Omar Abdul Rahman (other)
Omar Abdul Rahman may refer to: *Omar Abdel-Rahman (1938–2017), Egyptian leader of militant group, Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya *Omar Abdul Rahman (academic) (born 1932), Malaysian academician *Omar Abdulrahman Omar Abdulrahman Ahmed Al Raqi Al Amoudi ( ar, عمر عبد الرحمن أحمد الراقي العمودي; born 20 September 1991) is an Emirati professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Emirati club Al Wasl F.C. and ...

Omar Abdel-Rahman
Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman ( ar, عمر عبد الرحمن), (ʾUmar ʾAbd ar-Raḥmān; 3 May 1938 – 18 February 2017), commonly known in the United States as "The Blind Sheikh", was a blind Egyptians, Egyptian Islamist militant who served a Life imprisonment, life sentence at the Federal Medical Center, Butner near Butner, North Carolina, United States. Formerly a resident of New York City, Abdel-Rahman and nine others were convicted of seditious conspiracy in 1995. His prosecution grew out of investigations of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Abdel-Rahman was the leader of Al-Jama'a al-Islamiyya (also known as "The Islamic Group"), a Islamism, militant Islamist movement in Egypt that is considered a terrorism, terrorist organization by the United States and Egyptian governments. The group was responsible for many acts of violence, including the November 1997 Luxor massacre, in which 58 foreign tourists and four Egyptians were killed. Youth Abdel-Rahman was born in the ...
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Omar Abdul Rahman (academic)
Omar bin Abdul Rahman P.S.M., J.M.N., J.S.M. (born 1932) is a Malaysian academician and corporate figure. Omar is currently the President and Chief Executive Officer of the MUST Ehsan Foundation, a non profit foundation that currently manages and administers the Malaysia University of Science and Technology (MUST). Career Early academic career Omar graduated from the University of Sydney in 1958 with a degree in Veterinary Science and later earned a Ph.D from University of Cambridge in 1966. He started his professional career in 1960 in veterinary research, then in 1972 moved on to academic life at Universiti Pertanian Malaysia (UPM), now Universiti Putra Malaysia where he was the Founding Dean of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Sciences and the first professor appointed by the university. Omar played major roles in the establishment phase of the university and in the founding of several faculties and academic programmes. His last position at UPM was as Deputy V ...
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