Yousef

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic يُوسُف (yūsuf), equivalent to English Joseph.

Proper noun

Yousef

  1. A male given name from Arabic.
  2. A surname from Arabic.
    • 1995 June 5, Mary Anne Weaver, “Children of the Jihad”, in The New Yorker‎[1], archived from the original on 18 April 2016:
      Abdul Basit’s life as one of America’s most-wanted men came to an end almost as suddenly as it began. His alleged co-conspirators in the World Trade Center bombing had implicated “Ramzi Yousef” when they were arrested, and the F.B.I. had on several occasions laid elaborate plans to capture him in Pakistan, but each time he had been alerted and had disappeared, either into Karachi’s un derground or across the border into Afghanistan.
    • 2021 September 11, Ryan O'Neill, “The Swansea student who bombed the World Trade Centre and inspired Osama Bin Laden”, in Wales Online‎[2], archived from the original on 17 September 2021:
      The attacks were carried out by a terrorist group which included Ramzi Yousef, who in 1998 received two life sentences plus 240 years for his part in the bombings, as well as a number of other attacks or planned attacks including a plot to assassinate Pope John Paul II.
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