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Ismail Patel
Ismail Patel (born 1962) is a British optician, and founder of Friends of Al-Aqsa, an NGO based in Leicester. He is an advisory board member of the Conflicts Forum, director of IslamExpo, and a member of the Special Advisory Board of Clear Conscience. He writes commentary for ''The Guardian'', and ''The Independent'', ''Aljazeera English'', and ''Arabian Business''. Gaza Flotilla He joined the Gaza flotilla, and was on board the ''MV Mavi Marmara ''. He was held by Israel for just under 48 hours and then deported to Turkey. He flew back to Heathrow Airport, London Heathrow, and gave a press conference with Alex Harrison and Daniel Machover. Personal life He is the brother of Shockat Adam, the pro-Palestine independent MP for Leicester South since the 2024 United Kingdom general election. References External links"Freedom Flotilla Update by Ismail Patel"24-05-10 Day 1Friends of Al Aqsa Twitter {{DEFAULTSORT:Patel, Ismail 1963 births British Muslims Living people Britis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaza Flotilla Route
Gaza may refer to: Places Palestine * Gaza Strip, a Palestinian territory on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea ** Gaza City, a city in the Gaza Strip ** Gaza Governorate, a governorate in the Gaza Strip Lebanon * Ghazzeh, a village in the Western Beqaa District United States * Gaza, Iowa, an unincorporated community * Gaza, a village in the town of Sanbornton, New Hampshire * Little Gaza, an Arab-American ethnic enclave in Anaheim, California * Gaza Strip, colloquial name for Anaheim Island, California, unincorporated area in Orange County, California Australia * Klemzig, South Australia, renamed ''Gaza'' from 1917 to 1935 Africa * Gaza Empire, a former Nguni kingdom in southern Africa * Gaza Province, a province of Mozambique * Gazaland, a region in southern Mozambique and Zimbabwe History and society * Gaza people, a Nguni people in southern Africa * Gaza (Battle honour), a British World War I award * Gaza Thesis, a thesis used to explain the rise of the Ottoma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Harrison
The following is a list of characters that first appeared in the Channel 4 soap opera ''Hollyoaks'' in 2005, by order of first appearance. Louise Summers Rob Owen Robert "Rob" Owen is a fictional character from the long-running Channel 4 soap opera ''Hollyoaks'', played by David Prosho between 2005 and 2006. He is Carrie Owen's estranged husband. He recently returned after finding out about his son Russ Owen's cancer. Originally ostracized from the family because he refused to believe his other son Sam Owen's innocence when he was imprisoned, Rob returned after Russ warned him that he could be at risk from cancer, and after his daughter Nicole Owen begged him to stay. Rob's return almost split the family again as Sam refused to accept him at first. He was forced to change his mind after Rob rescued him on a climbing trip when Sam was unable to scale the rock face on his own. When Sam realised that Rob did care for him after all, he eventually forgave him. After Sam confesse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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British Muslims
Islam is the second largest religion in the United Kingdom, with results from the 2011 Census giving the total population as 2,786,635, or 4.4% of the total UK population,CT0341_2011 Census - Religion by ethnic group by main language - England and Wales ONS. while the 2021 Census results released so far () show a population of 3,868,133 (6.5%) in England and Wales, 3,801,178 in England and 66,950 in Wales. The 2011 census reported 76,737 Muslims in |
1963 Births
Events January * January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cove River, Sydney, Australia. * January 2 – Vietnam War – Battle of Ap Bac: The Viet Cong win their first major victory. * January 9 – A total penumbral lunar eclipse is visible in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia, and is the 56th lunar eclipse of Lunar Saros 114. Gamma has a value of −1.01282. It occurs on the night between Wednesday, January 9 and Thursday, January 10, 1963. * January 13 – 1963 Togolese coup d'état: A military coup in Togo results in the installation of coup leader Emmanuel Bodjollé as president. * January 17 – A last quarter moon occurs between the penumbral lunar eclipse and the annular solar eclipse, only 12 hours, 29 minutes after apogee. * January 19 – Soviet spy Ghe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jewish News
The ''Jewish News'' is a free weekly newspaper, established in 1997, that serves the Jewish communities of Greater London – specifically Middlesex, Hertfordshire and Essex. In 2002, it won the ''Press Gazette'' free newspaper of the year. In February 2020, it announced plans to merge with ''The Jewish Chronicle''. In April 2020, it announced that it would enter voluntary liquidation, alongside ''The Jewish Chronicle'', preparatory to a combined rescue plan, but following a bid emerging for ''The Jewish Chronicle'', announced that it would continue as an independent publication. In November 2020, the newspaper was donated to a new charitable foundation, the Independent Jewish Community News Foundation. Operations The ''Jewish News'' is published in tabloid format and distributed free of charge. Published every Thursday, the paper provides a weekly mix of local, national and international Jewish news, opinions, features, sport and entertainment. It is owned by property investor, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 United Kingdom General Election
The 2024 United Kingdom general election is scheduled to be held on Thursday, 4 July 2024. It will determine the composition of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons, which determines the Government of the United Kingdom. Significant 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, constituency boundary changes will be in effect, the first such changes since before the 2010 United Kingdom general election, 2010 general election. It will be the first UK general election where voter identification is required to vote in person in Great Britain. The general election will be the first since the UK's departure from the European Union on 31 January 2020, which was a major issue in the 2019 United Kingdom general election, previous election; it will also be the first to take place under the Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act 2022, as well as the first general election held under Charles III's reign. Discussion around the campaign has been focused on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leicester South
Leicester South is a constituency, recreated in 1974, represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2011 by Jonathan Ashworth of the Labour Co-op Party (which denotes he is a member of the Labour Party and Co-operative Party, one of 38 such current Labour MPs, and requires members to contribute practically to a cooperative business). A previous version of the seat existed between 1918 and 1950. Except for a 2004 by-election when it was won by the Liberal Democrats, Leicester South has been held by the Labour Party since 1987. Boundaries When originally created in 1918, the South division of the Parliamentary Borough of Leicester was defined as including the municipal wards of Aylestone, Castle, Charnwood, De Montfort, Knighton, Martin's, and Wycliffe. The initial report of the Boundary Commission for England dated October 1947 and published in December 1947 recommended that Leicester retain three seats, including a revised Leicester South constituency ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shockat Adam
Shockat Hussain Adam Patel (born 1972) is a British businessman, optometrist, and independent politician who has served as the Member of Parliament for Leicester South since 2024. Career Adam was born in Malawi, into a Muslim family of Gujarati descent and grew up in Leicester, where he attended sixth-form college. He studied optometry at the University of Manchester. He is a director of Sask Optics which is owned by him, his wife and his brother Ismail Patel. Adam was the former Leicester chair of Muslim Engagement and Development, and spoke out against the 2022 Leicester unrest between Hindu and Muslim communities in the city. Prior to his candidacy, he had never been a member of a political party, although, in the 2019 general election, he had supported Labour Party candidate Claudia Webbe's campaign in Leicester East. Adam was elected in the 2024 United Kingdom general election as an independent, beating Labour candidate and Shadow Paymaster General Jonathan Ashworth in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Machover
Daniel Machover is the head of civil litigation for Hickman & Rose Solicitors in London, UK and was the co-founder of Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights in 1988. ''The Independent''. Retrieved 2 November 1999 Early life According to an interview in '''', "Close observations of his parents' treatment at the hands of the Israeli authorities – including the strip-searching of his mother – heightened Machover's awareness of the potential for those in uniform to abuse their powers". His father, Professor , was o ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heathrow Airport
Heathrow Airport (), called ''London Airport'' until 1966 and now known as London Heathrow , is a major international airport in London, England. It is the largest of the six international airports in the London airport system (the others being Gatwick, City, Luton, Stansted and Southend). The airport facility is owned and operated by Heathrow Airport Holdings. In 2021, it was the seventh-busiest airport in the world by international passenger traffic and eighth-busiest in Europe by total passenger traffic. Heathrow was founded as a small airfield in 1929 but was developed into a much larger airport after World War II. The airport lies west of Central London on a site that covers . It was gradually expanded over seventy-five years and now has two parallel east-west runways, four operational passengers terminals and one cargo terminal. The airport is the primary hub for both British Airways and Virgin Atlantic. Location Heathrow is west of central London. It is locate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Optician
An optician, or ''dispensing optician'', is a technical practitioner who designs, fits and dispenses lenses for the correction of a person's vision. Opticians determine the specifications of various ophthalmic appliances that will give the necessary correction to a person's eyesight. Some registered or licensed opticians also design and fit special appliances to correct cosmetic, traumatic or anatomical defects. These devices are called shells or artificial eyes. Other registered or licensed opticians manufacture lenses to their own specifications and design and manufacture spectacle frames and other devices. Corrective ophthalmic appliances may be contact lenses, spectacles lenses, low vision aids or ophthalmic prosthetics to those who are partially sighted. The appliances are mounted either on the eye as contact lenses or mounted in a frame or holder in front of the eye as spectacles or as a monocle. Opticians may work in any variety of settings such as joint practice, hospi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
