EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Location:
Cairo, Egypt

Founding Date:
21-Dec-1908

Official Website:
http://www.cu.edu.eg/

STUDENTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Yasser Arafat	Politician	24-Aug-1929	10-Nov-2004	Palestinian leader, former terrorist
Mohammed Atta	Terrorist	1-Sep-1968	11-Sep-2001	Mastermind behind the 9-11 attacks
Mohamed El Baradei	Government	17-Jun-1942		UN International Atomic Energy Agency
Boutros Boutros-Ghali	Government	14-Nov-1922	16-Feb-2016	Secretary General of the UN, 1992-96
Taher Elgamal	Computer Programmer	18-Aug-1955		Inventor of the Elgamal crypto algorithm
Reuel Marc Gerecht	Government	?		PNAC Middle East Initiative
Samir G. Gibara	Business	23-Apr-1939		CEO of Goodyear, 1996-2002
Saddam Hussein	Head of State	28-Apr-1937	30-Dec-2006	President of Iraq, 1979-2003
Naguib Mahfouz	Author	11-Dec-1911	30-Aug-2006	The Cairo Trilogy
Adel A. Mahmoud	Doctor	c. 1942		Molecular Biology Professor at Princeton
Mohamed Morsi	Head of State	20-Aug-1951		President of Egypt, 2012-13
Amr Mussa	Government	3-Oct-1936		Secretary General of the Arab League
Omar Sharif	Actor	10-Apr-1932	10-Jul-2015	Doctor Zhivago
Nicholas J. Spykman	Geographer	13-Oct-1893	26-Jun-1943	Godfather of Containment
Ahmed Zaki Yamani	Government	30-Jun-1930		Former Saudi Minister of Oil
Ayman al-Zawahiri	Terrorist	19-Jun-1951		Founder, Islamic Jihad

TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Boutros Boutros-Ghali	Government	14-Nov-1922	16-Feb-2016	Secretary General of the UN, 1992-96
John H. Gaddum	Scientist	31-Mar-1900	30-Jun-1965	Drug antagonism

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