List of Arabophone Elite Worldwide

There are many people who speak Arabic among the political, business, media and academic elites in the international sphere. And they are:

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