Sara Akbar
Kuwaiti chemical petroleum engineer, and women’s rights campaigner who is considered a national hero for her role coordinating the firefighting to extinguish the 700 oilwell fires started by the Iraqi regime (1991).
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Ikram Antaki
Syrian-Mexican essayist, fiction writer, and poet
Hana Assafiri
Hana Assafiri is a compassionate and unspoken hero within the Victorian community.
Bushra Rehman
Pakistani-American novelist
Maysoon Zayid
Palestinian-American comedian with cerebral palsy
A D Lauren-Abunassar
A.D. Lauren-Abunassar is a Palestinian-American poet, writer and journalist. Her first book, Coriolis, was winner of the 2023 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize.
Amanda Ajamfar
Amanda Ajamfar is a fiction writer based in New York.
Yassamin Ansari
US Representative from Arizona
Donna Shalala
US Representative from Florida
Debbie Mucarsel-Powell
US Representative from Florida