Notable CASA and Arabic Studies Alumni
BEN WEDEMAN (YAB ’81)
Senior International Correspondent, CNN
LAWRENCE WRIGHT (MA ’71)
Screenwriter; Playwright; Staff Writer, The New Yorker; Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author
DAVID BONDERMAN (CASA '69)
Businessman; Philanthropist; Chairman and Founding Partner, TPG
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
COLETTE GHUNIM (YAB ’13)
Documentary Filmmaker; Digital Media Associate, Skill Scout
Stephen Kalin (CASA '12)
Journalist; Iraq Correspondent, Reuters
Todd Mostak (CASA '10)
CEO and Founder, MapD
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 (CASA '11)
Associate Chair, Department of World Languages and Literature
Associate Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature, Boston University
NICHOLAS KRISTOF (ALU ’84)
Op-Ed Columnist, The New York Times; Best-Selling Author
Two-Time Pulitzer Prize Winner
JOHN O. BRENNAN (SAB ’75)
Director, Central Intelligence Agency (2013 - 2017)
JUAN COLE (MA ’78)
Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History, University of Michigan
Award-Winning Blogger
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.
Anthony Shadid (CASA '92)
Foreign correspondent for The New York Times and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner
*Photo credit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Shadid
ALU: Arabic Language Unit
SAB: Semester Abroad
YAB: Year Abroad
