Arif (surname)
Aref *Hassan Aref, Egyptian physicist *Mohammad Reza Aref, Iranian politician, former vice-president of Iran * Yassin M. Aref, American terror suspect Arif *Mahmud Arif, (1909 – 2001) Saudi Arabian poet *Abdul Salam Arif and Abdul Rahman Arif, brothers presidents of Iraq *Adil Arif (born 1994), Emirati cricketer *Ahmed Arif (1927–1991), Turkish poet *Celalettin Arif (1875–1928), Turkish politician *Kader Arif (born 1953), French politician of Algiers origin *Muhammad Arif (other), several people *Naved Arif, Professional cricketer *Tevfik Arif, real estate developer and financier for Donald Trump See also *Arif (given name) Arif ( ar, عارف also spelled Aref in Pashto, Persian & Urdu, or Arief in Indonesian and Malay) is an Arabic male given name that is common in Eritrea, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia and Yemen. It later spread to other Muslim countries, such as Afghanis ...

Hassan Aref
Hassan Aref (Arabic: حسن عارف), (28 September 1950 – 9 September 2011) was the Reynolds Metals Professor in the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Virginia Tech, and the Niels Bohr Visiting Professor at the Technical University of Denmark. Education He was educated at the University of Copenhagen Niels Bohr Institute, graduating in 1975 with a cand. scient degree in Physics and Mathematics. Subsequently he received a PhD degree in Physics from Cornell University in 1980. Career Academia and research Prior to joining Virginia Tech as Dean of Engineering in 2003-2005 Aref was Head of the Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for a decade from 1992-2003. Before that he was on the faculty of University of California, San Diego, split between the Department of Applied Mechanics and Engineering Science and the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics 1985-1992. Simultaneously, he was Chief ...
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Mohammad-Reza Aref
Mohammad Reza Aref ( fa, محمدرضا عارف, born 19 December 1951) is an Iranian engineer, academic and reformist politician who was the parliamentary leader of reformists' Hope fraction in the Iranian Parliament, representing Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr. Aref has also been heading the Reformists' Supreme Council for Policymaking since its establishment in 2015.He is currently member of the Expediency Discernment Council. He was the second first vice president from 2001 to 2005 under Mohammad Khatami. He previously served as Minister Information and Communications Technology and head of Management and Planning Organization in Khatami's first cabinet. He was a member of Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution until the year of 2021, and the current member of Expediency Discernment Council. He is also an electrical engineer and a professor at University of Tehran and Sharif University of Technology. He was a candidate in the 2013 presidential election but wi ...
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Yassin M
Yasin, Yassin, Yassine, Yacine or Yaseen may refer to: People * Yasin (name), an Arabic-based name * Yassin (name), an Arabic-based name * Yassine (name), an Arabic-based name * Yacine (name), an Arabic-based name * Yaşın (name), a Turkish-based name Places * Yasin Valley, a valley in the Hindu Kush mountains of Pakistan * Yasin Tehsil, an administrative unit within the valley * Yasinia, urban-type settlement in Ukraine Other uses *Yasin (jet), 2019 Iranian aircraft * Yasin (rapper) also known as Yasin Byn, Swedish hip hop artist * Yasin (RPG), a rocket-propelled grenade * Ya-Sin, the 36th chapter in the Qur'an See also * Iacin, Murcian variant of the name Joachim * Jasin (other) Jasin may refer to: *Jasin District in Malacca, Malaysia *Jasin, Malacca, a town in Jasin District *Jasin (federal constituency) in Malacca, Malaysia *Jasin, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, a village in north-central Poland *Jasin, Greater Poland V ...

Mahmud Arif
Mahmud Abd al-Khayr Al Arif ( ar, محمود عارف, translit= Maḥmūd ʿĀrif; 1909 – 1 March 2001), commonly known as Mahmud Arif, was a Saudi Arabian poet. He was born in Old Jedda, Hejaz. After studying in Kuttab for three years, he joined Al Falah School and graduated. He worked as a teacher there for seven years, then moved to government jobs and worked in various office and administrative support occupations, such as: editor, copy typist and lawyer in the Civil Endowments Department of the Sharia judiciary, director of passports and government residency and finally moved to the accounting department. He was chosen a member of the Consultative Assembly until his retirement in 1978. In 1963, appointed as editor-in-chief of '' Okaz'' newspaper for a year at the beginning of the new system for journalistic institutions in Saudi Arabia. He is one of the founding members of the Jeddah Society of Culture and Arts in 1975. As a poet, he published many collections of poet ...
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Abdul Salam Arif
ʿAbd al-Salam Mohammed ʿArif al-Jumayli ( ar, عبد السلام محمد عارف الجميلي'; 21 March 1921 – 13 April 1966) was the second president of Iraq from 1963 until his death in a plane crash in 1966. He played a leading role in the 14 July Revolution, in which the Hashemite monarchy was overthrown on 14 July 1958. 1958 coup and conflict with Qasim Along with Abdel Karim Qasim and other Iraqi military officers, Arif was a member of the clandestine organisation, the Free Officers of Iraq. Like Qasim, Arif served with distinction in the otherwise unsuccessful 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict, where he captured Jenin in what is now the West Bank part of Palestine. During the summer of 1958, Prime Minister Nuri as-Sa'id ordered Iraqi troops under Arif to aid Jordan, as part of an agreement of the Arab Federation. Instead, however, he led his army units into Baghdad and on 14 July launched a coup against the Hashemite monarchy. Qasim formed a government under the newl ...
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Abdul Rahman Arif
Hajj ʿAbd al-Rahman Mohammed ʿArif al-Jumayli ( ar, عبد الرحمن محمد عارف الجميلي, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ʿĀrif; 14 April 191624 August 2007) was a career soldier and the third president of Iraq from 16 April 1966 to 17 July 1968. Biography Abdul Rahman Arif was a career soldier. He supported the military coup in 1958 that overthrew the monarchy. He also supported the coup that brought his brother, Abdul Salam Arif, to power in 1963. His brother appointed him head of the army following the coup, and when the younger Arif died in an aircraft crash in April 1966, Prime Minister Abdul Rahman al-Bazzaz ("a Western-oriented lawyer" and the first civilian to head an Iraqi government since the 1958 revolution) became acting president. Three days later, al-Bazzaz was chosen to become president, but al-Bazzaz immediately relinquished the presidency to Abdul Rahman Arif. It is speculated that the transfer of power possibly occurred because the Iraqi military th ...
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Iraq
Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq border, the east, the Persian Gulf and Kuwait to the southeast, Saudi Arabia to the south, Jordan to Iraq–Jordan border, the southwest and Syria to Iraq–Syria border, the west. The Capital city, capital and largest city is Baghdad. Iraq is home to diverse ethnic groups including Iraqi Arabs, Kurds, Iraqi Turkmen, Turkmens, Assyrian people, Assyrians, Armenians in Iraq, Armenians, Yazidis, Mandaeans, Iranians in Iraq, Persians and Shabaks, Shabakis with similarly diverse Geography of Iraq, geography and Wildlife of Iraq, wildlife. The vast majority of the country's 44 million residents are Muslims – the notable other faiths are Christianity in Iraq, Christianity, Yazidism, Mandaeism, Yarsanism and Zoroastrianism. The official langu ...
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Adil Arif
This is a list in alphabetical order of cricketers who have played first-class cricket for the Cambridge University Centre of Cricketing Excellence (UCCE) and Cambridge Marylebone Cricket Club University (MCCU). Players who have played first-class cricket for Cambridge University can be found in List of Cambridge University Cricket Club players. The Cambridge UCCE was formed in 2001 by Cambridge University Cricket Club and Anglia Polytechnic University, now Anglia Ruskin University (ARU), with funding and support from Cambridge University and the England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB). It continued until the 2009 season, when the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) took over funding from ECB, at which point it was renamed the MCCU. It then also received some support from ARU. These teams include students from Anglia Ruskin University, as well as Cambridge University, and play in three-day first-class matches as well as in the UCCE/MCCU Championship, the British Universities & Col ...
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Ahmed Arif
Ahmed Arif (21 April 1927 in Diyarbakır – 2 June 1991 in Ankara) was a Turkish-Kurdish poet. His father, Arif Hikmet, is an ethnic Turkmen from Kirkuk, and his mother Sayre is Kurdish. Ahmed Arif studied philosophy at Ankara University. Arif was arrested on political grounds in 1950 and spent time in prison until 1952. Published in various literary journals, his poems were widely read due to their original lyricism and imagery influenced by Anatolian folk cultures. He published only one collection of poetry: Hasretinden Prangalar Eskittim (Fetters Worn Out by Longing/1968) – a volume that has gone through a record number of printings. See also * Ahmet Arif Literature Museum Library The Ahmet Arif Literature Museum Library ( tr, Ahmet Arif Edebiyat Müze Kütüphanesi) is a literary museum and archive dedicated to Turkish literature and named after the poet Ahmet Arif (1927–1991). Located in Diyarbakır, Turkey, the museum ... References External links Poems & B ...
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Celalettin Arif
Celalettin Arif (1875–1928) was a Turkish lawyer, politician, academic, government minister and diplomat. Early years Celalettin Arif was born to Mehmet Arif in Erzurum, Ottoman Empire in 1875. After finishing the Soğukçeşme Military Middle School in Istanbul and Galatasaray High School, he studied law and political science in Paris, France. Between 1901 and 1908, he worked as a lawyer in Cairo, Egypt. Returned to Istanbul, he taught law and political science in colleges. From 1914 to 1920, he served as the conseil chairman of the Bar of Istanbul. He co-founded the political party " Osmanlı Ahrar Fıkrası" ("Ottoman Liberty Party"), and was elected as a deputy from Istanbul into the Ottoman parliament in its 4th legislative term. On March 4, 1920 he was elected parliament speaker that lasted only a brief time as the parliament was disbanded on 5 April 1920 by the Allied troops during the occupation of Istanbul. Turkish War of Independence and Republican era After the c ...
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Kader Arif
Kader Arif ( ar, قادر عريف; born 3 July 1959 in Algiers) is a French politician of the French Socialist Party (PS) who served as Junior Minister for Veterans to the French Minister of Defence Jean-Yves Le Drian from 2012 until 2014. Prior to this, he was a Member of the European Parliament for the south-west of France. Early career * Master's degree in communications * Special adviser to Lionel Jospin (1988–1992) * Chargé d'affaires (1992–1995) * Regional director of a tour operator (1995–1999) * University manager (1999–2001) He played as hooker for the French rugby union club Castres Olympique. Political career Early beginnings * First federal secretary, Haute-Garonne Socialist Party (1999–2008) * Member of the Socialist Party national bureau (since 2000) * Socialist Party national secretary, with responsibility for globalisation * Member of Castanet-Tolosan Municipal Council, with responsibility for sport (1995–2001) Member of the European Par ...
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Muhammad Arif (other)
Muhammad Arif may refer to: *Muhammad Arif Khan Rajbana Sial (1913–2010), Pakistani chieftain and politician *Hajji Muhammad Arif Zarif (1943–2007), Afghan politician and businessman *Muhammad Arif Shah Jahan (born 1954), Afghan politician and governor of Wardak province *Muhammad Arif Khan Sindhila (born 1958), member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab *Muhammad Arif Chaudhry (born 1959), former member of the National Assembly of Pakistan *Muhammad Arif Sarwari (born 1961), Afghan politician and intelligence officer *Muhammad Arif Abbasi (born 1965), former member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab *Muhammad Arif (Pakistani politician) Mir Mohammad Arif Mohammad Hassani is a Pakistani politician who was the Provincial Minister of the Balochistan for Communication and works, in office from 30 August 2018 to 12 August 2023. He had been a member of Provincial Assembly of the Bal ...