Notable CASA and Arabic Studies Alumni

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BEN WEDEMAN (YAB ’81)

Senior International Correspondent, CNN
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LAWRENCE WRIGHT (MA ’71)

Screenwriter; Playwright; Staff Writer, The New Yorker; Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author
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DAVID BONDERMAN (CASA '69)

Businessman; Philanthropist; Chairman and Founding Partner, TPG
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THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN (ALU ’74)

Op-Ed Columnist, The New York Times; Best-Selling Author

Three-Time Pulitzer Prize Winner

YURIKO KOIKE (ALU ’71)

First Female Governor of Tokyo

Former Minister of Defense and Former Minister of the Environment, Japan

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COLETTE GHUNIM (YAB ’13)

Documentary Filmmaker; Digital Media Associate, Skill Scout
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Stephen Kalin (CASA '12)

Journalist; Iraq Correspondent, Reuters
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Todd Mostak (CASA '10)

CEO and Founder, MapD
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Evelyn A. Early (CASA '71)

Policy and Development Consultant

Former Counselor for Press and Cultural Affairs U.S. Embassy in Rabat; Former Senior State Department Adviser, Air University

Margaret Litvin

Margaret Litvin (CASA '11)

Associate Chair, Department of World Languages and Literature

Associate Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature, Boston University

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NICHOLAS KRISTOF (ALU ’84)

Op-Ed Columnist, The New York Times; Best-Selling Author

Two-Time Pulitzer Prize Winner

JOHN O. BRENNAN

JOHN O. BRENNAN (SAB ’75)

Director, Central Intelligence Agency (2013 - 2017)
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JUAN COLE (MA ’78)

Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History, University of Michigan

Award-Winning Blogger

EDWARD GNEHM

EDWARD “SKIP” GNEHM, JR. (YAB ’67)

Former U.S. Ambassador; Kuwait Professor of Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Affairs

Director of the Middle East Policy Forum, Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University.

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Anthony Shadid (CASA '92)

Foreign correspondent for The New York Times and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner

 

ALU: Arabic Language Unit 

SAB: Semester Abroad

YAB: Year Abroad