1. Famous People of the Middle East and Africa

2. 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.

3. Founder of Islam

4. Mohammed

5. Founder of Judaism

6. Abraham

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

9. Gamal Abdel Nasser

10. Last King of Egypt (1936-1952)

11. King Farouk

12. Ruler of the Mali Empire

13. Mansa Musa

14. Dictator of Iraq

15. Saddam Hussein

16. Known as the Magnificent

17. Suleiman I

18. Last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire

19. Mohammed V

20. Shi´ite that took control of Iran in 1979

21. Ayatollah Khomeini

22. This King of Babylon Responsible for a code of laws

23. Hammaruabi

24. Modernized Turkey given the name “Ataturk”

25. Mustafa Kemal

26. First woman to become Pharaoh/Ruler of Ancient Egypt

27. Hatshepsut

28. Founder of Christianity

29. Jesus

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

31. Nelson Mandela

32. President of Egypt Signed peace treaty with Israel

33. Anwar Sadat

34. First leader of the PLO in Israel

35. Yasser Arafat

36. Ruler of Songhai Empire

37. Sundiata

38. First Prime Minister of Ghana

39. Kwame Nkrumah

40. Egyptian King

41. King Tut

42. Queen of Zaria

43. Queen Amira

44. Ethiopian skier that competed in the 2006 Winter Olympics

45. Robel Tekiemarian

46. Diplomat from Côte d ̀Ivore

47. Amara Essy

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

49. King Leopold II

50. President of South Africa (1989-1994) Ended apartheid

51. William de Klerk

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

53. Wolfe Soyinka

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

56. Wife of Nelson Mandela.

57. Winnie Mandela

58. Military leader of Uganda

59. Idi Amin

60. Led peaceful protests for India’s independence from Great Britain

61. Mohandas Gandhi

62. Wife of King Ramses II and Queen of Egypt

63. Queen Nefertari

64. President of Zimbabwe

65. Robert Mugabe

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

67. Dubois

68. President of Angola

69. Jose dos Santos

70. Ruler of the Zulu Empire

71. Shaka Zulu

72. Nigerian novelist wrote ‘In the Shadow of War”

73. Ben Okri

74. Name given to the ruler of the Persian Empire

75. Darius I

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

77. Xerxes I

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

79. Cyrus the Great

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

81. Paul Rusesabogina

82. First female Prime Minister of Turkey

83. Tansu Ciller

84. Suez Canal was built during his reign ad Sultan of Egypt

85. Ismail Pasha

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

87. Laurent-Desire Kabila

88. Professor, Environmentalist, and Human Rights Activist in Kenya

89. Wangari Maathai

90. Ruler of Babylon

91. Nebuchadnezzar II

92. First Women Prime Minister of Israel

93. Golda Meir

94. Became the Queen of Egypt in 51 BC

95. Cleopatra