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List Of Maronites
This list of Maronites includes prominent Maronite figures who are notable in their areas of expertise. Arts, culture, and entertainment * Joseph Abboud, American fashion designer *Amin al-Rihani, poet *Gibran Khalil Gibran, artist and writer *Youssef Howayek, sculptor *Tony Kanaan, race car driver * Joseph Philippe Karam, architect *Najwa Karam, singer *Mario Kassar, Hollywood producer, behind such movies as ''Rambo'', ''Terminator II'' and ''Stargate'' *Callie Khouri, screenwriter * Elissa Khoury, singer *Marwan Khoury, singer *Nadine Labaki, actress and director *Mika, singer * George Daniel, present Commissioner of the National Lacrosse League. *Kathy Najimy, actress *Octavia Nasr, CNN editor *Elie Saab, International fashion designer *Baba Saad, German rapper of Lebanese descent *Nicole Saba, singer *Michael Sallah, Pulitzer Prize reporter *Elie Samaha, filmmaker *Tony Shalhoub, three-time Emmy Award and Golden Globe-winning American television and film actor *Danny Thomas, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maronites
The Maronites ( ar, الموارنة; syr, ܡܖ̈ܘܢܝܐ) are a Christian ethnoreligious group native to the Eastern Mediterranean and Levant region of the Middle East, whose members traditionally belong to the Maronite Church, with the largest concentration long residing near Mount Lebanon in modern Lebanon. The Maronite Church is an Eastern Catholic particular church in full communion with the Pope and the rest of the Catholic Church, whose membership also includes non-ethnic Maronites. The Maronites derive their name from the Syriac Christian saint Maron, some of whose followers migrated to the area of Mount Lebanon from their previous place of residence around the area of Antioch, and established the nucleus of the Antiochene Syriac Maronite Church. Christianity in Lebanon has a long and continuous history. Biblical scriptures purport that Peter and Paul evangelized the Phoenicians, whom they affiliated to the ancient patriarchate of Antioch. The spread of Christianity in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Octavia Nasr
Octavia Nasr ( ar, اوكتافيا نصر) (born 13 March 1966) is a Lebanese-American Rhetoric scholar anauthorwhosresearchfocuses on Yoga's identity and ethical code and how they apply to journalism and other fields. She is a certified yoga instructor who teaches in the U.S. and India. She was a war correspondent for Lebanon's LBCI in the 1980's. She served in various positions at CNN for twenty years until her departure in 2010 following a controversial Twitter posting related to cleric Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah. Career Nasr was born and raised in Lebanon in a Christian Maronite family to a Lebanese mother and Palestinian father who was born in Haifa and migrated to Lebanon with his family when he was 8 years old. Nasr completed her master's degree at Georgia State University in 2022. Her thesis, The Identity of Yoga: Contemporary Vs. Traditional Yogic Discourse, investigates yoga's modern postural identity. She links the truncation of yoga's limbs to teacher training curr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiny Tim (musician)
Herbert Butros KhauryTiny Tim: Tiptoe Through A Lifetime', Lowell Tarling, Generation Books, 2013, p. 29, (April 12, 1932 November 30, 1996), also known as Herbert Buckingham Khaury, and known professionally as Tiny Tim, was an American singer, ukulele player, and musical archivist. He is best remembered for his cover hits "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" and "Livin' in the Sunlight, Lovin' in the Moonlight", which he sang in a falsetto voice. Early life Khaury was born in Manhattan, New York City, on April 12, 1932. His mother Tillie (née Staff), a Polish-Jewish garment worker, was the daughter of a rabbi. She had immigrated from Brest-Litovsk, present-day Belarus, as a teen in 1914. Khaury's father, Butros Khaury, was a textile worker from Beirut, present-day Lebanon, whose father was a Maronite Catholic priest. Khaury displayed musical talent at a very young age. At the age of five, his father gave him a vintage wind-up Gramophone and a 78-RPM record of "Beautiful Ohio" by H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Shadyac
Thomas Peter Shadyac (born December 11, 1958) is an American director, screenwriter, producer, and author. The youngest joke-writer ever for comedian Bob Hope, Shadyac is widely known for writing and directing the comedy films ''Ace Ventura: Pet Detective'', ''The Nutty Professor (1996 film), The Nutty Professor'', ''Liar Liar'', ''Patch Adams (film), Patch Adams'', and ''Bruce Almighty''. In 2010, Shadyac retired from the comedy genre and wrote, directed, and narrated his own documentary film ''I Am (2010 American documentary film), I Am'', that explores his abandonment of a materialistic lifestyle following his involvement in a bicycle accident three years earlier. Shadyac is a former professor of communication at Pepperdine University's Seaver College. In 2011, he was a participant in the Conference on World Affairs."Tom Shadyac" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nawal Al Zoghbi
Nawal El Zoghbi ( ar, نوال الزغبي, also spelled Nawal Al Zoghbi; born 29 June 1972) is a Lebanese pop singer. She achieved popularity first by dancing and singing traditional Arabic music with a pop sensibility, and later singing in the Gulf dialect, and also embracing newer trends in Arabian music. She plays the oriental Oud instrument. She capitalized on the popularity of music videos in Arab pop music in the '90s, which propelled her to local stardom in the Arab world. Biography Born to a Maronite Christian family in the coastal small town of Jubeil (Byblos), El Zoghbi holds both Lebanese and Canadian citizenship. She is the oldest born, and has two brothers and one sister. She began singing at an early age, despite familial opposition to the lifestyle of a musician. Members of her family changed their minds when they realized she was serious in her ambitions. In 1988 she participated in the Lebanese talent show '' Studio El Fan''. In 1990 she married Lebanese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Zagallo
is a character created by Japanese video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto. He is the title character of the ''Mario'' franchise and the mascot of Japanese video game company Nintendo. Mario has appeared in over 200 video games since his creation. Depicted as a short, pudgy, Italian plumber who resides in the Mushroom Kingdom, his adventures generally center on rescuing Princess Peach from the Koopa villain Bowser. Mario has access to a variety of power-ups that give him different abilities. Mario's fraternal twin brother is Luigi. Mario first appeared as the player character of ''Donkey Kong'' (1981), a platform game. Miyamoto wanted to use Popeye as the protagonist, but when he could not achieve the licensing rights, he created Mario instead. Miyamoto expected the character to be unpopular and planned to use him for cameo appearances; originally called "Mr. Video", he was renamed to Mario after Mario Segale. Mario's clothing and characteristics were themed after the setting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriel Yared
Gabriel Yared (Arabic: غبريال يارد; born 7 October 1949) is a Lebanese-French composer, best known for his work in French and American cinema. Born in Beirut, Lebanon, Yared scored the French films ''Betty Blue'' and ''Camille Claudel''. He later worked on English-language films, particularly those directed by Anthony Minghella. He won an Academy Award for Best Original Score and a Grammy Award for his work on ''The English Patient'' (1996) and was nominated for both ''The Talented Mr. Ripley'' (1999) and '' Cold Mountain'' (2003). Life and career When Yared was 7, his father sent him to an accordion teacher. Two years later Yared stopped his accordion lessons and started music theory and piano lessons. Although he was not necessarily a gifted pianist, Yared was interested in reading music. When Yared was 14, his piano teacher died and Yared replaced him as the organist of Université Saint-Joseph. Yared used the university's library to read the works of Johann Sebas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danny Thomas
Danny Thomas (born Amos Muzyad Yaqoob Kairouz; January 6, 1912 – February 6, 1991) was an American actor, singer, nightclub comedian, producer, and philanthropist. He created and starred in one of the most successful and long-running situation comedies in the history of American network television, the ''Danny Thomas Show''. In addition to guest roles on many of the comedy, talk, and musical variety programs of his time, his legacy includes a lifelong dedication to fundraising for charity. Most notably, he was the founder of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, a leading center in pediatric medicine with a focus on pediatric cancer. St. Jude now has affiliate hospitals in eight other American cities as of early 2020. Already a successful entertainer, Thomas began his film career in 1947, playing opposite child actress Margaret O'Brien in '' The Unfinished Dance'' (1947) and '' Big City'' (1948). He then starred in the long-running television sitc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Shalhoub
Anthony Marc Shalhoub ( ; born October 9, 1953), is an American actor. His accolades include five Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, six Screen Actors Guild Awards, a Tony Award, and a Grammy Award nomination. He played Adrian Monk in the USA Network television series ''Monk'', Antonio Scarpacci in the NBC sitcom ''Wings'' and Abe Weissman on Amazon's ''The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel''. Shalhoub has also had a successful film career, with roles in films such as ''Quick Change'' (1990), ''Barton Fink'' (1991), ''Big Night'' (1996), ''Men in Black'', ''Gattaca'' (both 1997), ''Paulie,'' ''The Siege'' (both 1998), ''Galaxy Quest'' (1999), ''Spy Kids'', ''Thirteen Ghosts'', '' The Man Who Wasn't There'' (all 2001), and '' 1408'' (2007). For his work on Broadway, Shalhoub has received four Tony Award nominations, winning a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his performance as Tewfiq Zakaria in ''The Band's Visit''. He has also provided voice work for the ''Cars'' franchise (2006 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elie Samaha
Elie Samaha (Arabic: إيلي سماحة) is a film producer in Los Angeles, with production credits beginning with '' The Immortals'' in 1995. He has produced over 83 works, primarily films along with some video games. He produced ''The Boondock Saints'' (1999), '' Battlefield Earth'' (2000), '' Driven'' (2001), '' 3,000 Miles to Graceland'' (2001), '' Heist'' (2001), '' The Pledge'' (2001), ''Spartan'' (2004), among many others. Samaha built his reputation in Hollywood first as the owner of Celebrity Cleaners and then with his nightclub on Sunset Strip, the Roxbury. Parlaying the Hollywood friendships he formed through his clubs, Samaha was given a distribution deal with Warner Bros. Pictures in 1999. Career Samaha was a co-owner/founder of the dry cleaner chain Celebrity Cleaners and co-owner of the Roxbury nightclub in Los Angeles. Between 1998 and 2004, Samaha produced films under the Franchise Pictures studio title, which included films such as ''The Boondock Saints '', ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize () is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine, online journalism, literature, and musical composition within the United States. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher, and is administered by Columbia University. Prizes are awarded annually in twenty-one categories. In twenty of the categories, each winner receives a certificate and a US$15,000 cash award (raised from $10,000 in 2017). The winner in the public service category is awarded a gold medal. Entry and prize consideration The Pulitzer Prize does not automatically consider all applicable works in the media, but only those that have specifically been entered. (There is a $75 entry fee, for each desired entry category.) Entries must fit in at least one of the specific prize categories, and cannot simply gain entrance for being literary or musical. Works can also be entered only in a maximum of two categories, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Sallah
Michael D. Sallah is an American investigative reporter who has twice been awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Life Sallah graduated from St. John's Jesuit High School, a college preparatory school in Ohio, and then obtained his undergraduate degree in journalism at the University of Toledo. While working for ''The Toledo Blade'', he received numerous state and national awards for his investigative stories into organized crime, clerical sexual abuse and white-collar fraud. He was named Best Reporter in Ohio in 2002 by the Society of Professional Journalists. Two years later, Sallah and fellow reporters Mitch Weiss and Joe Mahr were awarded the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for a series on the atrocities by Tiger Force, a U.S. Army platoon during the Vietnam War. He became an investigative reporter and editor at the ''Miami Herald'', where he directed numerous projects including a series on public housing corruption that won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reportin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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