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Lale Seluka
Lale or Laleh may refer to: Geography * Laleh, Iran, a village in Kurdistan Province, Iran * Lale, Bulgaria, a village in Southern Bulgaria Given names Lale * Lale Akgün (born 1953), Turkish-German politician (SPD) * Lale Andersen (1905–1972), German singer * Lale Aytaman, Turkish politician * Lale Drekalov (fl. 1608–1614), Montenegrin chieftain * Lale Karci (born 1969), Turkish-German actress and model * Lale Müldür (born 1956), Turkish poet * Lale Oraloğlu (1924–2007), Turkish actress and screenwriter * Lale Orta (born 1960), Turkish football referee and academic * Lale Sokolov (1916–2006), the tattooist of Auschwitz * Lale Yavaş (born 1978), Turkish-Swiss actress Laleh * Laleh (singer) (born 1982), Swedish musician and actress, better known by her mononym "Laleh" * Laleh Bakhtiar (born 1938), Iranian-American Muslim author and translator * Ladan and Laleh Bijani (1974–2003), Iranian conjoined twin * Laleh Khadivi, Iranian-American novelist and filmmaker * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eleme, Nigeria
Eleme is a Local Government Areas of Nigeria, local government area in Rivers State, Nigeria. It is part of the Port Harcourt Metropolitan area, metropolitan city. It covers an area of 138 km2 and at the 2006 Census had a population of 190,884. The Eleme people are Eleme's main indigenous ethnic group. The Eleme language, of the Cross-River branch of the larger Niger-Congo language family, is the main spoken language. Eleme has two of Nigeria's four, as of 2005, Oil refinery, petroleum refineries and one of Nigeria's busiest seaport and the largest seaport in West Africa located at Onne, a famous town with numerous industries.Udogu, Emmanuel Ike (2005) ''Nigeria in the twenty-first century: strategies for political stability and peaceful coexistence'' Africa World Press, Trenton, New Jerseypage 72 References External links {{Greater Port Harcourt Local Government Areas in Rivers State Geography of Port Harcourt 1996 establishments in Nigeria 1990s establishmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lale Yavaş
Lale Yavaş (born 1978 in Brugg) is a Swiss and Turkish actress. Biography Born in 1978 in Zürich, she studied arts at the University of Bern. After finishing her studies, she landed roles in ''Alles wird gut'', ''I was a Swiss banker'', and ''Imbissness''. In 2005, she received a lot of praise for her role in the film ''Zeit der Wünsche'', and was subsequently rewarded with the Adolf Grimme Prize for best "new cinematic talent". In 2006, she acted in ''Der Letzte Zug'' with Gedeon Burkhard. Her latest role is in famous Luxembourgian director Andy Bausch's ''Deepfrozen'' opposite actor Peter Lohmeyer. Since 2005, she has been playing a coroner in the German crime series Tatort produced by Saarländischer Rundfunk. Selected filmography *2003 — ''Imbissness'' *2004 — '' Das Paar im Kahn'' *2005 — ''Zeit der Wünsche'' (TV) — Melike *2005 — ''Tatort'' (TV series) *2006 — ''Tod eines Keilers'' *2006 — '' The Last Train'' *2006 — ''Deepfrozen ''Deepfrozen'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horace Percy Lale
Group Captain Horace Percy Lale (8 April 1886 – 5 April 1955) was a Royal Air Force officer and British World War I flying ace credited with 23 victories. First World War Lale was commissioned a temporary second lieutenant in the Royal Flying Corps on 26 September 1916. He was appointed a flying officer in the RFC on 3 April 1917, and was appointed a flight commander with the temporary rank of captain on 10 February 1918. Lale was mentioned in despatches in March 1918. Interwar years and Second World War Lale remained in the Royal Air Force after the war, receiving a permanent commission in the rank of flying officer on 1 August 1919. For distinguished service in the 1919-1920 Waziristan campaign, he was awarded a bar to his DFC in July 1920. He was promoted to flight lieutenant on 1 January 1921, to squadron leader on 1 January 1924 and to wing commander on 1 January 1930. He was promoted to group captain Group captain is a senior commissioned rank in the Royal Air For ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuray Lale
Nuray Lale (born 28 March 1962 in Akcurun) is a Turkish-German writer and translator. She arrived to Germany thanks to family reunification and could study health sciences at the University of Bielefeld, with a postgraduate degree in psycho-pedagogy at the University of Düsseldorf A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, th .... Works * Düş sarayim (2004) * Şirin Aydın: Içimde ufuklar / Horizonte in mir (Deutsche Übertragung, 2004) References and external links * Living people Turkish writers Turkish emigrants to West Germany 1962 births 21st-century Turkish women writers 21st-century Turkish writers 21st-century German writers 21st-century German women writers 21st-century translators German translators Turkish translators People from Bielefeld Heinr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Lale (British Cellist)
David Lale (born 1981) is a cellist from the United Kingdom. He is a member of thLale String Quartetand plays regularly in a number of orchestras in the UK including the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Philharmonia Orchestra. David is the nephew of Australian cellist David Lale. David studied under Anna Shuttleworth at the University of Leeds and Louise Hopkins at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He has performed as soloist with the Southbank Sinfonia Southbank Sinfonia is a British chamber orchestra founded in 2002. Composed of young professionals from around the world, each year it brings together 33 graduate musicians for a programme of performance and professional development. The annual f ... and with other orchestras. RecordingsDavid Lloyd-Mostyn "tigh-nan-uiseagan" References ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Lale (Australian Cellist)
David Lale (born 1962) is a cellist from England, who now lives in Australia. He is Principal Cellist ofThe Queensland Orchestra He studied at the Royal Academy of Music The Royal Academy of Music (RAM) in London, England, is the oldest conservatoire in the UK, founded in 1822 by John Fane and Nicolas-Charles Bochsa. It received its royal charter in 1830 from King George IV with the support of the first Duke of ... in the UK, with Douglas Cummings, and was made an Honorary Associate in 1997. He has worked with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and London Virtuosi chamber orchestra. Before moving to Brisbane, he held the position of Assistant Principal Cello with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. David is the uncle of the British cellist David Lale. Recordings Eccles "Cello Sonata in G minor" 1962 births Living people Australian classical cellists Alumni of the Royal Academy of Music {{cellist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laleh Seddigh
Laleh Seddigh ( fa, لاله صدیق; born 1977 in Tehran) is an Iranian racing driver. She has been described as 'one of the most celebrated sportswomen in Iran'. Biography Early life Seddigh started driving at the age of 13, taught by her father. She passed her driving test at 18.''Girl Racer'', BBC, 2008. Career Seddigh had to get special permission from a local ayatollah in order to compete against men. Permission was given since driving is not deemed a contact sport, and on the condition that Seddigh would confirm to dress-codes. Seddigh has said that she will not leave Iran as she is 'most effective' in promoting women's rights in Japan. Seddigh has trained other female racing drivers. Media Seddigh's story is featured in a BBC TV documentary called ''Girl Racer'', transmitted in 2008. See also * List of famous Iranian women * Iranian women's movement The Iranian Women's Rights Movement (Persian: جنبش زنان ایران), is the social movement for women's r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laleh Khorramian
Laleh Khorramian (born 1974) is an Iranian-born American multidisciplinary visual artist. She works in printmaking, collage, video art and animation, and as a clothing designer. Khorramian is based in upstate New York, where she also runs her clothing companLALOONStudios. Biography Laleh Khorramian was born in 1974 in Tehran, Iran. She was raised in Orlando, Florida. Khorramian studied at the Rhode Island School of Design; followed by study at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she earned a BFA degree in 1997. She earned her MFA degree in 2004, from Columbia University, School of Visual Arts. Animation, digital media and found footage supplements use of traditional artistic media in her practice, like collage, mono-typing and drawing. In a vacillating process between them, Khorramian integrates fiction with spectacle and theatre constructions to explore the discarded and chance outcomes as a creative strategy. Khorramian is a recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Founda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laleh Khalili
Laleh Khalili ( fa, لاله خلیلی) is an Iranian American and Professor of Gulf Studies at University of Exeter. She was formerly a Professor of Middle Eastern Politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London and a Professor of International Politics at Queen Mary University of London. Life Khalili received a BS in chemical engineering from the University of Texas in 1991, and a PhD in political science from Columbia University in 2004. Her primary research areas are logistics and trade, infrastructure, policing and incarceration, gender, nationalism, political and social movements, refugees, and diasporas in the Middle East. Her commentary on Middle Eastern and Iranian affairs has been used in several newspapers, including ''The Washington Post'', the ''San Francisco Chronicle'', the ''Chicago Tribune'', the ''Financial Times'', and ''Agence France-Presse''. Khalili writes regularly for Iranian.com and The London Review of Books. In 2017 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laleh Khadivi
Laleh Khadivi (born 1977) is an Iranian American novelist, and filmmaker. Life Khadivi was born to a Kurdish family in Esfahan, Iran, in 1977. Shortly after the Iranian Revolution, she emigrated to the United States with her family in 1979, settling in the San Francisco Bay Area. She graduated from Reed College and from Mills College with an MFA. In 2002 she began to research the Kurds, particularly their fate in the southwestern region of Iran under the first Shah. Her first novel, ''The Age of Orphans'', is the story of a Kurdish boy whose father is killed in a battle with the Iranian army in 1921. The boy is captured, becomes a soldier and eventually is turned into an oppressor of his own people. Khadivi has worked extensively as a documentary filmmaker. She taught at Emory University as the 2007–2009 Fiction Fellow. She also taught creative writing at Santa Clara University during the 2010–2011 school year. She resides in San Francisco, California, where she is a profess ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ladan And Laleh Bijani
Ladan and Laleh Bijani (Persian: ; 17 January 1974 – 8 July 2003) were Iranian conjoined twin sisters. They were joined at the head and died soon after their complicated surgical separation. Coincidentally, the twins were born a century to the day after the deaths of Chang and Eng Bunker, also conjoined twins, famously known as the "original" Siamese twins. Biography They were born in Firuzabad, a city in southwest Iran, to Dadollah Bijani and Maryam Safari, members of a farming family from the nearby Lohrasb village. The Bijani sisters were lost in a hospital in 1979 after the doctors responsible for them had to suddenly leave for the United States during the revolution in Iran. The Bijanis' parents did not find the sisters again until several years later in the city of Karaj near Tehran, where Alireza Safaian had adopted them. While in his custody, Safaian attempted to protect them by sequestering them from the world as best as he could. In 1996, after years of search ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laleh Bakhtiar
Laleh Mehree Bakhtiar (born Mary Nell Bakhtiar; July 29, 1938 – October 18, 2020) was an Iranian-American Islamic and Sufi scholar, author, translator, and clinical psychologist. Bakhtiar was the first American woman to translate the Quran into English. She produced a gender-neutral translation, ''The Sublime Quran'', and challenged the status quo on the Arabic word ''daraba'', traditionally translated as "beat" — a word that she said has been used as justification of abuse of Muslim women. Early life Born Mary Nell Bakhtiar to an American mother and Iranian father in Tehran, Bakhtiar grew up alongside two older sisters with her mother in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., as a Christian. In Washington, she became a Catholic at age eight. Her mother, however, was an Idaho Presbyterian. Bakhtiar received her BA in History from Chatham College, graduating in 1960. While visiting her mother Helen in Isfahan, Bakhtiar was unhappy with being Mary Nell. Helen suggested to he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
