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Fawaz
Fawaz (sometimes, Fawwaz or Fawez) is a masculine Arabic given name and a surname. Its literal meaning is "winner", as it is the masculine adjective from the verb ''fāz'', meaning "he won". Therefore, it can be thought of as the equivalent to the given name Victor. Given name First name *Fawaz Akhras, London-based Syrian cardiologist and father-in-law of Bashar Al Assad *Fawaz Damra, imam who lived near Cleveland, Ohio *Fawaz Gerges (born 1958), Lebanese American academic and author *Fawwaz Haddad, Syrian novelist *Fawaz Al-Hasawi (born 1968), Kuwaiti businessman and owner of Nottingham Forest Football Club * Fawaz Hussain (born 1953), contemporary Kurdish writer and translator * Fawaz Naman Hamoud Abdullah Mahdi, citizen of Yemen held in extrajudicial detention in the US Guantanamo Bay detainment camps in Cuba *Fawaz Mando (born 1971), Syrian footballer *Fawaz al-Nashimi (died 2004), member of Al-Qaeda, the 20th hijacker of the September 11th attacks * Fawaz al-Rabeiee (1979–200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fawaz Gerges
Fawaz (sometimes, Fawwaz or Fawez) is a masculine Arabic given name and a surname. Its literal meaning is "winner", as it is the masculine adjective from the verb ''fāz'', meaning "he won". Therefore, it can be thought of as the equivalent to the given name Victor. Given name First name *Fawaz Akhras, London-based Syrian cardiologist and father-in-law of Bashar Al Assad *Fawaz Damra, imam who lived near Cleveland, Ohio *Fawaz Gerges (born 1958), Lebanese American academic and author * Fawwaz Haddad, Syrian novelist *Fawaz Al-Hasawi (born 1968), Kuwaiti businessman and owner of Nottingham Forest Football Club * Fawaz Hussain (born 1953), contemporary Kurdish writer and translator * Fawaz Naman Hamoud Abdullah Mahdi, citizen of Yemen held in extrajudicial detention in the US Guantanamo Bay detainment camps in Cuba *Fawaz Mando (born 1971), Syrian footballer *Fawaz al-Nashimi (died 2004), member of Al-Qaeda, the 20th hijacker of the September 11th attacks * Fawaz al-Rabeiee (1979–20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mimi Fawaz
Mimi Fawaz is a Nigerian-Lebanese sports journalist, show host and presenter who currently works as a sports presenter on Focus on Africa, a BBC news programme broadcast on BBC World News alongside BBC Africa and BBC Sports. She has worked for CNN, ESPN and ITV Television networks. In January 2017, she hosted the 2016 GLO-CAF Awards alongside Nigerian actor Richard Mofe-Damijo. Early life and education Fawaz was born in Lebanon to a Nigerian mother who comes from Asaba, Delta State, Nigeria and a Lebanese father, but never lived there herself. She grew up in Nigeria. She is a graduate of City University of London where she studied for a masters in journalism. Career Fawaz started out as a journalist intern at CNN. She later went on to work at the ITN, ITV London and ITV News London platforms during which she interviewed the Sarah, Duchess of York. Whilst at ITV news she produced their coverage of the 2008 Champions League final between Manchester United and Chelsea which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bilal Fawaz
Bilal Kelvin Fawaz (born 3 April 1988) is a UK-based professional boxer of mixed Lebanese and Benin origin. He came to England when he was 14 years old. He was crowned the Amateur Boxing Association of England light middleweight champion. He has represented England internationally six times. He is variously credited as Bilal Fawaz or Kelvin Fawaz and in artistic output as NaijaBoy and as State Lezz. Biography Fawaz was born in Nigeria to a mother who was an immigrant from Benin and a father of Lebanese origin who didn't have Nigerian citizenship either. Fawaz says he had a difficult childhood. His mother abused him and his father took him away eventually leaving him with an "uncle", a relative or a family friend in Lagos. When Fawaz was 14, his "uncle" decided to take him to London, England "to reunite" him with his father. His mother had already been murdered in religious riots. Fawaz stayed in the UK starting age 14 on temporary permits without immigration papers ever since. On a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fawaz Al-Hasawi
Fawaz Mubarak Al-Hasawi (born 25 October 1968) is a Kuwaiti businessman and was the owner and chairman of Nottingham Forest Football Club. Biography Qadsia SC Between 2010 and 2012, Fawaz was president of Qadsia SC, one of the largest sporting clubs in Kuwait. His tenure was a successful one, with the club winning two Kuwait Premier League titles and two Emir Cups along with the Federation Cup and the Super Cup. Nottingham Forest On 11 July 2012, it was announced that the Al-Hasawi family had purchased Nottingham Forest from the estate of the late Nigel Doughty. At the time of the takeover, Forest were in a stage of considerable turmoil. The sudden death of previous chairman and benefactor Doughty had left the club in a position of financial uncertainty. The club had only narrowly avoided relegation to League One and the uncertainty over the club's fortunes had led to Forest only boasting a handful of first team players. A huge overhaul was needed and the Al-Hasawi fam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fawaz Al-Rabeiee
Fawaz Yahya al-Rabeiee (1979 – 1 October 2006) was an al-Qaeda terrorist, sentenced to death in 2004 by a Yemeni court for his part in the 2002 attack on the French tanker ''Limburg''.Al Qaeda fugitives killed in Yemen , Gulf News, 1 October 2006. Al-Rabeiee escaped custody in February 2006, with 22 other inmates, but was killed 1 October 2006 in , along with another al-Qaeda suspect identified as Mohammed Daylami."Yemen forces kill 2 top Al Qaeda fugitives" Australian Broad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramzi Fawaz
Ramzi Fawaz is an American associate professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he teaches courses in queer and feminist theory, American cultural studies, and LGBTQ literature. He is the author o''The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics,''published in January 2016 by NYU Press, which received the 2012–2013 Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies Fellowship Award for Best First Book Manuscript in LGBT Studies. His essays have been published in ''American Literature'', ''GLQ'', ''Feminist Studies'', ''Callaloo'', and ''ASAP/Journal''. Life and career Fawaz received his PhD in American Studies at George Washington University. He is a former fellow of the Social Science Research Council and the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies (formerly known as ''Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies'' or ''CLAGS'') was founded in 1991 by professor Martin Duberman as the first university-based res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sherif Fawaz Sharaf
Sherif Fawaz Sharaf (born 1938) is a retired Jordanian administrator and Ambassador. Career *From 1961 to 1962 he was employed at the Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. *From 1962 to 1963 he was employed at the Prime Minister's Office. *From 1963 to 1965 he was employed at the Jordanian Mission to the United Nations in New York. *From 1965 to 1966 he was employed at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. *From 1966 to 1973 he was employed at the Youth Care Organization. *From 1974 to 1976 he was Director-General of Jordan Youth and Sports Organization. *From November 1976 to he was Minister of Culture and Youth. *On he was designated ambassador to Washington, D.C. where he was accredited form till . *From to 1990 he was Ambassador in Bonn (West Germany), Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Luxembourg and the European Economic Community. *From to he was Ambassador in Paris and the Holy See The Holy See ( lat, Sancta Sedes, ; it, Santa Sede ), also called the See of Rome, Petrin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Michael
George Michael (born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou; 25 June 1963 – 25 December 2016) was an English singer and songwriter. He is considered one of the most significant cultural icons of the MTV generation and is one of the best-selling musicians of all time, with sales of over 120 million records worldwide. Michael was known as a leading creative force in music production, songwriting, vocal performance, and visual presentation. He achieved seven number-one songs on the UK Singles Chart and eight number-one songs on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100. Michael won numerous music awards, including two Grammy Awards, three Brit Awards, three American Music Awards, twelve ''Billboard'' Music Awards, and four MTV Video Music Awards. In 2015, he was ranked 45th in '' Billboard''s list of the "Greatest Hot 100 Artists of All Time". The Radio Academy named him the most played artist on British radio during the period 1984–2004. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fawaz Younis
Fawaz Younis (born 1959), also known as Fawaz Yunis and Nazeeh, is a Lebanese hijacker who was arrested in international waters pursuant to an arrest warrant issued in the United States. He was transported to the US and convicted; he was sentenced to 30 years. He was later deported after serving sixteen years of his sentence. He was born in Lebanon and became an Amal Movement militiaman and then a part of Hezbollah. On June 11, 1985, he led a team that hijacked Royal Jordanian Flight 402 with two American nationals on board. The Jordanian airliner was sitting on the tarmac at Beirut International Airport when it was stormed by Younis' team. The hijackers forced the flight crew to reveal the identities of the sky marshals to disable them and forced the plane to Tunis. Due to fuel shortage, the flight was diverted to Larnaca, Cyprus. Permission to land at Tunis was refused, so the flight diverted to Palermo. After refueling there, the aircraft was flown back to Beirut. In the early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fawaz Hussain
Fawaz Hussain or Fawaz Husên (born 1953), is a contemporary Kurdish writer and translator. He was born in northeastern Syria. He pursued his studies in Sorbonne from 1978 to 1992, and received PhD in French language and literature in 1988. He is a member of Swedish Writers' Union and French Writers' Syndicate. In addition to Kurdish, he has written several books in French and has translated works of Albert Camus and Saint-Exupéry into Kurdish. Books #Siwarên êsê, Novel, 111 pp., Welat Publishers, Stockholm, 1994. #Le Fleuve, Short Story in French, Méréalê Publishers, Paris, 1997. Réédition. Le Rocher/Le Serpent à Plumes/ Motifs. #Dîroka edebiyata Fransî : sedsala hivdehan û hijdehan, (History of French Literature), 151 pp., Apec Publishers, 1998. #Chroniques boréales. Short story in French, L’Harmattan Publishers, Paris, 2000. #Amîdabad, Short story, 106 pp., Avesta Publishers, Istanbul, 2002. #Prof dans une ZEP ordinaire, 285 pp., Paris, 2006. #Les Sables ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leila Tarazi Fawaz
Leila Fawaz is a Lebanese historian and academician. She is the founding director of The Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies from 2001 to 2012. Fawaz was born in Sudan to Greek-Orthodox Lebanese parents and raised in Lebanon. She took two degrees at the American University of Beirut between 1967 and 1968 and studied history at Harvard University between 1972 and 1979. From 1990 to 1994, Fawaz was the editor-in-chief of ''The International Journal of Middle East Studies The ''International Journal of Middle East Studies'' is a scholarly journal published by the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA), a learned society. See also * Middle East Research and Information Project * Association for t ...'', where she advanced conducting analytical and comparative research, with an international and cross-disciplinary approach. She bemoaned the overspecialization within the field, the neglect of attention to humanities/arts and, uninteresting writing, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fawaz Akhras
Fawas Akhras ( ar, فواز أخرس) (born September 1946) is a Syrian–English cardiologist known for being the father-in-law of Bashar al-Assad and chairman of the British Syrian Society. Biography Akhras qualified in medicine in 1973. Akhras has been described as "a key figure in liaison between the Syrian and British governments".Andrew GilliganSyria: Assad's father-in-law compares Syrian uprising to London riots ''Telegraph'' 15 March 2012 He is the founder of the British Syrian Society and is involved with a number of Syrian causes. He is a consultant interventional cardiologist at the Cromwell Hospital in South Kensington, London, and practices at his private medical clinic, Cardiac Healthcare Services, in Harley Street, London. He lives in Acton, London, and is married to former diplomat Sahar Otri al-Akhras. Their daughter, Asma married Syrian president Bashar al-Assad in 2000. It was reported before the Syrian civil war that he had influence on the Syrian presi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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