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Najjar
Najjar ( ar, نجّار, link=no) is an Arabic and Sephardic surname and profession meaning ''carpenter''. Notable people with surnames Najjar, al-Najjar, or al-Najar include: Ancient *Habib Al-Najjar (c. AD 5-40), or Saint Habib the Carpenter *Yousef Al-Najjar (c. 90 BC-AD 18), or Saint Joseph the Carpenter, Jesus's legal father *Ibn Al Najjar a hanbali scholar of Sunni Islam Modern * Aida Najjar (1938–2020), Palestinian-Jordanian writer * Ammar Campa-Najjar (born 1989), American Democratic politician * Ahmad El Najjar, Egyptian economist * Ammar Al-Najar (born 1997), Saudi football player *Fadel Al-Najjar (born 1985), Jordanian professional basketball player * Fouad Najjar (1930–1992), Lebanese agronomist and politician *Ibrahim Najjar, Lebanese lawyer and politician * Humaid Al-Najar, Emirati footballer * John Najjar, executive stylist at Ford Motor Company and creator of the Ford Mustang * Mansor Al-Najar, Saudi football player *Marwan G. Najjar (1947–2023), Lebane ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ammar Campa-Najjar
Ammar Campa-Najjar (born February 24, 1989) is an American politician and former official at the United States Department of Labor. Campa-Najjar has twice been a candidate for the United States House of Representatives. He lost in the 2018 election against incumbent Duncan D. Hunter. Campa-Najjar lost again in a 2020 campaign to represent California's 50th congressional district, which encompasses the northeastern segments of San Diego County, and a small section of Riverside County. Early life and education Campa-Najjar was born in La Mesa, California, and raised in Jamul and Chula Vista, California. His father, Yasser Najjar, is Palestinian, and his mother, Abigail Campa, is Mexican American. In 1997, when he was eight years old, he and his family moved to the Gaza Strip. In 1998, he attended a Catholic school in the Gaza Strip. After living in Gaza for four years, he, his mother, and brother moved back to San Diego County. He said he was not "Arab enough in Gaza, Latino eno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rouzan Al-Najjar
Rouzan Ashraf Abdul Qadir al-Najjar ( ''Rouzān 'Ashrāf 'Abd al-Qādir an-Najjār''; 13 September 1997 – 1 June 2018) was a Palestinian nurse/paramedic who was killed by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) while volunteering as a medic during the 2018 Gaza border protests. She was fatally hit by a bullet shot by an Israeli soldier as she tried to help evacuate the wounded near Israel's border fence with Gaza. The IDF first denied that she was targeted, while not ruling out that she may have been hit by indirect fire. Israeli human rights group B'Tselem said that al-Najjar was shot intentionally. The eldest of six children born to Ashraf al-Najjar, she was a resident of Khuzaa, a village near the border with Israel. The IDF released footage in which she purportedly admitted to participating in the protests as a human shield at the request of Hamas. The video was later found to be a clip from an interview with a Lebanese television station that had been edited by the IDF to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar
Mostafa Mohammad Najjar ( fa, مصطفى محمدنجّار, born 2 December 1956) is an Iranian politician and retired IRGC general. He was interior minister of Iran from 2009 to 2013 and minister of defense in the first cabinet of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from 2005 to 2009. He is also a veteran of the IRGC. Early life Najjar was born on 2 December 1956 in Tehran, ethnicity Azerbaijani, from Bostanabad. He graduated from K. N. Toosi University of Technology in 1977 and holds a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from Khajeh Nasir Toosi University of Technology (1984) and a master's degree in strategic management from the University of Industrial Management (2004). [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moudi Najjar
Moudi Najjar ( ar, مودي النجار; born 20 June 2000) is a professional footballer who plays as a forward, for Rockdale Ilinden in the National Premier Leagues NSW. Born in Australia, Najjar was called up to the Syria national team in 2023. Club career Western Sydney Wanderers At the age of 17, Najjar played his first game in his youth starting career. Najjar came on for Mohamed Adam while scoring his first goal for Western Sydney Wanderers Youth in an 8–0 win over Canberra United Youth. Najjar was part of the 2017-18 Y-League championship winning Western Sydney Wanderers Youth team. He replaced Fabian Monge in the 71st minute as they beat Melbourne City Youth 3–1 in the 2018 Y-League Grand Final on 3 February 2018. Melbourne City On 1 July 2017, Najjar signed a two-year scholarship contract with Melbourne City. He made his professional debut as a second-half substitute in a Round 15 clash with his former club Western Sydney Wanderers, City running out 4–3 w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ibrahim Najjar
Ibrahim Najjar is a lawyer, a professor of law, a Lebanese politician and a former Justice minister (2008–2011). Early life and education Najjar was born the 2nd September 1941 in Tripoli, North Lebanon, and is an adherent of the Greek Orthodox Church. After high school at St. Joseph's College Antoura and the French Lycée in Beirut, he studied at the Université Saint-Joseph in Beirut and in France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac .... Ibrahim Najjar is the author of a thesis (1966) on the "potestative rights" in French law, and of two major law books on Family laws (Successions, wills and gifts) in Lebanon, together with a law Dictionary (French Arabic and Arabic French). In 2016 Ibrahim Najjar published three law books on French private law and Lebanese law stud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Najjar
John Najjar ( ar, جون نجار; – ) was an American designer and executive stylist at Ford Motor Company. He is credited for having co-designed the first prototype of the Ford Mustang known as Ford Mustang I with Philip T. Clark. Career Najjar was born to a Greek Orthodox Christian Lebanese family in Omaha, Nebraska. He joined Ford Motor Company's Apprentice School in Dearborn, Michigan. While working there as a machinist, he was approached by Henry Ford during a plant tour who asked him if he enjoyed his work. Najjar's response that he'd "rather be drawing cars" led to an invitation for him to add his talents to Ford's newly created Design Center. He continued working as a designer for Ford for over 40 years. He worked with E. T. Gregorie, George Walker, Elwood Engel, Gene Bordinat, and Lee Iacocca. For many years his work was centered on futuristic show cars whose revolutionary features later appeared in many Ford, Lincoln and Mercury vehicles. The Advanced Styling St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ammar Al-Najar
Ammar Al-Najjar (; born 24 February 1997) is a Saudi Arabian footballer who plays for Pro League side Al-Hazem. Career Al-Najjar started his career at the youth teams of Al-Ittihad. He made his debut on 11 February 2017 in the league match against Al-Taawoun. On 10 March 2017, Al-Najjar started the Crown Prince Cup final against Al-Nassr as Al-Ittihad won the match 1–0 to win their eighth title. He scored his first goal for the club on 14 April 2017 against Al-Qadsiah. On 5 May 2017, Al-Najjar was called for the national team training camp that took place in Riyadh and lasted a week. On 12 May 2018, Al-Najjar came off the bench in the 79th minute in the King Cup final against Al-Faisaly. Al-Ittihad won the match 2–1 to win their ninth King Cup title. On 18 January 2019, Al-Najjar joined Al-Fateh on loan until the end of the season. On 13 July 2019, Al-Najjar joined Abha on a free transfer after he was released by Al-Ittihad. He made his debut in the 4–2 away loss agai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fouad Najjar
Fouad Najjar (1930–1992) was a Lebanese agronomist and politician who served as minister of agriculture in 1958 and in 1964. He was also minister of agriculture and PTT between 1959 and 1960. Early life and education Najjar was born in Abadiyeh, Lebanon, in December 1909. He hailed from a Druze family. His parents were Amine and Adla Najjar. Najjar was a graduate of the University College of Aley and French Lycée of Beirut. Then he graduated from the Higher National School of Agronomy in Montpellier, France, and received a Ph.D. in agronomy in 1932. Career and activities Following his graduation Najjar established an agricultural company and cofounded with his uncle an agricultural cooperation in Abadiyeh in 1937. He worked as a lecturer at the American University of Beirut The American University of Beirut (AUB) ( ar, الجامعة الأميركية في بيروت) is a private, non-sectarian, and independent university chartered in New York with its campus in Bei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Najwa Najjar
Najwa Najjar ( ar, نجوى نجار) is a film writer and director. She was born to a Jordan, Jordanian father and Palestinian mother. She began her career making commercials and has worked in both documentary and fiction since 1999. Her debut feature film ''Pomegranates and Myrrh'' won 10 awards, and was released theatrically and screened at over 80 international festivals. When the film was first screened in Ramallah, there was public outcry by the Hamas Government in Gaza Strip, Gaza over the film's portrayal of "what was deemed its 'unpatriotic' portrayal of an untrustworthy wife of a political prisoner." At the Doha Tribeca Film Festival, the film won the Best Arab Film award. The 1999 documentary film ''Naim and Wadee’a'' was based on Najjar's family and includes the oral histories of Na’im Azar and Wadee’a Aghabi, a couple who were forced to leave their Jaffa home in 1948. The film won the Award for Films of Conflict and Resolution at the 2000 Hamptons International ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Assad Najjar
Victor Assad Najjar (1914-2002) was a Lebanon, Lebanese-born United States, American pediatrician and microbiologist at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Vanderbilt University and Tufts University. Along with John Fielding Crigler, Najjar is known for Crigler–Najjar syndrome. Life He was born on 15 April 1914 in Beirut. He studied medicine at the American University in Beirut, graduating in 1935. Three years later he came to the United States and trained in pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, then held a faculty appointment at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine from 1949 to 1957. For the next ten years he was professor and chairman of the department of microbiology at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1968 he became professor of molecular biology at the Massachusetts Division of the American Cancer Society, and chief of the division of protein chemistry at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, Massachusetts. He was American Cancer So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aida Najjar
Aida Najjar ( ar, عايدة النجار) (12 December 1938 – 5 February 2020) was a Palestinian- Jordanian writer and researcher. Life Najjar was born in Lifta on 12 December 1938. She obtained her bachelor from Cairo University in 1960, the master from the University of Kansas in 1965 and PhD from Syracuse University in 1975. The title of her PhD thesis is ''The Arabic Press and Nationalism in Palestine, 1920-1948''. She worked at United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and FAO. Najjar wrote several literary and non-literary books. The most prominent of these books are "Al-Quds and the Shalabiyya girl" and "History of the Palestinian Press". Death On 5 February 2020, Najjar died in Amman Amman (; ar, عَمَّان, ' ; Ammonite language, Ammonite: 𐤓𐤁𐤕 𐤏𐤌𐤍 ''Rabat ʻAmān'') is the capital and largest city of Jordan, and the country's economic, political, and cultural center. With a population of 4,061,150 a ..., Jordan. References Exter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muhammad Youssef Al-Najjar
Muhammad Youssef Al-Najjar ( ar, محمد يوسف النجار; 11 June 1930 – 10 April 1973), commonly known as Abu Youssef, was a Palestinian militant who was assassinated by Israel over alleged involvement in the 1972 Munich massacre. Life Originally from Yibna, he was forced to leave his home village in 1948 by the Israeli forces when he settled with his family in the Rafah Camp, Gaza Strip. He worked as a teacher until 1954 when he went to Egypt to study law at Cairo University. He was qualified from Egypt as a lawyer. When the Fatah organization formed in the late 1950s, Youssef was an early activist, traveling to Qatar to form similar groups, and taking command of Fatah's military wing. In 1968, Youssef was appointed to the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). He also was a member of the Palestinian National Congress, and the Palestinian parliament in exile. Two months before his death, Youssef was interviewed by the Beirut newspaper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
