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Farhan Saleh (writer)
Farhan Osman Saleh (Arabic: فرحان صالح) is a writer, researcher and militant from Lebanon. He was born in 1947, in the town of Kfarchouba in southern Lebanon. He is known for politically supporting Arab nations involved in the Israel-Palestinian conflict. Saleh has published several books on politics, social, history and culture, as well as publishing writing and research in Lebanese and Arab newspapers and magazines. He has also contributed to the establishment of a house for the dissemination of enlightening and modernist thought, a cultural magazine, and a seminar for cultural dialogue with a group of thinkers and intellectuals in Lebanon and the Arab world. Early life Farhan was born on 11 September 1947 in the town of Kfarchouba, in the Hasbaya District of the Nabatieh Governorate. His southern village overlooks Galilee in Palestine, and from the opposite side the Syrian Golan. Since his childhood, he has been aware of the Nakba and the diaspora of the Palesti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arabic
Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic languages, 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 Arabs, 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 (sociolinguistics), prestige language—i.e., Literary Arabic: Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) or Classical Arabic—and diverse vernacular varieties, which serve as First language, 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beirut Arab University
Beirut Arab University (BAU) ( ar, جـامعة بيروت العربية) is a Lebanese private university located in Beirut, Lebanon. It was founded by the Lebanese Waqf El-Bir wal Ihsan Society in 1960. The University attained the International Institutional Accreditation from the Foundation for International Business Administration Accreditation (FIBAA) - an official international German foundation - registered in the European Quality Assurance Register (EQAR). The University is ranked 801–1000 in the QS World University Rankings and 40 in Arab Region Rankings for 2022. Beirut Arab University is a member of: *Association of Arab Universities (AARU) *International Association of Universities (IAU) *Federation of the Universities of the Islamic World (FUIW) *Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF): *Conférence des Recteurs de la Région du Moyen-Orient(CONFREMO) *Réseau International Francophone des établissements de formation de formateurs (RIFEFF) * Ecole Doctorale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
21st-century Lebanese Writers
The 1st century was the century spanning AD 1 ( I) through AD 100 ( C) according to the Julian calendar. It is often written as the or to distinguish it from the 1st century BC (or BCE) which preceded it. The 1st century is considered part of the Classical era, epoch, or historical period. The 1st century also saw the appearance of Christianity. During this period, Europe, North Africa and the Near East fell under increasing domination by the Roman Empire, which continued expanding, most notably conquering Britain under the emperor Claudius (AD 43). The reforms introduced by Augustus during his long reign stabilized the empire after the turmoil of the previous century's civil wars. Later in the century the Julio-Claudian dynasty, which had been founded by Augustus, came to an end with the suicide of Nero in AD 68. There followed the famous Year of Four Emperors, a brief period of civil war and instability, which was finally brought to an end by Vespasian, ninth Roman emperor, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muhammad Ali Of Egypt
Muhammad Ali Pasha al-Mas'ud ibn Agha, also known as Muhammad Ali of Egypt and the Sudan ( sq, Mehmet Ali Pasha, ar, محمد علي باشا, ; ota, محمد علی پاشا المسعود بن آغا; ; 4 March 1769 – 2 August 1849), was the Albanian Ottoman governor and de facto ruler of Egypt from 1805 to 1848, considered the founder of modern Egypt. At the height of his rule, he controlled all of Egypt, Sudan, Hejaz and the Levant. He was a military commander in an Albanian Ottoman force sent to recover Egypt from a French occupation under Napoleon. Following Napoleon's withdrawal, Muhammad Ali rose to power through a series of political maneuvers, and in 1805 he was named '' Wāli'' (viceroy) of Egypt and gained the rank of Pasha. As '' Wāli'', Muhammad Ali attempted to modernize Egypt by instituting dramatic reforms in the military, economic and cultural spheres. He also initiated a violent purge of the Mamluks, consolidating his rule and permanently ending the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Sayed Yassin
El Sayed Yassin ( ar, السيد ياسين; 3 September 1933 – 19 March 2017) was an Egyptian political and social writer and intellectual. He was born in Alexandria on 30 October 1931. Early life He graduated from the college of law of Alexandria University, then obtained a master's in sociology and political science from Cairo University. He worked at the National Center for Social and Criminological Research before traveling to France to study law at the University of Dijon (1964–1966) and social sciences at the University of Paris (1966), during that time he took an interest in literary sociology, which was still emerging, as well as political sociology. Upon his return to Egypt, El Sayed Yassin joined the Centre for Palestinian and Zionist Studies in Al-Ahram in 1968, which journalist Mohammed Hussein Heikal renamed to the Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, Yassin participated in co-founding the centre and chaired it from 1975 to 1994. During that ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
