Wadih Elias el-Hage (Arabic: وديع الحاج‎, Wadī‘ al-Ḥāj) (born July 25, 1960) is a Lebanese member of al-Qaeda, and naturalized American citizen, who is serving life imprisonment in the United States based on conspiracy charges for the 1998 United States embassy bombings. Born to a Maronite Catholic family, El-Hage converted to Islam while still in Lebanon in the 1970s. He emigrated to the United States, where he developed an interest in militant interpretations of Islamic theology while attending the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.