Famous People of the Middle East and Africa. Directions: 1.You will be divided into groups of 4. 2.One person from each group will take a turn at identifying.

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Famous People of the Middle East and Africa

Directions: 1.You will be divided into groups of 4. 2.One person from each group will take a turn at identifying the person in the picture. 3.Each person in the group is responsible for taking a turn identifying the picture.

Founder of Islam

Mohammed

Founder of Judaism

Abraham

President of Egypt ( 1954 – 1970) Constructed the Aswan High Dam

Gamal Abdel Nasser

Last King of Egypt ( )

King Farouk

Ruler of the Mali Empire

Mansa Musa

Dictator of Iraq

Saddam Hussein

Known as the Magnificent

Suleiman I

Last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire

Mohammed V

Shi´ite that took control of Iran in 1979

Ayatollah Khomeini

This King of Babylon Responsible for a code of laws

Hammaruabi

Modernized Turkey given the name “Ataturk”

Mustafa Kemal

First woman to become Pharaoh/Ruler of Ancient Egypt

Hatshepsut

Founder of Christianity

Jesus

Led peaceful protests against apartheid in South Africa. Won the Nobel Peace Prize 1993

Nelson Mandela

President of Egypt Signed peace treaty with Israel

Anwar Sadat

First leader of the PLO in Israel

Yasser Arafat

Ruler of Songhai Empire

Sundiata

First Prime Minister of Ghana

Kwame Nkrumah

Egyptian King

King Tut

Queen of Zaria

Queen Amira

Ethiopian skier that competed in the 2006 Winter Olympics

Robel Tekiemarian

Diplomat from Côte d ̀Ivore

Amara Essy

King of Belgium Created Congo Free State. Under his rule Africans were enslaved and tortured. Over 1,000,000 Africans died under his rule.

King Leopold II

President of South Africa ( ) Ended apartheid

William de Klerk

First Black African (Nigeria) to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in literature

Wolfe Soyinka

King of the Kongo 1526 Protested the treatment of his people by Portuguese traders

Wife of Nelson Mandela.

Winnie Mandela

Military leader of Uganda

Idi Amin

Led peaceful protests for India’s independence from Great Britain

Mohandas Gandhi

Wife of King Ramses II and Queen of Egypt

Queen Nefertari

President of Zimbabwe

Robert Mugabe

Civil Rights activist, historian, scholar, and Pan Africanist Became a citizen of Ghana in 1963 at the age of 95

Dubois

President of Angola

Jose dos Santos

Ruler of the Zulu Empire

Shaka Zulu

Nigerian novelist wrote ‘In the Shadow of War”

Ben Okri

Name given to the ruler of the Persian Empire

Darius I

Son and ruler of the Persian Empire upon the death of “Darius the Great “

Xerxes I

“ Father of the Iranian nation", he was the first world leader to be referred to as “The Great”. He founded the Persian Empire

Cyrus the Great

In 2004 he made the hotel he managed in Rwanda into a refugee camp saving hundreds of Tutsi from being massacred.

Paul Rusesabogina

First female Prime Minister of Turkey

Tansu Ciller

Suez Canal was built during his reign ad Sultan of Egypt

Ismail Pasha

Overthrew President Mobutu of Zaire in 1997 and renamed the country the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Laurent-Desire Kabila

Professor, Environmentalist, and Human Rights Activist in Kenya

Wangari Maathai

Ruler of Babylon

Nebuchadnezzar II

First Women Prime Minister of Israel

Golda Meir

Became the Queen of Egypt in 51 BC

Cleopatra