page_title: Arab Mexicans
section_title: Notable people
hierarchical_section_title: Arab Mexicans / Notable people
context_page_description: Arab Mexicans are Mexican citizens of Arab ethnic, cultural and linguistic heritage or identity, who identify themselves as Arab. The vast majority of Mexico's 1,100,000 Arabs are of Lebanese, Syrian, Iraqi, and Palestinian descent.
  The inter-ethnic marriage in the Arab community, regardless of religious affiliation, is very high; most community members have only one parent who has Arab ethnicity. As a result of this, the Arab community in Mexico shows marked language shift away from only Arabic. Only a few speak any mainly Arabic, and such knowledge is often limited to a few basic words. Instead the majority, especially those of younger generations, speak Spanish as a first language. Arabic and Spanish have collided in Mexico as a mixture of languages and put into one which is spoken more than the original Arabic.
context_section_description: Carlos Slim, business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. Formerly the richest man in the world. Slim's parents are both Mexicans of Lebanese Maronite Catholic descent.
  Salma Hayek, actress; she is half Lebanese via her father.
  Emeraude Toubia, actress and model raised in Brownsville, Texas, half Lebanese via her father and half Mexican via her mother.
  José Antonio Meade Kuribreña, economist, lawyer and diplomat and current Mexican Secretariat of Foreign Affairs of Lebanese and British descent.
  Pedro Joaquín Coldwell, politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) of Lebanese and English descent.
  Emilio Chuayffet, lawyer and politician, the incumbent Secretary of Public Education of Mexico of Lebanese descent.
  Antonio Badú, actor and singer
  Enrique Dau, former mayor of Guadalajara, grandson of the Lebanese emigrant Wadih Dau
  José Murat Casab, former Governor of Oaxaca and a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party of Iraqi descent.
  Alfredo Harp Helú, Mexican businessman of Lebanese origin.
  Pépé Abed, Lebanese-born Mexican jeweler returned to Lebanon after 40 years.
  Victor Nacif, Vice President of Design Business Aspects for Nissan Design America, of Iraqi descent.
  Mauricio Féres Yázbek (Garcés), actor of Lebanese descent from Tampico, Tamaulipas
  Alfonso Petersen Farah, mayor of Guadalajara. German, Danish and Lebanese descent.
  Emilio Hassan, footballer, nephew of Carlos Slim, of Lebanese descent.
  Paul Ham, bassist for Anabantha, of Lebanese descent.
  Ricardo Dájer Nahum, Mexican politician of Lebanese origin.
  Jeff Becerra, Heavy metal musician of Lebanese descent.
  Capulina, actor of Lebanese descent.
  Jaime Camil, Actor, singer of Egyptian and Brazilian descent.
  Isaac Saba Raffoul, businessman of Syrian descent.
  Astrid Hadad, Mexican actress of Lebanese descent.
  Miguel Sabah, a Mexican international footballer of mixed Palestinian/Mexican/Lebanese descent
  Liliana Abud, an actress in telenovelas and Mexican cinema.
  José Sulaimán, President of the World Boxing Council, Lebanese descent.
  Antonio Mohamed, Argentine-born Mexican soccer player of Lebanese descent.
  Samer Omar, football player currently playing for Tiburones Rojos de Veracruz. He is of Lebanese background.
  Kamel Nacif Borge, Mexican businessman of Lebanese descent.
  Jesús Murillo Karam, Mexican politician of Lebanese descent.
  Susana Harp, Mexican singer of traditional music of Lebanese and Mexican descent.
  Omar Fayad, Mexican politician of Lebanese descent.
  Rosemary Barkett, U.S. Federal Judge to Syrian parent.
  Jorge Kahwagi, Mexican boxer, lawyer, businessman, and politician of Lebanese descent.
  Carlos Jiménez Mabarak, Musician of Lebanese descent.
  Ikram Antaki, Mexican writer of Syrian origin.
  Arturo Elías Ayub, Mexican businessman of Lebanese descent.
  Alfredo Elias Ayub, Director General of Federal Electricity Commission, Arturo Elías Ayub is his youngest brother, of Lebanese descent.
  Bibelot Mansur, actress born to a Mexican mother and a father of Lebanese descent.
  Miguel Layún, a Mexican international footballer of Lebanese and Spanish descent.
  Jerónimo Amione, a Mexican footballer of Lebanese and Mexican descent.
  Jaime Sabines, a Mexican poet of Lebanese descent.
  Alejandro Bichir, a Mexican actor of Lebanese and Mexican descent.
  Bruno Bichir, a Mexican actor of Lebanese and Mexican descent.
  Demián Bichir, a Mexican actor of Lebanese and Mexican descent.
  Odiseo Bichir, a Mexican actor of Lebanese and Mexican descent.
  Jorge Estefan Chidiac, Mexican politician of Lebanese descent
  María de Lourdes Dieck-Assad, Mexican economist of Belgian and Levantine descent.
  Zidane Zeraoui El Awad, Mexican professor and researcher of Algerian origin.
caption: Alfredo Harp Helú
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