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Jumana (given Name)
Jumana, meaning "rarest pearl", is an Arabic feminine given name. People with the name include: * Jumana El Husseini (born 1932), a Palestinian painter and sculptor living in Paris * Jumana Emil Abboud, Palestinian artist * Jumana Ghunaimat, Jordanian journalist and politician * Joumana Haddad, a Lebanese author, public speaker, journalist and women's rights activist. * Jumana Hanna, Iraqi woman * Jumana Murad, Syrian actress and producer * Jumana Nagarwala, an Indian-American physician who, in 2017, became the first person charged under the United States law criminalizing female genital mutilation Female genital mutilation (FGM), also known as female genital cutting, female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and female circumcision, is the ritual cutting or removal of some or all of the external female genitalia. The practice is found ... See also * Atikah {{given name Arabic-language feminine given names Feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jumana El Husseini
Jumana El-Husseini, (2 April 1932 – 11 April 2018) was a Palestinian painter and sculptor born in Jerusalem, who later lived in Paris. She won many medals and has an extensive international exhibition record. Jumana El-Husseini died in her home in Paris on 11 April 2018 at the age of 86. She studied painting, sculpture and ceramics in Beirut and Paris. Noted for figurative paintings of Palestinian women and geometric houses in Jerusalem and Jericho, her style evolved from realistic to geometric and, since 1987, to abstract, with wavelike overpainted drawings evoking Arabic calligraphy. Personal life Jumana El-Husseini was born to a prominent Palestinian family. Her grandfather, Hajj Amin El-Husseini, was the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem in the Mandate era and an important figure in the resistance against British and Zionist colonial rule. In 1948, El-Husseini and her family were forced to leave Palestine as a result of the 1948 Nakba and they resettled in Beirut, Lebanon. In 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jumana Emil Abboud
Jumana Emil Abboud ( ar, جمانة إميل عبّود) is a Palestinian artist living and working in Jerusalem. She was born in Shefa-'Amr, Galilee and came to Ontario, Canada with her parents in 1979. She began her studies at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto. In 1991, she relocated to Jerusalem where she continued her studies at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, receiving a BFA and a post-graduated diploma. Abboud has used drawing, video, performance, objects and text in her work which deals with memory, both personal and collective history, loss and resilience. She was a finalist for the Celeste Prize in 2013. She has had solo exhibitions in Tel Aviv, at the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art and at the Forum Schlossplatz in Aarau, Switzerland. Her work has been included in exhibitions at the Venice Biennale, the Istanbul Biennial. the Bahrain National Museum in Manama, the Arab World Institute in Paris, The Jerusalem Show, the Darat al Funun in Amman, at the Carr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jumana Ghunaimat
Jumana Ghunaimat ( ar, جمانة غنيمات; born 4 December 1973) is a Jordanian journalist and media figure, and is the former Minister of State for Media Affairs and Government Spokesperson in Prime Minister Omar Al-Razzaz's cabinet on 14 June 2018. She currently occupies the position of Jordan's ambassador to Morocco. Personal life Ghunaimat was born and raised in Al-Salt to a family of nine boys and three girls. Her father is retired major general and former deputy Pasha Suleiman Ali Ghunaimat, and her mother Hind Abdel Fattah Ghunaimat is a retired teacher. Ghunaimat moved between Baghdad and Amman when her father was a military attaché in Iraq, and studied at the model school located in Salt, completing secondary studies there. She holds a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Jordan, obtained in June 1996. Ghunaimat has two children, a daughter named Wassan and a son named Shas. Career Ghunaimat started her career in 1996 in Al-Raiy new ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joumana Haddad
Joumana Haddad ( ar, جمانة حداد) ( Salloum; born December 6, 1970 in Beirut) is a Lebanese author, public speaker, journalist and human rights activist. She has been selected as one of the world’s 100 most powerful Arab women by Arabian Business Magazine for her cultural and social activism. In 2021, she was on Apolitical's list of 100 most influential people in Gender Policy. She is founder of '' Jasad'', a quarterly Arabic-language magazine specialized in the arts and literature of the body (2009–2011). Haddad launched a new TV show in November 2018 on Alhurra highlighting the topics of free expression and critical thinking. In September 2019, she founded a youth centered NGO in Beirut called the Joumana Haddad Freedoms Center. In February 2020, in partnership with the Institut Français in Lebanon, she launched the first International Feminisms Festival in the Middle East with a group of local and international co-organizers. Career Joumana Haddad started w ... [...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] |
Jumana Murad
Jumana Nawaf Fahad Murad ( ar, جومانا نواف فهد مراد; born on 1 April 1973 in As-Suwayda) is a Syrian actress and producer. She is one of the most famous actresses in Syrian and Arabic media. Early life and career Murad born in As-Suwayda to Durzi family, she studied English literature in Damascus University. She began her career as presenter in Ajman TV. Her first act was in ''Pictures fregments'' in 1998. She also acted in Bab Al-Hara. She acted Zenobia role in 2007. She also opened producing company ''Jumana International for film, television and distribution''. Personal life Since 2013, she has been married to Jordanian lawyer Rabie Besiso. She was previously married two times, first marriage was to Syrian director Najdat Anzour and the second was to a Syrian businessman whom she refused to acknowledge the name of. In February 2019, she gave birth to her first son Mohammed. In 2020, she gave birth to twins: a son called Ali and a daughter called Diana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Female Genital Mutilation
Female genital mutilation (FGM), also known as female genital cutting, female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and female circumcision, is the ritual cutting or removal of some or all of the external female genitalia. The practice is found in some countries of Africa, Asia and the Middle East, and within communities abroad from countries in which FGM is common. UNICEF estimated, in 2016, that 200 million women in 30 countries—Indonesia, Iraq, Yemen, and 27 African countries including Egypt—had been subjected to one or more types of FGM. Typically carried out by a traditional circumciser using a blade, FGM is conducted from days after birth to puberty and beyond. In half of the countries for which national statistics are available, most girls are cut before the age of five. Procedures differ according to the country or ethnic group. They include removal of the clitoral hood (type 1-a) and clitoral glans (1-b); removal of the inner labia; and removal of the inner and o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atikah
Atiqah or Atikah ( ar, عاتكة) is a feminine given name which is used in the Arab world and in Muslim majority countries. Atiqah may refer to: People * Atikah bint Yazid, Muhammad's great-grandmother * Atikah bint Murrah, great-great grandmother of Muhammad *Atika bint Abdul Muttalib ʿĀtika bint ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib (Arabic: عاتكة بنت عبد المطلب) was an aunt of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Biography She was born in Mecca, the daughter of Abd al-Muttalib ibn Hashim and Fatima bint Amr, who was from the Mak ..., aunt of Muhammad * Atiqa bint Zayd ibn Amr ibn Nufayl (former wife of Abdullah ibn Abu BakrTarikh ar-Rusul wa al-Muluk 4/ 199 by at-Tabari married 'Umar in the year 12 Anno hegiræ and after 'Umar was murdered, she married az-Zubayr ibn al-Awwam Notes {{given name Arabic-language feminine given names Feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arabic-language Feminine Given Names
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] |
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