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Sabra (name)
Sabra is both a given name and surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name * Sabrah ibn Ma'bad (fl. c. 600 CE), Arabian religious leader * Sabra Loomis (born 1938), Irish-American poet *Sabra Moore (born 1943), American artist * Sabra Johnson (born 1987), American dancer * Sabra Wilbur Vought (1877–1942), American librarian * Sabra Williams (born c. 1970), British actor Surname * A. I. Sabra (1924–2013), Egyptian historian of science * Abba Sabra (fl. c. 1450), Ethiopian religious leader * Adam Sabra (born 1968), American professor of Islamic studies * George Sabra (born 1947), Syrian politician * Khalilah Sabra (born 1967), American author and activist * Maher Sabra (born 1992), Lebanese footballer * Wadia Sabra Wadia (Wadih) Sabra ( ar, وديع صبرا ; 23 February 1876 – 11 April 1952) was a Lebanese composer and founder of the Conservatoire Libanais. Life Wadia (Wadih) Sabra was born in 1876 in the village of Ain el Jdideh and died in Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sabrah Ibn Ma'bad
Abu Suraiya Saburah ibn Ma'bad ibn 'Ausaja al-Juhani, or Sabrah ibn Ma'bad al-Juhani (Arabic: سبرة بن معبد) was one of the companions of Muhammad. Other transliterations of his name include Abu Rabi' al-Madani and Sabura al-Juhanni. Biography Family He was from the Juhinah tribe located around the city of Medina, Saudi Arabia. The Juhainah tribe still inhabits the area around the city of Medina today. He had a son named Rabi ibn Sabra.Tahdhib al-Tahdhib Life He lived in Medina Medina,, ', "the radiant city"; or , ', (), "the city" officially Al Madinah Al Munawwarah (, , Turkish: Medine-i Münevvere) and also commonly simplified as Madīnah or Madinah (, ), is the second-holiest city in Islam, and the capital of the ..., participated in the Battle of the Trench, and died during the rule of Muawiya I. Narrations He is the source for the hadith of Sabra reporting on the prohibition of Mut'ah. References Sahabah hadith narrators 7th-century deaths Year of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sabra Loomis
Sabra Loomis (born 1938) is an Irish-American poet. Her most recent poetry collection is ''House Held Together by Winds'' (Harper Perennial, 2008), winner of the 2007 National Poetry Series. Her honors include Yaddo and MacDowell Colony fellowships. Her poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including ''American Poetry Review, American Voice, Cincinnati Poetry Review, Cyphers, Florida Review'', ''Heliotrope, Lumina, Negative Capability, Poetry Ireland Review, Salamander, Salt Hill Journal,'' and ''St. Ann's Review''. She is the daughter of Alfred Loomis of Tuxedo Park, New York. She graduated from New York University. She teaches at the University of Massachusetts Boston, and was on the faculty of the Poets' House, Donegal. She divides her time between New York City, and Achill Island, Ireland. Honors and awards * 2007 National Poetry Series The National Poetry Series is an American literary awards program. Every year since 1979, the National Poetry Series has sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sabra Moore
Sabra Moore (born January 25, 1943) is an American artist, writer, and activist. Her artwork is based on re-interpreting family, social, and natural history through the form of artist's books, sewn and constructed sculptures and paintings, and installations. She was a member of the Heresies Collective, the Women's Caucus for Art, and was a collaborator of the art collective RepoHistory. Moore is known for her large-scale, collaborative exhibitions of women's artwork including ''Views by Women Artists'' (1982), and the collaborative shows ''Reconstruction Project'' (1984) and ''Connections Project/Conexus'' (1987). She has exhibited her artwork widely since 1969 including 18 solo exhibitions and over 130 group exhibitions. She has authored two books, ''Petroglyphs: Ancient Language/Sacred Art'' (Clear Light Publishers 1997) and ''Openings: A Memoir from the Women's Art Movement, New York City 1970-1992'' (New Village Press 2016). Moore also worked for thirty years as a freelance p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sabra Johnson
Sabra Elise Johnson (born July 29, 1987) is an American dancer, choreographer, and actress from Roy, Utah and the Season 3 Champion of the Fox reality television show ''So You Think You Can Dance''. She was born in the Netherlands, lived nine years in Germany, and after that, nine years in Utah. She continued to Las Vegas and, deciding to pursue a career in dance, moved to New York City. From there passion has carried her across the world and she now lives in Vietnam dancing, choreographing, and directing. Early career Johnson started formal dance training at the age of 16 at Dance Impressions in Bountiful, Utah, under the direction of mother-daughter team Kandee Allen and Vivian Colobella. She then moved down to Las Vegas, NV and trained at The Dance Zone, under the direction of other Colobella daughter Kaydee Francis and partner Jami Artiga. Before training in dance, Johnson had a previous background in gymnastics. Her dance training consists of jazz, ballet, contemporary, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sabra Wilbur Vought
Sabra Wilbur Vought (May 23, 1877 – March 2, 1942) was an American academic librarian and federal official. Beginning in 1937, she was librarian for the Department of the Interior, covering library services for the Office of Education as well as the Bureau of Mines, the Office of Indian Affairs, and the National Park Service. Early life and education Vought as born in Towanda, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Frank M. Vought and Adella (or Almeda) M. Wilbur Vought. She was raised in Jamestown, New York, and graduated from Allegheny College in 1899. She trained as a librarian at the New York State Library School, earning a second bachelor's degree in 1901, in library science. Career Vought was an academic and government librarian, with positions at the University of Tennessee (1901 to 1910), the Ohio Library Commission, Allegheny College, the State University of New York (1919-1924), and Pennsylvania State University (1924 to 1930). In 1904 and 1905, she taught at the Summer Sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sabra Williams
Sabra Williams, BEM is a British actress and presenter. Family Williams was born in London to parents of British, Russian, Romanian, Guyanese and Carib descent. Early career Williams started performing at the age of three and became a professional dancer and actress. She starred in several British films, including 'Steffi' in ''Thin Ice'' with Ian McKellen and James Dreyfuss, and was a regular face in many British television series including an appearance as Lise Yates in episode "Thanks for the Memory" of the sci-fi comedy, ''Red Dwarf''. Presenter Williams was cast at a very young age as a lead presenter/actress in the top rated live TV show, ''Ghost Train' After numerous shows and engagements, including the position of Moderator for BAFTA, WGA and SAG, Williams most recently hosted '' On The Bench'' on Setanta Sports. Los Angeles Williams has been a member of the Actors' Gang (Artistic Dir.Tim Robbins), leading in several shows including Molière's ''Tartuffe'' and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abba Sabra
Abba Sabra (fl. c. 1450) was an Ethiopian Orthodox monk, and the teacher of the children of Emperor Zara Yaqob of Ethiopia. Abba Sabra tried to convert the Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jews), but was instead converted by them to Judaism. He is best known for introducing monasticism to Beta Israel, and the tradition of Jewish monks continued down the centuries until the Great Famine of the 1890s decimated their monasteries in Lay Armachiho.Richard Pankhurst, "The Falashas, or Judaic Ethiopians, in Their Christian Ethiopian Setting", ''African Affairs'', Vol. 91 (October 1992), pp. 567-582 He then later converted the son of King Zara Yaqob, Saga-Amlak, who adopted the religious name Abba Saga Abba Saga was the son of the Ethiopian emperor Zara Yaqob, and a monk of Ethiopian Christianity. His teacher was Abba Sabra, a monk of Ethiopian Christianity. He rebelled against his father after his conversion to Judaism and took refuge in Hoharwa .... Later Abba Sabra and Abba Saga established a s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Sabra
Adam Sabra is Professor of History and King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud Chair in Islamic Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Early life Sabra received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1998. Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara. Retrieved 28 November 2015. Career Adam Sabra is professor and King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud Chair in Islamic Studies at the University of California.Selected publications *''Poverty and Charity in Medieval Islam: Mamluk Egypt, 1250-1517''. Cambridge: , 2000 (paperback edition) *With Roxani Eleni Margariti and Petra M. Sijpesteijn (eds.), ''Histories of the Middle E ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Sabra
George Sabra ( ar, جورج صبرة, born 11 July 1947) is a member of the Syrian Democratic People's Party. He was elected president of the Syrian National Council, the main opposition group in Syria, on 9 November 2012 and later was acting president of the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces from 22 April – 6 July 2013. He resigned from the National Coalition on 25 April 2018. Sabra is a Christian. Early life and education Sabra was born to a Christian family in the city of Qatana in Rif Dimashq Governorate on 11 July 1947. He graduated with a geography degree from Damascus University in 1971 and a degree in educational technology systems from Indiana University in 1978. He since became a geography teacher, as well as a screenwriter. He is one of the writers for the Arabic version, '' Iftah Ya Simsim'', of the children's show ''Sesame Street''. Political career Sabra has been politically active in the Syrian opposition movement since the 1970s. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khalilah Sabra
Khalilah Sabra ( is an American advocate and author best known for her work with refugees in the Middle East and literary contributions to the Joe L. Kincheloe and Shirley R. Steinberg Shirley R. Steinberg is an educator, author, activist, filmmaker, and public speaker whose work focuses on critical pedagogy, transformative leadership, social justice, and cultural studies. She has written and edited numerous books and article ... series ''Transgression: Cultural Studies and Education''. Born in U.S territory in Micronesia, in the Western Pacific, to a military family, Sabra began her working life as a high school student as a political intern after her participation was urged by one of her closest childhood friends, Lynn Dymally, the daughter of State Senator Mervyn Dymally, who became her mentor, as he ascended to the Office of the Lieutenant Governor and United States Congressman. Sabra grew up in Westwood, a district in western Los Angeles, California. She attended Saint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maher Sabra
Maher Mohammed Sabra ( ar, ماهر محمد صبرا; born 14 January 1992) is a Lebanese footballer who plays as a defender for club Nejmeh and the Lebanon national team. International career Sabra scored his first international goal for Lebanon on 1 February 2022, helping his side draw 1–1 against Iraq in the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers. Personal life In addition to being a footballer, Sabra worked eight hours a day as an air conditioner repairman in 2020. In 2022, he opened a clothing store. Sabra has a son named Fadel (b. 2022). Sabra was involved in the sports docuseries ''Captains'', procuded by Fulwell 73 and shown on Netflix and FIFA+ in 2022, which documented six national teams and their captains in their respective 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification campaign. Career statistics International :''Scores and results list Lebanon's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Sabra goal''. Honours Nejmeh * Lebanese FA Cup: 2021–22; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wadia Sabra
Wadia (Wadih) Sabra ( ar, وديع صبرا ; 23 February 1876 – 11 April 1952) was a Lebanese composer and founder of the Conservatoire Libanais. Life Wadia (Wadih) Sabra was born in 1876 in the village of Ain el Jdideh and died in Beirut in 1952. He married Adèle Misk in 1921 and had no children. He was buried in the Evangelical Cemetery in Sodeco Beirut. As a composer, his music is characterized as a blend of Western and Eastern musical languages, incorporating the strengths and charms of both traditions. He is best known today as the composer of the Lebanese National Anthem, popularly known as ''Kulluna lil Watan'' (words by Rashid Nakhle), which was officially adopted by the Lebanese Government through a presidential decree on 12 July 1927. He is considered the founding father of classical music in Lebanon. After studying at the American University of Beirut, he left for Paris in 1892, with a scholarship from the French Embassy to study at the Conservatoire de Pari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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