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Elmaz Boçe
Elmaz is a masculine given name. Notable people with the name include: *Elmaz Abinader (born 1954), Arab-American author, poet, and academic *Elmaz Boçe (1852–1925), Albanian educator See also *Elmas (surname) {{Given name Masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elmaz Abinader
Elmaz Abinader (born 1954 in Pennsylvania) is an American author, poet, performer, English professor at Mills College and co-founder of the Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation, Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation (VONA). She is of Lebanon, Lebanese descent. In 2000, she received the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award for her poetry collection ''In the Country of My Dreams...''. Life Born in a small coal mining community in southwest Pennsylvania, she lived with her parents and her five siblings in a household strongly rooted in Lebanese tradition. Her childhood was spent helping out in her family store, attending Catholic church twice a day, and focusing on her schooling. Abinader and her siblings faced challenges due to their ethnicity. Abinader received her B.A. in Writing and Communication from University of Pittsburgh in 1974. It was during this time that she embrace her heritage and wrote about her family’s history. She earned her Master of Fine Arts, MFA in Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elmaz Boçe
Elmaz is a masculine given name. Notable people with the name include: *Elmaz Abinader (born 1954), Arab-American author, poet, and academic *Elmaz Boçe (1852–1925), Albanian educator See also *Elmas (surname) {{Given name Masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elmas (surname)
Elmas is a Turkish surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Elif Elmas (born 1999), Macedonian footballer * Ferdi Elmas (born 1985), Turkish footballer * Fevzi Elmas (born 1983), Turkish footballer * Omer Elmas Omer may refer to: __NOTOC__ * Omer (unit), an ancient unit of measure used in the era of the ancient Temple in Jerusalem * The Counting of the Omer (''sefirat ha'omer''), a 49 day period in the Jewish calendar * Omer (Book of Mormon), a Jaredite k ... (born 1968 or 1969), Turkish Olympic wrestler * Stéphan Elmas (1862-1937), Armenian composer {{Surname, Elmas Turkish-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |