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Power 100 - 2009
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# NAME COUNTRY PRIMARY INDUSTRY RANK
2008
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Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Al Saud Saudi Arabia Banking & Finance 1 -
32  Lubna Olayan Saudi Arabia Banking & Finance 44 +12
66  Nahed Taher Saudi Arabia Banking & Finance 45 -21
73  Abdel Hamid Shoman Palestine Banking & Finance 25 -48
Esam Janahi Bahrain Banking & Finance 29 +24
80  Dr Amina Al Rostamani United Arab Emirates Banking & Finance  - new
Mohamed El Erian Egypt Banking & Finance  - new
Dr Mohamed Nedal Alchaar Syria Banking & Finance  - new
16  Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair United Arab Emirates Banking & Finance 42 +26
19  Nasser Al Kharafi Kuwait Banking & Finance 31 +12
20  Ibrahim Dabdoub Palestine Banking & Finance 81 +61
26  Nemir Kirdar Iraq Banking & Finance  - new
31  Mishal Kanoo Bahrain Banking & Finance 22 -9
37  Talal Abu Ghazaleh Palestine Banking & Finance  - new
42  Ahmed Heikal Egypt Banking & Finance  - new
Mohammed Alabbar United Arab Emirates Construction & Industry 6 +4
70  Riad Kamal Palestine Construction & Industry  - new
71  Ayman Hariri Lebanon Construction & Industry  - new
Dr Sulaiman Al Fahim United Arab Emirates Construction & Industry 16 +12
77  Maan Al Sanea Saudi Arabia Construction & Industry 55 -22
78  Said Khoury Palestine Construction & Industry  - new
81  Bakr Bin Ladin Saudi Arabia Construction & Industry 54 -27
90  Soraya Narfeldt Lebanon Construction & Industry  - new
18  Dr Marcus George Iraq Construction & Industry  - new
25  Amr Al Dabbagh Saudi Arabia Construction & Industry 23 -2
49  Ali Hassan Kolaghassi Saudi Arabia Construction & Industry 73 +24
51  Walid Attalah Lebanon Culture & Society 80 +29
52  Khaled Samawi Syria Culture & Society  - new
54  Tayem Hassan Syria Culture & Society  - new
60  Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al-Missned Qatar Culture & Society  - new
61  Asma Al Assad Syria Culture & Society  - new
62  Ahmed Mater Al-Ziad Aseeri Saudi Arabia Culture & Society  - new
63  Tamer Hosny Egypt Culture & Society 66 +3
64  Zuhair Murad Lebanon Culture & Society 59 -5
68  Hend Al Mansour Saudi Arabia Culture & Society  - new
69  Mustafa Ali Syria Culture & Society 17 -52
79  Adel Imam Egypt Culture & Society  - new
72  Fairuz Lebanon Culture & Society 76 +4
74  Zahi Hawwas Egypt Culture & Society  - new
Amir Nizar Zuabi Palestine Culture & Society  - new
82  Nancy Ajram Lebanon Culture & Society 60 -22
83  Emad Hajaj Jordan Culture & Society 43 -40
85  Ghassan Masoud Syria Culture & Society  - new
86  Hatem Ali Syria Culture & Society 72 -14
89  Rabia Zargarpur United Arab Emirates Culture & Society  - new
93  Karl Wolf Lebanon Culture & Society  - new
95  Amina Jassim Saudi Arabia Culture & Society  - new
96  Kazem Al Saher Iraq Culture & Society  - new
97  Nabil Al Busaidi Oman Culture & Society  - new
23  Rashid Ramzi Bahrain Culture & Society  - new
28  Salah Al Hejailan Saudi Arabia Culture & Society  - new
29  Marcel Khalifa Lebanon Culture & Society 56 +27
56  Solaf Fawakherji Syria Culture & Society  - new
36  Elie Saab Lebanon Culture & Society 9 -27
41  Amr Hassan Zaki Egypt Culture & Society  - new
43  Ziad Rahbani Lebanon Culture & Society  - new
46  Amr Diab Egypt Culture & Society 24 -22
76  Mohamed Al Baradei Egypt Energy 62 -14
14  Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber United Arab Emirates Energy  - new
22  Khalid Al Falih Saudi Arabia Energy  - new
34  Mohamed Al Mady Saudi Arabia Energy 12 -22
44  Abdullah Salem Al Badri Libya Energy 4 -40
53  Dr Michel Obeid Lebanon Healthcare 7 -46
55  Magdi Yacoub Egypt Healthcare 87 +32
21  Dr Abdullah Al Rabiah Saudi Arabia Healthcare  - new
33  Samih Darwazah Palestine Healthcare  - new
45  Professor Lihadh Al Ghazali Iraq Healthcare  - new
59  Elie Khouri Lebanon Media & Marketing 49 -10
Muntadar Al Zaidi Iraq Media & Marketing  - new
84  Magdi El Glad Egypt Media & Marketing  - new
10  Fayez Al Maliki Saudi Arabia Media & Marketing  - new
88  Ramzi Raad Lebanon Media & Marketing  - new
11  Dr Fawzieh Al Dorai Kuwait Media & Marketing  - new
13  Joseph Ghossoub Lebanon Media & Marketing 19 +6
91  Jihad Khazen Lebanon Media & Marketing  - new
15  Wadah Khanfar Palestine Media & Marketing 8 -7
94  Akram Al Agil Saudi Arabia Media & Marketing  - new
98  Abdel Bari Atwan Palestine Media & Marketing  - new
99  Jaber Al Harami Qatar Media & Marketing  - new
100  Mohammed Saeed Harib United Arab Emirates Media & Marketing 33 -67
39  Mohamed Hasseinein Heikel Egypt Media & Marketing  - new
47  Sheikh Waleed Al Ibrahim Saudi Arabia Media & Marketing 20 -27
48  Hisham Melhem Lebanon Media & Marketing  - new
50  Antoine Choueiri Lebanon Media & Marketing 37 -13
65  Ghanim Bin Saad Al Saad Qatar Real Estate  - new
35  Mohammed Al Jaber Saudi Arabia Real Estate 40 +5
75  Omar Al Fayed Egypt Retail  - new
40  Mohammed Al Shaya Kuwait Retail 39 -1
12  Mohammed Hassan Omran United Arab Emirates Technology 57 +45
92  Naguib Sawiris Egypt Technology 32 -60
24  Saad Al Barrak Kuwait Technology 50 +26
57  Abdulsalam Al Bahar Kuwait Transportation  - new
58  Mattar Mohammed Al Tayer United Arab Emirates Transportation  - new
67  Samir Sajet Iraq Transportation  - new
Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem United Arab Emirates Transportation 3 -6
87  Adel Ali Bahrain Transportation 28 -59
17  Akbar Al Baker Qatar Transportation 14 -3
27  Fadi Ghandour Jordan Transportation 79 +52
30  Marwan Boodai Kuwait Travel & Hospitality 51 +21
38  Samer Majali Jordan Travel & Hospitality  - new

Comments (3)

Please!!
Posted by Abdullah, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on 6 October 2009 at 03:17 UAE time

I'm Saudi, and I don't think Fayez Al Maliki should make any list here. No disrespect, but he's no where near any influencial status, he's not the best saudi actor, he's not very popular. he's the subject of jokes. it's just that MBC and Rotana keeps enforcing him and other nobodys in our Ramadan after breakfast time! he's not the director, he's not the guy behind this (Prince Al-Waleed)...I'm not sure i'd be interested in reading your lists again if the #10 is a nobody!
Need to Know the List
Posted by umar farooq, Lahore, Pakistan on 24 July 2009 at 09:41 UAE time

Must be quite inetersting to know the Power 100
Very interesting
Posted by Sami, Beirut, Lebanon on 22 May 2009 at 19:08 UAE time

I can't deny that I'm a bit surprised with the list... Also surprised that many names are very new to me... But that's a good thing, for then I can search and find out who they are (tried it on some, and it's amazing what people have been achieving)...

But 2 quick remarks:
- Couldn't but be proud to be Lebanese, seeing that 17 names out of the hundred came out of our small country, which is war torn and has one of the lowest populations... I'm just wondering if all our Middle East finds peace, how much can we all achieve!
- One has to still admit that the ratio of men to women is quite high... Although some women made the list, but it's clear that we still live in a society that doesn't give women all the potential to realise themselves...

Great work and I have some more searching to do :)
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