List of arabophones

This list consists of the internationally well-known personalities that speak Arabic out of the more than 300 million Arabic-speakers worldwide.[1]

Turkey

Ahmet Davutoglu, former Prime Minister of Turkey from 2014 to 2016.

Afghanistan

Burhanuddin Rabbani, former President of Afghanistan
Younis Qanooni[2]

Australia

Jacques Nasser, former CEO of Ford Motor Company

France

Arnaud Montebourg, politician, former Minister of the Economy, and Socialist Party candidate for the presidential nomination
Myriam El Khomri, former Minister of Labor from 2015 to 2017

Russia

Vitaly Naumkin, Director of the Center for Arab Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences.[3]

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 the Council on American-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, Research Scholar at Said Business School, Oxford University and author of The Black Swan
DJ Khaled, rapper, music producer, and social media personality[4]
Ralph Nader, independent politician and activist, helped overhaul automobile safety laws[4]

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References

"Arabic – Ethnologue". Ethnologue. Simons, Gary F. and Charles D. Fennig (eds.). 2018. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 21st edition. Archived from the original on 5 January 2016. Retrieved 21 February 2018.
Sehgal, Ikram. "The Three Tajiketeers". The Nation. Archived from the original on 2011-06-09. Retrieved 2010-10-15.
"PROF. VITALY NAUMKIN (RUSSIAN FEDERATION)". United Nations Alliance of Civilization. 2011. Archived from the original on 2011-01-05. Retrieved 2010-10-20.
"Bet You Didn't Know These Celebs Were Arab!". albawaba. 17 April 2012. Retrieved 17 February 2019.

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[e21-1] "Arabic – Ethnologue". Ethnologue. Simons, Gary F. and Charles D. Fennig (eds.). 2018. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 21st edition. Archived from the original on 5 January 2016. Retrieved 21 February 2018.

[2] Sehgal, Ikram. "The Three Tajiketeers". The Nation. Archived from the original on 2011-06-09. Retrieved 2010-10-15.

[3] "PROF. VITALY NAUMKIN (RUSSIAN FEDERATION)". United Nations Alliance of Civilization. 2011. Archived from the original on 2011-01-05. Retrieved 2010-10-20.

[ABW-4] "Bet You Didn't Know These Celebs Were Arab!". albawaba. 17 April 2012. Retrieved 17 February 2019.