List of Iraqi Americans
Encyclopedia
This is a list of notable Iraqi American
s, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.
Dr. Sam Kubba, architect, author, interior designer, LEED AP
Iraqi American
Iraqi Americans are Americans of Iraqi descent, including those who are expatriates in exile or permanent immigrants. The number of Iraqi Americans is around 140,000 according to the Arab American Institute....
s, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.
Academia/Science
- Rafil A. DhafirRafil A. DhafirDr. Rafil A. Dhafir is an American Iraqi-born physician, who was sentenced on October 28, 2005, to 22 years in prison for violating the Iraqi sanctions by sending money to Iraq through his charity front Help the Needy, and for fraud, money laundering, tax evasion, and a variety of other nonviolent...
, physician - Elias AlsabtiElias AlsabtiElias Alsabti was an Iraqi medical researcher who was exposed for scientific fraud.Alsabti built a career as an impostor. In Iraq, the medical student managed to get a reputation as a cancer researcher. He reworked articles from lesser known scientific journals into entries that he submitted for...
, medical researcher and writer - Amid I. Ismail, Dean and Professor at the Kornberg School of Dentistry since October 2008.
- Majid KhadduriMajid KhadduriMajid Khadduri was an Iraqi–born founder of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies Middle East Studies program. Internationally, he was recognized as a leading authority on a wide variety of Islamic subjects, modern history and the politics of the Middle East...
, academic and founder of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International StudiesPaul H. Nitze School of Advanced International StudiesThe Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies , a division of Johns Hopkins University based in Washington, D.C., is one of the world's leading and most prestigious graduate schools devoted to the study of international affairs, economics, diplomacy, and policy research and...
Middle East StudiesMiddle Eastern studiesMiddle Eastern studies is a name given to a number of academic programs associated with the study of the history, culture, politics, economies, and geography of the Middle East, an area that is generally interpreted to cover a range of nations extending from North Africa in the west to the Chinese...
program - Kanan MakiyaKanan MakiyaKanan Makiya is an Iraqi academic, who gained British nationality in 1982. He is the Sylvia K. Hassenfeld Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Brandeis University...
, academic, professor - Saadi SimaweSaadi SimaweSa'adi Simawe is an Iraqi American author, teacher and translator, has published many articles in English and Arabic, both original and in translation, and a novel Al-Khuruj min al-Qumqum, London 1999...
, translator, novelist and teacher - Ella ShohatElla ShohatProfessor Ella Habiba Shohat is Professor of Cultural Studies at New York University, and has taught, lectured and written extensively on issues having to do with Eurocentrism and Orientalism, as well as with postcolonial and transnational approaches to Cultural Studies...
, professor, author and activist - Hind Rassam CulhaneHind Rassam CulhaneProfessor Hind Rassam Culhane was born to an Iraqi father, a lawyer and a Lebanese mother, Sophie Bekhaazi who was a teacher....
, professor - Sinan AntoonSinan AntoonSinan Antoon is an Iraqi poet and novelist, he also featured in the film About Baghdad and Voices in Wartime.Antoon was born in Baghdad to an Iraqi father and American mother. After emigrating to the United States after the Gulf war, he studied English literature at Baghdad University, and...
, academic, writer, filmmaker - Khidir HamzaKhidir HamzaKhidir Hamza is an Iraqi scientist who worked for Saddam Hussein's nuclear programme in the 1980s and early 1990s. Following the Gulf War, he left Iraq in 1994 and went into exile in the United States. He provided testimony to Western intelligence agencies suggesting that Hussein's weapons of mass...
, scientist - Huda Salih Mahdi AmmashHuda Salih Mahdi AmmashHuda Salih Mahdi Ammash is an American-educated Iraqi scientist, dubbed Mrs. Anthrax and Chemical Sally. Ammash was number 53 on the Pentagon's list of the 55 most wanted, the five of hearts in the deck of Most wanted Iraqi playing cards, and the only woman to be featured.U.S. officials allege...
, scientist - Nada ShaboutNada ShaboutNada Shabout is an Iraqi American art historian specializing in modern Iraqi art. She has been a professor of art history at University of North Texas since 2002.-Early life and education:...
, art historian and Assistant Professor at the University of North TexasUniversity of North TexasThe University of North Texas is a public institution of higher education and research in Denton. Founded in 1890, UNT is part of the University of North Texas System. As of the fall of 2010, the University of North Texas, Denton campus, had a certified enrollment of 36,067...
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Actors
- Antonio AlbadranAntonio AlbadranHaithem Albadran , better known as Antonio Albadran, is an Iraqi American actor. His most notable credit is his role as Prince Tariq in the 2005 film Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story.- Early life :...
, Iraqi-American actor born in Basra. - Tamara DhiaTamara DhiaTamara Dhia is an Iraqi American actress and film producer.- Career :Tamara was raised in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, her parents left for the United States in the 1980s....
, actress known for her lead role in Santa Claus in Baghdad - Yasmine HananiYasmine HananiYasmine Hanani is an American actress.Hanani was born in Baltimore and grew up in Southfield, Michigan and later in Orange County, Southern California. Hanani has worked on documentaries "Voices of Iraq,". "My Country, My Country" and "The Blood of My Brother"...
, actress known for her role in Voices of IraqVoices of IraqVoices of Iraq is a 2004 documentary film about Iraq, created by distributing cameras to the subjects of a film, thus enabling subjects to film themselves...
and The KingdomThe Kingdom (film)The Kingdom is a 2007 film directed by Peter Berg and starring Jamie Foxx, Chris Cooper, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman, Ashraf Barhom, with Kyle Chandler, Jeremy Piven and Ali Suliman.... - Nicholas KadiNicholas KadiNicholas Kadi is a Turkish-born Iraqi American actor.Kadi was born in Istanbul, Turkey of Iraqi descent. His father, Nizar el Kadi, was an Iraqi ambassador....
, actor - Sarab Kamoo, actress known for her role in Super SuckerSuper SuckerSuper Sucker is a 2003 film featuring Jeff Daniels, Harve Presnell, and Kate Peckham.Filmed in Jackson, Michigan, Daniels and Presnell play Fred Barlow and Winslow Schnaebelt, the heads of two different groups of door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesmen who are competing for the same territory. Their...
- Chris KattanChris KattanChristopher Lee "Chris" Kattan is an American actor/comedian, best known for his work on Saturday Night Live.-Early life:Kattan was born in Sherman Oaks, California. His father, Kip King, was an actor and voice actor who appeared on the series Reno 911! as Larrie Plum. His mother, Hajnalka E....
, comedian and actor; best known for his work on Saturday Night LiveSaturday Night LiveSaturday Night Live is a live American late-night television sketch comedy and variety show developed by Lorne Michaels and Dick Ebersol. The show premiered on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title of NBC's Saturday Night.The show's sketches often parody contemporary American culture... - Heather RaffoHeather RaffoHeather Raffo is an Lucille Lortel Award-winning Iraqi American playwright and actress, best known for her leading role in the one-woman play 9 Parts of Desire.-Early life:...
, Award winning playwright/actress most known for her role in 9 Parts of Desire - Ammar Ramzi, actor
- Basam RidhaBasam RidhaBasam Ridha Al-Husaini is an advisor to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki charged with overseeing judicial matters. He also was an advisor to his predecessor, Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari...
, actor - Ashley Sawdaye, Actor of IraqiIraqi peopleThe Iraqi people or Mesopotamian people are natives or inhabitants of the country of Iraq, known since antiquity as Mesopotamia , with a large diaspora throughout the Arab World, Europe, the Americas, and...
Jewish, FrenchFrench peopleThe French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...
-Israeli descent. - Alia ShawkatAlia ShawkatAlia Martine Shawkat is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Maeby Fünke in the Fox series Arrested Development.- Personal life :...
, actress known as Maeby Fünke on Arrested Development - Zina ZaflowZina ZaflowZina Zaflow is an American actress and writer of Iraqi origin. She has made numerous appearances in American television dramas such as ER, Grey's Anatomy, 24 and The West Wing. She has a role in Waleed Moursi's film Jelly .-External links:...
, actress
Architecture
- Hisham N. AshkouriHisham N. AshkouriHisham N. Ashkouri is a Boston and New York-based architect.Dr. Ashkouri graduated first in class in 1970 with a Bachelor of Architecture Degree from the University of Baghdad and continued for his Masters of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania under the late Louis I. Kahn in 1973...
, architect - Raed JarrarRaed JarrarRaed Jarrar is an Iraq-born architect, blogger, and political advocate resident in the U.S. Capital Washington, DC.Jarrar was born in Iraq, and raised in Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Iraq. He is half Iraqi and half Palestinian...
architect, blogger, and activist
Dr. Sam Kubba, architect, author, interior designer, LEED AP
Artists
- Sama Raena AlshaibiSama Raena AlshaibiSama Raena Alshaibi سما الشيبي to an Iraqi father and Palestinian mother. She is an artist and photographer, in which she uses her cultural heritage to reflect her work and help inform her audience of her identity....
, artist - Halla AylaHalla AylaHalla Ayla is an Iraqi American artist and self taught photographer, currently living in San Francisco, CA.- Early life and career:...
, artist - Wafaa BilalWafaa BilalWafaa Bilal is an Iraqi American artist, a former professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and currently an assistant professor at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University...
, artist and professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago - Hayv KahramanHayv KahramanHayv Kahraman is an Iraqi artist and painter. Her works reflect the controversial issues of gender, honor killings and war, all issues that plague her home country of Iraq. Hayv currently lives and works in Phoenix, AZ, United States.-Biography:...
, artist/painter - Toba KhedooriToba KhedooriToba Khedoori is an Australian-born artist of Iraqi heritage, known primarily for highly-detailed mixed-media paintings executed on large sheets of wax-coated paper. Khedoori's works often fill the spectator's entire field of vision; a 'typical' Khedoori painting combines elements of drawing,...
, artist - Leila KubbaLeila KubbaLeila Kubba Kawash or simply Leila Kubba is an Iraqi-American artist who was born and educated in Baghdad, Iraq.She graduated with a National Diploma of Art and Design from the Manchester College of Art and Architecture and also studied at the Corcoran College of Art in Washington DC...
, painter
Directors
- Usama AlshaibiUsama AlshaibiUsama Alshaibi is an Iraqi-American independent filmmaker and visual artist.Starting in early 2004, Alshaibi worked on a documentary on his homeland, and its current situation, titled Nice Bombs...
, filmmaker - Ali HossainiAli HossainiAli Hossaini is an American artist, philosopher and media executive. His work includes contributions in creative writing, political commentary, avant-garde film, photography and television, including the launch of several channels...
, filmmaker, philosopher and pacifist - Anisa MehdiAnisa MehdiAnisa Marie Mehdi is an Emmy Award winning film director and journalist. She is of half Iraqi and half Canadian descent.Her main focus when producing documentaries or programmes lie within religion, as her most notable documentary was Inside Mecca, which was produced by National Geographic. Many of...
, Emmy Award winning film director and journalist - Carole BasriCarole BasriCarole Basri is a Jewish American filmmaker and lawyer of Iraqi Jewish descent. Most of her productions focus on the History of the Jews in Iraq as she documents her ancestral roots and discusses Jewish traditions in Iraq.-Work:...
, filmmaker
Military
- Ahmed K. Altaie, SpecialistSpecialist (rank)Specialist is one of the four junior enlisted ranks in the U.S. Army, just above Private First Class and equivalent in pay grade to Corporal. Unlike Corporals, Specialists are not considered junior non-commissioned officers...
in the United States ArmyUnited States ArmyThe United States Army is the main branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for land-based military operations. It is the largest and oldest established branch of the U.S. military, and is one of seven U.S. uniformed services...
that is currently a Prisoner of WarPrisoner of warA prisoner of war or enemy prisoner of war is a person, whether civilian or combatant, who is held in custody by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict...
in IraqIraqIraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
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Models
- Amy FadhliAmy FadhliAmy Fadhli is an American fitness model, actress and winner of the Fitness America National Champion 1996...
, fitness model, actress and winner of the Fitness America National Champion 1996
Musicians
- Hanan AlattarHanan AlattarHanan Alattar is an American operatic soprano and actress who has made appearances at the Los Angeles Opera, Berlin Staatsoper, New York City Opera, Lincoln Center New York]] as well collaborating with fellow conductors, Placido Domingo, James Conlon and Miguel Harth-Bedoya.- Early life :Alattar...
- Soprano opera singer - Laith AlattarLaith AlattarLaith Alattar is an Iraqi American composer, singer, and oud player.Born in Baghdad, Laith later moved to the United States and graduated from the composition program at the University of Michigan School of Music.-External links:*...
, Iraqi American musician - Chemda Khalili, singer/songwriter and co-host of the Keith and The GirlKeith and The GirlKeith and The Girl, abbreviated as KATG, is a popular comedy podcast that began on March 7, 2005. It is hosted by comedian Keith Malley and singer Chemda Khalili in Queens, New York. Chemda is of Persian descent whilst Keith's exact origins are unknown, but believed to be eastern European...
podcast - TIMZTimzTommy Hanna, known by his stage name Timz, is an Iraqi American rapper best known for his song "Iraq". His debut album is entitled Open for Business....
, rapper - Stephan Smith, singer-songwriter, poet and political activist
- Ahmed El FalehAhmed El FalehAhmed El Faleh is a singer who rose to popularity around the world after placing fourth in Super Star 3, the pan-Arabic version of Pop Idol....
, singer who participated in Super Star 3, the pan-Arabic version of Pop IdolPop IdolPop Idol is a British television series which debuted on ITV on 6 October 2001. The show was a talent contest to decide the best new young pop singer in the United Kingdom, based on viewer voting and participation. Two series were broadcast - one in 2001-02 and a second in 2003... - Rahim AlHajRahim AlHajRahim AlHaj is an Iraqi American oud musician and composer.-Early life:AlHaj was born in Baghdad, Iraq and began playing the oud at age nine...
, musician and composer - Dena El SaffarDena El SaffarDena El Saffar is a musician who plays the violin and jowza. She is of Iraqi and American heritage and is the older sister of Amir El Saffar.Along with her brother she was exposed to Arabic music in the suburbs of Chicago, where she grew up attending Iraqi gatherings with her family. She began...
, musician - Amir ElSaffarAmir ElSaffarAmir ElSaffar is an Iraqi-American trumpeter and vocalist.In addition to being a classical and jazz trumpeter, he is also a skilled interpreter of Iraqi maqam, which he sings and plays on santur...
, musician and younger brother of Dena - Linda GeorgeLinda GeorgeLinda George is an ethnic Assyrian singer who resides in the United States Of America. The vast majority of her songs are sung in her native Assyrian language...
, singer - Juliana JendoJuliana JendoJuliana Jendo is an Assyrian–American singer. She was born and raised in Tel Tamer, Syria. Along with her family, she emigrated to the USA in 1980 and settled in Chicago, Illinois...
, singer - Janan SawaJanan SawaJanan Sawa is a famous Assyrian musician.A Catholic by faith, Janan started singing in 1972, at the age of 17. In 1975, Janan's father forced him to marry. He spent 4 years in the Iraqi army, from 1974 to 1978....
, musician - Fabian Alsultany, DJ
Politics
- Rend al-Rahim FranckeRend al-Rahim FranckeRend al-Rahim Francke is an Iraqi political activist who often appears on various current affairs programs. She held the position as Iraqi ambassador to the United States...
, politician, political activist and once held the position as Iraqi ambassador to the United StatesUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... - Ayham al-SamarieAyham al-SamarieAiham Alsammarae is a nationalistic, Sunni, Iraqi politician who served as Minister of Electricity from August 2003 until May 2005...
, politician - Qubad TalabaniQubad TalabaniQubad Talabani is the Kurdistan Regional Government representative in the United States.He is the second son of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani.-Early life:...
, Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) representative in Washington DC and son of IraqIraqIraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
i president Jalal TalabaniJalal TalabaniJalal Talabani is the sixth and current President of Iraq, a leading Kurdish politician. He is the first non-Arab president of Iraq, although Abdul Kareem Qasim was half Kurdish....
Writers & Journalists
- Mahmoud SaeedMahmoud SaeedMahmoud Saeed is an Iraqi-born American award-winning novelist.Born in Mosul, Saeed has written more than twenty novels and short story collections, and hundreds of articles. He started writing short stories at an early age. He wrote an award-winning short story in the Newspaper “Fatal Iraq,...
, an Iraqi novelist was born in Mosul in 1939. Wrote more than twenty novels and story collections, and hundreds of articles. He started writing short stories at an early age. - Ibrahim al-MarashiIbrahim al-MarashiDr. Ibrahim al-Marashi is a historian researching the Middle East and political communications. He holds a DPhil in History from Oxford University , where his thesis was on the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait...
, academic plagiarized by the British government - Lorraine AliLorraine AliLorraine Ali is a reporter, editor and culture writer for many publications, including Newsweek where she is a Contributing Editor. She covers culture at large as well as pop culture, and writes frequently about the Middle East and Iraq in pieces such as "When Home Becomes Hell"...
, reporter, editor, culture writer and music critic for NewsweekNewsweekNewsweek is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally. It is the second-largest news weekly magazine in the U.S., having trailed Time in circulation and advertising revenue for most of its existence... - Alise AlousiAlise AlousiAlise Alousi is an Iraqi American poet living in Detroit and is also director of Alternatives for Girls, a local program to keep young women from dropping out of school. Born to an Iraqi father, Alousi still has relatives in Iraq....
, Iraqi-American poet - Sinan AntoonSinan AntoonSinan Antoon is an Iraqi poet and novelist, he also featured in the film About Baghdad and Voices in Wartime.Antoon was born in Baghdad to an Iraqi father and American mother. After emigrating to the United States after the Gulf war, he studied English literature at Baghdad University, and...
, poet, novelist and translator - Leila BarclayLeila BarclayLeila Khoury Barclay is an American storyteller, journalist and founder of Al-Hakawati , an online provider dedicated to educating people on Arabic art, culture and history, in 2002...
, American journalist and storyteller - Alon Ben-Meir, professor, writer and is the Middle East Project director at the World Policy InstituteWorld Policy InstituteThe World Policy Institute, a non-partisan policy institute which claims to develop policies that require a progressive ideology. WPI focuses on cooperative policies in order to achieve : an inclusive and sustainable global market economy, engaged global civic participation and effective...
- Armand NasseryArmand NasseryArmand Nassery is an Iraqi-American author and filmmaker, born in 1966, Iraq.- Biography :Armand Nassery is an independent filmmaker and Iraqi-American author. Armand was born near the Iraqi province of Dhi-Qar; one of eleven children. His family moved to the capital,Baghdad, when he was young in...
, author and filmmaker. - Saul FathiSaul FathiSaul Fathi is an Iraqi-born American Jewish author of stories on the plight of Sephardic Jews in Iraq.-Bibliography:* History of the Jews and Israel ISBN 0977711730...
, author - Abdul Ameer Yousef HabeebAbdul Ameer Yousef HabeebAbdul Ameer Yousef Habeeb is an Iraqi-born journalist living, with refugee status, in the United States.Habeeb's brother Abdallah was executed in 1982 by Saddam Hussein's Iraqi regime, and he himself was imprisoned twice in Iraq, most recently in 1997; his hands and face were scarred by torture in...
, journalist - Jack Marshall (author)Jack Marshall (author)Jack Marshall is an award-winning American poet and author born to an Iraqi father and a Syrian mother of Jewish heritage.-Upbringing:...
, poet and author - Dunya MikhailDunya MikhailDunya Mikhail is an ethnic Chaldean United States-based poet who was born in Iraq. Mikhail worked as Literary Editor for The Baghdad Observer. Facing increasing threats and harassment from the Iraqi authorities for her writings, she fled Iraq in the late 1990s and studied Near Eastern Studies at...
, poet - Greg PatentGreg PatentGreg Patent is an American award-winning cookbook author and baker. He also co-hosts a weekly radio show about food on Montana Public Radio, The Food Guys, with Jon Jackson, and has made guest appearances on television and radio programs throughout the United States.- Early life :Born in the...
, author (Born in Hong Kong to a Russian father and Iraqi mother) - Daniel PearlDaniel PearlDaniel Pearl was an American journalist who was kidnapped and killed by Al-Qaeda.At the time of his kidnapping, Pearl served as the South Asia Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal, and was based in Mumbai, India. He went to Pakistan as part of an investigation into the alleged links between...
, journalist (kidnapped and murdered in PakistanPakistanPakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
) - Ayad RahimAyad RahimAyad Rahim is an Iraqi-American journalist. He has written extensively on Middle Eastern affairs, including a series of articles on the Operation Iraqi Freedom Documents with co-author Laurie Mylroie. In addition, he hosts a radio show on station WJCU in Cleveland. His show features scholars and...
, journalist - Zainab SalbiZainab SalbiZainab Salbi is an Iraqi American writer, activist and social entrepreneur who is co-founder and president of Washington-based Women for Women International.-Early years:...
, writer, activist, co-founder and president of Women for Women InternationalWomen for Women InternationalWomen for Women International is an international organization advocating for women's rights.-Organization and mission: is a humanitarian organization that provides financial and emotional support to women survivors of war. Their programs help women achieve self-sufficiency through direct aid,... - Rachel WahbaRachel WahbaRachel Wahba is a psychotherapist in private practice in San Francisco and in Marin County. She is also a published author of several anthologies relating to being a Mizrahi/Sephardi Jew of Egyptian and Iraqi parents and the indignities suffered by Jews who were forced into second class status in...
, writer - Thura Al WindawiThura Al WindawiThura Al Windawi is author of , which was a written diary by Thura on the eve of and during the Iraq war, it was then later published as it caught the eye of a British journalist...
, author - Sargon BoulusSargon BoulusSargon Boulus was an Iraqi-Assyrian poet and short story writer.He was born in Habbaniyah, Iraq. In 1967, he left for Beirut, where he worked as a journalist and a translator. He later emigrated to the United States, and from 1968 lived in San Francisco. He studied comparative literature at the...
Other
- Kaysar Ridha, contestant on reality show Big Brother
- Ahmed Qusai al-TaayieAhmed Qusai al-TaayieStaff Sergeant Ahmed Kousay Altaie is an Iraqi American United States Army linguist soldier, who was captured on October 23, 2006 in Baghdad.-Early life:...
, soldier - Aban EliasAban EliasAban Abdel Malek Mahmoud Elias is an Iraqi American civil engineer who was born in Iraq, lived in Denver, Colorado, then returned to Iraq. He was kidnapped on May 3, 2004, near his home in Baghdad. He was shown being held hostage in a video on Al Arabiya television station. While, blindfolded and...
, civil engineer, (recently held hostage and has not been heard from since) - Michael MizrachiMichael MizrachiMichael David Mizrachi is an American professional poker player who won the 2010 World Series of Poker $50,000 Players Championship.. Mizrachi also has two World Poker Tour Titles, and finished 5th in the Main Event of the 2010 World Series of Poker.-Personal life:Mizrachi was born in Miami,...
, professional poker player (Iraqi Jewish father) - Robert MizrachiRobert MizrachiRobert Mizrachi is an American professional poker player.Robert Mizrachi was a former poker dealer at a South Miami casino...
, professional poker player and older brother of Michael Mizrachi - Jumana HannaJumana HannaJumana Michael/Mikhail Hanna is an Iraqi woman of Assyrian Christian background who was imprisoned at loose dog's during the rule of Saddam Hussein. In July 2003, she attested to the Coalition Provisional Authority that she had been tortured during her time in the prison, due to her religious...
, involved in war propaganda - Farris HassanFarris HassanFarris Hassan is an American who, while a junior at Pine Crest School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, took an unaccompanied trip to Iraq. He said he was inspired by a personal attachment to the situation in Iraq and an English class having a project on "immersion journalism"...
- Sayed Mohammad Jawad Al-Qazwini, young religious leader
- Husham Al-HusainyHusham Al-HusainyHusham Al-Husainy is an Iraqi-American Sheikh of the Karbalaa Islamic Education Center, a Shia mosque servicing largely people of Iraqi and Lebanese descent in Dearborn, Michigan. Al-Husainy arrived in the United States in the late 1970s as Saddam Hussein was rising into power. He is a spokesman...
, Sheikh of the Karbalaa Islamic Education Center - Samuel Nalo, businessman, hijacker, burglar and brother of Robert
- Samir GegeaOperation Red DawnOperation Red Dawn was the U.S. military operation conducted on 13 December 2003 in the town of ad-Dawr, Iraq, near Tikrit, that captured Iraq President Saddam Hussein, ending rumours of his death. The operation was named after the 1984 film Red Dawn. The mission was assigned to the 1st Brigade...
, an Iraqi interpreter who captured Saddam Hussein - Mohammad MunafMohammad MunafMohammad Munaf is a former Pakistani cricketer who played in four Tests from 1959 to 1962....
- Abdul Rahman YasinAbdul Rahman YasinAbdul Rahman Yasin helped make the bombs used in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing attack. Yasin is of Iraqi heritage and grew up in Baghdad...
, a suspected American terrorist - Mohammed Odeh al-RehaiefMohammed Odeh al-RehaiefMohammed Odeh al-Rehaief is an Iraqi attorney who helped the United States armed forces rescue prisoner of war Jessica Lynch from a hospital in Nasiriyah. As reward for his assistance, the U.S. government granted him humanitarian asylum on April 28, 2003...
, attorney who helped the United States armed forcesUnited States armed forcesThe United States Armed Forces are the military forces of the United States. They consist of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Coast Guard.The United States has a strong tradition of civilian control of the military...
rescue Jessica LynchJessica LynchJessica Dawn Lynch is a former Private First Class in the United States Army Quartermaster Corps. Lynch served in Iraq during the 2003 invasion by U.S. and allied forces. On March 23, 2003 she was injured and captured by Iraqi forces but was recovered on April 1 by U.S...
from Iraq - Nadya SulemanNadya SulemanNadya Denise Doud-Suleman , known as Octomom in the media, is an American woman who came to international attention when she gave birth to octuplets in January 2009. The Suleman octuplets are only the second full set of octuplets to be born alive in the United States...
, gave birth octuplets in January 2008 - Hassan Al-QazwiniHassan Al-QazwiniHassan Al-Qazwini is the leader of the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn, Michigan, largest mosque in North America, representing the Twelver Shi'a branch of Islam.- Family :...
, religious leader