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Ghassan (given Name)
Ghassan ( ar, غسان ) is an Arabic given name, the name of the founder of the Christianity, Christian Ghassan dynasty (Ghassanids). It is used among Muslims, Christians, and Druze. Notable people with the name include: *Ghassan Achi (born 1993), Lebanese skier *Ghassan Alian (born 1972), Israeli commander of the IDF Golani Brigade *Ghassan Afiouni (born 1972), Lebanese scientist *Ghassan Andoni (born 1956), Palestinian Christian physicist and peace activist *Ghassan Ashqar (born 1937), Lebanese politician *Ghassan Ben Jeddou, Tunisian/Lebanese journalist *Ghassan Elashi, Palestinian American imprisoned political/charitable activist *Ghassan Hage (born 1957), Lebanese/Australian anthropologist and social theorist *Ghassan Ibrahim (born 1977), Syrian journalist *Ghassan Rahbani (born 1964), Lebanese producer, songwriter and composer *Ghassan Salhab (born 1958), Lebanese screenwriter, film director, and producer *Ghassan al-Sharbi (born 1974), Saudi held in Guantanamo Bay *Ghassan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christianity
Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. It is the world's largest and most widespread religion with roughly 2.38 billion followers representing one-third of the global population. Its adherents, known as Christians, are estimated to make up a majority of the population in 157 countries and territories, and believe that Jesus is the Son of God, whose coming as the messiah was prophesied in the Hebrew Bible (called the Old Testament in Christianity) and chronicled in the New Testament. Christianity began as a Second Temple Judaic sect in the 1st century Hellenistic Judaism in the Roman province of Judea. Jesus' apostles and their followers spread around the Levant, Europe, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, the South Caucasus, Ancient Carthage, Egypt, and Ethiopia, despite significant initial persecution. It soon attracted gentile God-fearers, which led to a departure from Jewish customs, and, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghassan Ibrahim
Ghassan Ibrahim (born in Syria in 1977) is the Editor in Chief of Global Arab Network and a Syrian journalist. Education He studied at Damascus University where he completed his BSc in Economics and Postgraduate Degree in Finance. In 2000, he came to UK to study at the University of London, where he completed Economics, Business and Media courses. In 2006 established Global Arab Network. Career He is a Managing Editor of the Arabic Department at Ahval, based in London. Research Manager and Journalist at Al-Arab Newspaper, the first Arabic media organization in London, established in 1977. He works as an adviser for several Arab Businessmen and international organization related to Middle East and North Africa and appears regularly on British, European and Arab TV channels. He is also a writer about Arab affairs in politics, economics, business and media. - Alarabiya References External links - Twitter , - Ahval , English language, English - Facebook Facebook ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghassan Tueni
Ghassan Tueni ( ar, غسان تويني; 5 January 1926 – 8 June 2012) was a veteran Lebanese journalist, politician and diplomat who headed ''An Nahar'', one of the Arab World's leading newspapers. He was often referred to as the "Dean of Lebanese Journalism". Early life Born in Beirut on 5 January 1926 to a Greek Orthodox Christian family, Ghassan Tueni was the son of Gebran Tueni, the founder and publisher of the daily newspaper ''An Nahar''. His hometown was Beit Mary. Ghassan Tueni joined the Syrian Social Nationalist Party founded by Antoun Saadeh in the early 1940s. According to Tueni, it was Yusuf al-Khal who recruited him to join the party. While at the American University of Beirut, Tueni was the general executive head of student affairs within the SSNP and later rose to the position of assistant cultural dean of the party. In 1947, he met Antoun Saadeh for the first time in Dhour El Choueir and was blown away by Saadeh's striking charisma. While studying fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghassan Shakaa to restore order to his politically divided city.
Ghassan Shakaa ( ar, غسان الشكعة, Ghassān Shak’ā) (1943 – 25 Jan 2018) was a Palestinian politician who was the mayor of Nablus in 1994–2004 and in 2012–2015. one of the largest cities in the West Bank. His uncle, Bassam Shaka was another former Nablus mayor. Shakaa was appointed to his position by Yasser Arafat. His brother was unfortunately assassinated by an unknown group that still has not been identified. Shakaa published an open letter in which he called for the Palestinian National Authority The Palestinian National Authority (PA or PNA; ar, السلطة الوطنية الفلسطينية '), commonly known as the Palestinian Authority and officially the State of Palestine, References 1943 births[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghassan Shabaneh
Ghassan Shabaneh (Arabic: غسان شبانة) was an associate professor of Middle East and international studies at Marymount Manhattan College in New York City. He held a B.A. from William Paterson State University, a master's degree in international relations from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. and a Ph.D. in international relations from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He taught and lectured at Rutgers, Hunter, and Queens Colleges in the last few years. He appeared on many Arab TV stations especially on Al-Arabiya and on Al Jazeera Al Jazeera ( ar, الجزيرة, translit-std=DIN, translit=al-jazīrah, , "The Island") is a state-owned Arabic-language international radio and TV broadcaster of Qatar. It is based in Doha and operated by the media conglomerate Al Jazeera .... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Shabaneh, Ghassan Al Arabiya people Al Jazeera people Living people Marymount Manhattan College faculty Year of birth missin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghassan Muhsen
Ghassan Muhsen (Arabic: غسان محسن ; born 1945) is an Iraqi career diplomat, as well as an artist with over 18 solo exhibitions and over 30 joint shows in four continents ranging from New Delhi to New York, from Dubai to Tunis. Currently Ambassador Ghassan Muhsen serves as Ambassador to the Kingdom of Bahrain. His work usually incorporates three basic elements "Floral, architectural motifs, and traditional calligraphy" His paintings are "a result of a fusion between the three" His work has been exhibited extensively throughout Europe and the Middle East. Personal Ghassan was born in Nassiriyah, Iraq, to army officer. Ghassan was born into an Iraqi family of Arab heritage. Family Married to Maha Al Baroudi, Ambassador Ghassan Muhsen had three sons, Mustafa, Ziyad, Al Ahareth and Al Monther Art career Growing up in Iraq, Ghassan Muhsin, was taught by some of the most well known pioneers of art, Shakir Hassan Al-Sai’d, Ismail Fateh Al Turk & Dr. Ismail Al Sheikhly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghassan Massoud
Ghassan Massoud ( ar, غسّان مسعود / ; born September 20, 1958) is a Syrian actor and filmmaker. He is best known in the West for his role as Saladin in Ridley Scott's 2005 film ''Kingdom of Heaven (film), Kingdom of Heaven''. Career Massoud is known in Syria for his appearance in many Syrian-made films, and writing and directing the theatre play ''Diplomasiyyoun'', and was part of the Syrian Ministry of Culture’s Syrian National Theater, National Theater’s 2002 season. He has appeared in the Syrian television miniseries ''Unshudet al-Matar, The Chant of Rain'', and in Haytham Hakky's well known work ''Memories of the Forthcoming Age'', and on the Syrian stage was an actor in August Strindberg's ''Miss Julie''. Most recently, he starred as the companion of Muhammad, Abu Bakr in Middle East Broadcasting Center, MBC's series ''Omar (TV series), Omar''. Internationally, he is known for playing the role of Ayyubid sultan Saladin in Ridley Scott's 2005 film ''Kingdom of H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghassan Khatib
Ghassan Khatib ( ar, غسان الخطيب) (1954- ) is a Palestinian politician. He was born in Nablus, in the West Bank, and is a member of the Palestinian People's Party. Khatib is married with three children. He was also a member of the Madrid Peace Delegation in 1991 and was involved in the Washington negotiations from 1991 to 1993. He was appointed the Palestinian National Authority Minister of Labor in 2002, then the Planning Minister in 2005-06.The PA Ministerial Cabinet List, April 2003 - October 2003 Jerusalem Media and Communications Centre. He is currently Director of the Government Media Centre. Biography Khatib holds a PhD in Middle East politics from |
Ghassan Kanafani
Ghassan Kanafani ( ar, غسان كنفاني, 8 April 1936 – 8 July 1972) was a Palestinian author and a leading member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). On 8 July 1972, he was assassinated by Mossad as a response to the Lod airport massacre.. Early life Ghassan Fayiz Kanafani was born in 1936 into a middle-class Palestinian Sunni family with a Kurdish background in the city of Acre (Akka) under the British Mandate for Palestine. He was the third child of Muhammad Fayiz Abd al Razzag, a lawyer who was active in the national movement that opposed the British occupation and its encouragement of Jewish immigration, and who had been imprisoned on several occasions by the British when Ghassan was still a child.. Ghassan received his early education in a French Catholic missionary school in Jaffa. In May, when the outbreak of hostilities in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War spilled over into Acre, Kanafan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghassan Al-Sharbi
Ghassan Abdallah Ghazi al-Sharbi is a Saudi currently held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number is 682. He graduated from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, Arizona with a degree in electrical engineering. The US Department of Defense reports that he was born on December 28, 1974, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Captured in Faisalabad, Pakistan in March 2002, al-Sharbi was transferred to Guantanamo Bay later that year. In 2006, al-Sharbi told a military commission that he was a member of al-Qaeda and proud of his actions against the United States. Serious war crimes charges were dropped against him in October 2008, as it had been found they were based on evidence gained through torture of Abu Zubaydah. Al-Sharbi had a habeas corpus petition which his father had initiated on his behalf; when it reached the court in March 2009, al-Sharbi requested that it be dismissed. He did not w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghassan Salhab
Ghassan Salhab (Arabic language, Arabic; غسان سلهب, born 4 May 1958) is a Lebanon, Lebanese screenwriter and film director born in Dakar, Senegal. In addition to making his own films, he collaborates on various scenarios and teaches film in Lebanon. He has directed six feature films; Phantom Beirut, Beyrouth Fantôme, Terra Incognita, The Last Man, 1958, The Mountain and The Valley. His films have been selected in various international film festivals. He has finished the shooting of ''The River'', in addition to numerous “essays” and different “video works” including "Posthumous," "Chinese Ink," "Son Image," and Le voyage Immobile," on which he collaborated with Lebanese documentary filmmaker Mohamed Soueid. In 2016, he was a DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, DAAD (Berlin) guest-resident. La Rochelle International Film Festival, JC Carthage and Cinémathèque québécoise, La Cinémathèque du Québec made a tribute to his work. He has also published differ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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