Nowadays, activated carbon is known as a specific multi-dimensional absorbent whit application in food and chemical industries for the removal of unpleasant odors, color, taste, organic pollutants as well as inorganic ones in water effluent and also removing pollutants from air. Activated carbon is also use for removing bacteria and toxic chemical in drug production. A bout 80% of activated carbon is use in liquid phase and the rest is used in gas phase application. AC is a porous and amorphous solid and shows a high absorbent capacity thanks to its very high surface to volume. AC is employed in fiber, granule and powder from. AC carbon is produced from a variety of precursors, namely wood, bio wastes and Polyacrylonitrile (PAN). AC carbon nano fibers are basically produced by heat treatment of electrospu PAN nano fibers which may contain materials such metal oxides as catalysts. ZnO particles with their relatively high band gap (3.37 ev) and excitation bond energy of 60 meV have attracted the attention of researchers as a semi-conductor metal oxide. ZnO has a range of application like gas sensors, anti-bacterial, cigarette filer, hygiene and cosmetics. Production of AC involves three stages of stabilization, carbonization and activation. Stabilization starts from room temperature up to 280 ?C under oxygen and the other stages are carried out by increasing the temperature up to 900 ?C in the presence of an inert gas like nitrogen or carbon dioxide, the porous structure forms when the non-carbonaceous element like N 2 and O 2 leave the main structure as gases. As literature review showed no report on the AC nano fibers containing ZnO, this study aimed at investigating the characteristics of AC nano fibers containing ZnO nano particles. The effect of oxygen and nitrogen dopants on the characteristics was also investigated. Dopants are known to decrease the band gap of metal oxides and extend the activity of metal oxides in UV region to the visible range. The results showed that adding ZnO nano particles lead to a decrease in the average diameter of electrospun PAN nano fibers. However, after carbonization the presence of ZnO lead to an increase in the average diameter of AC nano fibers. This is due to the carbothermic reduction originating from neighboring carbon and ZnO at high temperatures which leads to the formation of carbon monoxide and ZnO in gas phase leaving the matrix. X-ray diffraction patterns showed that ZnO nano particles lead to the formation of well developed crystals in activated carbon matrix which has a rather amorphous microstructure. The smallest average diameter of AC containing, ZnO nano particle only, ZnO nano particle doped with N 2 and ZnO nano particles doped whit O 2 was 159 nm, 98 nm and 140 nm respectively. Keywords: Activated Carbon, Nanofibers, Electrospinning, ZnO nanoparticles, Nanocomposite