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Mandana (given Name)
Mandana is a given name of the following people *Mandana Dayani, American branding, technology, and fashion expert *Mandana Jones, British actress *Mandana Karimi, Iranian actress and model *Abigail Mandana Holmes Christensen (1852–1938), American collector of folklore *Maṇḍana Miśra, 8th century Hindu philosopher *Mandana Moghaddam, Iranian-Swedish visual artist *Mandana Seyfeddinipur, Iranian linguist *Mandana Coleman Thorp (1843-1916), American Civil War nurse, singer, patriot; public official {{given name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mandana Dayani
Mandana Rebecca Dayani (born May 1, 1982) is the creator & co-founder of I am a voter., a nonpartisan civic engagement organization, and was the president of Archewell, the media and philanthropic company founded by Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex until 2022. She is the former Vice President at the fashion and media company, Rachel Zoe, Inc. where she served as part of the founding team of The Rachel Zoe Collection, The Zoe Report, Curateur, Rachel Zoe Ventures, and produced multiple seasons of Bravo's The Rachel Zoe Project. She was later the Chief Brand Officer for the global digital estate sale platform, Everything But The House and the Executive Producer of its TV show project for HGTV. She is an Iranian-born American activist, attorney, entrepreneur, angel investor, and serves as an advisor to several tech companies. Mandana is the founder of The Learning Series, an event series for women leaders, and serves as an advocate for many social issues ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mandana Jones
Mandana Jones is an Anglo-Iranian actress best known for her role as prisoner Nikki Wade on the British television series, '' Bad Girls''. Biography Mandana Jones was born on 26 February 1967 to a Welsh father and an Iranian mother. She is the youngest of three, having two older brothers. She has a son, Enzo, born on 27 October 2005. Acting roles Jones's TV work includes the regional soap ''London Bridge'' (shown in certain ITV regions in the UK in the mid-1990s) and the BBC daytime soap ''Doctors''. Probably her most high-profile role is as lesbian lifer Nikki Wade on '' Bad Girls'', in which her on-screen love interest, Helen Stewart, was played by another former cast member of ''London Bridge'', Simone Lahbib. Her second largest role was in the 2004 BBC TV children's show '' Powers'', where she played Dr. Mary Holland for the duration of the 13-episode series. Between ''Bad Girls'' and ''Powers'', she had a small role in the short, ''Occasional, Strong'' (2002). Other ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mandana Karimi
Mandana Karimi (born Manizeh Karimi; on 19 May 1988) is an Iranian actress and model based in India. After working on several successful modelling projects around the world, she appeared as a lead in the Bollywood film, ''Bhaag Johnny''. She participated in the popular reality TV show, '' Bigg Boss 9'' and became the 2nd runner up in 2015. Early life Karimi was born on 19 May 1988 in Tehran, Iran, into a Muslim family. Her father has Iranian and Indian ancestry and her mother is a Persian. She was raised in Tehran. Career Karimi started her career as an air hostess, and later quit that job to pursue a career in modelling. In 2010, after working on various international modelling projects, she came to Mumbai for three months on a modelling contract. Karimi has done TV commercials with Shahrukh Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Shahid Kapoor and Arjun Kapoor. In February 2015, she made a guest appearance in the film ''Roy''. Later that year, in September, her movie ''Bha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abigail Mandana Holmes Christensen
Abigail Mandana Holmes Christensen (1852–1938) was an American collector of folklore. Biography Abigail ("Abbie") Christensen was born in Massachusetts to abolitionist parents, her family later moved to South Carolina. She investigated the African origin of the folklore recorded in the region, forwarding selections to newspapers and journals, she eventually published several works on African-American tales and dialect. Christensen was, for a short time, a member of the American Folklore Society and published in its journal. She sympathised with contemporary movements concerning temperance, protest on inequality, and other socialist causes, but gave special regard to the plight of the peoples from whom she gathered her material. Her major work was ''Afro-American folk lore: told round cabin fires on the Sea Islands of South Carolina'', Christensen intended that profits from this be used to advance African American equality and self-determination, she assisted in the funding of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maṇḍana Miśra
Mandana Mishra (; c. ) was a Hindu philosopher who wrote on the Mīmāṃsā and Advaita systems of thought. He was a follower of the Karma Mimamsa school of philosophy and a staunch defender of the holistic sphota doctrine of language. He was a contemporary of Adi Shankara, and while it is said that he became a disciple of Adi Sankara, he may actually have been the most prominent Advaitin of the two until the 10th century CE. He is often identified with Sureśvara, though the authenticity of this is doubtful. Still, the official Sringeri documents recognises Mandana Mishra as Sureśvara. Life and scholarship Maṇḍana Miśhra, who was a contemporary of Shankara, is known to be a student of the Mimamsa scholar Kumarila Bhatta. He wrote several treatises on ''Mimamsa'', but also a work on Advaita, the ''Brahma-siddhi''. Maṇḍana Miśhra probably was more influential in the Advaita Vedanta tradition than is usually acknowledged. According to Richard E. King, Accordin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mandana Moghaddam
Mandana Moghaddam is an Iranian-Sweden, Swedish contemporary visual artist whose Installation art, installation work was most notably exhibited in the 51st Venice Biennale. Affected by the Iranian Revolution, Moghaddam was granted asylum in Gothenburg, Sweden where she continues to work to this day. Her work covers such themes as Social alienation, alienation, communication, and gender. Working with these themes, Moghaddam creates works that attempt to bridge cultural boundaries, inspire intercultural dialogue, and memorialize oftentimes contentious aspects of Iranian life. Early life and education Mandana Moghaddam was born in Tehran in 1962. At the age of 17, the Islamic Republic came to power in a revolution that later led to her father's execution as a member of the Shah's army. She was raised in the often hostile environment of Tehran, and was in her early twenties during the majority of the Iran–Iraq War (1980–88). Her education was disrupted and as a result of hostil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mandana Seyfeddinipur
Mandana Seyfeddinipur is a linguist, author, and educator. She is also the Head of the Endangered Languages Archive. Early life and education Seyfeddinipur grew up in Germany. She studied linguistics and Persian studies at the Free University of Berlin and graduated with a Master's degree. She received her doctorate at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics at Radboud University Nijmegen from 2000 to 2005. Her dissertation was entitled ''Disfluency: Interrupting speech and gesture''. She then worked as a Marie Curie postdoctoral work Stanford University from 2006 to 2009. Career After another short stay at the Max Planck Institute, Seyfeddinipur moved to the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London in 2010, where she became head of the ''Endangered Languages Documentation Programme'', which has been awarding grants for the documentation of endangered languages worldwide since 2002, financed by the private Arcadia Foundation. Since 2014 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
