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Abid
Abid ( ar, عابد ''‘Ābid''), also ''Abed'', literally meaning ''worshipper'', ''adorer'', ''devout'' may be either a surname or given name. In the Russian language, "" (''Abid''), or its form "" (''Avid''), is an old and uncommonPetrovsky, p. 34 male given name.Superanskaya, p. 29 Included into various, often handwritten, church calendars throughout the 17th–19th centuries, it was omitted from the official Synodal Menologium at the end of the 19th century.Superanskaya, pp. 23 and 29 Its origins are either Arabic (where it means ''desired'') or Aramaic (where it means ''work'', ''labor'').Superanskaya, pp. 29 and 32 The diminutive of "Avid" is Avidka (). The patronymics derived from "Avid" are "" (''Avidovich''; masculine) and "" (''Avidovna''; feminine). __NOTOC__ As a surname, in the form Al-Abid ( ar, العابد ) and its variants, it is shared by the following people: *Ahmad Izzat Pasha al-Abid (1855–1924), Syrian counselor to Ottoman Sultan Abd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zara Abid
Zara Abid ( ur, ; 4 April 199222 May 2020) was a Pakistani model and actress. She was featured in various photo shoots. She made her film debut in ''Chaudhry'', directed by Azeem Sajjad. She was one of the passengers who died aboard PIA Flight 8303, which crashed in Karachi, Pakistan, on 22 May 2020. Personal life Zara Abid was born on 4 April in Lahore, Punjab. She grew up and resided in Karachi with her family and completed her schooling at St. Patrick's Girls High School, before graduating with a bachelor's degree and going into show business. Modeling career As a fashion icon, she was known for her tall height and tanned complexion, which made her stand out in an industry dominated by lighter-skin models. According to Abid, when she started modeling, she faced discrimination in being hired, allegedly due to her looks and skin colour. However, she stated she worked her way up and received opportunities on the basis of her professional skills and talent. She was described a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramzi Abid
Ramzi Abid (born March 24, 1980) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player of Tunisian descent, who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Phoenix Coyotes, Pittsburgh Penguins, Atlanta Thrashers and the Nashville Predators. Playing career As a youth, Abid played in the 1994 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with a minor ice hockey team from Longueuil, Quebec. Typically playing as a left winger, Ramzi Abid was selected by the Colorado Avalanche as the first choice in the second round (28th overall) of the 1998 NHL Entry Draft and was redrafted in the 2000 NHL Entry Draft, 85th overall, by the Phoenix Coyotes, who on March 11, 2003, traded him to the Pittsburgh Penguins with Dan Focht and Guillaume Lefebvre for Jan Hrdina and François Leroux . In March 2003, he successfully underwent surgery to repair a torn ACL and missed the remainder of the 2002–03 season. He played for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins, an affiliate team of the Pittsb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muhammad Ali Bay Al-Abid
Muhammad Ali Bey al-Abid ( ar, محمد علي بك العابد, ; 1867 – 22 October 1939) or, as he spelled his own name in French, Mehmed Ali Abed, was appointed the president of the mandatory Syrian Republic (from 11 June 1932 until 21 December 1936) as a nominee of the nationalist Syrian parliament in Damascus after the country received partial recognition of sovereignty from France. France agreed to recognize Syria as a nation under intense nationalist pressure but did not withdraw its troops completely until 1946. Life Background and education Muhammad Ali al-Abid was born in Damascus, then in the Ottoman Empire. His father, Ahmad Izzat al-Abid, the son of Hawlu al-Abid, had initially been brought up in Damascus before pursuing his education in Beirut, Beirut Vilayet. Ahmad Izzat al-Abid, who was fluent in Arabic, French, and Turkish, started working in the administration of Damascus Vilayet and was authorized to found a periodical. Muhammad Ali was educated in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abid Hassan Minto
Abid Hassan Minto also known as Abid Minto ( ur, عابد حسن منٹو) (born 3 February 1932) is a constitutional expert and senior lawyer of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, and former president of the Awami Workers Party. He is also a literary critic and a leftwing civic and political leader. His legal career spans over 50 years during which he was elected member of the Pakistan Bar Council from 1966 up to 1983; President, Lahore High Court Bar Association (1982); Chairman, National Coordination Committee of Lawyers (1981 to 1985) and President, Supreme Court Bar Association of Pakistan (SCBA) (1997 to 1999). Minto has also been affiliated with the International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL) in which he was elected vice-president at its Barcelona Congress (1990) and Bureau Member at its Cape Town Congress (1995). He was professor of law at the Law College of the Punjab University ( Punjab University Law College) 1963 to 1983. Minto belongs to the Marxist schoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abid Hasan (diplomat)
Abid Hasan Safrani, IFS, born Zain-al-Abdin Hasan, was an officer of the Indian National Army (INA) and later, after 1947, an Indian diplomat. Born to an anti-colonialist family in Hyderabad, Abid Hasan was brought-up in India and later went to Germany to train as an engineer. While he was a student in Germany during World War II that Abid Hasan met Subhas Chandra Bose and decided to join the Indische Legion. Hasan would later serve as Bose's personal secretary and interpreter while Bose was in Germany. Hasan also sailed with Bose in the German U-boat U-180 in 1943 on Bose's voyage to South East Asia. Over the course of the reformation of the INA and its campaigns in the south east Asian theatre, Hasan rose to be a Major in the Azad Hind Fauj. It was also during this that he adopted "''Safrani''", after the holy Hindu colour of Saffron, to his name as a mark of communal harmony. After repatriation to India at the end of the war, Abid Hasan was released following the end of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qazi Abdul Majeed Abid
Qazi Abdul Majeed Abid or Qazi Abid ( ur, قاضی عبد المجید عابد ), was the father of Former National Speaker Fahmida Mirza and former member of the National Assembly and Chairman of the Daily Ibrat Newspaper Kazi Asad Abid. He died due to lung cancer on 27 August 1996. He was a prominent politician and journalist from Hyderabad, Sindh, Pakistan. Qazi Abid held several positions in the Federal Cabinet of numerous Pakistani Prime Ministers. His positions included Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Federal Minister of Education, Federal Minister for Food and Agriculture, and Federal Minister for Water and Power. He was the publisher of the ''Daily Ibrat'', a Sindhi newspaper, which is still published by his son Qazi Asad Abid. His excellence in the field of journalism was recognized formally when he was awarded the Writers' Forum Award in 1985. Qazi Abdul Majeed Abid, along with his brother Qazi Muhammad Akbar (Qazi Akbar), are generally regarded as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abid Ali Abid
Abid Ali Abid (Urdu/Persian: سید عابد علی عابد) was a Pakistani Urdu and Persian poet and educator who was born on 17 September 1906 in Dera Ismail Khan, British India and died in Lahore, Pakistan on 20 January 1971. Life He wrote books on literary criticism in Urdu and Persian. He also initiated and edited several literary journals, one of which is Sahifa-Lahore. He also was one of the initial drama writers and feature writers at the newly established Radio Pakistan Lahore in the late 1940s and 1950s. He survived three heart attacks but succumbed to the fourth in 1971.Urdu text book for BA, Published by Prince Books, Lahore Pakistan, 2005 (A book for Urdu as elective subject in BA) Selected work * Story writing of films like the first talkie, ''Heer Ranjha'' (1931) Books and poetry For a detailed list see * ''Talismaat'' (''The Magic)'', Urdu fiction, Hashmi Book Depot Lahore, Pakistan * ''Shahbaz Khan'', Urdu fiction, , Sang-e-Meel Publications, Pakista ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahmad Izzat Pasha Al-Abid
Ahmad Izzat Pasha bin Hawlu Pasha al-Abid ( ar, أَحمَد عِزَّت بَاشَا ابْنِ هَوْلُو بَاشَا الْعَابِد, translit=Ahmed İzzet Bâşâ bin Hevlû Bâşâ el-Âbid; tr, Holo Paşa'nın oğlu Ahmed İzzet Paşa el-Abid or ; 1851–1924), nicknamed Izzat Pasha the Arab ( tr, link=no, Arap İzzet Paşa), was a Syrian entrepreneur who became Second Secretary and confidant of Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid II. He is considered to have been "one of the most powerful" statesmen during the last decade of Abdulhamid's rule. Life Ahmad Izzat al-Abid was born in Damascus. His father was Hawlu Pasha al-Abid. Ahmad Izzat was educated in Beirut. He spoke Arabic, French and Turkish. He moved to Istanbul where he served the Ottoman sultan, Abdulhamid II as an adviser. He left the Ottoman Empire following the Young Turk Revolution in 1908 and moved to London for some time before living in France and Switzerland. He then left for Egypt, where he died in 1924. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abid Hamid Mahmud
Lieutenant General Abid Al-Hamid Mahmud al-Tikriti ( ; ar, عبد الحميد محمود التكريتي) (21 September 1957 – 7 June 2012) was an Iraqi military officer and Saddam Hussein's personal secretary. Biography Mahmud began his military career as a non-commissioned officer in the Iraqi Army. He rose through the ranks to Lieutenant General, becoming part of Saddam Hussein's personal bodyguard, and finally, his personal secretary. A distant cousin of Saddam Hussein, observers regarded Mahmud as being Hussein's right-hand man. He always maintained constant contact with Hussein and acted as a gatekeeper, controlling access to him. He was trusted, with Saddam's son Qusay Hussein, in overseeing the Iraqi Special Security Organization. He was designated ''ace of diamonds'' in the U.S. administration's most-wanted Iraqi playing cards and fourth on the most-wanted list after Saddam and his sons Uday and Qusay. He was captured in a joint raid by members of B Squadron De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laïla Abid
Laïla Abid (born March 21, 1977 in Meknes, Morocco) is a Moroccan-Dutch journalist, and former television news presenter and news anchor. Since 2017, Abid has been working in PR and communication. She studied journalism and between 2001 and 2003 at Hogeschool van Utrecht, earning her bachelor's degree in 2003, after earning an associate degree in English from the Hogeschool van Amsterdam in 1998. She would earn her master's degree from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in 2008. In 2008 Abid worked as a newscaster of the crime programme AVRO ''Opsproring Verzocht''. Later she worked for RTV Noord-Holland, Amsterdam FM, SBS ''Hart van Nederland'' and since 2007 for commercial newsstation BNR Nieuwsradio. In 2008 she was added to the team of newsanchors for the NOS Journaal. She presented morning and afternoon bulletins and also worked as contributing editor A contributing editor is a newspaper, magazine or online job title that varies in its responsibilities. Often, but not alwa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hawlu Pasha Al-Abid
Hawlu Pasha al-Abid ( ar, هَوْلُو بَاشَا الْعَابِد, translit=Hevlû Bâşâ el-Âbid; tr, Holo Paşa el-Abid or ; 1824–1895) was a prominent Syrian administrator during the reign of Ottoman Sultan Abdulaziz. He was descended from the Syrian Mawālī Bedouins. Quoting Johann Büssow, "He had a distinguished military and administrative career in the service of the Ottoman state and managed to establish himself and some of his sons among the leading notables of Damascus. Between 1863 and 1865 was ''kaymakam'' of Nablus, and in 1869 he was the military commander of an expedition to Transjordan. ..After his service in Nablus, he was promoted to the rank of ''Mirmiran'', and after successfully completing his mission in 1869, Holo Paşa, together with Kamil Paşa, the governor of Jerusalem, received medals from the Austrian emperor and the Shah of Iran." He was also named qa'im maqam of the Biqa' (when Richard Francis Burton was consul at Damascus), then mutasa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chaudhry Abid Sher Ali
Abid Sher Ali (born 21 November 1971) is a Pakistani politician who served as Minister of State for Power, in the Abbasi cabinet from August 2017 to May 2018. Previously, he served as the Minister of State for Water and Power from 2013 to 2017. He had been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan, from 2002 to May 2018. Personal life He was born on 21 November 1971. He is the son of former mayor of Faisalabad and senior PML-N leader Chaudhry Sher Ali who is a relative of Kalsoom Nawaz Sharif. Ali is nephew of Nawaz Sharif. He went to Divisional Public School for his early studies. Political career Ali was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan as a candidate of Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML-N) from Constituency NA-84 (Faisalabad-X) in 2002 Pakistani general election. He was re-elected to the National Assembly as a candidate of PML-N from Constituency NA-84 (Faisalabad-X) in 2008 Pakistani general election. Ali was re-elected to the National Assembly as a ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
