|
Hariri
Hariri (in Arabic حريري) is a surname and derivative of ''harir'' (in Arabic حرير meaning silk) which indicates a mercantile background at one point in that field. People Historic * Ali Hariri (1009-1079), Kurdish poet * Al-Hariri of Basra (1054–1122), Arab poet, scholar of the Arabic language and a high government official of the Seljuk Empire Surname Family of Rafic Hariri * Ayman Hariri (born 1978), Lebanese businessman, son of Rafic Hariri * Bahia Hariri (born 1952), Lebanese politician, sister of Rafic Hariri * Bahaa Hariri (born 1966), Lebanese business tycoon, son of Rafic Hariri * Fahd Hariri (born 1980/1981), Lebanese businessman and property developer, the son of Rafic Hariri * Hind Hariri (born 1984), daughter and youngest child of Rafic Hariri * Nazik Hariri, widow of Rafic Hariri * Rafic Hariri (1944–2005), business tycoon and Lebanese Prime Minister; assassinated * Saad Hariri (born 1970), politician, business tycoon, Lebanese Prime Minis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saad Hariri
Saad El-Din Rafik Al-Hariri ( ar, سعد الدين رفيق الحريري, translit=Saʿd ad-Dīn Rafīq al-Ḥarīrī; born 18 April 1970) is a Lebanese-Saudi politician who served as the prime minister of Lebanon from 2009 to 2011 and 2016 to 2020. The son of Rafic Hariri, he founded and has been leading the Future Movement party since 2007. He is seen as "the strongest figurehead" of the March 14 Alliance. Hariri served as Prime Minister of Lebanon from 9 November 2009 to 13 June 2011. After three years living overseas, he returned to Lebanon on 8 August 2014 and served a second term as Prime Minister from 18 December 2016 to 21 January 2020. Hariri's surprise announcement of an intent to resign, broadcast on 4 November 2017 on Saudi state TV, has widely been seen as part of the Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy conflict in Lebanon, and triggered a dispute between Lebanon and Saudi Arabia. The resignation was later suspended, following President Michel Aoun's request to "put it on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rafic Hariri
Rafic Bahaa El Deen Al Hariri ( ar, رفيق بهاء الدين الحريري; 1 November 1944 – 14 February 2005) was a Lebanese business tycoon and politician who served as the Prime Minister of Lebanon from 1992 to 1998 and again from 2000 until his resignation on . Hariri headed five cabinets during his tenure. He was widely credited for his role in constructing the Taif Agreement that ended the 15-year Lebanese Civil War. He also played a huge role in reconstructing the Lebanese capital, Beirut. He was the first post-civil war prime minister and the most influential and wealthiest Lebanese politician until his assassination. Hariri was assassinated on 14 February 2005 by a suicide truck bomb in Beirut. Four Hezbollah members were indicted for the assassination and are being tried ''in absentia'' by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, but others have linked the assassination to the Syrian government. The outcome of a 15-year investigation led to the guilty verdict of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nazik Hariri
Nazik Hariri (née Audi; ar, نازك حريري) is the widow of former Prime Minister of Lebanon Rafic Hariri. She married him in 1976. Nazik is of Palestinian origin. She married twice. She has three children from her second spouse, Rafic Hariri, including Ayman, Fahd and Hind. Her daughter from her first marriage, Joumana, is the wife of businessman Nizar Dalloul who is the son of the Shia politician Mohsen Dalloul Mohsen Dalloul (born 1933) is Lebanese journalist and politician. Being a member of the Progressive Socialist Party he served as the minister of agriculture and minister of defense in the 1990s. He is a long-term member of the Lebanese Parliament .... References External links The World's Billionaires - #891 Nazek Hariri - Forbes Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Nazik Lebanese people of Palestinian descent {{Lebanon-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wahbi Al-Hariri
Wahbi al-Hariri-Rifai ( ar, وهبي الحريري آلرفاعي; 1914 – 16 August 1994) was a Syrian American artist who has often been called "the last of the classicists". As an artist he was remarkably prolific in the last years of his life despite a protracted and painful struggle with terminal cancer. He was also an accomplished architect, archaeologist, and author. His artwork has garnered international recognition and praise both in his lifetime and posthumously. He has also been recognized as a significant Middle Eastern cultural pioneer for his role in the "establishment of the foundations of the Plastic arts movement" in the Levant and for mentoring many important Arab artists. Early life Family Wahbi al-Hariri was born in 1914 in Aleppo, Syria. His documented family tree spans over fourteen centuries and lists several notable ancestors including Al-Hariri of Basra, the 11th-century poet, philosopher, and linguist known for authoring the ''Maqamat al-Hariri'''' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hind Hariri
Hind Rafic al-Hariri ( ar, هند الحريري; born in 1984) is the youngest child of Lebanese businessman and politician Rafic Hariri. She graduated from the Lebanese American University in Beirut and campaigned for her half-brother Saad in Lebanese elections. In 2008, ''Forbes'' magazine listed her as "one of the world's youngest billionaires". In 2009, she married Mohammad Anas Al Karout. They had their first son, Mohammad in 2010, and in December 2011 they had their second son, Rafik. Controversy around the Lycée Abdel Kader high school. In November 2018, Hind Hariri was reported to be behind the controversial decision to relocate the historic Lycée Abdel Kader School. Hind Hariri allegedly put on sale the high school with the goal to construct a mall in its location. ''L'Orient Le Jour'', a Lebanese Francophone newspaper reported that students, their parents and professors rejected the move in a protest in front of the school's main entrance. References 1984 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Craig Venter
John Craig Venter (born October 14, 1946) is an American biotechnologist and businessman. He is known for leading one of the first draft sequences of the human genome and assembled the first team to transfect a cell with a synthetic chromosome. Venter founded Celera Genomics, the Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) and the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI). He was the co-founder of Human Longevity Inc. and Synthetic Genomics. He was listed on ''Time'' magazine's 2007 and 2008 ''Time'' 100 list of the most influential people in the world. In 2010, the British magazine ''New Statesman'' listed Craig Venter at 14th in the list of "The World's 50 Most Influential Figures 2010". In 2012, Venter was honored with Dan David Prize for his contribution to genome research. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2013. He is a member of the USA Science and Engineering Festival's advisory board. retrieved 2010-07-05 Early life and education Venter was born in Salt Lake ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salman Al-Hariri
Salman Saeed Al-Hariri ( ar, سلمان سعيد الحريري; born July 12, 1988) is a Saudi footballer who plays for Al-Noor Light ( ar, النور, ; The Light) is the 24th chapter of the Quran with 64 verses. The surah takes its name, An Nur, from verse 35. Summary *1 This chapter revealed from heaven *2-3 Law relating to fornication *4-5 Punishment for de ... as a winger. References External links * 1988 births Living people Saudi Arabian men's footballers Al-Noor FC players Al-Ettifaq FC players Al-Khaleej FC players Al Faisaly FC players Al-Ittihad Club (Jeddah) players Najran SC players Hajer FC players Al Safa FC players Al-Taraji Club players Men's association football wingers People from Qatif Saudi First Division League players Saudi Fourth Division players Saudi Second Division players Saudi Third Division players Saudi Pro League players {{SaudiArabia-footy-midfielder-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siamak Hariri
Siamak Hariri, OAA, AAA, AIBC, FRAIC, RCA, Intl. Assoc. AIA (born 1958) is a Canadian architect and a founding partner of Hariri Pontarini Architects, a full-service architectural and interior design practice based in Toronto, Canada. Born in Bonn, Germany, Hariri was educated at the University of Waterloo (BES, '79) and Yale University (M.Arch, '85). Upon graduation, he worked at firms in New York and Toronto before founding Hariri Pontarini Architects with David Pontarini in 1994. Hariri holds "deep respect for the transformative potential of architecture and specializes in designing works of enduring value" for private and public clients including the Art Gallery of Ontario, Royal Ontario Museum, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, and St. Michael's Hospital (Toronto), St. Michael's Hospital. Hariri is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, sits on the board of the Design Exchange, and has sat on the advisory board of the Royal Ontario Museum's Contemporary Culture (fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ziad Al-Hariri
Mohammed Ziad al-Hariri (born 1930) is a former prominent Syrian Army officer. A staunch Arab nationalist, he supported the union between Syria and Egypt in 1958, opposed Syria's secession from it in 1961 and served as the chief leader of the coup d'état that toppled the secessionist government in March 1963. Politically independent from the Nasserists and their Ba'athist rivals, Hariri served as the army's chief of staff following the coup and was briefly defense minister until being dismissed during a wide-scale purge of non-Ba'athists from the military. He retired from political activity soon afterward. Early life Hariri was born to a Sunni Muslim family from the town of Hama in 1930.Rabinovich, 1972, p. 235. His father was a major landowner in nearby Homs, and was sympathetic to the politics of the communist national leader Khalid al-Azm. Hariri's brother was also sympathetic to communism and was a locally known poet in Syria. Hariri's brother-in-law was the prominent Arab s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arabic Language
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 m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omar El-Hariri
Omar Mokhtar El-Hariri ( – 2 November 2015) was a leading figure of the National Transitional Council of Libya who served as the Minister of Military Affairs in 2011, during the Libyan Civil War. He controlled the National Liberation Army and the Free Libyan Air Force from March to May 2011. He served on the council Executive Board before being replaced by Jalal al-Digheily, and he headed Military Affairs in the unicameral National Transitional Council legislature. El-Hariri was involved in the initial 1969 coup against the monarchy that began Muammar Gaddafi's 42-year rule of Libya. He organised a plot to overthrow Gaddafi in 1975. When the coup was uncovered, 300 men were arrested, four of whom died during interrogation. Of the remainder, 21 were sentenced to death, including El-Hariri. He was imprisoned for 15 years from 1975 to 1990 under a death sentence, with four and a half years in solitary confinement. Gaddafi commuted the sentence in 1990 and El-Hariri was subsequent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hariri Safii
Hariri Mohd Safii (born 18 January 1989) is a Terengganu footballer and currently playing for Terengganu City in Malaysia FAM League The FAM Cup (Malay: Piala FAM) was a knock-out tournament for teams in both the Malaysia M3 League and the Malaysia M4 League in Malaysian football league system, Malaysia. The tournament was a cup format, but from 2008 to 2018 was held as a thi .... References 1989 births Living people Malaysian men's footballers Terengganu FC players Sabah F.C. (Malaysia) players Negeri Sembilan FC players Penang F.C. players Footballers from Terengganu Men's association football defenders {{Malaysia-footy-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
