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Matar Kot
Matar may refer to: People Given name * Matar Coly (born 1984), Senegalese footballer * Matar Fall (born 1982), French-born Senegalese football * Matar Sène (born 1970), retired Senegalese freestyle wrestler Surname * Agapius II Matar (1736–1812), Patriarch of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church from 1796 to 1812 * Ahmad Abu Matar (born 1944), Palestinian academic and writer * Ahmed Matar (born 1954), Iraqi poet * Athanasius V Matar, Patriarch of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church in 1813 * Ghiath Matar (died 2011), Syrian activist * Hadi Matar (born 1998), suspect of the stabbing of Salman Rushdie * Hisham Matar (born 1970), American and Libyan author * Ismail Matar (born 1983), footballer from the United Arab Emirates * Joseph Matar (born 1935), Lebanese painter and poet * Maryam Matar (born 1975), Emirati geneticist and medical researcher * Matar Matar (born 1976), Bahraini politician of the Al Wefaq party * Muhammad Afifi Matar (1935–2010), Egyptian poet * Nader ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matar Coly
Matar Coly (born 10 November 1984) is a Senegalese former professional footballer. Career Coly began his career in 1994 in Dakar with Génération Foot, at 10 years old. Aged 18 he joined the youth team of RC Lens, in 2003 was called up to the second team of Lens, where he played alongside Seydou Keita, Daniel Cousin and John Utaka. In the summer of 2005 he transferred to Neuchâtel Xamax, where he played until January 2009 before being sold to Al-Wahda in the United Arab Emirates where he would remain for only six months. Coly returned to Switzerland during the summer of 2009, signing for BSC Young Boys. After featuring for the first-team in his first season with the club, he was moved down to the reserve team for the next two seasons and was finally sent on loan to second-tier side FC Biel-Bienne for the 2012-13 season. In the summer of 2013 Coly signed for FC Lausanne-Sport FC Lausanne–Sport (also referred to as LS) is a Swiss football club based in Lausanne in the ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emiratis
The Emiratis ( ar, الإماراتيون) are the native Arab citizen population of the United Arab Emirates. Their largest concentration is in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), where there are about approximately 1.5 million Emiratis. Formerly known as the Trucial States or Trucial Sheikhdoms, the United Arab Emirates is made up of seven emirates, each of which had a dominant or ruling family. Abu Dhabi was home to the Bani Yas tribal confederation; Dubai settled in 1833 by an offshoot of the Bani Yas, the Al Bu Falasah; Sharjah and Ras Al Khaimah are the home to the Al Qasimi or Qawasim; Ajman to the Al Na'im and Fujeirah to the Sharqiyin. History The United Arab Emirates is a union of seven emirates in which their history is entwined with various empires, such as those of Portugal and the United Kingdom. Envoys from the Islamic prophet Muhammad saw the islands convert to Islam around 630 C.E. Later in the 16th century the Portuguese would battle the then dominant f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Matar (AK-119)
USS ''Matar'' (AK-119) was a , converted from a Liberty Ship, commissioned by the US Navy for service in World War II. She was first named after Napoleon B. Broward, an American river pilot, captain, and politician; he was elected as the 19th Governor of the US state of Florida. She was renamed and commissioned after Matar, a binary star in the constellation of Pegasus. She was responsible for delivering troops, goods and equipment to locations in the war zone. Construction ''Napoleon R. Broward'' was laid down on 16 October 1943, under Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MC hull 1214, by the St. Johns River Shipbuilding Company, Jacksonville, Florida; she was sponsored by Mrs. Napoleon B. Broward, widow of the namesake, and launched 30 November 1943. Acquired by the US Navy under bareboat charter 10 December 1943; converted for Navy use by Merrill Stevens Drydock & Repair Co., Jacksonville; and commissioned as ''Matar'' at Jacksonville, 17 May 1944. Service history After ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eta Pegasi
Eta Pegasi or η Pegasi, formally named Matar , is a binary star in the constellation of Pegasus. The apparent visual magnitude of this star is +2.95, making it the fifth-brightest member of Pegasus. Based upon parallax measurements, the distance to this star is about from the Sun. Nomenclature ''η Pegasi'' ( Latinised to ''Eta Pegasi'') is the star's Bayer designation. It bore the traditional name ''Matar'', derived from the Arabic سعد المطر ''Al Saʽd al Maṭar'', meaning ''lucky star of rain''. In 2016, the International Astronomical Union organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) to catalogue and standardize proper names for stars. The WGSN approved the name ''Matar'' for this star on 21 August 2016 and it is now so entered in the IAU Catalog of Star Names. In Chinese, (), meaning '' Resting Palace'', refers to an asterism consisting η Pegasi, λ Pegasi, μ Pegasi, ο Pegasi, τ Pegasi and ν Pegasi. Consequently, η Pegasi itself is known as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yasser Matar
Yasser Matar (Arabic:ياسر مطر) (born 20 September 1985) is a retired Emirati footballer who played as midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ... . External links * References Emirati footballers 1985 births Living people Al Jazira Club players Al Ain FC players Al Wahda FC players Fujairah FC players Al Urooba Club players Footballers at the 2006 Asian Games UAE First Division League players UAE Pro League players Men's association football midfielders Asian Games competitors for the United Arab Emirates {{UnitedArabEmirates-footy-midfielder-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selim Matar
Selim Matar, writer, novelist and sociologist with Swiss and Iraqi nationalities, was born in Bagdad and resides currently in Geneva. He is founder of the movement known as "Identity of the Iraqi Nation", chief editor of the trimestral journal Mesopotamie, as well as author of Woman of the Flask, a well known novel in the Arabic-speaking world. Biography Selim Matar was born in 1956 in a family that immigrated to Baghdad from the south of Iraq. He becomes member of the Iraqi communist party and leaves his country at the end of 1978, after the failure of what is known as the "national confrontation" between the ruling party Baas and the communists. After three years of ceaseless wanderings in the Middle-East, he finally settles down in Geneva at the end of 1981. He studied at the Graduate Institute of Development Studies, specializing in social sciences and research in the Third World. The conception of national identity and that of the Iraqi nation In Switzerland, Selim Matar d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salim Matar
Selim Matar, writer, novelist and sociologist with Swiss and Iraqi nationalities, was born in Bagdad and resides currently in Geneva. He is founder of the movement known as "Identity of the Iraqi Nation", chief editor of the trimestral journal Mesopotamie, as well as author of Woman of the Flask, a well known novel in the Arabic-speaking world. Biography Selim Matar was born in 1956 in a family that immigrated to Baghdad from the south of Iraq. He becomes member of the Iraqi communist party and leaves his country at the end of 1978, after the failure of what is known as the "national confrontation" between the ruling party Baas and the communists. After three years of ceaseless wanderings in the Middle-East, he finally settles down in Geneva at the end of 1981. He studied at the Graduate Institute of Development Studies, specializing in social sciences and research in the Third World. The conception of national identity and that of the Iraqi nation In Switzerland, Selim Matar d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Youssef Matar
Paul Youssef Matar (born 1 February 1941 in Naameh, Lebanon) was the former Archeparch of the Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Beirut. The archeparchial seat is the city of Beirut, at the Saint George Cathedral. Life Paul Youssef Matar was born on February 1, 1941, in the Mount Lebanon Governorate in Na'ameh, located in the historic Chouf Region. On 5 June 1965 at the age of 24, Matar was ordained to the priesthood. His appointment as auxiliary bishop of the Maronite Patriarchate of Antioch was on 7 June 1991 as his appointment as Titular bishop of Tarsus dei Maroniti. His ordination to the episcopate took place on 3 August 1991 by the hands of the Maronite Patriarch of Antioch, Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, and his co-consecrators were Roland Aboujaoudé, Auxiliary Bishop of Antioch, and Boutros Gemayel, Archeparch of Cyprus. On June 8, 1996, at the age of 55 years, Paul Youssef Matar was appointed archbishop of the Archeparchy of Beirut. Archbishop Paul Youssef Matar was the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadia Matar
Nadia Matar (Pikovitch) () (born February 16, 1966 in Antwerp, Belgium, into a non-religious Jewish family) is a right wing activist in Israel. A Yavneh Olami youth leader, she performed aliyah (immigrated) alone at the age of 18 in 1984, while still in her teens, and married an American doctor, David, a pediatrician at Hadassah Hospital, with whom she has had six children, and settled in Efrat, though she moved her family to Shirat HaYam in Gush Katif in 2004 when Ariel Sharon decided to dismantle Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip. She has been called by some admirers 'the settlers' Joan of Arc'.Deborah Campbel''This Heated Place: Encounters in the Promised Land ,''D & M Publishers, 2009 pp.95-96. She is, together with Yehudit Katsover, the co-chairman of the Nationalist organization Women in Green.Jason Koutsoukis'Israeli anger that burns brightly,'Sydney Morning Herald 14 November 2008 She hosts a settler radio show. Positions Matar regards the Oslo Peace Accords as a "crim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nader Matar
Nader Charbel Matar ( ar, نادر شربل مطر, ; born 12 May 1992) is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for club Ansar and the Lebanon national team. Matar began his senior career in 2008 in Portugal, playing for Sporting CP B and Oeiras. He moved to Spain in 2010, where he played for Atlético Madrid C and Canillas, before moving to Ghana-based Asante Kotoko in 2012. He returning to Portugal in 2014, playing six months at Beira-Mar. Matar signed for his first Lebanese club in 2016, Nejmeh, where he won three Lebanese Elite Cups and one Lebanese Super Cup in his four-year stay. In 2020, Matar moved to cross-city rivals Ansar, helping them win their first league title in 14 years in his first season. He then moved back abroad, joining Qatar-based Muaither, before returning to Ansar in 2022. Born in the Ivory Coast to a Lebanese father and a Moroccan mother, Matar chose to represent Lebanon internationally. He made his debut in a friendly again ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muhammad Afifi Matar
Muhammad Afifi Matar ( ar, محمد عفيفي مطر; 1935 – 28 June 2010), was an Egyptian poet. He was born in the village of Ramalat al-Anjab in the Menoufia region of the Nile Delta. He went to school in Menouf and afterwards moved to Cairo where he studied philosophy at Ain Shams University. Early life During the reign of Anwar Sadat, Matar left Egypt for Iraq and lived there for several years due to his difficulties with the military regime. During this period of self-imposed exile, he kept up his work as a poet and edited a literary journal called ''al-Aqlam''. He was also a member of the Egyptian Ba'ath Party and was one of six people arrested in April 1991 on accusations of involvement in an anti-government plot. Career Matar is recognised as one of the more difficult of modern Arab poets. The scholar and translator Ferial Ghazoul has written: "Muhammad 'Afifi Matar ..is known for the sophistication of his poetics, and the multiple allusions in his poetry. He is a poe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matar Matar
Matar Ebrahim Ali Matar (also spelled Mattar Mattar; ar, مطر إبراهيم علي مطر; born 3 May 1976) is a Bahraini politician of the Al Wefaq party who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from October 2010 until his resignation in early 2011. Born in the village of Al Daih to a large family with diverse political views, Matar completed his secondary education in Bahrain and moved to Kuwait to pursue higher education. He remained there until 2002 when he returned to Bahrain and joined Al Wefaq political party. Matar was politically active, working within committees in the party and meeting with foreign officials. In 2010, he won with a large margin in the Parliamentary election, becoming the youngest of all MPs and representing the country's largest constituency. When the Bahraini uprising started in early 2011, Matar joined the protests and gave several interviews to international media. Following government crackdown, he and other party MPs resigned from Parliament ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
