Ray Zahab

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| name = Raymond Zahab

| image = Ray Zahab speaking at TED in 2009.jpg

| caption = Zahab speaking at TED in 2009.
Photograph by Bill Holsinger-Robinson.

| birth_date = {{birth based on age as of date|44|2013|Jul|30}}

| birth_place =

| nationality = Canadian

| occupation =

| known_for = long-distance runner, public speaker

}}

Raymond Zahab, {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|MSC}} (born in 1969){{cite news |url= https://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/more-sports/ray-zahabs-incredible-2300-kilometre-journey-across-the-gobi/article13517675/ |title= Ray Zahab’s incredible 2,300 kilometre journey across the Gobi desert |work= The Globe and Mail |first= Sean |last= Silcoff |date= July 30, 2013 |quote= Ray Zahab ... 44-year-old athlete from Chelsea, Que.}} is a Canadian long-distance runner and public speaker. He has run in long-distance running adventures in several countries, including the South Pole, Siberia, and the Atacama Desert in Chile.{{cite web|title=Follow Adventurer Ray Zahab's Arctic Expedition|url=https://connected.rogers.com/lifestyle/posts/follow-adventurer-ray-zahabs-arctic-expedition-4228289|website=Lifestyle|accessdate=18 January 2018}}{{cite web|last1=Welner|first1=Chris|title=Ray Zahab|url=http://impactmagazine.ca/features/cover-stories/impact-top-motivator-ray-zahab/|website=IMPACT Magazine|accessdate=18 January 2018|language=en-ca|date=1 January 2016}} He crossed the Sahara with Charlie Engle, (USA) and Kevin Lin (Taiwan).{{cite web|title=Running the Sahara: Bios|url=http://www.runningthesahara.com/bios.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080325014358/http://www.runningthesahara.com/bios.html|url-status=usurped|archive-date=March 25, 2008|website=www.runningthesahara.com|accessdate=18 January 2018}}{{cite web|last1=Dewar|first1=Adam|title=Ten of the best running documentaries|url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/the-running-blog/2013/mar/01/ten-best-running-documentaries|website=the Guardian|accessdate=18 January 2018|date=1 March 2013}}

Zahab starred in the 2007 documentary film "Running the Sahara" narrated and produced by Matt Damon and directed by Oscar-winner James Moll, which follows three men as they run across the Sahara Desert, a journey of 111 days and more than 4,300 miles of challenging terrain.{{cite web|title=Ray Zahab - ideacity|url=http://www.ideacity.ca/speaker/ray-zahab/|website=ideacity|accessdate=18 January 2018}}

Zahab is also the author of the autobiography Running for My Life: On the Extreme Road with Adventure Runner Ray Zahab ({{ISBN|978-1-897178-44-7}}),{{cite book|last1=Zahab|first1=Ray|title=Running for my life : on the extreme road with adventure runner Ray Zahab.|date=2007|publisher=Insomniac Press|location=Toronto|isbn=978-1-897178-44-7}} and co-author with Steve Pitt of Running to Extremes: Ray Zahab's Amazing Ultra marathon Journey ({{ISBN|978-0143179672}}).{{cite book|last1=Pitt|first1=Steve|last2=Zahab|first2=Ray|title=Running to extremes : Ray Zahab's amazing ultramarathon journey|date=2011|publisher=Puffin Canada|location=Toronto|isbn=978-0143179672}} and co author with Eric Walters of Just Deserts.