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Mardini
Mardini is a surname derived from Al-Mardini (Arabic: المارديني), which denotes an origin from Mardin, Upper Mesopotamia. People with the surname include: * Bahia Mardini (fl. 2000s–2020s), Syrian Kurdish researcher in international law * Masawaih al-Mardini (died 1015), Assyrian physician * Robert Mardini (born 1972), Lebenese-born Swiss Red Cross director * Yusra Mardini (born 1998), Syrian Olympic swimmer portrayed in the 2022 biographical film, ''The Swimmers'' * Sarah Mardini (born 1995), Syrian former competition swimmer, lifeguard and human rights activist, portrayed in the 2022 biographical film, ''The Swimmers.'' See also * Mardin (surname), Turkish surname * ''Mahishasura Mardini'', 1959 Indian Kannada-language film * Martini (surname) Martini is an Italian surname. Geographical distribution As of 2014, 33.1% of all known bearers of the surname ''Martini'' were residents of Italy (frequency 1:1,079), 22.1% of Indonesia (1:3,494), 13.0% of Brazil (1:9,197), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yusra Mardini
Yusra Mardini OLY ( ar, يسرى مارديني; born 5 March 1998) is a Syrian former competition swimmer and refugee of the Syrian civil war. She was a member of the Refugee Olympic Athletes Team (ROT) that competed under the Olympic flag at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. On 27 April 2017, Mardini was appointed a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador. She also competed in the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo with the Refugee Olympic Team (EOR). Early life Growing up in Darayya, a suburb of Damascus, Mardini trained in swimming with the support of the Syrian Olympic Committee. In 2012, she represented Syria in the 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) 200 metre individual medley, 200 metre freestyle and 400 metre freestyle events. Mardini's house was destroyed in the Syrian Civil War. Mardini and her sister Sarah decided to flee Syria in August 2015. They reached Lebanon, and then Turkey, where they arranged to be smuggled into Greece by boat with 18 other migrants ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Mardini
Sarah Mardini ( ar, سارة مارديني; born 1995) is a Syrian former competition swimmer, lifeguard and human rights activist. Fleeing her country in 2015 during the Syrian civil war with her sister, Olympic swimmer Yusra Mardini, they pulled their boat with other refugees towards the Mediterranean coast of Greece, saving themselves and the other passengers. Continuing their journey across the Balkans, they reached Berlin, Germany, the same year. After the sisters had been granted political asylum in Germany, Sarah Mardini joined a non-governmental organization to help refugees on the Greek island of Lesbos. Along with human rights activist Seán Binder, she was arrested in 2018 and accused by Greek authorities of espionage, aiding illegal immigration and belonging to a criminal organization. These charges have been refuted by human rights organizations such as Amnesty International, denouncing the accusations against Mardini and other humanitarian workers and defending th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Swimmers (2022 Film)
''The Swimmers'' is a 2022 biographical drama film directed by Sally El Hosaini from a screenplay that she co-wrote with Jack Thorne. The film stars real-life sisters Nathalie Issa and Manal Issa, Ahmed Malek, Matthias Schweighöfer, Ali Suliman, Kinda Alloush, James Krishna Floyd and Elmi Rashid Elmi. ''The Swimmers'' had its world premiere at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2022, and was released in select cinemas on November 11, 2022. It was shown at the evening gala of the Marrakesh International Film Festival on November 18, 2022, before its streaming release on November 23, 2022, by Netflix. Premise The plot follows the life story of teenage Syrian refugees Yusra Mardini and her sister Sarah Mardini, who swam alongside a sinking dinghy of refugees to lighten it, and eventually help 18 refugees to reach safety across the Aegean Sea while being smuggled from İzmir towards Lesbos. Subsequent struggles as refugees are vividly depicted, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Mardini
Robert Mardini (born 1972) is Director-General of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Early life and education Mardini was born and raised in Tripoli, Lebanon. He was educated at the Lycée Français in Tripoli and at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, where he was awarded a Master of Science in civil engineering and hydraulics in 1996. Professional career Mardini joined the ICRC in 1997, coordinating water engineering programmes in Rwanda and Iraq, before leading the organization’s Water & Habitat Unit with projects in over 40 countries, improving access to water, sanitation and hygiene services to around 14 million people per year. He went on to hold various senior positions within the organization, including Deputy Director General (2010-2012), Regional Director for the Near and Middle East (2012-2018) and Permanent Observer of the ICRC to the United Nations & Head of Delegation in New York (2018-2020). In this latter rol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mahishasura Mardini
''Mahishasura Mardini'' (; a name for Durga) is a 1959 Indian Kannada-language film, directed and produced by B. S. Ranga. The film stars Rajkumar, V. Nagayya, Udaykumar and Narasimharaju. It was dubbed in seven other languages and is retrospectively identified as amongst the first major Pan-India films. The film has musical score by G. K. Venkatesh. It was dubbed in seven languages - including in Telugu under the same name and in Hindi as ''Durga Maata'' (, 1960). This was the first movie shot in Vikram Studios, Madras. Rajkumar sang a duet as a playback singer for the first time through the song ''Thumbithu Manava'' in this movie. Cast * Rajkumar as Mahishasura *Sowcar Janaki as Gunavathi *V. Nagayya as Shukracharya *Udaykumar as Rambhesha * Narasimharaju as Vyaaghrasimha *K. S. Ashwath as Narada *Rajanala *Ganapathi Bhat *Sandhya as Chamundeshwari * T. D. Kusalakumari *Suryakala *Ramadevi *Indrani as Goddess Durga Durga ( sa, दुर्गा, ) is a major ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al-Mardini ...
Al-Mardini ( ar, المارديني) denotes an origin from Mardin, Upper Mesopotamia. Al-Mardini may refer to: * Masawaih al-Mardini, 11th-century physician * Sibt al-Mardini, 15th-century Egyptian-born astronomer and mathematician See also *Mardini, a related surname {{DEFAULTSORT:Mardini Arabic-language surnames Mardini Mardini is a surname derived from Al-Mardini (Arabic: المارديني), which denotes an origin from Mardin, Upper Mesopotamia. People with the surname include: * Bahia Mardini (fl. 2000s–2020s), Syrian Kurdish researcher in international l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bahia Mardini
Bahia Al Mardini (Arabic: بهية مارديني) is a Syrian Kurdish Researcher in International Law, PHD in Law, MA degree Northampton University in England, writer, and journalist. She has been known as an activist and she has worked in the field of human rights and the promotion of democracy, dialogue and pluralism in Syria and the Arab countries. She has a poetry book printed and published in Damascus on 2004 entitled: Love has smell of bread published by Dar Canaan, And in 2020, she published a book entitled: About Syria, ''Words Looking For Letters''. She has many published articles, short stories, poetic poems, and television drama analyses, published by several Arabic newspapers and magazines in Syria, Kuwait and Egypt etc. Also, she has participated in and established several Syrian regional and international organizations, movements, and alliances, including the National Organization for Human Rights in Syria, and the Arab Committee for Freedom of Opinion and Ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masawaih Al-Mardini
Masawaih al-Mardini (Yahyā ibn Masawaih al-Mardini; known as Mesue the Younger) was a Assyrian physician. He was born in Mardin, Upper Mesopotamia. After working in Baghdad, he entered to the service of the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah. He died in 1015 in Cairo at the age of ninety. Masawaih al-Mardini was a Nestorian Christian. He is known due to his books on purgatives and emetics (''De medicins laxativis'') and on the complete ''pharmacopoeia'' in 12 parts called the ''Antidotarium sive Grabadin medicamentorum'', which remained for centuries the standard textbook of pharmacy in the West. He also described methods of distillation of empyreumatic oils. A method of extracting oil from "some kind of bituminous shale", one of the first descriptions of extraction of shale oil Shale oil is an unconventional oil produced from oil shale rock fragments by pyrolysis, hydrogenation, or thermal dissolution. These processes convert the organic matter within the rock (kerogen) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Floruit
''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they flourished") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicating the time when someone flourished. Etymology and use la, flōruit is the third-person singular perfect active indicative of the Latin verb ', ' "to bloom, flower, or flourish", from the noun ', ', "flower". Broadly, the term is employed in reference to the peak of activity for a person or movement. More specifically, it often is used in genealogy and historical writing when a person's birth or death dates are unknown, but some other evidence exists that indicates when they were alive. For example, if there are wills attested by John Jones in 1204, and 1229, and a record of his marriage in 1197, a record concerning him might be written as "John Jones (fl. 1197–1229)". The term is often used in art history when dating the career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syria
Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant. It is a unitary republic that consists of 14 governorates (subdivisions), and is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east and southeast, Jordan to the south, and Israel and Lebanon to the southwest. Cyprus lies to the west across the Mediterranean Sea. A country of fertile plains, high mountains, and deserts, Syria is home to diverse ethnic and religious groups, including the majority Syrian Arabs, Kurds, Turkmens, Assyrians, Armenians, Circassians, Albanians, and Greeks. Religious groups include Muslims, Christians, Alawites, Druze, and Yazidis. The capital and largest city of Syria is Damascus. Arabs are the largest ethnic group, and Mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lifeguard
A lifeguard is a rescuer who supervises the safety and rescue of swimmers, surfers, and other water sports participants such as in a swimming pool, water park, beach, spa, river and lake. Lifeguards are trained in swimming and CPR/ AED first aid, certified in water rescue using a variety of aids and equipment depending on requirements of their particular venue. In some areas, lifeguards are part of the emergency services system to incidents and in some communities, lifeguards may function as the primary EMS provider. Responsibilities A lifeguard is responsible for the safety of people in an area of water, and usually a defined area immediately surrounding or adjacent to it, such as a beach next to an ocean or lake. The priority is to ensure no harm comes to users of the area for which they are responsible. Lifeguards often take on this responsibility upon employment, although they can also be volunteers. The conditions resulting in drowning are summarized by the 'drowning ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Human Rights
Human rights are Morality, moral principles or Social norm, normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, 13 December 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyHuman Rights Retrieved 14 August 2014 for certain standards of human behaviour and are regularly protected in Municipal law, municipal and international law. They are commonly understood as inalienable,The United Nations, Office of the High Commissioner of Human RightsWhat are human rights? Retrieved 14 August 2014 fundamental rights "to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being" and which are "inherent in all human beings",Burns H. Weston, 20 March 2014, Encyclopædia Britannicahuman rights Retrieved 14 August 2014. regardless of their age, ethnic origin, location, language, religion, ethnicity, or any other status. They are applicable everywhere and at every time in the sense of being Universality (philosophy), universal, and they are Egalitari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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