Zein (disambiguation)

Zein is a very common Arabic name and family name.

Zein may refer to:

• Zein, a class of prolamine protein found in maize

First name

• Princess Zein bint Al Hussein, the sister of King Abdullah II of Jordan
• Zein al-Sharaf Talal, the Queen of Jordan and wife of King Talal
• Zein Pun, a court official at the Martaban Palace of Hanthawaddy Kingdom, who seized the throne for seven days in 1331

Family name

• Abdel Latif El Zein, a Lebanese politician
• Ahmad Ali El Zein, a Lebanese novelist and journalist
• Ahmad Zein, a Yemeni writer and journalist
• Ahmed Aref El-Zein, a Shi’a intellectual from the Jabal Amil area of South Lebanon
• Ahmed Zein El-Abidin, an Egyptian Olympic fencer
• Haitham Zein, a Lebanese footballer
• Mahmoud Al-Zein, nicknamed "the president of Berlin", an organised crime boss in Germany
• Melhem Zein, a Lebanese singer
• Saw Zein, the fourth king of Hanthawaddy Pegu from 1324 to 1331

Others

• Zein, the superhero character in AK Comics
• Zein TV, an Arab satellite TV channel, a joint venture between Future TV and Dubai Media City
• The Wedding of Zein, a contemporary Arabic novel written in 1969 by late Sudanese author Tayeb Salih

See also

• Zain (disambiguation)
• Zayn (disambiguation)
• Zayn ad-Din (disambiguation)