for his role as Meliorn in the US television series "Shadowhunters" and for that of Prince Ahmed Al Saeed in the Canadian series '"Heartland" (of Lebanese descent) Jesse Hutch - actor, model, director and musician (of Syrian descent) Mena Massoud - an actor best known for starring as Aladdin in the 2019 live-action adaptation (of Egyptian descent) Keanu Reeves - Hollywood actor (born in Lebanon) Habeeb Salloum - author, cookbook author, writer, travel writer (of Syrian descent) Inanna Sarkis - internet personality, actress and director (of Syrian descent) Mamdouh Shoukri - former president of York University (of Egyptian descent) Hatim Zaghloul - engineer, named as one of ten great Canadians by MacLean's magazine (of Egyptian descent) Ty Wood - an actor and model. Grand nephew of Miss Universe 1971 Georgina Rizk (of Palestinian-Lebanese Ukrainian descent.) See also Middle Eastern Canadians West Asian Canadians Canadian Arab Federation (CAF) National Council on Canada-Arab Relations (NCCAR) Arab Christians Islam in Canada Lebanese diaspora Palestinian diaspora Syrian diaspora Moroccan diaspora Iraqi diaspora Egyptian diaspora References External links Canadian Arab Institute (CAI) Canadian Arab Federation official website National Council on Canada-Arab Relations official website Canada Arab Forum The Arab Students' Association in Canada Ethnic groups in Canada