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

Comments (4)

Lebanon listing
Posted by alain morin, jounieh, lebanon on 22 November 2009 at 13:31 UAE time

it is ridiculous to put such names, is marcel khalifa more powerful than feyrouz, is it Ziad better tha rahbani sons, Marwan, and his sons
other people are not even known by the Lebanese, wher is the media like marcel ghanim, or others
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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