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Azar (name)
''Azar'' is the common English spelling for several given names and surnames: the Arabic ', the Persian ' (sometimes also romanised as '), as well as a Hebrew name עזר. Azar is a common boys', girls', and last name in Persian-speaking countries. Azar means fire in Persian. Azarkadeh or Atashkadeh (Atash is another name for fire in Persian) are the places of worship for Zoroastrians. Zoroastrianism is a religion and a belief that originated in Iran. People with the name include: Religious figures *Āzar (Arabic: ءازَرُ), or Terah, father of Abraham in the Islamic tradition *Azar, derivative of Elazar, Lazarus of Bethany, whom Jesus raised from the dead. Given name * Azar Bigdeli (1722–1781), Iranian anthologist and poet *Azar Gat (born 1959), Israeli researcher and author on military history *Azar Karadas (born 1981), Norwegian football player of Turkish descent * Āzar Kayvān, (16–17c.), Zoroastrian high priest of Iran who emigrated to India and founded an illumin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arabic Names
Arabic language names have historically been based on a long naming system. Many people from the Arabic-speaking and also Muslim countries have not had given/ middle/ family names but rather a chain of names. This system remains in use throughout the Arabic and Muslim worlds. Name structure ' The ' () is the given name, first name, or personal name; e.g. "Ahmad" or "Fatimah". Most Arabic names have meaning as ordinary adjectives and nouns, and are often aspirational of character. For example, ''Muhammad'' means 'Praiseworthy' and ''Ali'' means 'Exalted' or 'High'. The syntactic context will generally differentiate the name from the noun/adjective. However Arabic newspapers will occasionally place names in brackets, or quotation marks, to avoid confusion. Indeed, such is the popularity of the name ''Muhammad'' throughout parts of Africa, Arabia, the Middle East, South Asia and Southeast Asia, it is often represented by the abbreviation "Md.", "Mohd.", "Muhd.", or just "M.". In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betty Azar
Betty Schrampfer Azar is the author of the ''Azar Grammar Series'' for students of English as a second or foreign language. A staple in English language teaching for more than three decades, the series contains dozens of books and is widely used throughout the globe. Azar is a proponent of grammar-based teaching in which grammar serves as the starting point and foundation for the development of all language skills — speaking, listening, writing, and reading. The series is in its fifth edition. With the addition of co-author Stacy A. Hagen in 2006, the series is now known as the ''Azar-Hagen Grammar Series''. There are three principal textbooks in the series: ''Understanding and Using English Grammar'', ''Fundamentals of English Grammar'' and ''Basic English Grammar''. In 2017, TESOL International Association named the Betty Azar Travel Grant for Practicing ESL ESL/EFL Teachers in her honor. This grant helps pay for participants to travel to the annual TESOL conference. Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mehdi Azar
Mehdi Azar (1901–1994) was an Iranian physician, professor of medicine and politician who served as the minister of culture in the period 1952–1953. In addition to his political activities he was one of the leading Iranian physicians in kidney disease. Early life and education Azar was born in 1901. His father was Haj Mirza Ali Tabrizi who was a cleric and a deputy in the Majlis. Azar graduated from Tehran Medical School in 1928 and also, from the University of Lyon. Career Azar was a faculty member at the University of Tehran. He joined the National Front established by Mohammad Mosaddegh. Azar was its secretary of foreign relations. In 1949 Azar was imprisoned due to his political activities. He was appointed minister of culture in the second cabinet of Mosaddegh in July 1952. Azar was one of the cabinet members who were claimed by the Western publications, including ''Newsweek'', to be communist threats for Iran. The others were Hossein Fatemi Hossein Fatemi ( f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Azar (singer)
Joseph Azar ( ar, جوزيف عازار) (born 1942) is a Lebanese artist, solo singer, and performer in Lebanese musical comedies and theatre. Beginnings Azar was born in the town of Jezzine, Lebanon. He was the youngest of four sons and attended elementary school in his hometown. He began singing at a very young age, influenced by his father and was characterized by his strong traditional voice, which he developed as a Psalmist in a church choir. At the end of 1958, Azar moved to Beirut where he received musical courses at the National Conservatory, which was run by renowned lute player Farid Ghosn. Career Joseph Azar began his career in 1961 with the Rahbani Brothers and Fairuz in the play ''Al Baal-bakiye'' then repeated the experiment in several plays, including: ''Jisir El Amar'' (1962), ''Hollo'' (1963) and he played the role of Rajeh in the musical play ''Bayaa El Khawatem''. He was assigned the starring role next to the star Sabah in the musical ''El Challal'' directed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Azar (prince)
Joseph Azar was a Jewish prince of the Anjuvannam in Cochin, South India. He was a descendant of Joseph Rabban. Azar lived in the 14th century CE. In 1340 Joseph Azar became embroiled in a conflict over succession with his brother. The ensuing strife led to intervention by neighboring potentates and the eradication of Jewish autonomy in South India. Sidney Mendelssohn (1920), The Jews of Asia, p. 109 Resources *Blady, Ken. ''Jewish Communities in Exotic Places''. Northvale, N.J.: Jason Aronson Inc., 2000. pp. 115–130. See also * Cochin Jews External linksJews of Cochin— Picture of Joseph Azar in the Paradesi Synagogue The Paradesi Synagogue aka Cochin Jewish Synagogue or the Mattancherry Synagogue (Malayalam: പരദേശി ജൂതപള്ളി) is a synagogue located in Mattancherry Jew Town, a suburb of the city of Kochi, Kerala, in India. It wa ... 14th-century Indian people Cochin Jews Mizrahi Jews Indian Jews Jewish royalty History of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacobo Majluta Azar
Jacobo Majluta Azar (9 October 1934 – 2 March 1996) was Vice President of the Dominican Republic from 16 August 1978 to 4 July 1982. He was one of the generations of politicians in the Dominican Republic whose ambition was continually thwarted by the country's labyrinthine power struggles and sectarianism. Biography Born in 1934 into a merchant family of Lebanese origin, Majluta studied finance at the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo before working as an accountant in the banking and state sectors. He married Ana Elisa Villanueva on April 17, 1962. The couple had one daughter, Consuelo Elena. Majluta joined the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD) in 1961, in the wake of the dictator Leonidas Trujillo's assassination, and rose quickly, becoming the youngest minister in Juan Bosch's short-lived government of 1963. He was Minister of Finance. When it was overthrown by a military coup later that year, Majluta went into exile, returning to rebuild his political career and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ignatius Isaac Azar
Ignatius Isaac II ( syr, ܐܝܣܚܩ ܥܐܙܐܪ, ar, اسحق بطريارك انطاكية) was the Patriarch of Antioch and head of the Syriac Orthodox Church from 1709 until his resignation in 1723. Biography Isaac ʿAzar was born at Mosul in 1647, and was the son of Maqdisi 'Azar and Maryam. He had brothers named Matthew and Jacob, and two uncles, George and Rizq Allah, through his mother. Isaac became a monk at the nearby monastery of Saint Matthew, where he and his uncle George were both ordained as priests in 1669 by Basil Yeldo, Maphrian of the East. In 1673, Isaac and George aided Basil Yeldo in renovating the monastery of Saint Matthew, for which the three of them were imprisoned by the governor of Mosul for a short while. Basil Yeldo appointed Isaac as the abbot of the monastery of Saint Matthew in 1675, and he was later ordained as archbishop of the monastery of Saint Matthew by Patriarch Ignatius Abdulmasih I in early 1684 at the monastery of Saint Ananias, upon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Habib Azar
Habib Azar (born October 19, 1979 in Pennsylvania, United States) is an American film, theater and television director based in New York City. He married his wife, Carla Azar, in 2011, and they have two children. Career Six-time Emmy winner Habib Azar's directing work spans contemporary opera, film and TV. Azar specializes in directing and producing multi-camera live performing arts events for broadcast. Trained as a composer, he combines musical knowledge, narrative storytelling and the technical capacity to manage live broadcasts. He has directed nearly 500 hours of network television. Azar has filmed ensembles and performers including Lang Lang, Yo-Yo Ma, Renee Fleming, Itzhak Perlman, Wynton Marsalis, the New York Philharmonic, Staatskapelle Berlin, Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and the Mariinsky Theater Orchestra''.'' Azar is also a producer and director for ''The All-Star Orchestra'' on PBS. Film Azar directed the 2018 cinemacast of Marnie for the Metropolitan Opera's Live ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Azar
George Azar (born February 3, 1959) is a Lebanese-American photojournalist and documentary filmmaker. His photographs have appeared on the front pages of ''The New York Times'', the ''International Herald Tribune'', ''The Economist'', ''Saudi Aramco World'' and other leading publications. Since 2006 he and Mariam Shahin, have produced over 50 films for the international satellite news network, Al Jazeera. Azar has also produced several documentaries for the internet news channel '' Vice News'', including "Crime and Punishment in Gaza", "Renegade Jewish Settlers" and 'The Islamic State vs Lebanon". Azar has covered the Middle East and Arab/Islamic culture since 1981 and is the subject of the CBS Emmy Award-winning news feature, ''Beirut Photographer''. He was also profiled in the BBC's Firing Line. He was nominated for the 2007 Rory Peck Award for his film ''Gaza Fixer''. His and fellow filmmaker Tom Evans' film ''Two Schools in Nablus'' also received great acclaim, winning the Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emilè Azar
Emilè Azar (born in Beirut, Lebanon on 2 May 1985) is a Swedish singer of Lebanese origin, and a resident of Sandviken, Sweden. He sent in a song to Melodifestivalen and got a spot on the show in a bid to represent Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on ... in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007, receiving media attention because of his massive weight loss after getting a spot in Melodifestivalen. On 24 February 2007, Emilé Azar performed the song "Vi hade nåt" (meaning We had something) in [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Azar
Protracted social conflict is a technical term that generally refers to conflicts described by other researchers as ''protracted'' or ''intractable:'' complex, severe, commonly enduring, and often violent. The term was presented in a theory developed by Edward Azar. ''Protracted social conflict'' as Edward Azar termed it, denotes hostile interactions between communal groups that are based in deep-seated racial, ethnic, religious and cultural hatreds, and that persist over long periods of time with sporadic outbreaks of violence; when a group's identity is threatened or frustrated, intractable conflict is almost inevitable. Definition of protracted social conflict Protracted social conflicts is a theory developed by Edward Azar. The term refers to conflict situations characterized by the prolonged and often violent struggle by communal groups for such basic needs as security, recognition, acceptance, fair access to political institutions, and economic participation. The communal g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dina Azar
Dina Azar ( ar, دينا عازار; born July 4, 1973) is a Lebanese beauty queen who was elected Miss Lebanon 1995. Career Dina Azar holds a BA degree in English literature from the American University of Beirut and during a sabbatical year attended the American University of Paris to further study Comparative Literature and Finance. Moreover, she attended New York Film Academy and The Art Students League of New York. Later on, she started a career in TV in which she hosted Celebrity Duets on LBC, Mahatat on Al Arabiya, Assraruha on Dubai TV, and high-profile pan Arab Events. As well as starring in Ramad w Meleh a pan Arab TV series. She was elected as Miss Lebanon in 1995, and has been the face of major brands in the Middle East such as Evian, Lux, and was involved in several high-profile launches alongside celebrities such as Cindy Crawford Cynthia Ann Crawford (born February 20, 1966) is an American model, actress and television personality. During the 1980s and 1990s, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
