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Munira
Munira ( ar, منيرة, meaning ''luminous'', ''bright'', ''shining'') is a female given name and may refer to: * Munira A. Basrai, American geneticist * Munira Fakhro, Bahraini academic * Mounira El Mahdeya (born 1885), Egyptian singer * Munira Khalil, American chemist * Munírih Khánum (1847 – 1938), prominent Bahá'í * Munira Mirza (born 1978), British political adviser * Munira Mosli (1954–2019), Saudi Arabian plastic arts worker and painter * Munira al-Qubaysi (born 1933), Syrian Sufi * Monira Rahman (born 1966), Bangladeshi activist * Munira Wilson Munira Wilson (' Hassam; born 26 April 1978) is a British Liberal Democrat politician who was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Twickenham at the 2019 general election. She succeeded the former Liberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cab ... (born 1978), British politician See also * Munir {{Given name Arabic feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Munira Al-Qubaysi
Shaykha Munira Qubaysi (also spelled Qubeysi; 1933 – December 25, 2022) was an Islamic scholar and spiritual guide to a vast number of women around the world who were impacted by her either directly or indirectly through her students. Education Shaykha Munira Qubaysi completed a Bachelor’s degree in biology at the University of Damascus in the 1950s in an era when women in hijab studying at universities was either a rarity or entirely non-existent. Damascus of the 1950s was heavily francophone following the experience of French colonialism which meant that upper class urban families shunned outward religious practice such as hijab, and adopted a lifestyle that emulated European colonial ideals. Religiously conservative urban families on the other hand, commonly adopted another extreme in that they prevented their daughters from studying past the sixth or eighth grades and focused on training their daughters with the household skills that would enable them to marry early. Shay ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Munira Mirza
Munira Mirza (born May 1978) is a British political advisor who served as Director of the Number 10 Policy Unit under Prime Minister Boris Johnson from 2019 until she resigned on 3 February 2022, citing Johnson's claim that Labour leader Keir Starmer was responsible for the failure to prosecute the serial sex offender Jimmy Savile as a reason for her resignation. She previously worked under Johnson as Deputy Mayor for Education and Culture when he was Mayor of London. Early life and education Mirza was born in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England. Her family came to the United Kingdom from Pakistan; her father found work in a factory while her mother was a housewife and taught Urdu part-time. She had two older brothers and an older sister. Mirza went to Breeze Hill School until 16, then moved to Oldham Sixth Form College for her A-levels. She was the only pupil in her Sixth Form college to gain a place at Oxford University, studying English Literature at Mansfield College, gradua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Munira Wilson
Munira Wilson (' Hassam; born 26 April 1978) is a British Liberal Democrat politician who was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Twickenham at the 2019 general election. She succeeded the former Liberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable as MP. She has served as the Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for Education since 2021 under Sir Ed Davey, and previously as the Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for Health, Wellbeing and Social Care from 2020 to 2021. Early life Munira Hassam was born in 1978 to parents of East African Indian heritage. Her parents were both born in Zanzibar. Her father went to study in Britain. Her mother, aged 21 and stateless, fled to Britain during the Zanzibar Revolution. They met in Britain. She grew up in London and attended Henrietta Barnett School, a state grammar school in north London. She then went on to study at St Catharine's College, Cambridge from 1996 to 2000, where she graduated with a degree in Modern Languages (French and German), inclu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Munira Mosli
Munira Ahmed Muhammad Mosli ( ar, منيرة موصلي) (July 1954 – January 2019) was a Saudi Arabian plastic works artist and painter. She worked with the materials copper, natural dyes, palm tree fibre, plants, paper, papyrus, oysters and employed the collage technique. Mosli worked on events inspired by Arab world events, human archaeology, music, nature, poetry and the whole universe. She exhibited her works in the Arab world and worked for the Arab Gulf Programme for the United Nations Development Programme in 1994. An art gallery in Saudi Arabia was directed to be renamed after Mosli following the death of the artist. Biography In July 1954, Mosli was born in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. She began drawing at an early age. Mosli held her first exhibition of her plastic works with her colleague Safia bin Zaqer at the School of Modern Education in 1968, and her first private exhibition followed four years later in her grandmother's city of Jeddah. She studied in primary and high s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Munira A
Munira ( ar, منيرة, meaning ''luminous'', ''bright'', ''shining'') is a female given name and may refer to: * Munira A. Basrai, American geneticist * Munira Fakhro, Bahraini academic * Mounira El Mahdeya (born 1885), Egyptian singer * Munira Khalil, American chemist * Munírih Khánum (1847 – 1938), prominent Bahá'í * Munira Mirza (born 1978), British political adviser * Munira Mosli (1954–2019), Saudi Arabian plastic arts worker and painter * Munira al-Qubaysi (born 1933), Syrian Sufi * Monira Rahman (born 1966), Bangladeshi activist * Munira Wilson Munira Wilson (' Hassam; born 26 April 1978) is a British Liberal Democrat politician who was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Twickenham at the 2019 general election. She succeeded the former Liberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cab ... (born 1978), British politician See also * Munir {{Given name Arabic feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Munira Khalil
Munira Khalil is an American chemist who is the Leon C. Johnson Professor of Chemistry and department chair at the University of Washington. Early life and education Khalil attended Colgate University, where she majored in chemistry and English and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for doctoral research, where she developed coherent two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy to study the molecular structure of coupled vibrations on a picosecond timescale. Khalil moved to the University of California, Berkeley as a postdoctoral researcher, where she was made a Miller Fellow. Research and career In 2007, Khalili joined the University of Washington. Her research makes use of ultrafast spectroscopies to understand the structural dynamics of molecules. Photoinduced charge transfer depends on an interplay between atomic and electronic processes on multi-dimensional energy surfaces. She develops 3D electronic-vibrational femtosecond s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Munira Fakhro
Munira Fakhro ( ar, منيرة فخرو) is a Bahraini academic and was a candidate in Bahrain's 2006 general election for the opposition Waad. Dr Fakhro is Associate Professor at thUniversity of Bahrain having received her Doctorate in Social Policy, Planning and Administration from Columbia University where she has served as a visiting scholar since 1997. She has also conducted research on gender, citizenship and civil society in the Persian Gulf states at the Centre for Middle East Studies, Harvard University. She has published works on Bahrain, including issues related to women, civil society and democratisation. Dr. Fakhro is also currently a board member of the Bahrain Academic Society and the Supreme Council for Women [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mounira El Mahdeya
Monirah El-Mahdiyyah (born Zakiyyah Hesin Mansur, ar, منيرة المهدية) was an Egyptian singer born in 1885 (she is said to have come from Zagazig, but other sources say Alexandria); she died in 1965. The singer, better known under the nickname of "Soltanet El-Tarab" or "The Soltana", was considered to be the leading Egyptian singer in the 1920s. Career She studied in a French nuns’ school, after which she began her career in singing in local clubs in the Azbakiyyah entertainment area. She joined the theatre of Aziz Eid, known for encouraging and developing the talents of his actors, actors who have among them many future stars such as Fatma Roshdi. This is where she acquired her acting technique and her lyrical talent as an actress and singer. She also was part of the ensemble of Salama Higazi and when he became ill, she sang his role in Salah al-Din al-Ayubi, while dressed onstage as a man. Her first recording was in 1906, under the name Sett Monirah (Lady Monir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Munir
{{redirect, Monir, the village in Iran, Monir, Iran Muneer (also spelled Moneer, Monir, Mounir, or Muneyr, ar, منير, meaning ''illuminating'', ''lightsome'', ''bright'', ''luminous'') is a masculine Arabic given name, it may refer to: Given name * Muneer Ahmad, American professor of law * Munir Akram, Pakistan Ambassador to the United Nations from 2002 to 2008 * Munir al-Rayyes (1901-1992), was a prominent Syrian newspaper editor and writer * Munir Awad, citizen of Sweden who has fallen under suspicion of an association with terrorism * Muneer Ahmed Badini, Pakistani writer * Munir Bashir, Assyrian musician * Münir Ertegün, Turkish politician * Muneer Fareed, American scholar * Munir El Haddadi, Moroccan footballer at Getafe CF * Mounir El Hamdaoui, Dutch-Moroccan footballer * Monir Hossain, Bangladeshi cricketer * Munir Ahmad Khan, Pakistani nuclear engineer and former head of Pakistan's nuclear power and deterrence program * Mounir Maasri, Lebanese actor * Mounir El M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Munírih
Munírih K͟hánum ( fa, ; 1847April 28, 1938) was the wife of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, a prominent figure in the Baháʼí Faith. She was entitled the Holy Mother. Her memoirs, first published in 1924, are regarded as one of the first published memoirs by a Persian woman in the 20th century. Childhood and early years Munírih Khánum was born Fáṭimih Nahrí, the eldest child of Muhammad ʻAlí Nahrí and his wife, Zahrá of Isfahán in Isfahan. The Nahrí family were a prominent family in the city, and her family were one of the first Bábís of Isfahan who later became eminent Baháʼís of Persia. The family were also highly connected with high-ranking nobles and clerics of the city. Her maternal uncle was killed at the age of fourteen in Persia because of his religion. Munírih's birth came as a surprise to her parents. Her father was previously married and had no issue and upon his wives death, he remarried Zahrá Khánum. Munírih's birth in 1847 did not occur until some t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monira Rahman
Monira Rahman is a Bangladeshi human rights activist. She was born in 1965 in Jessore, East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh). Due to her movement, acid and petrol attacks on women in Bangladesh has reduced by 40 fold. She has changed laws. She has ensured prompt, competent help even in remote areas, and has built model psychological and other follow-up services. Rahman won Amnesty International Human Rights Defender Award 2006 for her courageous activism. She worked with the founder of Acid Survivors Foundation (ASF), Dr John Morrison and subsequently worked as Executive Director from 2002 to 2013. Rahman was commended by the World's Children's Prize in 2011 for her courageous fight to put an end to acid and petrol violence in Bangladesh. Rahman became Commonwealth Professional Fellow in 2012 and Ashoka Fellow in 2013. Early life Rahman was the youngest of her six siblings. During the Bangladesh Liberation War (1971), her family had to flee and her father died, leaving her mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
