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Malika (given Name)
Malika is the Arabic word for 'queen' and the feminine form of the name Malik. Given name * Judith Malika Liberman (born 1978), French storyteller, writer and teacher *Malika or al-Nadirah, princess of Hatra per Perso-Arabic traditions *Malika al-Fassi (1919–2007), Moroccan writer * Malika Amar Sheikh (born 1957), Marathi Indian writer *Malika Andrews (born 1995), American sports journalist * Malika Askari, Indian actress, sister of actress Mumtaz * Malika Auger-Aliassime (born 1998), Canadian junior tennis player *Malika Ayane (born 1984), Italian singer *Malika Benarab-Attou (born 1963), French politician *Malika El Aroud (born 1960), Moroccan internet Islamist living in Belgium *Malika Kalontarova (born 1950), Tajik American dancer *Malika Louback, Djiboutian-French fashion model and engineer *Malika Ménard (born 1987), Miss France 2010 * Malika Mokeddem (born 1949), Algerian writer *Malika Oufkir (born 1953), Moroccan writer *Malika Pukhraj (1912–2004), Pakistani singer * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arabic Language
Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a 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 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 language—i.e., Literary Arabic: Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) or Classical Arabic—and diverse vernacular varieties, which serve as 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 the language of literature, official documents, and formal written m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malika Kalontarova
Malika Kolontarova ( tg, Малика Қаландарова, russian: Мазол (Малика) Яшуваевна Калантарова or Колонтарова; born 2 September 1950) is a Tajik–American dancer. She is known as the "Queen of Tajik and Oriental Dance." Biography Kolontarova was born with the name Mazol to Yashuva Kolontarov and Tamara Khanimova Kolontarova (both originally from Samarkand, Uzbekistan), a religious Bukharian Jewish family in Dushanbe, Tajikistan and was the youngest of her 5 sisters and 2 brothers. Mazol's father Yashuva wanted her to become a hairdresser like her older sisters, but Malika refused and wanted to become a dancer instead. Her father later on let her pursue a career in dancing. Even though Kolontarova was rebellious as a child and had bigger dreams, she never forgot her roots, even when she became famous. Being Jewish was looked down upon in the Soviet Union and in Tajikistan but Malika proudly identified herself as a Buk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Princess Lalla Malika Of Morocco
Princess Lalla Malika (14 March 1933 – 28 September 2021) was a sister of the late King Hassan II of Morocco, and daughter of King Mohammed V of Morocco and his second wife, Lalla Abla bint Tahar. She was the chairwoman of the Moroccan Red Crescent from 1967 until her death. At the Dar al-Makhzen in Rabat, on 16 August 1961, she was married (in a triple ceremony with her sisters, Aisha, Fatima and their husbands) to Mohamed Cherkaoui (1921–2022), Ambassador to France 1961–1964, President of the Permanent Consultative Committee of the Maghreb 1964, Minister for Finance and the National Economy 1964–1965, for Development 1965–1966, Foreign Affairs 1966–1967, and National Defence 1967, President of the Afro-Asian Economic Co-operation. They had the following children: * Moulay Sulaiman Cherkaoui. * Moulay Omar Cherkaoui. * Moulay Mehdi Cherkaoui. * Lalla Rabia Cherkaoui. Honours * Dame Grand Cordon of the Order of the Throne The Order of the Throne (Arabic: ''Wissa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malika Zarra
Malika Zarra is a Moroccan singer, composer, and music producer, based in New York City. She is known for singing in Moroccan Arabic, Berber, French, and English. Her music has been on the JazzWeek Top 20 radio chart in world music. Biography Zarra was born in Ouled Teima, the eldest of five children to a Berber mother from the High Atlas and a father from Tata. Her family moved to Paris when she was young, but remained culturally Moroccan in the home. In school, she studied clarinet. She became interested in jazz because it was similar to Arabic traditional music in the core importance of improvisation. Eventually, she studied at the jazz conservatories at Tours and Marseilles and studied privately with Sarah Lazarus and Françoise Galais. On the Paris scene, she appeared at venues including Festival L'esprit Jazz de St Germain, Sunside/Sunset, and Cité de la Musique. She started to draw serious attention by singing jazz standards to her own Arabic translations. Sub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malika Tirolien
Malika Tirolien is a Montreal-based singer-songwriter and pianist. She sang on the Grammy Award winning album '' Family Dinner – Volume 1'' by Snarky Puppy. Biography Malika was born in Marie-Galante, Guadeloupe, and grew up in an artistic environment. Her grandmother played the piano, her grandfather was the poet Guy Tirolien and her father, a history teacher, was a self-taught multi-instrumentalist. Malika showed interest for music and singing at a very young age; noticing this, her parents signed her up for piano lessons. She recorded her first studio song when she was 8, accompanying her father's band. As a teenager she was already very involved with singing and cites Michael Jackson as one of her biggest influences at the time. In 2001, aged 18, Malika moved to Canada to study music at the University of Montreal. In 2005, after graduating with a B.A. in jazz interpretation, Malika spent a few months in France. On her return to Montreal, she watched a presentation of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noor Jehan
Noor Jehan ( Punjabi: ) (born () Allah Rakhi Wasai ; 23 September 1926 – 23 December 2000; sometimes spelled Noorjehan),Ashish Rajadhyaksha and Paul Willemen, ''Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema,'' British Film Institute, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2002, pp. 166. also known by her honorific title Malika-e-Tarannum (Queen of Melody), was a Punjabi playback singer and actress who worked first in India and then in the cinema of Pakistan. Her career spanned more than six decades (the 1930s–1990s). Considered to be one of the greatest and most influential singers in Indian subcontinent, she was given the honorific title of ''Malika-e-Tarannum'' in Pakistan. She had a command of Hindustani classical music as well as other music genres. Along with Ahmed Rushdi, she holds the record for having given voice to the largest number of film songs in the history of Pakistani cinema. She recorded about 20,000 songs in various languages including Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi and Sindhi. She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malika Tahir
Malika Tahir (1 April 1976) is a French figure skating coach and former competitor. She is the 1996 French national bronze medalist and competed in the final segment at two ISU Championships — the 1994 World Junior Championships, where she finished 12th, and the 1995 European Championships, where she placed 23rd. She finished ninth at the 1997 Winter Universiade. Tahir retired from competition around 1998 and began her coaching career. She is based in Reims, France. Her students include Lorine Schild Lorine Schild (born 6 January 2005) is a French figure skater. She is the 2022 Tallink Hotels Cup bronze medalist and the 2023 French national champion. On the junior level, she is the 2022 European Youth Olympic Festival champion. Personal l ... and Lola Ghozali. Results References 1976 births French female single skaters French figure skating coaches Living people Competitors at the 1997 Winter Universiade {{France-figure-skating-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malika Pukhraj
Malika Pukhraj ( Punjabi, ur, ملكہ پکھراج ) (1912 – 2004) was a highly popular Ghazal and folk singer of Pakistan. She was generally known as "Malika", meaning "The Queen", publicly. She was extremely popular for her rendition of Hafeez Jalandhri's nazm song, ''Abhi tau main jawan hoon'' ("I am still young"), which is enjoyed by millions not only in Pakistan, but also in India. Others among her popular numbers in Urdu language were ''Lo phir basant aaii'', Quli Qutub's ''Piya baaj piyala piya jaey na'', and Faiz Ahmed Faiz's ''Mere qatil mere dildar mere paas raho''. Early life Malika Pukhraj was born in Hamirpur Sidhar to a Singer family of professional musicians. She was given the name "Malika" at birth by Baba Roti Ram 'Majzoob', a spiritualist, in the Akhnoor area, and named ''Pukhraj'' (Yellow Sapphire) by her aunt who herself was a professional singer-dancer. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malika Oufkir
Malika Oufkir ( ar, مليكة أوفقير) (born April 2, 1953 in Marrakesh) is a Moroccan Berber writer and former "disappeared". She is the daughter of General Mohamed Oufkir and a cousin of fellow Moroccan writer and actress Leila Shenna. Biography Malika Oufkir is the eldest daughter of Mohamed Oufkir. Her siblings are Abdellatif, Myriam (Mimi), Maria, Soukaina, and Raouf. General Mohamed Oufkir was the interior minister, minister of defense, and the chief of the armed forces. He was very trusted by King Hassan II (and the most powerful figure in Morocco after the King) during the 1960s and early 1970s in Morocco. But after attempting to assassinate the King and Moroccan delegation returning from France on a Boeing 727 jet in a coup d'état in 1972, General Oufkir had several bullet wounds in his body, but it was ruled a suicide. Malika Oufkir and her family were initially confined to house arrest in the south of Morocco from 1973 to 1977. Then, General Oufkir's entire fami ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malika Mokeddem
Malika Mokeddem ( Kenadsa, Algeria; October 5, 1949) is an Algerian writer. Biography Malika Mokeddem was born on October 5, 1949, in Kenadsa, a small mining town on the limit of the western desert of Algeria. She is the daughter of an illiterate nomad family who became sedentary. She grew up listening to the stories told by her grandmother, Zohra, and was the only girl in her family and town to finish secondary studies. She enrolled to study medicine in Oran and finished her studies in Paris. She specialized in Nephrology and later established in Montpellier Montpellier (, , ; oc, Montpelhièr ) is a city in southern France near the Mediterranean Sea. One of the largest urban centres in the region of Occitania (administrative region), Occitania, Montpellier is the prefecture of the Departments of ... in 1979. She practiced till 1985 when she decided to dedicate her time to literature. Works * ''La Desirante'' (2011) * ''The Men Who Walk'' (''Les hommes qui marchent'', 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malika Ménard
Malika Ménard (born 14 July 1987) is a French model, television presenter, and beauty pageant titleholder, who was crowned Miss France 2010. She later represented France in Miss Universe 2010, placing in the Top 15. Life and career Early life Ménard was born on 14 July 1987 in Rennes, but later grew up in Hérouville-Saint-Clair. She received a '' baccalauréat'' degree in social sciences from Lycée Malherbe in Caen, and later began studying law at the University of Caen Normandy. She additionally worked as a hostess at Stade Michel d'Ornano and Stade Malherbe, Caen. Her name, Malika, means "queen" in Arabic, and is very common in many Arab and Berber communities. She was firstly believed to be of Kabyle Berber descent; however, she has clarified that she is "100% French", and that her mother named her Malika because they lived in Morocco. Pageantry Ménard began her pageantry career after being crowned Miss Calvados 2009 on 17 September 2009. As Miss Calvados, she r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malika Louback
Malika Louback-Mohamed is a Djiboutian-French fashion model and engineer. She is the first Djiboutian woman to feature on the cover of ''Vogue.'' Family and engineering education Malika Louback comes from Djibouti. She has two sisters. Her first name means "queen" in Arabic, and her surname means "lioness", in Afar language, one of the languages of Djibouti. Her mother is Moumina Houmed Hassan, who has been Djibouti Minister for Women and the Family since 2016, after a career in non-governmental organizations and the World Health Organization. Her father works as an engineer. Following in her father's footsteps, Louback has three college degrees: a Diplôme universitaire de technologie in industrial and maintenance engineering, a bachelor’s degree in physics and another degree in materials science engineering. She came to Lyon in 2013, and spent six years there for her studies. She then stayed to model in Paris. Her two sisters also live in France. Modeling career Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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