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Nazaryan
Nazarian or Nazaryan ( hy, Նազարյան) is an Armenian surname, and its meaning can be roughly translated into "son of Nazar." It can refer to the following people: Nazarian * Angella Nazarian, Iranian-born author * Bruce Nazarian, an American musician * David Nazarian, Iranian-born businessman * Eric Nazarian, an Armenian-American film director * Izak Parviz Nazarian, Iranian-born American billionaire and entrepreneur * John James Nazarian, an American private investigator * Sam Nazarian, an Iranian born American entrepreneur * Santiago Nazarian, a Brazilian writer * Sharon Nazarian, Iranian-born Senior Vice President of International Affairs for the Anti-Defamation League * Stepanos Nazarian, an Armenian publisher, historian of literature and orientalist * Vera Nazarian, a Russian-born American writer of Armenian ancestry * Younes Nazarian, Iranian born American entrepreneur Nazaryan * Armen Nazaryan, an Armenian Greco-Roman wrestler * Armen Nazaryan (judoka), an Armeni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armen Nazaryan
Armen Nazaryan ( hy, Արմեն Նազարյան, bg, Армен Назарян, born 9 March 1974) is an Armenian Greco-Roman wrestler who later represented Bulgaria. Nazaryan is a two-time Olympic Champion (1996, 2000), a three-time World Champion (2002, 2003, 2005), and a six-time European Champion (1994, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2003). After Armenia regained independence in 1991, Nazaryan became the first Olympic gold medalist for the country. He was recognized by the FILA as the best wrestler of the year in 1998 and 2003. In 2007, Nazaryan was inducted as a member of the FILA Hall of Fame. Early life Nazaryan was born on 9 March 1974 in Masis, Armenia. He started wrestling at the age of eight under the coaching of Robert Nersesyan and entered the Yerevan Sports School in 1987. Career In 1993, Nazaryan became an Espoir World Wrestling Champion and won a silver medal at the senior 1993 World Wrestling Championships. This marked the debut of Armenia in the World Wrestling C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armen Nazaryan (judoka)
Armen Nazaryan ( hy, Արմեն Նազարյան, born June 20, 1982, in Hrazdan, Armenian SSR) is an Armenian judoka. Nazaryan was awarded the Master of Sport of Armenia, International Class title in 2005. Biography Armen Nazaryan started judo in 1990 in the Sports School of Hrazdan. Nazaryan was first interested in boxing, but moved to judo in 1993. Since 1995, he has been trained by Karen Abagyan. In 2003, he became the Youth European Champion and won a bronze medal at the adult 2003 European Judo Championships. He won a bronze medal again at the 2004 European Judo Championships the following year and competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Nazaryan won a gold medal at the 2005 European Judo Championships in Rotterdam in the weight category of 60 kg. He won all five fights and defeated the current European Champion Ludwig Paischer of Austria in the final. With this success, Nazaryan went down in history as the first European Champion in the history of Armenian j ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rafael Nazaryan
Rafael Nazaryan ( hy, Ռաֆայել Նազարյան, born on 26 March 1975 in Yerevan, Soviet Union) is a retired Armenian football midfielder and a current manager. He was a member of the Armenia national team and participated in 23 international matches, scoring 1 goal sin an away 1998 World Cup qualification match against Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of ... on 20 August 1997. ''Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation'' In February 2011 Rafael was appointed as a head coach of the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angella Nazarian
Angella Nazarian is an Iranian-born American former academic, non-fiction author, conference organizer and philanthropist. Early life Angella Nazarian was born as Angella Maddahi in Tehran, Iran in the late 1960s, to a Jewish family.JIMENA-Voice of Forgotten RefugeesVoice of Angella Nazarian- From Revolutionary Tehran to Beverly Hills in One Lifetime ''The Jerusalem Post'', 06/10/2013Michele DarganAuthor Angella Nazarian explains concealing both Jewish, Iranian heritage, ''Palm Beach Daily News'', October 21, 2010 Her father was a bazaar trader from Rasht. Her family name was originally Yacobzadeh; he changed it to Maddahi to obviate anti-Semitic discrimination. Moreover, they did not tell other people they were Jewish. She has a sister and three brothers. She was educated at Ettefagh, a Jewish school in Tehran. During the Iranian Revolution of 1979, she immigrated to the United States with her family, settling in Beverly Hills, California, where her uncle and brothers lived. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stepanos Nazarian
Stepanos Nazarian (, , , in Tiflis – , in Moscow) was an Armenian-Russian publisher, enlightener, historian of literature and orientalist. Biography He was born in the family of a priest. Graduated from the department of philosophy in the University of Tartu in 1840. In 1849 he became a professor of Persian and Arab literature in Moscow in the Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages. He published a number of scholarly works and earned his doctoral dissertation on a work analyzing Ferdowsi's Shahnameh. Under the influence of the European enlightenment movement and the Russian social movement of the 1840s, Nazarian increasingly began writing against the feudal system and its ideology. In the 1850s he became the leader of the Armenian enlightenment movement. Between 1858 and 1864 he published in Moscow the influential magazine ''Hyusisapayl'' (Aurora Borealis), that had a great effect on the development of progressive public thought in Armenia. He criticized serfdom Ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hrand Nazariantz
Hrand Nazariantz (Հրանտ Նազարեանց, January 8, 1886 – January 25, 1962) was an Ottoman Armenian poet and translator who lived most of his life in Italy. Biography Born in the Üsküdar district of Constantinople on January 8, 1880, he was the son of Diran Nazariantz, a businessman and member of the Armenian National Assembly from the district of Kumkapı, and Azniv Merametdjian. He attended the Berberian College from 1898, but he was expelled because of a relationship with another future writer, Mannig Berberian, daughter of Reteos Berberian, founder and owner of the college, and for asking her to marry him. In 1902 he went to London to complete high school, and was hosted "by an ancient family of the English aristocracy." In the same year he completed the first draft of his collection ''Crucified Dreams''. In 1905 he matriculated at the Sorbonne in Paris and joined the Armenian liberation movement. In 1907 he went back to the Ottoman Empire because of his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Younes Nazarian
Younes Nazarian (January 26, 1931 March 18, 2022) was a Jewish Iranian-American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. An early investor in Qualcomm, he was the Chairman of Nazarian Enterprises. He was also a major donor to charitable causes in California and Israel. Early life Younes Nazarian was born in Iran on January 26, 1931, the son of Golbahar and Davoud Nazarian.Briefs: Scholarships memorialize fallen Israeli troops, Prizant and Federation settle suit, Teriton residents block evictions ''The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles'', August 9, 2007 His father died when he was three years old. After losing his fortune amassed as a co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vera Nazarian
Vera Nazarian (born 1966 in Moscow, Soviet Union) is an Armenian-Russian (by ethnicity) American writer of fantasy, science fiction and other "wonder fiction" including Mythpunk, an artist, and the publisher of Norilana Books. She is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) and the author of ten novels, including '' Dreams of the Compass Rose'', a "collage" novel structured as a series of related and interlinked stories similar in arabesque flavor to '' The One Thousand and One Nights'', '' Lords of Rainbow'', a standalone epic fantasy about a world without color, the ''Cobweb Bride'' trilogy, and '' The Atlantis Grail'' books. Crowdfunding controversy In 2014 controversy erupted when she started an Indiegogo campaign to try to raise money for her authors; although the campaign was canceled after three days. As a result of "personal misfortunes", she had stopped paying royalties to the authors publishing books with Norilana Books, and hoped to raise e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anti-Defamation League
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), formerly known as the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, is an international Jewish non-governmental organization based in the United States specializing in civil rights law. It was founded in late September 1913 by the Independent Order of B'nai B'rith, a Jewish service organization, in the wake of the contentious murder conviction of Leo Frank. ADL subsequently split from B'nai B'rith and continued as an independent US section 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Jonathan Greenblatt, a former Silicon Valley tech executive and former Obama administration official, succeeded Abraham Foxman as national director in July 2015. Foxman had served in the role since 1987. ADL headquarters are located in Murray Hill, in the New York City borough of Manhattan. The ADL has 25 regional offices in the United States including a Government Relations Office in Washington, DC, as well as an office in Israel and staff in Europe. In its 2019 annual information Form 99 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Nazarian
Bruce Nazarian (March 27, 1949 – October 8, 2015) was an American funk and rock musician, recording artist and music producer from Detroit, Michigan. Nazarian was an Apple Certified Trainer and Certified Pro on various professional applications, including DVD Studio Pro and Logic Pro. He authored several books on music and technology and served as President of Digital Media Consulting Group, Inc. as well as TDG Foundation, Inc., his non-profit charitable foundation. Nazarian was also President of the International Digital Media Alliance (IDMA), formerly known as the DVD Association (DVDA). Biography and early music influences Bruce Nazarian began his musical career as a singer at the age of four, performing regularly on local television (WXYZ-TV) and in USO musical variety shows in his hometown of Detroit. During his grade school years, he studied piano and vocals, and at age 13 took up tenor saxophone and played in the Mackenzie High School band under director Craig Strain. L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sharon Nazarian
Dr. Sharon Nazarian is an Iranian-born American social activist, academic and philanthropist. She is currently the Senior Vice President, International Affairs for the Anti-Defamation League. Early life Dr. Sharon Nazarian was born in Tehran, Iran. Her father, Younes Nazarian, was a businessman, philanthropist, and an early investor in the satellite technology company Qualcomm. Her mother, Soraya Nazarian, is a sculptor. She has two brothers, Sam Nazarian, David Nazarian, and a sister, Shulamit Nazarian. During the Iranian Revolution of 1979, she immigrated to the United States, settling in Beverly Hills, California with her parents and siblings. She graduated from the University of Southern California (USC), where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism and International Relations. She then received a master's degree and a PhD in political science from USC. Career In 2017, Dr. Nazarian joined the executive team of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) as Senior Vice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santiago Nazarian
Santiago Nazarian (São Paulo, 1977) is a Brazilian writer. He studied literature and graduated in Social Communications in São Paulo, Brazil. In 2007, he was selected by the Hay Festival The Hay Festival of Literature & Arts, better known as the Hay Festival ( cy, Gŵyl Y Gelli), is an annual literature festival held in Hay-on-Wye, Powys, Wales, for 10 days from May to June. Devised by Norman, Rhoda and Peter Florence in 1988, ... as one of the 39 highest profile Latin American writers under the age of 39. His literary project is labeled as "bizarre existentialism", mixing classic literary references with horror, pop and trash culture. Books published * ''Olívio'' (Talento, Brazil 2003, Prêmio Fundação Conrado Wessel de Literatura) * ''A Morte Sem Nome'' (Planeta, Brazil 2004; Palavra, Portugal 2005) * ''Feriado de Mim Mesmo'' (Planeta, Brazil, 2005) * ''Mastigando Humanos'' (Nova Fronteira, Brazil, 2006; Editora Record, Brazil; Ediciones Ambulantes, Spain; La Linea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
