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Hanna (Arabic Name)
Hanna or Hana is an Arabic male given name (حنّا), common particularly among Arab Christians in Palestine, Lebanon, Syria and Egypt, deriving from the Syriac/Aramaic name for the Apostle John. In turn, the Syriac name is borrowed from Hebrew יוֹחָנָן (Yoḥānān) meaning ''God is gracious''. Notable people with the name include: Given name Hanna * Hanna Abu-Hanna (born 1928), Palestinian poet, writer and researcher * Hanna Nasser (1936–2015), Palestinian politician * Hanna Nasser (academic), Palestinian academic and political figure Hana * Hana Elhebshi, Libyan activist * Hana Hajjar, Saudi cartoonist * Hana Majaj (born 1982), Jordanian swimmer * Hana Mareghni (born 1989), Tunisian judo practitioner * Hana Nasser (born 1991), Israeli football player * Hana Shalabi (born 1982), Palestinian prisoner in Israel * Hana Shiha (born 1985), Egyptian actress * Hana Sweid (born 1955), Israeli Arab politician Middle name * Stephan Hanna Stephan (1894–1949), a Chris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Of Palestine
Palestine ( ar, فلسطين, Filasṭīn), Legal status of the State of Palestine, officially the State of Palestine ( ar, دولة فلسطين, Dawlat Filasṭīn, label=none), is a state (polity), state located in Western Asia. Officially governed by the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), it claims the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip as its territory, though the entirety of that territory has been Israeli-occupied territories, occupied by Israel since the 1967 Six-Day War. As a result of the Oslo Accords of 1993–1995, the West Bank is currently divided into 165 Palestinian enclaves that are under partial Palestinian National Authority (PNA) rule; the remainder, including 200 Israeli settlement, Israeli settlements, is under Area C (West Bank), full Israeli control. The Gaza Strip has been ruled by the militant Islamic group Hamas and has been subject to Blockade of the Gaza Strip, a long-term blockade by Egypt and Israel since 2007. After W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hana Majaj
Hana Majaj ( ar, هناء مجاج; born September 14, 1982) is a Jordanian former swimmer, who specialized in butterfly events. She represented Jordan at the 2000 Summer Olympics, and also trained for the BYU Cougars swimming and diving team at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Majaj competed only in the women's 200 m butterfly at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. She received a ticket from FINA FINA (french: Fédération internationale de natation, en, International Swimming Federation, link=yes) (to be renamed as World Aquatics by ) is the international federation recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for administer ..., under a Universality program, without meeting an entry time. She participated in heat one against three other swimmers Chan Wing Suet of Hong Kong, Tinka Dančević of Croatia, and Ana Carolina Aguilera of Argentina. She rounded out a small field to last place in a lifetime best of 2:31.78, the slowest of all in the heats. Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arabic Masculine Given Names
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 med ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theodosios (Hanna)
Theodosios (Hanna) of Sebastia (born 1965) is the Archbishop of Sebastia from the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem. He is often named in Western news sources as Atallah Hanna, Atallah and both meaning "gift of God" in Arabic and Greek, respectively. Theodosios, who was ordained on the 24 December 2005 at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, is the second Palestinian to hold the position of archbishop in the history of the diocese. Early life; education Archbishop Theodosios was born Nizar Hanna to Eastern Orthodox parents in the village of Rameh, Upper Galilee region of northern Israel. Archbishop Theodosios studied Greek in Jerusalem, continuing his studies in Greece where he earned his Master of Theology from University of Thessalonica School of Theology in 1991. Ecclesiastical career That same year, 1991, Nizar Hanna returned to Jerusalem, where he was tonsured a monk with the name Theodosios and received ordination as a deacon. Also in 1991 he was elected a member ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mil Hanna
Milham Hanna (born 5 April 1966) is a former Australian rules footballer best known for his playing career with the Carlton Football Club in the 1980s and 1990s. Nicknamed ''The Cranium'' (after his cleanly shaven head, due to alopecia) or simply ''Mil'' for short, Hanna is distinguished as having been the first Lebanese-born player in the history of the Victorian Football League/Australian Football League (VFL/AFL). and the only AFL player of Lebanese descent until the debut of Bachar Houli in 2007. Hanna grew up in the inner-northern suburbs of Melbourne, where he played his junior football in Brunswick East. He was known in the VFL/AFL for his athletic physique and fast pace playing as a tall running wingman. Hanna made his senior playing debut in 1986, but ruptured his anterior cruciate ligament during his first game. Following almost a year of rehabilitation, he enjoyed a largely injury-free career with Carlton. Hanna played in two AFL Grand Finals for Carlton: in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Hanna
Lisa Rene Shanti Hanna (born August 20, 1975) is a Jamaican politician and beauty queen who was crowned Miss World 1993, becoming the third Jamaican to win the title. A member of the opposition People's National Party, Hanna currently serves as Member of Parliament for Saint Ann South East, and was Jamaica's Minister of Youth and Culture from 2012–2016. Hanna was a candidate in the 2020 People's National Party leadership election, following the PNP's defeat at the 2020 Jamaican general election and the subsequent resignation of PNP President and Opposition Leader, Peter Phillips. Hanna was defeated by Mark Golding. Education She was educated at the Queen's School, Jamaica, where she was appointed a Goodwill Ambassador by the United Nations Development Programme, and has a Bachelors and Masters degree in Communications from the University of the West Indies. Professional life Career in entertainment In 1998, Hanna acted in the romantic comedy ''How Stella Got Her Groove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jumana Hanna
Jumana Michael/Mikhail Hanna ( ar, جُمانة ميخائيل حنّا; born c. 1962) is an Iraqi woman of Assyrian background who was imprisoned at the facility known as Al Kelab Al Sayba, or ''Loose Dogs'', during the rule of Saddam Hussein. After the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime, Hanna visited the Al Kelab Al Sayba prison in Iraq with a western reporter, resulting in a ''Washington Post'' front page story in which she related stories of the atrocities that she had allegedly suffered. During the visit, she told the reporters that she had been jailed and tortured in the facility, and that her husband had been killed in a nearby prison. ''The Washington Post'' story was later mentioned by Paul Wolfowitz while testifying before the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Hanna was resettled to northern California by US authorities to protect her from possible reprisals. Sara Solovitch, a journalist based in California, became interested in the story and met wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephan Hanna Stephan
Stephan Hanna Stephan (1894–1949), also St H Stephan, was a Palestinian writer, translator and radio Radio broadcasting, broadcaster of history and folklore in Palestine (region), Palestine.Irving, 2017, p. 9. Besides publishing original articles, travel guides and phrasebooks in English and German language, German, and broadcasting in Arabic language, Arabic, Stephan also produced several translations of books and inscriptions, utilizing his fluency in all these languages, as well as Ottoman Turkish and Syriac language, Syriac.Irving, 2017, p. 46. Educated at the Schneller Orphanage, Schneller School, a Evangelical Church in Germany#History, German Protestant orphanage that operated in Jerusalem, he worked for the Mandatory Palestine authorities, first in the Treasury, and then in the Department of Antiquities (Mandatory Palestine), Department of Antiquities.Irving, 2017, pp. 62–3. Early life Stephan was born in Beit Jala in 1894, during the rule of the Ottoman empire in Pal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hana Sweid
Hana Sweid ( ar, حنا سويد, he, חנא סוייד; also spelt Hanna Swaid, born 27 March 1955) is an Israeli Arab politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Hadash from 2006 to 2015. Early life Born to a Christian Arab family in Eilabun, Sweid studied Civil Engineering at the Technion, gaining a BSc and an MSc. Further studies led to him receiving a PhD in Civil Engineering and Urban Planning. After his studies he worked as an engineer and also lectured at the University of Reading in the United Kingdom from 1990 until 1993. He became a member of the National Council for Planning and Construction in 1995, leaving it in 2003, the year in which he became Director General of the Arab Center for Alternative Planning, a position he held until 2006. Political career Sweid began his foray into politics as head of Eilabun local council in 1993, a position he held until 2000. He was first elected to the Knesset in the 2006 elections. Since becoming an MK he has led e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hana Shiha
Hana Shiha ( ar, هنا شيحة; born 25 December 1979) is an Egyptian actress. She graduated from the Academy of Arts in Egypt, majoring acting and directing. She started her career in the hit series "el bar el Gharbi" in 2002 while she was still a student Biography Hana Shiha was born on 25 December 1979 in Beirut, Lebanon to an Egyptian- Lebanese artistic family of 4 sisters: "Hala Shiha", "Maya Shiha" and "Rasha Shiha". Hana's father, Ahmed Shiha, who is an Internationally proclaimed popular Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediter ...ian painter, and Lebanese mother Nadia Zeitoun both loved arts and saw blossoming talents in there young girls, encouraged her 4 daughters to be more creative, taking piano, ballet lessons as children. Hana fell in love with readin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hana Shalabi
Hana Shalabi ( ar, هناء يحيى شلبي; born 2 July 1982) is a Palestinian prisoner in Israel, held in administrative detention. On 16 February 2012, the Israeli military arrested Shalabi at her home in Jenin, in the Palestinian administered territories of the West Bank. She is believed to be a supporter of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, however, her father has denied that she is an active member. The Israeli prison authority said she was taken into custody for unspecified terror activity. To protest against being held without charge, she began her hunger strike.Palestinian detainee Hana Shalabi ends hunger strike ''''. BBC. 2012-03-29. She ended her hunger 43- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hana Nasser
Hana Nasser ( ar, حنا ناصر, he, חנא נאסר; born 27 March 1991) is an Arab-Israeli professional association football player. Biography Playing career Nassar made his professional debut, coming on as a substitute for Alon Harazi, in a 0–0 Toto Cup draw against Hapoel Be'er Sheva on 11 November 2009. International career Nasser represented Israel at the 2009 Maccabiah Games The 18th Maccabiah Games ( he, המכביה ה-18 ישראל תשס"ט), were held in July 2009. According to the organizing committee these were the largest games held yet. These Games were the world's fifth-largest sporting event, behind the Ol ..., winning a bronze medal. Statistics References * Footnotes 1991 births Living people Israeli men's footballers Israeli Christians Arab-Israeli footballers Maccabi Haifa F.C. players Hapoel Acre F.C. players Maccabi Ironi Bat Yam F.C. players Maccabi Umm al-Fahm F.C. players Hakoah Amidar Ramat Gan F.C. players Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
