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Reza (name)
Reza is a Persian name, originating from the Arabic word , ''Riḍā'', which literally means "the fact of being pleased or contented; contentment, approval". In religious context, this name is interpreted as ''satisfaction'' or "''perfect contentment'' with God's will or decree". The name is neutral and not one used only by a particular sect, and is used widely by Iranians, Arab Christians and Arab Druze. According to Annemarie Schimmel, "riḍā is closely related to shukr"; "shukr" is an Arabic term denoting thankfulness and gratitude. Given name Religion * Ali al-Ridha, Eighth Shia Ithna Ashari Imam. * Ala Hazrat Imam Ahmed Raza Khan Academics * Reza Afshari, Iranian historian * Reza Davari Ardakani, Iranian philosopher * Reza Ghadiri, Iranian-American chemist * Reza Iravani, Iranian academic * Rida Khawaldeh, Jordanian academic * Reza Malekzadeh, Iranian physician * Reza Mansouri, Iranian physicist * Reza Olfati-Saber, Iranian roboticist * Rida Said, Syrian physician * Rı ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reda (given Name)
Reda is a unisex given name. Notable people with the name are as follows: First name Male * Reda Aadel (born 1990), Moroccan cyclist * Reda Abdel Aal (born 1965), Egyptian football player and coach * Réda Abdenouz (born 1968), Algerian athlete * Reda Acimi (born 1969), Algerian football player * Reda Agourram (born 1990), Moroccan born-Canadian football player * Reda El Amrani (born 1988), Moroccan tennis player * Reda El Azab (born 1986), Egyptian football player * Réda Babouche (born 1979), Algerian football player * Reda El-Batoty (born 1963), Egyptian weightlifter * Reda Bellahcene (born 1993), French football player * Reda Benbaziz (born 1993), Algerian boxer * Reda Benchehima (born 1978), Algerian fence * Réda Benzine (born 1971), Algerian athlete * Reda Boultam (born 1998), Dutch football player * Reda Benhadj Djillali (born 1978), Algerian football player * Reda Doumaz (born 1956), Algerian musical artist * Reda Ereyahi (born 1972), Moroccan football player * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reza Afshari
Reza Afshari is professor of history at Pace University. He received his Ph.D. at Temple University. His studies center on human rights in Iran, Islamic politics, and Islamic cultural relativism in particular. Representative Publications * “On Historiography of Human Rights Discourse,” Human Rights Quarterly, 29 (February 2007) 1-67. * “Discourse and Practice of Human Rights Violations of Iranians of the Baha’i Faith in the Islamic Republic of Iran,” a chapter in a book, edited by Dominic Brookshaw of McGill University, Routledge, London, 2007. * Human Rights in Iran: the Abuse of Cultural Relativism, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. Hardcover, pp. 359 Professional affiliations Middle East Studies Association of America, Committee for Academic Freedom in the Middle East and North Africa External links Homepagewith Pace University University of Pennsylvania Press The University of Pennsylvania Press (or Penn Press) is a university press affiliated with the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reza Zadeh
Reza Zadeh is an American-Canadian-Iranian computer scientist and technology executive working on machine learning. He is adjunct professor at Stanford University and CEO of Matroid. He has served on the technical advisory boards of Databricks and Microsoft. His work focuses on machine learning, distributed computing, and discrete applied mathematics. In Industry, to evaluate new ventures formed at the University of Toronto, Reza serves as a chief scientist of Machine Learning at the Rotman School of Management. His awards include a KDD Best Paper Award and the Gene Golub Outstanding Thesis Award at Stanford. Work Computer Vision The Princeton University ModelNet challenge is an object recognition competition to classify 3D Computer-aided design models into object categories. In 2016, Matroid was a leader in this competition and the relevant neural networks were integrated into the Matroid product. In a collaboration with his own doctor at Stanford hospital, Reza's researc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reza Negarestani
Reza Negarestani (born 1977) is an Iranian philosopher and writer, known for "pioneering the genre of 'theory-fiction' with his book" ''Cyclonopedia'' which was published in 2008. It was listed in Artforum as one of the best books of 2009. Negarestani directs the critical philosophy programme at The New Centre for Research & Practice. Philosophical work Negarestani has been a regular contributor to ''Collapse'', as well as other print and web publications such as '' Ctheory''. On March 11, 2011, faculty from Brooklyn College and The New School organized a symposium to discuss Cyclonopedia titled Leper Creativity. Later on in the year, Punctum books published a book with the same title that included essays, articles, artworks, and documents from or related to the symposium. In 2011, he co-edited Collapse's issue VII with Robin Mackay titled "Culinary Materialism". In 2012, Negarestani collaborated with Florian Hecker on an artwork titled "Chimerization" that was included in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reza Moridi
Reza Moridi ( fa, رضا مریدی; born ) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 2007 to 2018 who represented the riding of Richmond Hill. He served as a cabinet minister in the government of Kathleen Wynne. He was the first Iranian-Canadian elected to legislature and appointed as a Cabinet minister in Canada. Background Moridi was born in Urmia, capital of West Azerbaijan Province in northwest Iran. He grew up in Urmia, attended Alborz High School in Tehran and graduated from Tehran University with BSc and MSc degrees in Physics. He continued his education in the UK and obtained MTech and PhD degrees from Brunel University in London. He received an Honorary Doctorate from Odlar Yurdu University, Baku, Azerbaijan. For his contributions to physics and engineering, Moridi was elected Fellow of the Institute of Physics and Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology of the UK. In recognition o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reza Aslan
Reza Aslan ( fa, رضا اصلان, ; born May 3, 1972) is an Iranian-American scholar of sociology of religion, writer, and television host. A convert to evangelical Christianity from Shia Islam as a youth, Aslan eventually reverted to Islam but continued to write about Christianity. He has written four books on religion: '' No God but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam'', ''Beyond Fundamentalism: Confronting Religious Extremism in the Age of Globalization'', '' Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth'', and ''God: A Human History''. Aslan has worked for television, including a documentary series exploring world religions on CNN called ''Believer'', and serving as an executive producer on the HBO drama series '' The Leftovers''. Aslan is a member of the American Academy of Religion and the International Qur'anic Studies Association. He is a professor of creative writing at University of California, Riverside and a board member of the National Iranian Ameri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rıza Tevfik Bölükbaşı
Rıza Tevfik Bey (Rıza Tevfik Bölükbaşı after the Turkish Surname Law of 1934; 1869 – 31 December 1949) was an Ottoman and later Turkish philosopher, poet, politician of liberal signature and a community leader (for some members among the Bektashi community) of the late-19th-century and early-20th-century. A polyglot, he is most remembered in Turkey for being one of the four Ottoman signatories of the disastrous Treaty of Sèvres, for which reason he was included in 1923 among the 150 of Turkey, and he spent 20 years in exile until he was given amnesty by Turkey in 1943. Early life and career Rıza Tevfik was born in 1869 in , today Svilengrad in Bulgaria, to an Albanian father originally from Dibra and Circassian mother, who died when he was young. He had a brother Besim, who would later commit suicide in Edirne. Placed in a Jewish school in Constantinople by his father, who was a prefect, Rıza Tevfik learned Spanish and French at an early age. He was remarked as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rida Said
Rida Said ( ar, رضا سعيد) (1876–1945) was a Syrian eye surgeon and businessman, who in 1922, founded the Syrian University, the first university in Syria. He trained as an eye surgeon at Hotel Dieu in Paris, France. As Minister of Education, Said played a major role in reforming the education system in Syria under the French Mandate. Said is best known as the father of Syrian University, today known as Damascus University The University of Damascus ( ar, جَامِعَةُ دِمَشْقَ, ''Jāmi‘atu Dimashq'') is the largest and oldest university in Syria, located in the capital Damascus and has campuses in other Syrian cities. It was founded in 1923 through ... that taught medicine, law and sciences in Arabic. Said was the president of the university until 1936. His son is the businessman Wafic Said. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Said, Rida 1876 births 1945 deaths People from Damascus Syrian ministers of education Syrian ophthalmologists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reza Olfati-Saber
Reza Olfati-Saber is an Iranian roboticist and Assistant Professor of Engineering at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College. Olfati-Saber is an internationally renowned expert in the control and coordination of multi-robot formations. He has also worked in mobile sensor networks, and innovative educational and outreach activities in robotics for disaster management and rescue operations. Early life and education Olfati-Saber was born in Iran. He received his B.S. degree in 1994 in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology. He received S.M. degree in 1997 and Ph.D. degree in 2001 in both Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He was a postdoctoral scholar at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) from 2001 until 2004. Awards and honors * 2010 – Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), National Science Foundation The National Science Foundatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reza Mansouri
Reza Mansouri ( fa, رضا منصوری, born 1948) is an Iranian physicist and a retired professor of physics at Sharif University of Technology. Biography Reza Mansouri received his Ph.D. in 1972 from the University of Vienna under the supervision of Roman Ulrich Sexl. He also spent five years as an Assistant Professor there. He served as Deputy Science Minister from 2001 to 2005, and is one of Iran's influential scientific policymakers. Without his efforts, Iran would not have been able to participate in international scientific collaborations such as SESAME (Middle-East Synchrotron) and the Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator at CERN in Geneva. Mansouri has a number of publications focusing on scientific development in Iran. He has received scientific honors, including the prestigious Abdus Salam prize. He is presently a visiting professor at McGill University. Mansouri has served as the president of The Physical Society of Iran. He is one of the founders of Instit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reza Malekzadeh
Reza Malekzadeh ( fa, رضا ملکزاده; born 1952 in Kazerun, Fars province, Iran) is an Iranian medical scientist and gastroenterologist. Career Malekzadeh studied medicine at Shiraz University. He continued his studies to become specialized in Internal Medicine in Shiraz University where he did as well his fellowship in gastroenterology. In 1985, he joined the department of gastroenterology at Free Royal Hospital in London. After his return to Iran, he got a faculty position at Shiraz University and later on at Tehran University of Medical Sciencesbr>where he is currently a full professor of internal medicine. He is also an Honorary Professor at University of Birmingham, UK. Reza Malekzadeh was the Minister of Health of Iran's government from 1991-1993. From 2000-2004, Malekzadeh was the secretary of the Iranian Academy of Medical Sciencesbr> and since 2005, the Academy's Vice-President for Research. He is the director of Digestive Disease Research Cente and was appoin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rida Khawaldeh
Rida Shibli Khawaldeh (born 15 July 1962) is a Jordanian academic and politician. He was Minister of Agriculture in the government of Hani Al-Mulki between 1 June 2016 and 28 September 2016, when he left the government in a cabinet reshuffle and was replaced by Khaled Hneifat. Khawaldeh was subsequently appointed to the Senate. Khawaldeh previously served as President of the University of Jordan at Aqaba. In April 2013 Khawaldeh was appointed as President of Mutah University per Royal Decree. Khawaldeh was one of three University presidents appointed in the government of Al-Mulki. Khawaldeh studied plant production at the University of Jordan and obtained a BSc and MSc there. He later obtained his PhD from the University of Illinois The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the University ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
