University

### Neil Macfarquhar

UN bureau chief of the New York Times

### Dwight Reynolds

Professor of Arabic Language and Literature in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California in Santa Barbara

### John Swanson

Joint Professor of Egyptology and History, AUC

### Ann Lesch

Former Associate provost for international programs. Professor Emerita, Department of Political Science

### Stephen Kalin

Journalist, Iraq correspondent, Reuters

### Edward Walker

US Ambassador

### Lisa Anderson

Former president of AUC

### Yuriko Koike

Governor of Tokyo

### Ben Wedeman

Senior International Correspondent, CNN

### Vickie Langohr

Associate Professor, Political Science Department, Columbia University

### Nicholas Kristof

Op-Ed Columnist, The New York Times; Best-Selling Author, Two-Time Pulitzer Prize Winner