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Sayeeda Khan
Saida, Saidah (Arabic: سَعِيدة ''saʽīdah'') also spelled Sayda, Saeeda, or Sayeeda, is the female form of the Arabic male given name Sa‘id. Saida is a Japanese surname but not related to the Arabic given name. It may refer to: Arabic name * Saida Agrebi, Tunisian politician *Saida Charaf, Sahrawi Moroccan singer * Saida Gunba, Soviet athlete *Saida Karoli, Tanzanian singer *Saida Miller Khalifa, British author *Saida Muna Tasneem, a Bangladeshi diplomat *Sayeeda Warsi, Baroness Warsi, British lawyer and politician Japanese * Haruko Saida is a Japanese women's professional shogi player ranked 5- dan. She is a former Women's Meijin, and title holder. She is currently serving as a non-executive director for the Japan Shogi Association. Women's shogi professional Promotion hist ..., women's professional shogi player {{given name Arabic feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arabic
Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic languages, Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C. E.Watson; Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/Boston, 2011. Having emerged in the 1st century, it is named after the Arabs, Arab people; the term "Arab" was initially used to describe those living in the Arabian Peninsula, as perceived by geographers from ancient Greece. Since the 7th century, Arabic has been characterized by diglossia, with an opposition between a standard Prestige (sociolinguistics), prestige language—i.e., Literary Arabic: Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) or Classical Arabic—and diverse vernacular varieties, which serve as First language, mother tongues. Colloquial dialects vary significantly from MSA, impeding mutual intelligibility. MSA is only acquired through formal education and is not spoken natively. It is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Language
is spoken natively by about 128 million people, primarily by Japanese people and primarily in Japan, the only country where it is the national language. Japanese belongs to the Japonic or Japanese- Ryukyuan language family. There have been many attempts to group the Japonic languages with other families such as the Ainu, Austroasiatic, Koreanic, and the now-discredited Altaic, but none of these proposals has gained widespread acceptance. Little is known of the language's prehistory, or when it first appeared in Japan. Chinese documents from the 3rd century AD recorded a few Japanese words, but substantial Old Japanese texts did not appear until the 8th century. From the Heian period (794–1185), there was a massive influx of Sino-Japanese vocabulary into the language, affecting the phonology of Early Middle Japanese. Late Middle Japanese (1185–1600) saw extensive grammatical changes and the first appearance of European loanwords. The basis of the standard dialect moved f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saida Agrebi
Saida Agrebi (born January 22, 1945 in Tunisia) is a member of the Economic, Social and Cultural Council of the African Union, representing North Africa. She also sits on the Pan-African Parliament representing Tunisia. She graduated from the with a in Public Health. Biography As a student she served as an instructor on reproductive and family health in |
Saida Charaf
Saida Charaf (born 1960) is a Moroccan Sahrawi singer. She is considered one of the most prominent female singers of Sahrawi music. Career Saida Charaf was born in Laayoune . In the late 1990s, she studied Arabic literature and humanities in Agadir and Rabat to pursue a career in journalism. She left journalism and started her musical career before travelling to Jordan, Egypt and Lebanon to perform in international festivals and concerts. After her return to Morocco, she has performed on stage with prominent international artistes such as Jean Michel Jarre and Wael Jassar. 2013, she was decorated alongside several artists and athletes by the Moroccan King Mohammed VI. Discography Albums * ''Notre lune'' (2006) * ''Amani'' (2013) * ''Wald Mou'' (2016) Concerts Saida Charaf performed several concerts and in local and international festivals. In December 2008, She performed as a local musician in the Water for Life concert in Merzouga. She has also performed several ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morocco
Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to the east, and the disputed territory of Western Sahara to the south. Mauritania lies to the south of Western Sahara. Morocco also claims the Spanish exclaves of Ceuta, Melilla and Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera, and several small Spanish-controlled islands off its coast. It spans an area of or , with a population of roughly 37 million. Its official and predominant religion is Islam, and the official languages are Arabic and Berber; the Moroccan dialect of Arabic and French are also widely spoken. Moroccan identity and culture is a mix of Arab, Berber, and European cultures. Its capital is Rabat, while its largest city is Casablanca. In a region inhabited since the Paleolithic Era over 300,000 years ago, the first Moroccan s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arabic Pop Music
Arabic pop music or Arab pop music is a subgenre of pop music and Arabic music. Arabic pop is mainly produced and originated in Cairo, Egypt; as Egyptian music genre is by far the most widespread within the region. Also Beirut, Lebanon, and Gulf states come as secondary centers. It is an outgrowth of the Arabic film industry (mainly Egyptian movies), also predominantly located in Cairo. Since 2000, various locations in the Gulf countries have been producing Khaleeji pop music. The primary style is a genre that synthetically combines pop melodies with elements of different Arabic regional styles, called ''ughniyah'' ( ar, أغنية) or in English "song". It uses a wide variety of instruments, including electric guitars or electronic keyboards, as well as traditional Middle Eastern instruments like the oud, darbukka or qanun and many more. Another characteristic aspect of Arabic pop is the overall tone and mood of the songs. The majority of the songs are in a minor key, and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saida Gunba
Saida Kanosovna Gunba ( ka, საიდა გუმბა; 30 August 1959 in Sukhumi, Georgian SSR – 24 November 2018 in Pitsunda, Abkhazia) was a Soviet er. Gunba was affiliated with Burevestnik Tbilisi. She competed for the at the |
Saida Karoli
Saida Karoli (born April 4, 1976) is a traditionalist Tanzanian singer and performer who has staged live shows in Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and DRC. Karoli was born in 1976 in Rwongwe, a small village in the Bukoba Rural district in the northern Tanzanian Kagera Region on the western side of Lake Victoria. "Maria Salome", a song from her first album ''Chambua kama Karanga'' reached number three in airplay on Tanzanian radio. After the song's success in Uganda, she became popularly known there as Wanchekecha, a nickname derived from the lyrics of the song. She has entertained the Kabaka of Buganda and is an act at Zanzibar's ''Sauti Za Busara'' Festival. Most recently she was nominated for several honors at the Kora All-African Music Awards. In style, Karoli's music is described as natural with mellow vocals and hypnotically rhythmicism. Though she sings primarily in her native tongue Haya, her lyrics also incorporate extensive Swahili (the common East African L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saida Miller Khalifa
Saida Miller Khalifa is an author and convert to Islam. She was born Sonya Miller in Great Britain and converted in 1959. She met her husband, an Egyptian professor named Yusry Khalifa, a year later after having taken the name ''Saida''. They both went on the Hajj in 1970, three years after moving to Cairo. Saida then published a short narrative of the trip entitled ''The Fifth Pillar of Islam''. Currently out of print, ''The Fifth Pillar'' is reprinted in Michael Wolfe's One Thousand Roads to Mecca ''One Thousand Roads to Mecca: Ten Centuries of Travelers Writing about the Muslim Pilgrimage'' is a collection of travel journals edited by Michael Wolfe and published in 1999. Covering over 20 accounts made over 10 centuries, this work shows m .... References Converts to Islam British Muslims Living people Hajj accounts Year of birth missing (living people) {{Islam-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saida Muna Tasneem
Saida Muna Tasneem is a Bangladeshi diplomat who has served as High Commissioner of Bangladesh to the United Kingdom and Ambassador to Ireland and Liberia since November 2018. She is the first woman to hold these positions. She also serves as Bangladesh's permanent representative to the International Maritime Organization (IMO). She was formerly the High Commissioner to Thailand and Cambodia and Bangladesh's representative to the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. Background Tasneem was born in Dhaka, East Pakistan. Her family moved to Beirut, Lebanon in 1975 in order for her father to complete his Ph.D. at the American University of Beirut. They later moved back to Dhaka in 1979 where Tasneem completed high school at the Holy Cross Girls' High School. She attended the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) and graduated in 1988 with a bachelor's in Chemical Engineering. She later completed her master's in public policy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sayeeda Warsi, Baroness Warsi
Sayeeda Hussain Warsi, Baroness Warsi, (; born 28 March 1971) is a British lawyer, politician, and member of the House of Lords who served as co-Chairwoman of the Conservative Party from 2010 to 2012. She served in the Cameron–Clegg coalition, first as the Minister without portfolio between 2010 and 2012, then as the Minister of State for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (styled as "Senior Minister of State") and as the Minister of State for Faith and Communities, until her resignation citing her disagreement with the Government's policy relating to the Israel–Gaza conflict in August 2014. Warsi grew up in a family of Pakistani Muslim immigrants living in West Yorkshire. She became a solicitor with the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS). In 2004, she left the CPS to stand, unsuccessfully, for election to the House of Commons. After being raised to the peerage in 2007, Warsi served as Shadow Minister for Community Cohesion and Social Action. She became the first Muslim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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