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Sarra (other)
Sarra may refer to: * Chris Sarra Chris Sarra is an Australian educationalist, and the founder & Chairman of the Stronger Smarter Institute. Sarra grew up in Bundaberg, Queensland as the youngest of ten children to parents of Italian and Aboriginal heritage, and he experienced m ... (21st century), Australian educator * Janis Sarra, Canadian lawyer * Sarra Manning (21st century), writer * Sarra, Nablus, a town in the West Bank * Ma'tan as-Sarra, an oasis in Libya See also * Sara (other) {{disambig, surname, given name, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Sarra
Chris Sarra is an Australian educationalist, and the founder & Chairman of the Stronger Smarter Institute. Sarra grew up in Bundaberg, Queensland as the youngest of ten children to parents of Italian and Aboriginal heritage, and he experienced many of the issues faced by Indigenous students throughout their schooling. In 1998, Sarra became the first Aboriginal Principal oCherbourg State Schoolin South East Queensland where his leadership improved the educational outcomes of its students. In 2005, Sarra left as principal of Cherbourg School, and in 2006, with the support of the Queensland government, he established the Indigenous Education Leadership Institute, the forerunner to the Stronger Smarter Institute. From 2008 to 2013, the Stronger Smarter Institute was part of the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) before Sarra's termination from his position in March 2013. His termination came after "statements made by Sarra last year that he was planning to leave QUT and edu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janis Sarra
Janis P. Sarra is a Canadian lawyer, currently the UBC Distinguished Professor of Law and founding Director of the Director of the National Centre for Business Law at the Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia (UBC), and also a published author. She was previously the UBC's Director of the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies The Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies was founded in 1991 and is the senior research institute at the University of British Columbia. It supports basic research through collaborative, interdisciplinary initiatives. The institute brings tog ..., the university's Senator from 2003 to 2008, and also, until 2007, the Allard School of Law's Associate Dean. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Sarra, Janis Living people Academic staff of the University of British Columbia Canadian lawyers Academic staff of the University of Toronto University of Toronto alumni Year of birth missing (living people) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarra Manning
Sarra Manning is an English writer and journalist. She attended the University of Sussex and took an English with media studies degree. She became a freelance writer after submitting her work to ''Melody Maker''. She worked as the entertainment editor for five years of the now-defunct teen magazine ''Just Seventeen''. Manning was the editor of ''Elle Girl'' (UK edition), then re-launched ''What To Wear'' magazine for the BBC and has worked on UK magazines such as ''Bliss'' and ''The Face''. She has contributed to ''Elle'', ''Seventeen'', ''The Guardian'' and ''Details'' and is a contributing editor to ''Elle UK''. She writes regularly for ''Grazia'', ''Red'' and ''Stella'', as well as consulting for a number of British magazine publishers. She has been dubbed the "teen queen extraordinaire" following the publication of her hit teen fiction book ''Guitar Girl'', and the popular ''Diary of a Crush'' trilogy. Manning is currently the literary editor of ''Red'' magazine, a UK women's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarra, Nablus
Sarra ( ar, صره) is a Palestinian town in the Nablus Governorate in northern West Bank, located 11 kilometers southwest of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the town had a population of 2,892 inhabitants in mid-year 2006. Location Sarra is located 17.8 km west of Nablus. It is bordered by Nablus and Tell to the east, Beit Wazan and Beit Iba to the north, Jit to the west, and Tell to the south. History A grave, dating from the Roman Empire era in Palestine, was found looted just outside Serra. Ottoman era In 1517, the village was included in the Ottoman empire with the rest of Palestine, and it appeared in the 1596 tax-records as ''Sarra'', located in the ''Nahiya'' of Jabal Qubal of the '' Liwa'' of Nablus. The population was 19 households and 10 bachelor, all Muslim. They paid a fixed tax rate of 33.3% on agricultural products, such as wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ma'tan As-Sarra
Ma'tan as-Sarra is an oasis in the Kufra District municipality in the southeast corner of Libya. It is located in the Libyan Desert, southwest of Kufra. A marginal oasis, with few palms and substandard water, it allowed the creation in 1811 of the last trans-Saharan caravan route. However, it historically has been little visited by Toubou and Zaghawa nomads.Burr, J. Millard and Robert O. Collins, ''Darfur: The Long Road to Disaster'', Markus Wiener Publishers: Princeton, 2006, , p. 111. In 1934, Ma'tan as-Sarra was turned over as part of the Sarra Triangle to Fascist Italy by the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, who considered the area worthless sand and a cheap appeasement to Benito Mussolini's attempts at an empire. In 1972, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi felt that Jaafar Nimeiry of Sudan had betrayed the Arab cause by signing the 1972 Addis Ababa Agreement ending the first Sudanese civil war. He established a base at Ma'tan as-Sarra to stockpile weapons and as a staging area for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |