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Kunhadi
Kunhadi (Arabic " كُن هادي ", English "be calm") is a non-profit organization concerned with road safety in Lebanon. Kunhadi is aimed at raising road safety awareness, especially among young people. The organization was established in 2006 after Hady Gebrane died from a car crash at age 18. Kunhadi's work includes lobbying and advocacy. Its main focus is on improving dangerous driving behaviors, such as speeding, drunk driving, not wearing helmets or seat belts and driving while fatigued or distracted. Activities in Lebanon Road Safety Conferences "Road Safety Sessions" are interactive road safety sessions at schools, universities and corporations. They strive to explain the role of each road user in improving road safety. Since 2013, Kunhadi collaborates with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon in Lebanon to raise awareness among the children of South Lebanon. While Kunhadi presents the safety rules, the UNIFIL implement exercises with the children. Road Safet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noel Jammal
Noel Jammal Fernández, better known as Noel Jammal (in Arabic language, Arabic نويل جمّال, born 3 March 1990 in Madrid) is a Lebanon, Lebanese-Spain, Spanish Formula 3 driver who is in :es:Cedars Motorsport, Cedars Motorsport group founded by his father Youssef Jammal and he regularly represents in international competition. Noel Jammal was a karting enthusiast at an early age. On his 18th birthday, he asked his parents to give him a test drive on a racing car as a gift. He did very well, after which his family financed his endeavour in professional car racing. At nineteen, he became champion for Madrid City and then made his participation in an official circuit racing championship in 2009. His first win and gold trophy was at the Jerez circuit of the European Formula 3 Open Championship in Spain in 2011. In 2011, he was picked as ambassador for Lebanese public awareness campaign ''Kunhadi'' (Be calm), promoting safe driving among Lebanese youth. References External ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alissar Caracalla
Alissar Abdel-Halim Caracalla is a Lebanon, Lebanese dance instructor, choreography, choreographer and art director. She is the founder and director of the Orientalist Dance Company and CDS, the Caracalla School of Dance, which is simply known as "Studio Caracalla: L'art de la Danse." Caracalla is the daughter of Abdel-Halim Caracalla the founder of the Caracalla Dance Theatre. Biography Alissar Abdel-Halim Caracalla was born 1974 on February 26 in Lebanon. Her father, Abdel-Halim Caracalla a Shiite Muslim from Baalbek, married her mother, a Christian from Zahle, in a church. She spent the duration of the Lebanese civil war growing up in London. At the age of 18, she moved to the United States. Education She received her BA in International Communications and Choreography from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and her master's degree in Fine Arts in Dance Theory and Choreography at UCLA. Career In 2005, she choreographed the dance sequels in Philippe Aractingi's featur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arabic
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] |
Pedestrian
A pedestrian is a person traveling on foot, whether walking or running. In modern times, the term usually refers to someone walking on a road or pavement, but this was not the case historically. The meaning of pedestrian is displayed with the morphemes ''ped-'' ('foot') and ''-ian'' ('characteristic of'). This word is derived from the Latin term ''pedester'' ('going on foot') and was first used (in English language) during the 18th century. It was originally used, and can still be used today, as an adjective meaning plain or dull. However, in this article it takes on its noun form and refers to someone who walks. The word pedestrian may have been used in middle French in the Recueil des Croniques et Anchiennes Istories de la Grant Bretaigne, à présent nommé Engleterre. In California the definition of a pedestrian has been broadened to include anyone on any human powered vehicle that is not a bicycle, as well as people operating self-propelled wheelchairs by reason of p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Byblos
Byblos ( ; gr, Βύβλος), also known as Jbeil or Jubayl ( ar, جُبَيْل, Jubayl, locally ; phn, 𐤂𐤁𐤋, , probably ), is a city in the Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate of Lebanon. It is believed to have been first occupied between 8800 and 7000BC and continuously inhabited since 5000BC, making it one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. During its history, Byblos was part of numerous civilizations, including Egyptian, Phoenician, Assyrian, Persian, Hellenistic, Roman, Fatimid, Genoese, Mamluk and Ottoman. The city is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It was in ancient Byblos that the Phoenician alphabet, likely the ancestor of the Greek, Latin and all other Western alphabets, was developed. Etymology Byblos appears as ''Kebny'' in Egyptian hieroglyphic records going back to the 4th-dynasty pharaoh Sneferu (BC) and as () in the Akkadian cuneiform Amarna letters to the 18th-dynasty pharaohs and IV. In the 1stmillenniumBC, its name appeared ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antelias
Antelias ( ar, أنطلياس) is a city in Lebanon in the Matn District of the Mount Lebanon Governorate. It is located around 5 km to the north of Beirut. Etymology The name is originally Greek, ἀντήλιος – from ἀντί(anti) "contra" and ἥλιος (helios) "sun" – meaning "facing the sun". Municipality The municipality of Antelias - Naqqach is located in the Kaza of Metn in Mount Lebanon, one of the eight mohafazats (governorates) of Lebanon. Antelias - Naqqach is 8 kilometers (4.9712 mi) from Beyrouth (Beirut), the capital of Lebanon. Its elevation is 10 meters (32.81 ft; 10.936 yd) above sea level. Antelias - Naqqach surface stretches for 193 hectares (1.93 km² - 0.74498 mi²). Archaeological interest Antelias is home to the site of Ksar Akil where the region's oldest remains of a human being have been found: a 30,000-year-old man near the caves of Ksar Akil. The skull of the body found was sent the Beirut National Museum an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lebanese People In Spain
Lebanese people in Spain ( es, Libaneses en España) are people from Lebanon or those of Lebanese descent, who live in the country of Spain. Most of the Lebanese people in Spain are expatriates from Lebanon but also there is a sizable group of people with Lebanese descent from Latin American countries with sizable Lebanese diasporas like Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Mexico, Uruguay, Chile, Paraguay and Brazil. Notable people * Miguel Casiri * Yamila Diaz * Noel Jammal * José María Benegas * Roberto Merhi * Shakira * Chenoa See also * Lebanon–Spain relations * List of Lebanese people in Spain * Arabs in Spain * Arabs in Europe * Lebanese diaspora References {{Spain topics Spain , image_flag = Bandera de España.svg , image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg , national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond") , national_anthem = (English: "Royal March") , i ... Spanish people of Lebanese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carmen Lebbos
Carmen Lebbos ( ar, كارمن لبّس; born 22 February 1963) is a Lebanese theater, television, and film actress who has worked in film, television actress. Lebbos has been active since 1981; she has been in several television series and movies including Ziad Doueiri’s ''West Beirut'' and Josef Fares’s '' Zozo''. Biography Lebbos was born in Beirut to a working-class family. Personal life Lebbos was in fifteen year long relationship with famed Lebanese musician Ziad Rahbani Ziad Rahbani ( ar, زياد الرحباني, born 1956) is a Lebanese composer, pianist, playwright, and political commentator. He is the son of Fairouz, one of Lebanon and the Arab world's most famous singers, and Assi Rahbani, one of the found .... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Lebbos, Carmen 1963 births Lebanese film actresses Lebanese stage actresses Lebanese television actresses Actresses from Beirut Living people Lebanese Christians ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Khabbaz
Georges Khabbaz ( ar, جورج خبّاز, born in Hasbaya, November 5, 1976) is a Lebanese actor, writer, director, comedian, musician, playwright, producer and theater professor. He is best known for playing the lead role in ''Under the Bombs'' (2007) and '' Silina.'' He is also known for writing '' Ghadi'' (2013), in which he also played the lead role, and '' Waynon'' (2014). Early life Khabbaz was born into a family of artists. His father Georges Joubran Khabbaz has starred in plays like '' Sahriyyi'' for ''Ziad Rahbani'' and has appeared on television in '' Les Miserables'' and '' Youth 73''. His mother '' Odette Atiyyeh'' is also a theatre person, appearing frequently in local festivals. Georges Khabbaz studied at '' Holy Spirit University'' of Kaslik where he obtained a degree in musical comedy. He was four years old when he first appeared on stage for a school play titled ''Life of St. Maron.'' Professionally, his theater career began in 1994. Career Films In 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UN General Assembly
The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA or GA; french: link=no, Assemblée générale, AG) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN), serving as the main deliberative, policymaking, and representative organ of the UN. Currently in its Seventy-seventh session of the United Nations General Assembly, 77th session, its powers, composition, functions, and procedures are set out in Chapter IV of the United Nations Charter. The UNGA is responsible for the UN budget, appointing the non-permanent members to the United Nations Security Council, Security Council, appointing the UN secretary-general, receiving reports from other parts of the UN system, and making recommendations through United Nations General Assembly resolution, resolutions. It also establishes numerous :United Nations General Assembly subsidiary organs, subsidiary organs to advance or assist in its broad mandate. The UNGA is the only UN organ wherein all member states have equal representation. The G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Make Roads Safe
Make Roads Safe is a global road safety campaign established with the aim of securing political commitment for road traffic injury prevention around the world. The Make Roads Safe campaign recently played a leading role in arguing for and securing the first-ever United Nations Ministerial Conference on global road safety, which was approved by the UN General Assembly on 31 March 2008 and was held in Moscow on 19 and 20 November 2009. The campaign also led the call for a UN Decade of Action for Road Safety to 2020, with the aim of reducing by half the predicted increase in global road deaths. On 2 March 2010 the UN General Assembly approved a resolution proclaiming a UN Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020. The Decade of Action was officially launched on 11 May 2011. The campaign was launched in June 2006 following the publication of the Make Roads Safe report by the Commission for Global Road Safety. The Commission, chaired by former NATO Secretary General Lord Robertson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FIA Foundation For The Automobile And Society
The FIA Foundation for the Automobile and Society is a foundation which undertakes " ..research into public policy issues relating to the automobile’s interaction with society. We support initiatives that improve the environmental performance of the car. The FIA Foundation also participates regularly in international institutions responsible for political and technical issues relating to road safety, sustainable mobility and the environment." Among its official aims are to further "road safety" and "sustainable mobility". "The FIA Foundation was established in 2001 with a donation of $300 million made by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), the non-profit federation of motoring organisations and the governing body of world motor sport." The chairman of the foundation is Lord Robertson. Critics see it as a tool of the motor industry to increase the acceptability of car-based traffic solutions while blocking alternatives. See also *Make Roads Safe *ASEAN NCAP ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
