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Sedra Uzunca
Sedra may refer to: * Weekly Torah portion (''sidra'' or ''sedra'') in Judaism * Adel Sedra (born 1943), Egyptian electrical engineer * Olivier Sedra, Canadian American sports public address announcer * Sedra Bistodeau (born 1994), American fiddler and violinist *''Sedra'', a 2013 album by Humood AlKhudher * Sedra, an integrated residential community in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. {{disambig, given name, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weekly Torah Portion
It is a custom among religious Jewish communities for a weekly Torah portion to be read during Jewish prayer services on Monday, Thursday, and Saturday. The full name, ''Parashat HaShavua'' ( he, פָּרָשַׁת הַשָּׁבוּעַ), is popularly abbreviated to ''parashah'' (also ''parshah'' or parsha), and is also known as a Seder (Bible), Sidra or Sedra . The ''parashah'' is a section of the Torah (Five Books of Moses) used in Jewish liturgy during a particular week. There are 54 parshas, or ''parashiyot'' in Hebrew, and the full cycle is read over the course of one Jewish year. Content and number Each Torah portion consists of two to six chapters to be read during the week. There are 54 weekly portions or ''parashot''. Torah reading mostly follows an annual cycle beginning and ending on the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah, with the divisions corresponding to the lunisolar calendar, lunisolar Hebrew calendar, which contains up to 55 weeks, the exact number varying betwe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adel Sedra
Adel S. Sedra is an Egyptian Canadian electrical engineer and professor. Career Born in Egypt in 1943, Sedra received his B.Sc. from Cairo University in 1964 and his M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. from the University of Toronto, in 1968 and 1969, respectively. All three of his degrees are in electrical engineering. Sedra joined the faculty of the University of Toronto in 1969 and became associate professor in 1972 and professor in 1978. He served as chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering from 1986 to 1993, and was vice president, provost, and chief academic officer from July 1, 1993, to 2002. In his nine years as provost Sedra led the university through two major long-range planning cycles in 1994 and 1998. On July 1, 2003, Sedra joined the University of Waterloo as dean of its Faculty of Engineering and as professor of electrical and computer engineering. In 2004 he initiated the University of Waterloo Engineering Planning Exercise, VISION 2010. He served as Dean of Engineering ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olivier Sedra
Olivier Sedra is a public address announcer for the Brooklyn Nets of the National Basketball Association. He was the public address announcer for the 2016 NBA Finals champions Cleveland Cavaliers. His style of announcing is a combination of Lawrence Tanter of the Los Angeles Lakers and his hero, Montreal Canadiens public address announcer Michel Lacroix. He is known for his baritone voice and precise yet exciting announcements. Sedra, who replaced Ronnie "Slam" Duncan after the 2005-06 NBA season, made his debut as the Quicken Loans Arena voice for Cavs games on October 31, 2006. He was selected to announce basketball games for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, 2017 NBA All-star practices, 2019 NBA All Star Saturday Night, and the 2020 NBA Bubble (including the 2020 NBA Finals The 2020 NBA Finals was the championship series of the National Basketball Association's (NBA) 2019–20 season and conclusion of the season's playoffs. In this best-of-seven playoff series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sedra Bistodeau
Sedra Bistodeau (born 1994) is an American fiddler and violinist from Princeton, Minnesota. Life and career Sedra Bistodeau began playing the violin at age three, studying with noted teachers Margaret Haviland and Mary West at the MacPhail Center for the Arts in Princeton, MN. She studied with Sally O'Reilly, Professor of Violin at the University of Minnesota, until graduating high school and currently studies with Bettina Mussumeli, at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. She received the Mary West Violin Scholarship four years consecutively, then at age 10 won the honor to perform Max Bruch's Violin Concerto in G minor (3rd Movement) as a soloist with the Little Falls Heartland Symphony. She won the top prize in the junior division of the Minnesota Sinfonia Competition, allowing her to solo with the Minnesota Sinfonia Orchestra (Introduction and Tarantella – Sarasate) in 2008 under the direction of Jay Fishman. In 2009, Bistodeau won the MNSOTA Mary West Solo Competiti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humood AlKhudher
Humood Othman AlKhudher (Arabic: حمود عثمان الخضر; born 24 January 1989), commonly known as Humood Alkhudher, is a Kuwaiti singer and music producer. Humood released his compilation album ''Fekra'' in 2013. In 2014, he was signed to Awakening Records and in 2015 he launched his album ''Aseer Ahsan''. In February 2020, he announced his new album Matha Ba’d?. Early life and education Humood was born in Kuwait on 24 January 1989. Career Humood began his musical career in 1999 as a backing vocalist for his uncle who would regularly perform at local events. At age 13, he sang Ummi Filisteen, a duet with Mishari Al-Aradah on the suffering of Palestinians. In January 2015, Humood was signed to Awakening Records and launched his debut album ''Aseer Ahsan'' on topics such as determination and self-empowerment. The album included 10 songs, one of which was " Kun Anta", that was accompanied by a music video. ''Aseer Ahsan'' reached number 10 on the ''Billboard'' World Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sedra (Riyadh)
Sedra (), stylized as SEDRA, is a housing development project in northern Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, located east of Princess Nourah bint Abdul Rahman University and north of al-Munsiyah in the sub-municipality of al-Rawdah. Introduced in 2020, the master plan for the community was commissioned in 2019 and off-plan sale of units began in 2021 and was finally tenanted by residents in 2022. It incorporates elements of modern Najdi architecture and is named after ''Sidr'', the Arabic word for a jujube tree found in Saudi Arabia and the larger Middle East region which is also mentioned in the Qur'an as ''Sidrat al-Muntaha''. Sedra is the first integrated residential community project of Riyadh and the flagship project of Roshn. History and background In August 2020, the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia established Roshn, a real estate firm for the development of urban communities across the country. The project is slated to be developed in eight phases with 30,000 residential uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riyadh
Riyadh (, ar, الرياض, 'ar-Riyāḍ, lit.: 'The Gardens' Najdi pronunciation: ), formerly known as Hajr al-Yamamah, is the capital and largest city of Saudi Arabia. It is also the capital of the Riyadh Province and the centre of the Riyadh Governorate. It is the largest city on the Arabian Peninsula, and is situated in the center of the an-Nafud desert, on the eastern part of the Najd plateau. The city sits at an average of above sea level, and receives around 5 million tourists each year, making it the forty-ninth most visited city in the world and the 6th in the Middle East. Riyadh had a population of 7.6 million people in 2019, making it the most-populous city in Saudi Arabia, 3rd most populous in the Middle East, and 38th most populous in Asia. The first mentioning of the city by the name ''Riyadh'' was in 1590, by an early Arab chronicler. In 1737, Deham Ibn Dawwas, who was from the neighboring Manfuha, settled in and took control of the city. Deham built a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
