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Najwa may refer to: People Given name * Najwa Karam (born 1966), Lebanese actress and singer * Najwa Ghanem, wife of Osama bin Laden * Najwa Najjar, Palestinian filmmaker * Najwa Nimri (born 1972), Spanish actress * Najwa Latif (born 1995), Malaysian singer * Najwa Qassem (1967–2020), Lebanese journalist * Najwa Barakat (born 1966), Lebanese novelist * Najwa Binshatwan (born 1970), Libyan author * Najwa Kawar Farah (1923–2015), Palestinian educator Surname * Aina Najwa (born 1996), Malaysian cricketer Music * ''Najwa'' (album), a 2017 studio album by jazz trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith See also * Najwan Najwan is a given name. Notable people with the name include: * Najwan Darwish (born 1978), Arabic-language poet *Najwan Ghrayib (born 1974), Arab-Israeli footballer *Najwan Halimi Najwan Halimi (Jawi alphabet, Jawi: نجوان حليمي; bor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Najwa Karam
Najwa Karam ( ar, نجوى كرم, , born 26 February 1966) is a Lebanese singer, songwriter, producer, fashion icon, one of the best selling recording artist in the middle east with more than 60 million records worldwide. Known as the "Sun of Lebanese and Arabic Music", she has created her style which blends traditional and contemporary Arabic music and has helped spread the Lebanese dialect in Arabic music. Najwa Karam was the highest-selling Middle Eastern artist in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2009, 2011, and 2017. She is known for her Mawwal vocals and has gained an international audience due to her distinct blend of traditional Lebanese music and contemporary sounds. In 2011, Karam debuted as a judge on the reality competition television series ''Arabs Got Talent''; and has since appeared on all six of its seasons. In 2017, ''Forbes'' Middle East ranked Karam number 5 on the list of "The Top 100 Arab Celebrities" with over 26.58 million social media followers. In 2018, ''Cosmo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Najwa Ghanem
Najwa Ghanem ( ar, نجوى غانم; born c. 1960), is a Syrian woman who was the first wife and first cousin of Osama bin Laden, being the daughter of his mother's brother. She is also known as '' Um Abdallah'' (mother of Abdallah). She was born to Ibrahim and Nabeeha in Latakia, Syria, and her family was originally from Yemen. She had five siblings. Osama married Najwa in 1974 at the age of fourteen in Latakia. She travelled with Osama to Sudan and Afghanistan. According to Abu Jandal, she left Afghanistan before the September 11 attacks and did not return. According to Najwa and her son Omar bin Laden, she left Afghanistan on September 9, 2001. In 2005, Hutaifa Azzam, son of Abdullah Azzam, stated that she was living in Damascus with her son Abdel Rahman. She is the mother of 11 children, including Omar, Abdallah, Saad, Abdul Rahman, Osman, Mohammed, Fatima, Iman, Ladin, Rukhaiya and Nour. She co-authored ''Growing Up bin Laden'' with Omar. Her daughter Iman who was rel ... [...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] |
Najwa Nimri
Najwa Nimri Urrutikoetxea (; born 14 February 1972) is a Spanish actress and singer. Early life Nimri's mother is from Pamplona and her father, Karam Nimri, is Jordanian. She has a brother named Karim Nimri, a half-brother named Andre Nimri and two half-sisters named Sara and Nadia Nimri. Najwa also has a cousin who is a singer named Alexander Nimier. When she was a child she moved to Bilbao and now lives in Madrid. Career Her first major film role was in ''Salto al vacío'', the first movie by film director Daniel Calparsoro. Her career as a singer started with small groups. In 1996, she formed the band Najwajean with Carlos Jean. She has also released three solo albums. She was married to Daniel Calparsoro. Several of her film roles won her praise: as Ana in '' Lovers of the Arctic Circle'', and as Elena in '' Lucía y el sexo''. Both films were directed by Julio Medem. She starred next to Eduardo Noriega in ''Abre los ojos'', and '' El método''. She was nominated to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Najwa Latif
Imratul Najwa binti Abdul Latif (born May 23, 1995), better known by her stage name Najwa Latif, is a Malaysian singer, composer and idol. She became popular after her first song, "Cinta Muka Buku" (Facebook Love) gained popularity. Career Najwa learned how to play guitar in 2009 when she was 14 years old and afterward began writing music for songs with her sister Ika, who wrote the lyrics. In September 2010, Najwa began uploading cover songs to YouTube; the first was a cover of Justin Bieber's "Baby". In March 2011, she was signed to NAR Records and her first official single, "Cinta Muka Buku", was released in June 2011. A pre-release video of the song was uploaded to YouTube. According to Najwa, this single is very meaningful to her, as it marked her first steps into the Malaysian music industry as well as to finally fulfill her dream and ambition of becoming a singer. It was also a gift for her fans who had long-awaited her single and showed their support towards her long be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Najwa Qassem
Najwa Kassem ( ar, نجوى قاسم, romanized as ''Qasem'', ''Qassim'', and ''Kassem''; 7 July 1967 – 2 January 2020) was a Lebanese journalist and television presenter (anchor) for Al Jadeed, Future TV and Al Arabiya. Kassem has received many professional awards, and she was named by Arabian Business Magazine as one of the 100 most powerful women in the Arab world. Personal Najwa Qassem was born on 7 July 1967 in Joun, Lebanon, a few years before the Lebanese Civil War. Qassem initially aspired to study architecture but soon fell in love with media and televised broadcasting. Career She first appeared on television in 1991 on Al Jadeed (New TV Lebanon) as a program presenter, then in 1993 moved to Future TV of Beirut. In 2003 she became a part of the team for Al Arabiya. Since 2003 Qassem has been a senior anchor and correspondent of the Al Arabiya news channel. She has covered numerous wars and assassinations during her career including the assassination of Rafic Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Najwa Barakat
Najwa Barakat ( ar, نجوى بركات, b. 1966, Beirut) is a Lebanese Arab novelist, journalist and film director. Career After achieving studies in theater (Beirut Fine Arts Institute) and cinema (French cinema Institution), she moves definitely to Paris where she works as a freelance journalist in a number of Arabic newspapers and magazines, and gathered the materials for several cultural programs produced by Radio France Internationale (RFI) and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). She also prepared the first fifteen episodes of the cultural program broadcast at Aljaz, and authored several movie scripts as well as directing several documentaries. Najwa Barakat has published six novels (five in Arabic and one in French), most of which were published by Dar al-Adab in Beirut. Some of them have obtained awards and were translated into foreign languages, among which “''The bus of good people''” (1996), which received the "''Prize of the best literary creation of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Najwa Binshatwan
Najwa Bin Shatwan ( ar, نجوى بن شتوان) is a Libyan academic and novelist, the first Libyan to ever be shortlisted for the International Prize of Arabic Fiction (in 2017). She has authored four novels: Waber Al Ahssina (The Horses’ Hair); Madmum Burtuqali (Orange Content); Zareeb Al-Abeed (The Slave Yards); and Roma Termini, in addition to several collections of short stories, plays and contributions to anthologies. She was chosen as one of the thirty-nine best Arab authors under the age of forty by Hay Festival’s Beirut 39 project (2009). In 2018, she was chosen from hundreds of Arab writers for the 2018 Banipal Writing Fellowship Residency at the University of Durham and in 2020, she was chosen to co-lead a series of creative writing workshops in Sharjah (World Capital of the year book 2019) for Arab writers. Also, she was chosen as a member of jury in various literary awards/grants. Biography Najwa Binshatwan was born in Ajdabiya, Libya. She obtained a master's degr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Najwa Kawar Farah
Najwa Kawar Farah ( ar, نجوى قعوار فرح), (April 30, 1923 - August 1, 2015) was a Palestinian educator and writer. She was born Najwa Kawar in Nazareth and was educated there, later attending the Teachers' Academy in Jerusalem. She taught school in Nazareth. She married Reverend Rafiq Farah in 1950; the couple produced the magazine ''al-Ra'id'' in 1967. Farah also wrote articles for the press and for radio. She lived in Haifa until the mid-1960s, when she left the region. The family moved to Jerusalem in 1965, then to Beirut in 1977 and to London in 1986. Since 1998, they lived in Scarborough Scarborough or Scarboro may refer to: People * Scarborough (surname) * Earl of Scarbrough Places Australia * Scarborough, Western Australia, suburb of Perth * Scarborough, New South Wales, suburb of Wollongong * Scarborough, Queensland, su ... in Ontario, Canada. She died on August 1, 2015 in Toronto, Canada. Selected works * Abiru al-sabil'' (The passersby), short s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aina Najwa
Aina Najwa (born 1 August 1996) is a Malaysian cricketer. She made her Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) debut for Malaysia on 7 June 2018, in the 2018 Women's Twenty20 Asia Cup. In June 2022, she was selected in Malaysia's squad for 2022 ACC Women's T20 Championship The 2022 ACC Women's T20 Championship was a women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) cricket tournament that was held in Malaysia from 17 to 25 June 2022. The tournament was organised by the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) and the top two sides qualif .... In October 2022, she played for Malaysia in Women's Twenty20 Asia Cup. References External links * 1996 births Living people Malaysian women cricketers Malaysia women Twenty20 International cricketers Cricketers at the 2014 Asian Games Cricketers at the 2022 Asian Games Asian Games competitors for Malaysia SEA Games medalists in cricket SEA Games bronze medalists for Malaysia Competitors at the 2023 SEA Games {{Malaysia-cricket-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Najwa (album)
''Najwa'' is a studio album by American jazz trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith. The album was released on October 20, 2017 via Finnish TUM Records label. Background ''Najwa'' continues a series of Smith's dedicatory albums of varying size and breadth, embracing human and natural subjects. Four of the five tracks pay homage to composers or performers long or recently departed: Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Ronald Shannon Jackson, and Billie Holiday. The fifth and title track simply and enigmatically references "a love lost." Reception A reviewer at Dusty Groove wrote, "Wadada Leo Smith is really on fire here – on a record that feels a lot more like something from the early 80s underground than some of his earlier work – from the lineup of performers, right down to the overall sound of the set! The group's very heavy on guitars – and features work from Michael Gregory Jackson, Henry Kaiser, Brandon Ross, and Lamar Smith on the instrument – often criss-crossing and weaving these ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
