Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Taim Hasan, originally from Al-Shaykh Badr, was born on February 17, 1976, in Tartus, Syria's second-largest port city. By the age of 4 or 5, he moved with his family to Damascus. He comes from a middle-class Syrian Alawite family that had no prior connection with the film business. His father, who finished his education in Germany, is a German ...
Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd was born in Quhafa, a small village some 120 km from Cairo, near Tanta, Egypt on July 10, 1943. Abu Zayd went through a traditional religious school system [6] and was a Qāriʾ who could recite the Qur'an with the proper rules of recitation, and a Hafiz one who has memorized the Quran completely from a young age.
Postage stamp of the USSR, issued on the 1100th anniversary of the birth of Al-Farabi (1975). Abu Nasr Muhammad al-Farabi (Arabic: أبو نصر محمد الفارابي, romanized: Abū Naṣr Muḥammad al-Fārābī; c. 870 [1] [H] — 14 December 950–12 January 951), [2] known in the Latin West as Alpharabius, [3] [I] was an early Islamic philosopher and music theorist. [4]
Emily Daoud Abi Rached was born in the village of Kaukaba in South Lebanon, [3] to Loutfa, née Abou Nasr, and Daoud Abi Rached. She was raised in al-Kfeir on western foot of Mount Hermon in southern Lebanon. The eldest of six children, she tended the village fields with her parents; an experience that influenced her later work.
Haifa Wehbe. Haifa Wehbe ( Arabic: هيفاء وهبي Lebanese Arabic pronunciation: [hæjfa wehbe]; born 10 March 1972) is a Lebanese singer and actress. She is considered one of Lebanon's most famous and successful singers, and one of the best-known artists in the Arab world . She has been among the highest-selling and most successful Middle ...
Vali Reza Nasr (Persian: ولی رضا نصر, born 20 December 1960) is an Iranian-American academic and author, specializing in the Middle East and the Islamic world. He is Majid Khaddouri Professor of International Affairs and Middle East Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, D.C.
Biography. Mahmoud Abo El-Nasr received PhD from Reading University, England in 1986, and went on to do post-doctoral work at Washington State University. He has been department head, dean, university vice president and professor of mechanical engineering at the Ain Shams University. In September 2010 he joined the ministry of education as ...
Abū Bakr al-Rāzī (full name: أبو بکر محمد بن زکریاء الرازي, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakariyyāʾ al-Rāzī ), [ a] c. 864 or 865–925 or 935 CE, [ b] often known as (al-)Razi or by his Latin name Rhazes, also rendered Rhasis, was a Persian physician, philosopher and alchemist who lived during the Islamic Golden Age ...