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Khashoggi
Khashoggi ( ar, خاشقجي, Ḵāšuqjī) is an Arabic surname of Turkish origin (from , "spoonmaker"). Notable people with the surname include: * Adnan Khashoggi (1935–2017), Saudi businessman, son of Muhammad Khashoggi * Emad Khashoggi (born 1968), Saudi businessman, son of Adil Khashoggi and grandson of Muhammad Khashoggi * Jamal Khashoggi Jamal Ahmad Khashoggi (; ar, جمال أحمد خاشقجي, Jamāl ʾAḥmad Ḵāšuqjī, ; 13 October 1958 – 2 October 2018) was a Saudi journalist, dissident, author, columnist for ''Middle East Eye'' and ''The Washington Post'', and a ge ... (1958–2018), murdered Saudi journalist and dissident, son of Ahmad Khashoggi and grandson of Muhammad Khashoggi * Muhammad Khashoggi (1889–1978), Saudi medical doctor, personal doctor of founder of Saudi Arabia King Abdulaziz Al Saud * Nabila Khashoggi (born 1962), American businesswoman, actress, and philanthropist, daughter of Adnan Khashoggi * Samira Khashoggi (1935–1986), Saudi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamal Khashoggi
Jamal Ahmad Khashoggi (; ar, جمال أحمد خاشقجي, Jamāl ʾAḥmad Ḵāšuqjī, ; 13 October 1958 – 2 October 2018) was a Saudi journalist, dissident, author, columnist for ''Middle East Eye'' and ''The Washington Post'', and a general manager and editor-in-chief of Al-Arab News Channel who was assassinated at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on 2 October 2018 by agents of the Saudi government, allegedly at the behest of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. He also served as editor for the Saudi Arabian newspaper '' Al Watan'', turning it into a platform for Saudi progressives. Khashoggi fled Saudi Arabia in September 2017 and went into self-imposed exile. He said that the Saudi government had "banned him from Twitter", and he later wrote newspaper articles critical of the Saudi government. Khashoggi had been sharply critical of the Saudi rulers, King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. He also opposed the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen. On 2 Octob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adnan Khashoggi
Adnan Khashoggi ( ar, عدنان خاشقجي, ‘Adnān Khāshuqjī; 25 July 1935 – 6 June 2017) was a Saudi businessman and arms dealer known for his lavish business deals and lifestyle. He was estimated to have had a peak net worth of around US$4 billion in the early 1980s. Family and education Khashoggi was born in Mecca, to Mohammad Khashoggi, who was King Abdul Aziz Al Saud's personal doctor, and Samiha Ahmed. Khashoggi's sister was author Samira Khashoggi who married businessman Mohamed Al-Fayed and was the mother of Dodi Fayed. Another sister, Soheir Khashoggi, is a well-known Arab novelist (''Mirage'', ''Nadia's Song'', ''Mosaic''). He was a paternal uncle of murdered journalist, Jamal Khashoggi. Khashoggi was educated at Victoria College in Alexandria, Egypt, and the American universities California State University, Chico, Ohio State University, and Stanford University. Adnan Khashoggi left his studies in order to seek his fortune in business. B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nabila Khashoggi
Nabila Khashoggi ( ar, نبيلة خاشقجي, born 19 February 1962) is an American businesswoman, actress, and philanthropist. Early life Nabila Khashoggi was born in Beirut, Lebanon, the eldest child of the late Saudi Arabian arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi and his English former wife, Soraya Khashoggi (born Sandra Patricia Jarvis-Daly). She is the cousin of Dodi Fayed. Khashoggi was educated at Millfield. Her family moved to England in 1975 to avoid conflict in the region. Her father named one of his yachts 'Nabila' after his daughter (1980). Career Khashoggi studied acting with Joanne Baron in Los Angeles, who notably had such students as Jack Nicholson, Robert De Niro and Diane Keaton, and shortly afterward immersed herself in the world of the theatre. While pursuing her acting career, Khashoggi supplemented her income by working on business projects. ''Eye of the Widow'' (1991), ''The Mystery of Edwin Drood'' (1993), ''Crack'' (1994), and ''Labyrinth'' (2003) are her mos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muhammad Khashoggi
Muhammad Khaled Khashoggi ( ar, محمد خالد خاشقچي) (1889–1978), also spelled as Mohamed Khaled Khashoggi, was a Saudi medical doctor. He was King Abdulaziz Al Saud's personal doctor. Personal life Khashoggi's remote Turkish ancestors made the Hajj from Kayseri to Mecca some four centuries earlier and decided to stay. Their family surname means "spoon maker" in Turkish. He was married to Samiha Ahmed (Setti) and had six children, Adnan Khashoggi, Samira Khashoggi, Essam Khashoggi, Adil Khashoggi, Assia Khashoggi, and Soheir Khashoggi. His grandchildren include Dodi Fayed, Jamal Khashoggi, Emad Khashoggi, and Nabila Khashoggi. Biography Khashoggi emigrated from Medina along with his family and brother Abdullah Khashoggi, who was working as a Muhtasib, during the Siege of Medina in 1918 whereupon they settled in Damascus. Later on, he studied medicine in Damascus and became a surgeon. He then went to Paris to study radiation therapy, then to Mecca to open his pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soheir Khashoggi
Soheir Khashoggi ( ar, سهير خاشقجي, born 1947) is an Egyptian-born Saudi Arabian novelist. Life Khashoggi was born in Alexandria in 1947. Her father, Muhammad Khashoggi, was of Turkish origin, and the Saudi Royal physician for King Abdulaziz Al Saud, founder of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Her family surname, Khashoggi, means "spoon maker" (''Kaşıkçı'') in the Turkish language. Her brother was the arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi Adnan Khashoggi ( ar, عدنان خاشقجي, ‘Adnān Khāshuqjī; 25 July 1935 – 6 June 2017) was a Saudi businessman and arms dealer known for his lavish business deals and lifestyle. He was estimated to have had a peak net worth of .... She went to the American University of Beirut.Soheir Khashoggi Goodreads, Retrieved 1 February 2016 She is a fine artist who has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emad Khashoggi
Emad Khashoggi ( ar, عماد خاشقجي, born 25 March 1968) is a French-Saudi businessman and the head of COGEMAD. He initiated the Château Louis XIV development project in Louveciennes, France. Biography Emad Khashoggi was born in Lebanon's capital Beirut. His father, Adil Khashoggi, has headed up several property developments in Saudi Arabia. His grandfather, Muhammad Khashoggi was of Turkish origin from Kayseri and the personal physician to King Abdulaziz Al Saud. Emad Khashoggi is also the nephew of businessman Adnan Khashoggi. His surname, Khashoggi, means "spoon maker" (''Kaşıkçı'') in the Turkish language. Projects In 1989, Emad Khashoggi founded COGEMAD, a company that develops haute-couture estates and interiors. In the early 2000s, after several successful property developments in France and overseas, in particular the renovation of Château du Verduron and Palais Rose du Vésinet, he and his company set their sights on a new project, homage to the 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turkish Language
Turkish ( , ), also referred to as Turkish of Turkey (''Türkiye Türkçesi''), is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages, with around 80 to 90 million speakers. It is the national language of Turkey and Northern Cyprus. Significant smaller groups of Turkish speakers also exist in Iraq, Syria, Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Greece, the Caucasus, and other parts of Europe and Central Asia. Cyprus has requested the European Union to add Turkish as an official language, even though Turkey is not a member state. Turkish is the 13th most spoken language in the world. To the west, the influence of Ottoman Turkish—the variety of the Turkish language that was used as the administrative and literary language of the Ottoman Empire—spread as the Ottoman Empire expanded. In 1928, as one of Atatürk's Reforms in the early years of the Republic of Turkey, the Ottoman Turkish alphabet was replaced with a Latin alphabet. The distinctive characteristics of the Turk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samira Khashoggi
Samira (also spelled Samirah, Sameera, and Sameerah /sæˈmiːrə/, ar, سميرة is an Arabic female given name. It is derived from the root s-m-r ('to spend the night in talking'), ultimately meaning ''night-companion'', ''entertaining companion'', ''the one with lively conversation''. The masculine version of this name is Samir. In Sanskrit, Sameera (IAST: samīraḥ, Sanskrit: समीरः) is a masculine name, meaning "breeze, wind", or "the god of wind".https://sanskritdictionary.com/sam%C4%ABra/252695/1 Many people with the name deriving from Sanskrit shorten their name to Samir or Sameer. People Samira * Samira Ahmed (born 1968), British television reporter * Samira Asghari (born 1994), Afghan member of the International Olympic Committee * Samira Awad (born 2000), Lebanese footballer * Samira Bellil (1972–2004), French feminist working for the rights of women in traditional Muslim settings * Samira Besic, German of singer of Bosnian origin of the Eurodance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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