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El-Baz
El-Baz ( ar, الباز, he, אלבז, also spelled Elbaz, Al-Baz, Albaz or ElBez () is an Arabic surname, meaning "the falcon" ("Baz" means falcon in Arabic). It could possibly be linked to the city of Elvas ( Portugal), the Spanish surname '' Paz'' and the Jewish square El Bayazin ("The Falconers") in Granada. El-Baz is a large prestigious family that mostly consists of royals, scientists, and scholars. As it is also known to be an extremely wealthy family throughout history. Notable people * Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah bin Baz ( ar, عبد العزيز بن عبد الله بن باز; 1910–1999), Saudi Arabian Salafi or Wahhabi Islamic scholar * Farouk El-Baz ( ar, فاروق الباز; born 1938), Egyptian-American scientist * Osama El-Baz ( ar, أسامة الباز; born 1931), Egyptian diplomat * Rania al-Baz, Saudi Arabian television presenter and domestic abuse victim Elbaz * Alber Elbaz (1961–2021, Casablanca, Morocco), Moroccan-Israeli fashion designer * A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farouk El-Baz
Farouk El-Baz ( arz, فاروق الباز, ''Pronunciation'': ) (born January 2, 1938) is an Egyptian American space scientist and geologist, who worked with NASA in the scientific exploration of the Moon and the planning of the Apollo program. He was a leading geologist on the program, responsible for studying the geology of the Moon, the selection of landing sites for the Apollo missions, and the training of astronauts in lunar observations and photography. He played a key role in the Apollo 11 Moon landing mission, and later Apollo missions. He also came up with the idea of touchable Moon rocks at a museum, inspired by his childhood pilgrimage to Mecca where he touched the Black Stone (which in Islam is believed to be sent down from the heavens). He is married, has four daughters, and has six grandchildren. He was a Senior Advisor to Egypt's former president Hosni Mubarak. Currently, El-Baz is a Research Professor and Director of the Center for Remote Sensing at Boston Univ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Osama El-Baz
Osama El-Baz (; ) (6 July 1931 – 14 September 2013) was an Egyptian diplomat and a senior advisor to former President Hosni Mubarak. Career A graduate from Cairo University, he studied for six years in the United States, where he obtained his master's degree from Harvard Law School. El-Baz later joined the Egyptian foreign service, and was made ''chef de cabinet'' with ambassadorial rank in 1977. When Ismail Fahmi resigned in 1977 to protest President Anwar El Sadat's visit to Jerusalem, El-Baz volunteered to help the president in planning his negotiations with Israel. He was sent to Israel where he negotiated the terms for the Egyptian President's visit. His colleague in those preparations was Boutros Boutros-Ghali, who later went on to become Secretary-General of the United Nations. El-Baz represented the Arab nationalist, while Boutros-Ghali was a cautious pro-Westerner. Following Sadat's assassination in 1981, Egypt's new president Hosni Mubarak took El-Baz as an adviso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arab-Jewish Surnames
Arab Jews ( ar, اليهود العرب '; he, יהודים ערבים ') is a term for Jews living in or originating from the Arab world. The term is politically contested, often by Zionists or by Jews with roots in the Arab world who prefer to be identified as Mizrahi Jews. quote:"it is not surprising that very few Jews of Arab descent, in Israel, would label themselves ‘Arab Jews’. It has turned out to be the marker of a cultural and political avant-garde. Most of those who used it, did so in order to challenge the Zionist order of things (i.e., ‘methodological Zionism’; see Shenhav, 2006) and for political reasons (Levy, 2008) Many left or were expelled from Arab countries in the decades following the founding of Israel in 1948, and took up residence in Israel, Western Europe, the United States and Latin America. Jews living in Arab-majority countries historically mostly used various Judeo-Arabic dialects as their primary community language, with Hebrew used for l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arabic-language Surnames
Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a 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 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 language—i.e., Literary Arabic: Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) or Classical Arabic—and diverse vernacular varieties, which serve as 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 the language of literature, official documents, and formal written medi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albats
Yevgenia Markovna Albats (russian: Евге́ния Ма́рковна Альба́ц, born 5 September 1958Editorial dossier Agentura.ru, referring to another web sit Labyrinth ''The New Russia's Dictionary: a world of literature'' '' Znamya'') is a Russian investigative ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baz (other)
Baz may refer to: Places *Baz, Albania, a village *Baz, Iran, a village in central Iran * Baz (tribe), an Assyrian tribe from eastern Turkey *BAZ, IATA airport code of Barcelos Airport, Barcelos, Brazil *BAZ, FAA airport code of New Braunfels Municipal Airport, New Braunfels, Texas, United States *Bazm, Fars, also known as Bāz, a village in Iran * Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén, or BAZ, a county in Hungary Brands and enterprises *Baz (software), distributed version control software * Basler Zeitung (BaZ), a regional newspaper, published in Basel, Switzerland * Bratislavské Automobilové Závody, or BAZ, a Slovak car manufacturer of Czech Skoda and VW Group cars from 1971(?) to 1982 *Bryanskyi Avtomobilnyi Zavod, or BAZ, a Russian heavy truck manufacturer Other uses *Baz (name), a list of people and fictional characters with the surname, given name or nickname *Baz, a common name for foobar The terms foobar (), foo, bar, baz, and others are used as metasyntactic variables and placeho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincent Elbaz
Vincent Elbaz (born 3 February 1971) is a French actor. He has appeared in many French television shows and films. His first major role was in the 1994 film '' Le péril jeune''. Elbaz received the 1998 Jean Gabin Prize. Elbaz was born in Paris to a Moroccan Jewish family. He is married to Fanny Conquy, with whom he has two children. Filmography * 1994 : '' Le Péril jeune'', by Cédric Klapisch * 1995 : '' Le Plus bel âge...'', by Didier Haudepin * 1996 : '' Enfants de salaud'', by Tonie Marshall * 1996 : '' Je m'appelle Régine'', by Pierre Aknine (TV) * 1997 : ''Just Do It'', by Frédéric Chèze & Denis Thybaud (Short Film) * 1997 : '' Les Randonneurs'', by Philippe Harel * 1997 : ''La Vérité si je mens !'', by Thomas Gilou * 1997 : '' Petits Désordres amoureux'', by Olivier Péray * 1998 : '' Grève party'', by Fabien Onteniente * 1999 : '' Suzy vend des sushis'', by Delphine Quentin (Short Film) * 1999 : ''Quasimodo d'El Paris'', by Patrick Timsit * 1999 : '' Le S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stéphanie Elbaz
Stéphanie Elbaz is a contemporary French concert pianist. She has reached leading positions in major international competitions. She has performed at the Mozarteum in Salzbourg, the De Doelen in Rotterdam, the salle Alfred Cortot in Paris, the Palazzo Ducale in Tuscany, the Essaouira festival in Morocco, etc. She obtained her Postmaster, Master and Degree of piano with the High Distinctions in great European conservatories. She also spent three cycles of professional development in three different . She won two piano gold medals with the congratulations of the jury unanimously in two different CNR. Stéphanie Elbaz has also participated in numerous master classes in Europe.. Selected discography * Liszt's '' Rhapsodie espagnole'' S 254 * Bach: Prélude & Fugue in C sharp minor BVW 849 * Chopin: Fantaisie-Impromptu Opus 66 * Rachmaninov Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff; in Russian pre-revolutionary script. (28 March 1943) was a Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathan Elbaz
Nathan Elbaz ( he, נתן אלבז; 17 October 1932 – 11 February 1954) was an Israel Defense Forces soldier who sacrificed his life for his friends, receiving the Medal of Distinguished Service. Biography Elbaz was born in Morocco, to a Jewish family. He attended Hebrew school, and he and his friends dreamed of making aliyah. After the establishment of Israel in 1948, Elbaz and his friends were determined to move there. When he was 18, he left for Israel as part of Aliyat HaNoar ("Youth Aliyah"). Elbaz was inducted into the IDF in 1952 and served in the Infantry Corps. During his service, he was entrusted with the task of disassembling hand grenades. On 11 February 1954, Elbaz and another soldier were disassembling grenades, when a grenade he was holding was accidentally activated. He immediately called out a warning to his comrades to take shelter, but when he saw that there was no way to throw the grenade without endangering them, he ran away from them, pressing it to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gad Elbaz
} Gad Elbaz (in Hebrew: ) is an Israeli Jewish singer who has gained international success and recorded several albums. Biography Elbaz is of Moroccan Jewish descent. He began to sing and write music at age four. He first appeared with his father Benny Elbaz, an Israeli singer, accompanying him on the song "Father I Love You". Gad is featured on four CDs with his father. When he was 20, he met his wife Maran who happened to be a fan of his. He later broke out as a solo artist recording ten albums of his own: "Walk in a Straight Path" in 1998, "Light at the End of the Tunnel" in 2003, "Meanings" in 2005, "Almost Quiet" in 2006, “Between the Drops” in 2007, "Live at Caesarea (2 CDs)" in 2008, " Words of Spirit" in 2013, “Nigun Umizmor” in 2014, “Ze Hayom” in 2014, and his latest "Lechaim" in 2017. His multi-city world tours to promote his music and message were successful. His Hashem Melech Tour had over 180 shows in 53 cities. His music videos have been regularly shown ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Elbaz
David Elbaz is a French novelist and observational astrophysicist, specializing in galaxy formation and evolution. He has been a researcher at the Astrophysics Division (AIM) of the Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives (CEA-Saclay) since 1994, where he is currently the Director of Research. He was in charge of directing the "Cosmology and Evolution of Galaxies" laboratory at AIM/CEA-Saclay for about a decade. He has also worked as the scientific advisor to the European Space Agency for the selection of its future space missions (Astronomy Working Group) and was a member of the evaluation committee on space research and exploration for the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) in France. Biography Elbaz's grandparents moved to France from Morocco at the beginning of the 20th century. He was born and raised in the Paris Métro area. He repeated a school year twice in high school. He also attended the École Nationale Supérieure de Physique (ENSP ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheb I Sabbah
Cheb i Sabbah"Jewish DJ Captivates Arab Ears" '''', January 19, 2007. (7 August 1947 – 6 November 2013) was a DJ and composer/producer known for combining Asian, Arabian, and African sounds into his compositions. Sabbah was of and descent. He was born in Algeria and came from a family of musicians. When he was a teenager, Sabbah moved to Paris a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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