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Kuwaiti General Election, 2020
General elections were held in Kuwait on 5 December 2020. Two-thirds of the incumbents lost their seats, including the 2016 parliament's sole woman MP Safa Al Hashem. Background Registration of candidates contesting for the 50 seats of the National Assembly took place between 26 October and 4 November 2020. 102 schools were used for the 2020 National Assembly elections on December 5. Each school had a clinic set up to check on the health condition of all those entering. Electoral system The 50 elected members of the National Assembly are elected from five 10-seat constituencies by single non-transferable vote. Political parties are not officially licensed, therefore candidates run as individuals, although many political groups operate freely as de facto political parties. All Kuwaiti citizens (both male and female) above the age of 21 have the right to vote. Expatriate workers, who constituted 70% of the population, were not enfranchised. Results Overall, opposition candidates wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kuwait
Kuwait (; ar, الكويت ', or ), officially the State of Kuwait ( ar, دولة الكويت '), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated in the northern edge of Eastern Arabia at the tip of the Persian Gulf, bordering Iraq to the north and Saudi Arabia to the south. Kuwait also shares maritime borders with Iran. Kuwait has a coastal length of approximately . Most of the country's population reside in the urban agglomeration of the capital city Kuwait City. , Kuwait has a population of 4.45 million people of which 1.45 million are Kuwaiti citizens while the remaining 3.00 million are foreign nationals from over 100 countries. Historically, most of present-day Kuwait was part of ancient Mesopotamia. Pre-oil Kuwait was a strategic trade port between Mesopotamia, Persia and India. Oil reserves were discovered in commercial quantities in 1938. In 1946, crude oil was exported for the first time. From 1946 to 1982, the country underwent large-scale modernization, largely b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hammad Mohammad Al-Matar
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Mubarak Zaid Al-Mutairi
Muhammad Hosni El Sayed Mubarak, (; 4 May 1928 – 25 February 2020) was an Egyptian politician and military officer who served as the fourth president of Egypt from 1981 to 2011. Before he entered politics, Mubarak was a career officer in the Egyptian Air Force. He served as its commander from 1972 to 1975 and rose to the rank of air chief marshal in 1973. In 1975, he was appointed vice president by President Anwar Sadat and assumed the presidency after his assassination in 1981. Mubarak's presidency lasted almost thirty years, making him Egypt's longest-serving ruler since Muhammad Ali Pasha, who ruled the country for 43 years from 1805 to 1848. Less than two weeks after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat, Mubarak quickly assumed the presidency in the single-candidate 1981 referendum, and renewed his term through single-candidate referendums in 1987, 1993, and 1999. Under United States pressure, Mubarak held the country's first multi-party election in 2005, whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yusuf Saleh Al-Fadhalah
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Abdulaziz Tareq Al-Saqabi
Abdulaziz ( ota, عبد العزيز, ʿAbdü'l-ʿAzîz; tr, Abdülaziz; 8 February 18304 June 1876) was the 32nd Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and reigned from 25 June 1861 to 30 May 1876, when he was overthrown in a government coup. He was a son of Sultan Mahmud II and succeeded his brother Abdulmejid I in 1861. Born at Eyüp Palace, Constantinople (present-day Istanbul), on 8 February 1830, Abdulaziz received an Ottoman education but was nevertheless an ardent admirer of the material progress that was being achieved in the West. He was the first Ottoman Sultan who travelled to Western Europe, visiting a number of important European capitals including Paris, London, and Vienna in the summer of 1867. Apart from his passion for the Ottoman Navy, which had the world's third largest fleet in 1875 (after the British and French navies), the Sultan took an interest in documenting the Ottoman Empire. He was also interested in literature and was a talented classical music c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hesham Abdulsamad Al-Saleh
Hesham is a common male given name and surname. In Arabic it means "generous", though in some instances there may not be any connection with the Arabic. It is not to be confused with the similar-looking but unrelated name Hashim "هاشم". Notable people with the name include: Given name *Hesham Hanafy (born 1973), Egyptian footballer * Hesham Mohamed Hussain (born 1971), Saudi Arabian citizen * Hesham Ismail (born 1969), American football player * Hesham Mesbah (born 1982), Egyptian judoka * Hesham Mohamed (born 1990), Egyptian footballer * Hesham Mohammed (born 1974), Iraqi footballer * Hesham Qandil (born 1962), Egyptian engineer *Hesham Ali Salem (born 1981), Libyan basketball player * Hesham Selim (1958–2022), Egyptian actor * Hesham Shaban (born 1980), Libyan footballer * Hesham Shehab (born 1988), Bahraini swimmer * Hesham Tillawi, Palestinian-American writer * Hesham Abdul Wahab (born 1990), Indian music composer * Hesham Yehia (born 1993), Egyptian boxer * Hesham Yaka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muhannad Talal Al-Sayer
Mohannad ( ar, مهند) is a masculine Arabic name meaning “sword made in India”. It is derived from the word for India (''Al Hind'' الهند) and can mean both "India-ified" or "Indian". The iron used for it came from India. Given name ;Mohaned * Mohaned Abdulmahmood (born 2004), Sudanese Prince ;Mohanad *Mohanad Salem (born 1985), Emirati footballer * Mohanad Ali (born 2000), Iraqi footballer *Mohanad Sayed (born 2002), schmeck ;Mohannad * Mohannad Mahadeen (born 1973), Jordanian footballer * Mohannad Mahdi Al-Nadawi (born 1975), Iraqi footballer *Mohannad Nassir (born 1983), Iraqi footballer * Mohannad Ibrahim (born 1986), Syrian footballer * Mohannad Asseri (born 1986), Saudi footballer * Mohannad Maharmeh (born 1986), Jordanian footballer * Mohannad Abu Radeah (born 1986), Saudi footballer *Mohannad Abdul-Raheem (born 1993), Iraqi footballer ;Muhannad * Muhannad (Sayed al Aidarus) *Muhannad (Mujahid Emir) (1969–2011), Russian Mujahid Emir *Muhannad Saif El-Din (b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Osama Ahmad Al-Munawer
Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden (10 March 1957 – 2 May 2011) was a Saudi-born extremist militant who founded al-Qaeda and served as its leader from 1988 until his death in 2011. Ideologically a pan-Islamist, his group is designated as a terrorist group by the United Nations Security Council, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the European Union, and various countries. Belonging to the wealthy Bin Laden family, Osama bin Laden was born in Saudi Arabia. His father was Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, a Saudi millionaire from Hadhramaut, Yemen, and the founder of the construction company, Saudi Binladin Group. His mother, Alia Ghanem, was from a secular middle-class family in Latakia, Syria. He studied at university in the country until 1979, when he joined Mujahideen forces in Pakistan fighting against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. He helped to fund the Mujahideen by funneling arms, money, and fighters from the Arab world into Afghanistan, and gained ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
