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Mahmud Darwish
Mahmoud Darwish ( ar, محمود درويش, Maḥmūd Darwīsh, 13 March 1941 – 9 August 2008) was a Palestinian poet and author who was regarded as the Palestinian national poet. He won numerous awards for his works. Darwish used Palestine as a metaphor for the loss of Garden of Eden, Eden, birth and resurrection, and the anguish of dispossession and exile.Maya Jaggi"Profile: Mahmoud Darwish – Poet of the Arab world" ''The Guardian'', 8 June 2002. He has been described as incarnating and reflecting "the tradition of the political poet in Islam, the man of action whose action is poetry.""Prince of Poets" ''The American Scholar''. He also served as an editor for several literary magazines in Palestine. Biography Mahmoud Darwish was born in 1941 in al-Birwa in the Western Galilee,[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Judeide-Makr
Jadeidi-Makr or Makr-Jadeidi ( he, גֻ'דֵידָה-מַכְּר; ar, مكر جديده) is an Arab local council formed by the merger of the two Arab towns of Makr and Jadeidi in 1990. It is located a few kilometers east of the city of Acre in the Northern District, Israel. In its population was . History Crusader kingdom Arabic documents referring to the ''hudna'' (truce agreement) of 1283 between the Crusaders based in Acre and the Mamluk sultan al-Mansur Qalawun are mentioning "Makr Harsin" and "al-Hudeidah", as part of the domain of the Crusaders, where "al-Hudeidah" represents modern Jadeidi.Barag, 1979, p. 204, No. 14 "Makr Harsin" is either the original name of Makr, or, alternatively, it is possible that the text refers to two separate locations, Makr and Harsin, the latter remaining unidentified. Ottoman Empire Incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517, Makr appeared in the census of 1596, located in the ''nahiya'' (subdistrict) of Acre, part of Safad Sanjak. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fatah
Fatah ( ar, فتح '), formerly the Palestinian National Liberation Movement, is a Palestinian nationalist social democratic political party and the largest faction of the confederated multi-party Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and second-largest party in the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC). Mahmoud Abbas, the President of the Palestinian Authority, is a member of Fatah. Fatah is generally considered to have had a strong involvement in revolutionary struggle in the past and has maintained a number of militant groups.Terrorism in Tel Aviv '''' Friday, 13 Sep 1968 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ibtisam Mara'ana
Ibtisam Mara'ana-Menuhin ( ar, ابتسام مراعنة منوحين, he, אִבְּתִיסָאם מַרְאַעְנֶּה־מְנוֹחִין) is an Israeli Arab politician, film director, and producer. She was a member of the Knesset for the Labor Party. Biography Ibtisam Mara'ana was born in 1975 in Fureidis, a Muslim Arab village in northern Israel. She attended film school at Givat Haviva. In 2000 she initiated a film and television program at her former high school in Fureidis. In June 2014, Mara'ana married Boaz Menuhin, a Jewish Israeli man.Alona Ferber, ''When the Palestinian National Poet Fell in Love With a Jew'', in Haaretz, 4 June 201/ref> The couple has a daughter. The marriage was sealed in Tel Aviv in a non-religious ceremony, and is therefore not officially recognised in Israel, Film and teaching career In 2003 Mara'ana founded Ibtisam Films, to produce documentaries that investigate the borders and boundaries of Palestinian and Israeli society, with a fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Write Down, I Am An Arab
''Write Down, I Am an Arab'' is a 2014 documentary film about the national Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. The film was written and directed by Palestinian filmmaker Ibtisam Mara'ana. Synopsis ''Write Down, I Am an Arab'' tells the story of Mahmoud Darwish, the Palestinian national poet and one of the most influential writers of the Arab world, whose writing shaped Palestinian identity and motivated generations of Palestinians to the cause of national liberation. Darwish was born in the Western Galilee in the village al-Birwa; his family fled during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and returned a few years later to a ruined homeland. These early experiences laid the foundations for a writing career that came to define an entire nation. Like other Palestinian citizens of Israel at the time, Darwish grew up under military law that prevented freedom of movement. In 1964 his defiant poem, "Write Down, I Am an Arab", landed him in prison and turned him into an icon of the Arab world. At th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rana Kabbani
Rana Kabbani ( ar, رنا قباني; born 1958) is a British Syrian cultural historian, writer and broadcaster who lives in London. Most famous for her works ''Imperial Fictions: Europe's Myths of the Orient'' (1994) and ''Letter to Christendom'' (1989), she has also edited and translated works in Arabic and English. She has written for ''Spare Rib'', the ''International Herald Tribune'', The ''New Statesman'', ''The Guardian'', ''British Vogue'', ''The Independent'', '' Al Quds al Arabi'', and ''Islamica''. She has made and contributed to many television and radio programmes for the BBC, on subjects such as literature, music, minority rights, Islamic culture, food, feminism, women’s rights, painting, and British politics. She has spoken out against islamophobia, defining its historic roots in colonialism. Education and personal life Born in 1958 in Damascus, to Sabah Qabbani, Her paternal uncle was the renowned poet Nizar Qabbani. Her maternal family were also from a distin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramallah
Ramallah ( , ; ar, رام الله, , God's Height) is a Palestinian city in the central West Bank that serves as the ''de facto'' administrative capital of the State of Palestine. It is situated on the Judaean Mountains, north of Jerusalem, at an average elevation of above sea level, adjacent to al-Bireh. Ramallah has buildings containing masonry from the period of Herod the Great, but no complete building predates the Crusades of the 11th century. The modern city was founded during the 16th century by the Hadadeens, an Arab Christian clan descended from Ghassanids. In 1517, the city was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire, and in 1920, it became part of British Mandatory Palestine after it was captured by the United Kingdom during World War I. The 1948 Arab–Israeli War saw the entire West Bank, including Ramallah, occupied and annexed by Transjordan. Ramallah was later captured by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War. Since the 1995 Oslo Accords, Ramallah has been go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emile Habibi
Emile Shukri Habibi ( ar, إميل حبيبي, he, אמיל חביבי, 28 January 1922 – 2 May 1996) was a Palestinian-Israeli"All Past and Present MKs" Knesset website writer of Arabic literature and a politician who served as a member of the for the communist parties and Rakah. Biography Habibi was born in |
Lomonosov Moscow State University
M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious university in the country. The university includes 15 research institutes, 43 faculties, more than 300 departments, and six branches (including five foreign ones in the Commonwealth of Independent States countries). Alumni of the university include past leaders of the Soviet Union and other governments. As of 2019, 13 Nobel laureates, six Fields Medal winners, and one Turing Award winner had been affiliated with the university. The university was ranked 18th by ''The Three University Missions Ranking'' in 2022, and 76th by the ''QS World University Rankings'' in 2022, #293 in the world by the global ''Times Higher World University Rankings'', and #326 by '' U.S. News & World Report'' in 2022. It was the highest-ranking Russian education ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USSR
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national republics; in practice, both its government and its economy were highly centralized until its final years. It was a one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, with the city of Moscow serving as its capital as well as that of its largest and most populous republic: the Russian SFSR. Other major cities included Leningrad (Russian SFSR), Kiev ( Ukrainian SSR), Minsk ( Byelorussian SSR), Tashkent (Uzbek SSR), Alma-Ata (Kazakh SSR), and Novosibirsk (Russian SFSR). It was the largest country in the world, covering over and spanning eleven time zones. The country's roots lay in the October Revolution of 1917, when the Bolsheviks, under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the Russian Provisional Gove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Fajr
''Al Fajr'' (Arabic الفجر; ''The Dawn'') is an independent Arabic-language daily newspaper published in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Founded in 1974 the daily is one of the oldest publications in the country. History and profile ''Al Fajr'' was launched by Obaid Humaid Al Mazrooei in 1974. Mazrooei was also the first editor of the daily. The publisher of the paper is Dar Al Fajr Printing, Publishing and Advertising which was founded in 1975. The headquarters of the paper is in Abu Dhabi. The daily, an independent publication, provides local, national and international news. In addition, the paper provides supplements for arts and women. The newspaper is considered loyalist and pro-government. As of 2013 Sherif Al Bassel was the editor-in-chief of the daily. The daily is a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations An Audit Bureau of Circulations is a private organization that provides industry-agreed standards for media brand measurement of print publications and othe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
