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Asya (given Name)
Asya is a given name with varied origins. It is a Turkish feminine given name meaning Asia. It is a Bulgarian and Russian diminutive form of the feminine given name Anastasia, meaning ''resurrection''. It is also a form of the Arabic name Asiya, meaning ''thoughtful''. People *Asya of Diauehi, a ruler of the Kingdom of Diaokhi, a confederation of proto-Georgian tribes, who reigned around the middle of the 9th century BCE. *Asya (singer) (born 1965), Turkish singer *Asya, ring name of American bodybuilder, model and professional wrestler Christi Wolf *Asya Abdullah (born 1971), Kurdish politician, co-chairwoman of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) * Asya Alashaikh, founder and CEO of Tamkeen Company for sustainable solutions in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. * Asya Ramazan Antar (1998-2016), Kurdish Women's Protection Units (YPJ) fighter who has become a symbol of the feminist struggle in the Rojava conflict and in the fight against ISIS, by international media. *Asya Branch (born 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arabic
Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic languages, Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C. E.Watson; Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/Boston, 2011. Having emerged in the 1st century, it is named after the Arabs, Arab people; the term "Arab" was initially used to describe those living in the Arabian Peninsula, as perceived by geographers from ancient Greece. Since the 7th century, Arabic has been characterized by diglossia, with an opposition between a standard Prestige (sociolinguistics), prestige language—i.e., Literary Arabic: Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) or Classical Arabic—and diverse vernacular varieties, which serve as First language, mother tongues. Colloquial dialects vary significantly from MSA, impeding mutual intelligibility. MSA is only acquired through formal education and is not spoken natively. It is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asia Ramazan Antar
Asya Ramazan Antar, also known as Viyan Antar, was a Kurdish Women's Protection Units (YPJ) fighter who has become a symbol of the feminist struggle in the Rojava conflict and in the fight against ISIS, by international media. In 2014, Antar joined the YPJ with the aim of fighting against the Islamic State. After photos of her spread across the internet, she was dubbed "the Kurdish Angelina Jolie" by international media for her physical resemblance to the actress. Other Kurdish fighters and activists of the Kurdish cause described these comparisons as sexist and objectifying. Early life Born into a Kurdish family, Antar married very young through a marriage arranged by her family. After three months, she got divorced and joined the ranks of the Women's Protection Units (YPJ) to fight for the emancipation of women from the hands of patriarchal oppression in the region. Transcendence in the media Antar gained international attention in 2015 when a photojournalist took photos of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asya Sultanova
Asya Bakhish Sultanova (16 October 1923 – 22 November 2021) was an Azerbaijani composer who is best known for her works for children and her collaboration with singer Muslim Magomayev. Biography Sultanova was born in Baku. Her father was a geologist, and her mother was an English teacher. She studied at the Azerbaijan Conservatory from 1942 to 1944, and at the Moscow Conservatory, where she graduated in 1950. She remained in Moscow after graduating and lived there until her death. Her teachers included Evgeny Golubev and Vissarion Shebalin, who encouraged her to incorporate Azerbaijani folk tunes in her music. She was also mentored by Azerbaijani composer Kara Karaev. Sultanova married, then divorced, musician and actor Vladimir Shainsky. She presented recitals throughout the Soviet Union, and worked at a film studio. She first heard Muslim Magomayev sing in 1963. They collaborated on three songs, and she introduced him to Armenian composer Arno Babajanyan. In 1967, Sultanova ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asya Saavedra
Chaos Chaos are an American indie synthpop band based in Brooklyn, New York. The band was formed in Seattle under the name Smoosh in 2000 and adopted their current name in 2012. The band consists of two sisters, who founded the band as children: singer/keyboardist Asya "Asy" Saavedra (born February 2, 1992) and drummer Chloe Saavedra (born March 5, 1994). They released three LPs as Smoosh, and have produced two further EPs, several singles, and a fourth full-length album as Chaos Chaos. History Smoosh: 2000–2012 Smoosh started in 2000 when the family was at a Seattle music store The Trading Musician, standing in line to restring a violin. Asy and Chloe wandered into the drum section of the store, where Chloe met Jason McGerr, the drummer for Death Cab for Cutie. The family eventually left with a $600 drum kit for Chloe, McGerr's card from the Seattle Drum School, "and no violin." [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Israel Institute Of Technology
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the Eastern Mediterranean, southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and the northern shore of the Red Sea, and Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the northeast, Jordan to the east, and Egypt to the southwest. Israel also is bordered by the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to the east and west, respectively. Tel Aviv is the Economy of Israel, economic and Science and technology in Israel, technological center of the country, while its seat of government is in its proclaimed capital of Jerusalem, although Status of Jerusalem, Israeli sovereignty over East Jerusalem is unrecognized internationally. The land held by present-day Israel witnessed some of the earliest human occup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asya Rolls
Asya Rolls is an Israeli psychoneuroimmunologist and International Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and an associate professor at the Immunology and Center of Neuroscience at Technion within the Israel Institute of Technology. Rolls leads a lab that explores how the nervous system affects immune responses and thus physical health. Her recent work has highlighted how the brain's reward system is implicated in the placebo response and how brain-immune interactions can be harnessed to find and destroy tumors. Early life and education Rolls completed her undergraduate degree in Life Sciences at the Technion within the Israel Institute of Technology. After she obtained a Bachelors of Science, Rolls stayed in the department of Life sciences at the Israel Institute of Technology for her Master's. Following her Master's, Rolls pursued her graduate studies at the Weizmann Institute in Israel. Rolls pursued research in neuroimmunology under the mentorship Michal Schwartz with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asya Pereltsvaig
Asya Pereltsvaig (russian: link=no, Ася Перельцвайг; born 1972) is a Russian-American linguist, writer, and educator. Pereltsvaig was born in Leningrad, USSR. Life Her research interests are theoretical syntax, cross-linguistic typology, Slavic linguistics, and historical linguistics. Her recent books include: ''The Indo-European Controversy: Facts and Fallacies in Historical Linguistics'' (2015, with Martin Lewis) and ''Languages of the World: An Introduction'' (third edition, 2020). She has been published in ''Science, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory'', '' Language and Linguistics Compass'', and elsewhere. She has taught in Yale, Cornell, and Stanford universities. She has a PhD in Linguistics from McGill University McGill University (french: link=no, Université McGill) is an English-language public research university located in Montreal, Quebec Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the second-most populous city in Canada and most pop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asya Miller
Asya Miller Lapper (born October 16, 1979) is a five-time Paralympic medalist, with four of her medals coming in goalball. Miller was nominated for an ESPY Award in 2009. Miller made her Paralympic debut in 2000 and won a bronze medal for discus at the Sydney Paralympic Games. In goalball, Miller and teammate Lisa Czechowski competed in their sixth Paralympics together at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games. Together they have won four Paralympic medals, including gold at the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games. Her visual impairment is caused by Stargardt disease. She has also competed in various throwing events, like discus, besides goalball. Her wife is fellow goalballer Jen Armbruster. See also * United States women's national goalball team United States women's national goalball team is the women's national team of the United States. Goalball is a team sport designed specifically for athletes with a vision impairment. The team takes part in international competitions. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asya Kolchynska
Asya Zelikivna Kolchynska (; July 4, 1918 – 2010) was a Ukrainian pathophysiologist, Doctor of medical sciences (1964), and Professor (1976). Laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology (2000). Early life and education Asya Kolchynska was born in 1918 in Kyiv in the family of an employee. She graduated with honors in 1940 from the Faculty of Biology of the University of Kyiv, and entered the graduate school of the Institute of Botany of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Career With the beginning of the battles on the Eastern Front of the Second World War, Kolchynska moved to Omsk, where she worked at the local pedagogical institute and studied at the 2nd Moscow Medical Institute in the evacuation. Kolchynska received her diploma in Kyiv in 1946. From 1946 Kolchynska worked at the Institute of Physiology of the USSR Academy of Sciences (Kyiv). Between 1969 and 1976, she was the head of the Laboratory of Applied Physiology, and from 1976 to 1982 she was the h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adi Asya Katz
Adi Asia Katz ( he, עדי כץ; born 31 March 2004) is an Israeli rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2022 European bronze medallist in Ribbon, and Team Bronze medallist. As a Junior, She was the 2019 Junior World silver medalist with Ribbon and bronze medalist with Clubs. Career Junior She competed at the 2018 Junior European Championships in Guadalajara, Spain, where she placed 41st in Hoop Qualifications and 8th in Ribbon Qualifications. Next day, she improved her result with Ribbon, when she placed 5th in the final. A year later, she took part in the 2019 Junior World Championships as a part of Israeli team, which won bronze medal in Team ranking. She also won silver medal in Ribbon final and bronze medal in Clubs final. Senior She debuted as a senior in 2020, but made her first big international appearance at World Cup Sofia in 2021. She placed 15th in All-around and qualified to Hoop final, where she ended on 8th place. Then she also competed at World Challenge Cup Minsk a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asya Bussie
Asya Bussie (born April 16, 1991) is an American professional basketball player. Born in Baltimore, Maryland Baltimore ( , locally: or ) is the List of municipalities in Maryland, most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland, fourth most populous city in the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic, and List of United States cities by popula ..., she was drafted in 2014 by the Minnesota Lynx of the WNBA. West Virginia statistics Source References External linksWNBA Rookie Profile 1991 births Living people American women's basketball players Basketball players from Baltimore Centers (basketball) Minnesota Lynx draft picks Seton Keough High School alumni West Virginia Mountaineers women's basketball players {{US-women-basketball-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss USA 2020
Miss USA 2020 was the 69th Miss USA pageant. It was held at the Exhibition Centre and the Soundstage at Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee, on November 9, 2020. Akbar Gbaja-Biamila and Allie LaForce served as hosts, while Cheslie Kryst and Christian Murphy served as backstage commentators, and Haley Reinhart performed. Cheslie Kryst of North Carolina crowned Asya Branch of Mississippi as her successor at the end of the event. Branch is the second consecutive African American to win the title, and the fourth one in five years. This is Mississippi's first win at the Miss USA pageant. Branch represented the United States at the Miss Universe 2020 pageant and placed in the Top 21. Originally scheduled to be held in spring 2020 and was initially to air on Fox, the competition was postponed indefinitely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On August 31, the Miss Universe Organization announced that the competition would be held on November 9 of the same year. FYI served as the new broadcaster o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
