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Zahra (name)
Zahra (Arabic: زهراء) is a female given name of Arabic origin. It means ‘beautiful, bright, shining and brilliant’. The name became popularized as a result of being the name of Muhammad’s daughter, Fatimah, Fatimah al-Zahra. www.farsnews.com The Ottoman Empire, Ottoman empire expanded the use of this name to countries like Albania, Kosovo and Bosnia and the name was also popularized by the Persian empire's influence in the Indian subcontinent, respectively. ''Zahra'' is also used as a surname, particularly in Malta. The names are difficult to distinguish transliteration, and may be transliterated in various ways, such as ''Zehra'', ''Zahra(h)'', ''Zara'', and ''Zohrah.'' Female given name Sahra *Sahra Hausman ...[...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] |
Caliph
A caliphate or khilāfah ( ar, خِلَافَة, ) is an institution or public office under the leadership of an Islamic steward with the title of caliph (; ar, خَلِيفَة , ), a person considered a political-religious successor to the Islamic prophet Muhammad and a leader of the entire Muslim world (ummah). Historically, the caliphates were polities based on Islam which developed into multi-ethnic trans-national empires. During the medieval period, three major caliphates succeeded each other: the Rashidun Caliphate (632–661), the Umayyad Caliphate (661–750), and the Abbasid Caliphate (750–1258). In the fourth major caliphate, the Ottoman Caliphate, the rulers of the Ottoman Empire claimed caliphal authority from 1517. Throughout the history of Islam, a few other Muslim states, almost all hereditary monarchies such as the Mamluk Sultanate (Cairo) and Ayyubid Caliphate, have claimed to be caliphates. The first caliphate, the Rashidun Caliphate, was established in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zahra Aga Khan
Princess Zahra Aga Khan (born 18 September 1970 in Geneva, Switzerland) is the eldest child of Aga Khan IV and his first wife, Princess Salimah Aga Khan. Education Princess Zahra attended Le Rosey School in Switzerland and received her undergraduate degree cum laude in Development Studies from Harvard University (AB’94). She also completed a four-month program at Massachusetts General Hospital to enhance her understanding of healthcare systems and the delivery of advanced medical care, and an Executive Finance course at IMD in Lausanne. Career Princess Zahra Aga Khan is a Member of the Board of Directors of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) and also sits on the board of several of its affiliated structures, including the Aga Khan Foundation, the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, the Aga Khan Agency for Habitat, the Aga Khan Agency for Microfinance and the Aga Khan Schools. She also serves as a Trustee of the Aga Khan University. She has policy and management responsibilit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zahra Kazemi
Zahra "Ziba" Kazemi-Ahmadabadi ( fa, زهرا کاظمی احمدآبادی; 1948 – 11 July 2003) was an Iranian-Canadian freelance photojournalist. She gained notoriety for her arrest in Iran and the circumstances in which she was held by Iranian authorities, in whose custody she was killed. Kazemi's autopsy report revealed that she had been raped and tortured by Iranian officials while she was at Evin Prison, located within the capital city of Tehran. Although Iranian authorities insist that her death was accidental and that she died of a stroke while being interrogated, Shahram Azam, a former military staff physician who used his purported knowledge of Kazemi's case for seeking asylum in Canada in 2004, has stated that he examined Kazemi's body and observed that she showed obvious signs of torture, including a skull fracture, nasal fracture, signs of rape, and severe abdominal bruising.INDEPTH: ZAHRA KAZEMI' "Iran's changing story" CBC News Online , Updated 16 November ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zahra Kamalfar
Zahra Kamalfar is an Iranian refugee living in Canada. She was originally from the Muslim Dervish sect and her husband was executed in Iranian custody. After her husband's death, she fled the country with her son Davood and daughter Anna. From Turkey, they fled into Russia. From Russia, the family planned to go to Germany and then seek political asylum in Canada. When Kamalfar went to Germany, the German authorities sent her back to Russia. Russia planned to deport her back to Iran but they did not. Instead, she lived in the Sheremetyevo International Airport for ten months, and finally went to Canada where she has been residing since March 15, 2007. Plea Message from Zahra Kamalfar from Sheremetivo airport On Saturday November 18, 2006, Zahra Kamalfar passed the following video message from Sheremetivo airport: :We have nowhere to sleep, nowhere to rest and nowhere to bathe. :My kids have not seen the sun for 16 month, no sunlight. They haven't seen daylight or nighttime. :Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zahra Jishi
Zahra Jishi is a Lebanese-American translator of Arabic literature. Among her translations are: * ''Where Prophets Are Killed'', a collection of three novellas by the Syrian-American author Lotfi Hadad. Co-translator - Reem Salem. * ''The World Through the Eyes of Angels'', a novel by the Iraqi-American writer Mahmoud Saeed Mahmoud Saeed (born 1939) is an Iraqi-born American novelist. Born in Mosul, Saeed has written more than twenty novels and short story collections, and hundreds of articles. He started writing short stories at an early age. He wrote an award-w .... Co-translators: Samuel Salter and Rafah Abuinnab. Jishi, Salter and Abuinnab won the 2010 Arkansas Arabic Translation Award for their translation of ''Angels''. See also * List of Arabic English translators References Arabic–English translators American people of Lebanese descent Living people American women writers American translators Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zahra Freeth
Zahra Freeth ( Irene Zahra Dickson; 1924/1925 – 20 May 2015) was a British author who wrote primarily about the Middle East. She was the daughter of H. R. P. Dickson (died 1959) and Dame Violet Dickson (died 4 January 1991). Life Zahra Dickson grew up in Kuwait. There, she and her family would spend time collecting animal and plant specimens for the Natural History Museum and Kew Gardens, discovering one plant and two insects that were previously unknown to science. One of the latter, a grasshopper, was named after Zahra: ''Utubius syriacus zahrae'', now known simply as ''Utubius syriacus.'' She later attended boarding schools in England, including Cheltenham Ladies College, and studied for her BA at Girton College, University of Cambridge. Her first book, ''Kuwait Was My Home'', was published in 1956. She accompanied her husband, Richard Freeth, whom she married in 1951 to the bauxite mining town of Mackenzie, British Guiana (now Linden, Guyana) and wrote ''Run Softly, Dem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zahra Eshraghi
Zahra Eshraghi Khomeini ( fa, زهرا اشراقی, translit=''Zahrâ Eshrâqi'') (born 1964) is an Iranian activist and former government official who believes in feminism and human rights. Early life and education Eshraghi was born in 1964. She is the granddaughter of Ayatollah Khomeini. She is a philosophy graduate. Views Zahra Eshraghi wants the wearing of head-scarves to no longer be compulsory. She believes that: "Our (Iran's) constitution still says that the man is the boss and the woman is a loyal wife who sacrifices herself for her family. But society here has changed, especially in the last 10 years. If my grandfather were here now, I am sure he would have had very different ideas." She also stated "The constitution my grandfather approved says that only a man can be president... We would like to change the wording from 'man' to 'anyone'. But discrimination here is not just in the constitution. As a woman, if I want to get a passport to leave the country, have surgery, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zahra Dowlatabadi
Zahra Dowlatabadi (Persian: زهرا دولت آبادی; born September 14, 1962) is an Iranian-born American filmmaker and film producer. Biography Zahra Dowlatabadi received her master's degree at University of Southern California (USC) in film studies in 1986. Dowlatabadi line-produced two DTVs entitled: ''The Jetsons; Robo-Wrestlemania'' and ''Scooby-Doo! Shaggy's Showdown'' released in 2017. Prior to joining WB, she served as producer on seasons 2 and 3 of Comedy Central's adult comedy, Brickleberry at Bento Box Entertainment. She was tapped by ASIFA-Hollywood to produce the 39th Annie Awards which took place at UCLA’s Royce Hall on Feb. 4th 2012. Dowlatabadi’s most recent live action credit is as writer & director on a documentary short called ''Parthian'' (2016) and prior to that she was executive producer on the documentary titled ''Lady of Roses'' (2008) written, produced and directed by Mojtaba Mirtahmasb. Dowlatabadi partnered with Catherine Winder to write Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zohra Bensalem
Zohra Bensalem (born April 5, 1990, in Béjaïa) is an Algerian international volleyball player. She competed for Algeria at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Club information *Current club : GSP (ex MC Alger Mouloudia Club d'Alger ( ar, نادي مولودية الجزائر), referred to as MC Alger or MCA for short, is an Algerian football club based in Algiers. The club was founded in 1921 and its colours are red, green and white. Their home sta ...) *Debut club : ASW Bejaia References Living people 1990 births Volleyball players from Béjaïa Olympic volleyball players for Algeria Volleyball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics Competitors at the 2009 Mediterranean Games Algerian women's volleyball players Mediterranean Games competitors for Algeria 21st-century Algerian women 21st-century Algerian people Competitors at the 2022 Mediterranean Games {{Algeria-volleyball-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zahra Bani Yaghoub
Zahra Bani Yaghoub ( fa, زهرا بنییعقوب, also mentioned in the media as Zahra Bani Ameri; 16 October 1980 – 13 October 2007) was an Iranian medical doctor. She died in a prison in Hamedan after she was arrested by the Guidance Patrol. The incident gained attention in the press due to the possible police involvement in her death. Career Born in Tehran, Bani Yaghoub studied at Tehran University medical school and worked as a volunteer physician in Hamedan Province. Zahra Bani Yaghoub was a distinguished young medical doctor and had several recognitions including her top rank in nationwide university entrance examination. The police told her father: "Iran does not need such medical doctors." Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi has taken the case and is currently the official lawyer of Zahra Bani Yaghoub's family. Death In 2007, Iranian police launched a "Public Security Plan and Moralization Campaign". Many Iranian citizens including many women were arrested and quest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zahra Bani
Zahra Bani (born 31 December 1979) is a Somali-born Italian javelin thrower. Biography Bani was born in 1979 in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, to an Italian father and a Somali mother. In 1989, she moved to Torino, Italy with her family and started playing volleyball. She soon thereafter discovered her specialty: javelin. Bani's personal best throw is 62.75 metres, achieved at the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki. However, since 2005, she has been suffering from health problems, which have significantly hampered her athletic performances. Bani ranks second on the all-time Italian list behind Claudia Coslovich. Achievements National titles Bani won 17 national championships at individual senior level. *Italian Athletics Championships **Javelin throw: 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2017, 2021 (8) * Italian Winter Throwing Championships **Javelin throw: 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017 (9) See also * Italian Athletics Championships - Multi wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
