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2019 In Iraq
Events of 2019 in Iraq. Incumbents * President: Barham Salih * Prime Minister: Adil Abdul-Mahdi Events * March 21: Mosul ferry sinking, 103 drowned of Kurdish revelers celebrating the new year. * August 20: Popular Mobilisation, a Shia-dominated military group, blames the United States and Israel for an explosion at Balad airbase in Salahuddin province, about 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad. * October 1: 2019 Iraqi Protests Deaths * January 18 - Lamia Al-Gailani Werr, 80, Iraqi archaeologist. * January 28 - Tahseen Said, 86, Iraqi politician, Emir of the Yazidis (since 1944). *February 2 - Alaa Mashzoub, 50, Iraqi novelist and writer, expert on the History of the Jews in Iraq, shot. * May 3 - George Hanna, 90, Iraqi-American basketball player. *May 13 - Kochavi Shemesh, 75, Iraqi-born Israeli lawyer and social activist, leader of the Black Panthers protest movement. *26 May Events Pre-1600 * 17 – Germanicus celebrates a triumph in Rome ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019
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Yazidis
Yazidis or Yezidis (; ku, ئێزیدی, translit=Êzidî) are a Kurmanji-speaking endogamous minority group who are indigenous to Kurdistan, a geographical region in Western Asia Western Asia, West Asia, or Southwest Asia, is the westernmost subregion of the larger geographical region of Asia, as defined by some academics, UN bodies and other institutions. It is almost entirely a part of the Middle East, and includes A ... that includes parts of Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Iran. The majority of Yazidis remaining in the Middle East today live in Iraq, primarily in the Governorates of Iraq, governorates of Nineveh Governorate, Nineveh and Duhok Governorate, Duhok. There is a disagreement among scholars and in Yazidi circles on whether the Yazidi people are a distinct ethnoreligious group or a religious sub-group of the Kurds, an Iranian peoples, Iranic ethnic group. Yazidism is the ethnic religion of the Yazidi people and is Monotheism, monotheistic in nature, having roots i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Safaa Al Sarai
, Safaa Al Sarai Safaa Al Sarai ( ar, صفاء السراي; 28 June 1993 – 28 October 2019) was an Iraqi human rights activist who has been called the icon of the Iraqi uprising. Background He was born into a family from Baghdad that lived in the Sha'ab neighborhood. He graduated from high school to enroll in the Technological University, and during his school years he worked as a porter in a market in the Jamila commercial district. His father died early in his life, then his mother died from cancer in 2017. He later graduated as a programmer from the department of computer science at the University of Technology. After graduating, he worked in writing petitions in front of one of the buildings of the Traffic Directorates. And a week before his death, he got a new job in his specialty, when he was employed at a private university. Safaa Al Sarai wrote popular and eloquent poetry on a small scale. He was also a skilled painter, and in poetry, he showed unrivalled admiration f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marja'
Marji ( ar, مرجع, transliteration: ''marjiʿ''; plural: ''marājiʿ''), literally meaning "source to follow" or "religious reference", is a title given to the highest level of Twelver Shia authority, a Grand Ayatollah with the authority given by a hawzah to make legal decisions within the confines of Islamic law for followers and lower-ranking clerics. The highest ranking ''marjiʿ'' is known as the ''marja al-mutlaq'' or ''marja al-taqlid al-mutlaq''. Sources differ as to when the institution of the marja˓ emerged, with Murtadha al-Ansari (d. 1864) and Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni (d. 940 or 941 CE) both being called the first marja'. Title Currently, maraji' are accorded the title ''Grand Ayatollah'' ( ar, آية الله العظمی ''ʾĀyatullāh al-ʿUẓmā''). Previously, the titles of Allamah (such as Allameh Tabatabaei, Allameh Majlesi, Allameh Hilli) and Imam (such as Imam Khomeini, Imam Rohani, Imam Shirazi and Imam Sadr) have also been used. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohammad Hussaini Shahroudi
, image = 148117 AyatullahShahroudi S3(3).jpg , caption = Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Shahroudi , image_size= 200px , birth_date = December 1925 , birth_place = Najaf, Iraq , death_date = 7 July 2019 (aged 94) , death_place = Tehran, Iran , nationality = Iraqi , resting_place = , title= Grand Ayatollah , website =www.shahroudi.net Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad al-Shahroudi (Arabic: آيت الله العظمى سيد محمد حسينى شاهرودى) (December 1925 – 7 July 2019) was a senior Iraqi Twelver Shi'a Marja' in Iran. He studied in seminars of Najaf and Qom under Grand Ayatollah Hashem Amoli, and Grand Ayatollahs Syed Jamaluddin Golpaygani, Sayyid Mahmoud Hussaini Shahroudi and Abdul Hussain Rashti. Death Mohammad Shahroudi died in Tehran, Iran at the age of 94. See also * Grand Ayatollahs *List of Maraji Maraji are the supreme legal authority for Twelver Shia Muslims. The following articles contain lists of Maraji: * List of curren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
July 7
Events Pre-1600 *1124 – The city of Tyre falls to the Venetian Crusade after a siege of nineteen weeks. *1456 – A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her execution. * 1520 – Spanish '' conquistadores'' defeat a larger Aztec army at the Battle of Otumba. * 1534 – Jacques Cartier makes his first contact with aboriginal peoples in what is now Canada. *1575 – The Raid of the Redeswire is the last major battle between England and Scotland. *1585 – The Treaty of Nemours abolishes tolerance to Protestants in France. 1601–1900 *1667 – An English fleet completes the destruction of a French merchant fleet off Fort St Pierre, Martinique during the Second Anglo-Dutch War. *1770 – The Battle of Larga between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire takes place. *1777 – American forces retreating from Fort Ticonderoga are defeated in the Battle of Hubbardton. *1798 – As a result of the XYZ Aff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qays Abd Al-Hussein Al-Yasiri
Qays Abd al-Hussein al-Yasiri ( ar, قيس عبد الحسين الياسري, translit=Qays ʻAbd al-Ḥusayn al-Yāsirī;1941 – 26 May 2019) was an Iraqi media historian, academic and poet, best known for his studies on early Iraqi mass media. He graduated from the universities of Baghdad in 1972, Cairo in 1976 and Warsaw in 1986. In his professional career, he moved between several jobs, as he worked as journalist, media official and assistant professor. His only poetry collection published in 1970. He left several books about media and wrote various essays. Al-Yasiri died at the age of 78 in Baghdad. Biography Qais Abd al-Hussein Aziz Al-Yasiri was born in 1941 in the village of Al-Khayrat, Al-Hindiya, Karbala Governorate, where he grew up and studied. Then he went to Baghdad and obtained a Bachelor of Journalism from the College of Arts at Baghdad University in 1972, and a Master of Mass Communication from the Faculty of Mass Communication at Cairo University i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
26 May
Events Pre-1600 * 17 – Germanicus celebrates a triumph in Rome for his victories over the Cherusci, Chatti, and other German tribes west of the Elbe. * 451 – Battle of Avarayr between Armenian rebels and the Sasanian Empire takes place. The Sasanids defeat the Armenians militarily but guarantee them freedom to openly practice Christianity. * 946 – King Edmund I of England is murdered by a thief whom he personally attacks while celebrating St Augustine's Mass Day. * 961 – King Otto I elects his six-year-old son Otto II as heir apparent and co-ruler of the East Frankish Kingdom. He is crowned at Aachen, and placed under the tutelage of his grandmother Matilda. *1135 – Alfonso VII of León and Castile is crowned in León Cathedral as ''Imperator totius Hispaniae'' (''Emperor of all of Spain''). *1293 – An earthquake strikes Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan, killing about 23,000. *1328 – William of Ockham, the Franciscan Minister-General Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Panthers (Israel)
The Black Panthers ( he, הפנתרים השחורים, translit. ''HaPanterim HaShkhorim'') were an Israeli protest movement of second-generation Jewish immigrants from North Africa and Middle Eastern countries. It was one of the first organizations in Israel with the mission of working for social justice for Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews, drawing inspiration and borrowing the name from the African-American organization Black Panther Party. It is also sometimes referred to as the ''Israeli Black Panthers'' to distinguish them from the original American group. History The movement was founded early in 1971 by young people in the Musrara neighborhood of Jerusalem, in reaction to discrimination against Mizrahi Jews, which existed since the establishment of the state. The movement's founders protested "ignorance from the establishment for the hard social problems", and wanted to fight for a different future. All of the initial ten members were children of Moroccan immigrants, around ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kochavi Shemesh
Kochavi Shemesh (sometimes spelled "Kohavi", ; 10 January 1944 – 13 May 2019) was a lawyer, leftist activist, and one of the leaders of the Israeli Black Panthers and the editor of its main publication ''Ha'panter Ha'shachor'' (). He also helped form the Israeli political party Hadash, which formed as a merger between the Black Panthers, the Israeli Communist Party, and other leftist organizations. Biography Early life Shemesh was born in Baghdad, Iraq in the Rabbi Meir Bal HaNess Jewish Hospital in January 1944. His family moved to Israel in July 1950, and he grew up in Musrara, Jerusalem, a neighborhood predominantly populated by recent Mizrahi and Sephardi immigrants. He did not receive any formal secular education as a child, dropping out before he even completed first grade. However, he did study in ultra orthodox schools until the age of 14. For most of his life, he worked as a taxi driver and restaurant worker. In the 1960s, Shemesh founded and edited a daily commun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
May 13
Events Pre-1600 *1373 – Julian of Norwich has visions of Jesus while suffering from a life-threatening illness, visions which are later described and interpreted in her book ''Revelations of Divine Love''. * 1501 – Amerigo Vespucci, this time under Portuguese flag, set sail for western lands. *1568 – Mary Queen of Scots is defeated at the Battle of Langside, part of the civil war between Queen Mary and the supporters of her son, James VI. 1601–1900 *1612 – Sword duel between Miyamoto Musashi and Sasaki Kojiro on the shores of Ganryū Island. Kojiro dies at the end. *1619 – Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after being convicted of treason. * 1654 – A Venetian fleet under Admiral Cort Adeler breaks through a line of galleys and defeats the Turkish navy. *1779 – War of the Bavarian Succession: Russian and French mediators at the Congress of Teschen negotiate an end to the war. In the agreement Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Hanna (basketball)
George Hanna or Hanna Jurgis (13 May 1928 – 3 May 2019), later known as John Hanna Hallaq, was an Iraqi basketball player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1948 Summer Olympics. Hanna later immigrated to the United States in 1958, and attended Weber State College, University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of Washington (PhD). After obtaining his PhD, he became a professor of International Business & Marketing at the University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho and Washington State University in Pullman, Washington until his retirement in 1996. Hanna died in St. George, Utah St. George is a city in and the county seat of Washington County, Utah, United States. Located in southwestern Utah on the Arizona border, it is the principal city of the St. George Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). The city lies in the northe ... in 2019 at the age of 90. References 1928 births 2019 deaths Iraqi men's basketball players Iraqi emigrants to the United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
