There are many people who speak Arabic among the political, business, media and academic elites in the international sphere. And they are:
Afghanistan
Afghanistan
- Mohammed Fahim, an Afghan warlord
- Habib Hakimi, journalist & political analyst
- Mohammed Omar, the leader of Taliban.
- Younis Qanooni
- Burhanuddin Rabbani, former president of Afghanistan.
Australia
- Jacques Nasser, Ford Motor Company, former CEO
France
- Hakim Karoui, Co-founder of Young Mediterranean Leaders.
- Alain Gresh, journalist
- Gilles Kepel, French scholar and analyst of the Islamic and the Arab world
Iran
- Amir Moussawi, Iranain affairs expert
- Hussein Royoran, Political analyst
- Mohamed Saleh Sidiqyan, Director of Arab Center for Iranian Studies
Israel
- Meir Cohen, Former Spokesperson for the Israeli Embassy in Cairo, Egypt
- Shlomo Ghannur; Journalist & Political Analyst
- Isaac Levanon, Diplomat (Former Ambassador of Israel to Egypt)
- Danny Rubinstein, Journalist
Russia
- Vatislav Matozov, Ex-diplomat
- Vitaly Naumkin, Director of the Center for Arab Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences.
- Lina Soponina, Head of the Arabic Department in Anbaa Moscow
Turkey
- Muhammed Zahid Gül , Political analyst
United Kingdom
- Lesley Maclaughlin, Journalist
United States
- Faisal Abdul Rauf, Imam
- As'ad AbuKhalil, Professor of political science at California State University, Stanislaus
- Fouad Ajami: Professor of Middle Eastern studies
- Nihad Awad: the Executive Director of CAIR (Council on Ameican-Islamic Relations)
- Rima Fakih: Miss USA 2010
- Fawaz Gerges, Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science
- Hala Gorani: CNN presenter
- Octavia Nasr: a Mideast affairs expert and former CNN editor of Mideast affairs
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Professor of Risk Engineering at Polytechnic Institute of New York University, and Research Scholar, Said Business School, Oxford University and author of The Black Swan
- David Pollock, Senior fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
- Jennifer Rasamimanana, US diplomat at the American Consulate in Dubai
- Khaled Saffuri: A researcher in Meridien Foundation for Political and Strategic Studies
- Ben Wedeman: CNN's Senior International Correspondent based in Cairo, Egypt