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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] |
Lebanese-American
Lebanese Americans ( ar, أمريكيون لبنانيون) are Americans of Lebanese descent. This includes both those who are native to the United States of America, as well as immigrants from Lebanon. Lebanese Americans comprise 0.79% of the American population, as of the American Community Survey estimations for year 2007, and 32.4% of all Americans who originate from the Middle East. Lebanese Americans have had significant participation in American politics and involvement in both social and political activism. The diversity within the region sprouted from the diaspora of the surrounding countries. There are more Lebanese outside Lebanon today than within. History The first known Lebanese immigrant to the United States was Antonio Bishallany, a Maronite Christian, who arrived in Boston Harbor in 1854. He died in Brooklyn, New York in 1856 on his 29th birthday. Large scale-Lebanese immigration began in the late 19th century and settled mainly in Brooklyn and Boston, Mass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arabic Literature
Arabic literature ( ar, الأدب العربي / ALA-LC: ''al-Adab al-‘Arabī'') is the writing, both as prose and poetry, produced by writers in the Arabic language. The Arabic word used for literature is '' Adab'', which is derived from a meaning of etiquette, and which implies politeness, culture and enrichment. Arabic literature emerged in the 5th century with only fragments of the written language appearing before then. The Qur'an, widely regarded as the finest piece of literature in the Arabic language, would have the greatest lasting effect on Arab culture and its literature. Arabic literature flourished during the Islamic Golden Age, but has remained vibrant to the present day, with poets and prose-writers across the Arab world, as well as in the Arab diaspora, achieving increasing success. History ''Jahili'' is the literature of the pre-Islamic period referred to as ''al-Jahiliyyah'', or "the time of ignorance". In pre-Islamic Arabia, markets such ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syrian-American
Syrian Americans are Americans of Syrian descent or background. The first significant wave of Syrian immigrants to arrive in the United States began in the 1880s. Many of the earliest Syrian Americans settled in New York City, Boston, and Detroit. Immigration from Syria to the United States suffered a long hiatus after the United States Congress passed the Immigration Act of 1924, which restricted immigration. More than 40 years later, the Immigration Act of 1965, abolished the quotas and immigration from Syria to the United States saw a surge. An estimated 64,600 Syrians immigrated to the United States between 1961 and 2000. Memphis, Tennessee. The overwhelming majority of Syrian immigrants to the U.S. from 1880 to 1960 were Christian, a minority were Jewish, whereas Muslim Syrians arrived in the United States chiefly after 1965. According to the United States 2016 Census, there were 187,331 Americans who claimed Syrian ancestry, about 12% of the Arab population in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lotfi Hadad
Lutfi (also spelled Lotfi, Lutvi or Luthfi, ar, لطفي), meaning "kind" or "gracious", may refer to: Given name Lotfi * Lotfi A. Zadeh (1921–2017), Azerbaijani electrical engineer * Lotfi Akalay Lotfi Akalay (1943-2019), born in Tangier, was a Moroccan journalist, writer and businessman. Early life He was well-known for his articles in ''Al Bayane'', ''La Vie Économique'', ''Charlie Hebdo'' and ''Jeune Afrique''. He also presented a r ... (born 1943), Moroccan writer * Lotfi Nezzar, Algerian businessman Lutfi, Lütfi * Ahmed Lutfi el-Sayed (1872–1963), Egyptian intellectual * Ali Lutfi Mahmud (1935–2018), Egyptian politician * Lutfi (court official), Ottoman court official * Lutfi Haziri (born 1969), Kosovar politician * Lutfi Lepaja (born 1945), Albanian writer * Lütfi Pasha (died 1564), Ottoman statesman * Lütfi Akadlı (1902–1988), Turkish judge * Lütfi Arıboğan (born 1961), Turkish basketball player * Lütfi Elvan (born 1962), Turkish mining engineer, po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reem Salem
REEM is the latest prototype humanoid robot built by PAL Robotics in Spain. It is a 1.70 m high humanoid robot with 22 degrees of freedom, with a mobile base with wheels, allowing it to move at 4 km/hour. The upper part of the robot consists of a torso with a touch screen, two motorized arms, which give it a high degree of expression, and a head, which is also motorized. REEM-A and REEM-B are the first and second prototypes of humanoid robots created by PAL Robotics. REEM-B can recognize, grasp and lift objects and walk by itself, avoiding obstacles through simultaneous localization and mapping. The robot accepts voice commands and can recognize faces. Specifications See also * ASIMO * Atlas * HUBO * Humanoid robot * iCub iCub is a 1 metre tall open source robotics humanoid robot testbed for research into human cognition and artificial intelligence. It was designed by the RobotCub Consortium of several European universities and built by Italian Institute o ... * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iraqi-American
Iraqi Americans ( Arabic: أمريكيون عراقيون) ( Kurdish عێراقییە ئەمریکییەکان, Îraqiyên Amerîkî) are American citizens who originate from Iraq. As of 2015, the number of Iraqi Americans is around 145,279, according to the United States Census Bureau. According to the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services, 49,006 Iraqi foreign born immigrated to the United States between 1989 and 2001 and 25,710 Iraqi-born immigrants naturalized between 1991 and 2001. However, the 2000 United States Census reported that there were approximately 90,000 immigrants born in Iraq residing in the United States. History The Iran–Iraq War, the Gulf War, 13 years of sanctions, and the Iraq War resulted in many more Iraqis of Arab origin and ethnic minorities seeking refuge in the US. However, according to the 2000 US Census, in which it states that just under 90,000 people born in Iraq are resident in the United States. It has also covered informatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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-winning short story in the Newspaper "Fata Al-Iraq, Newspaper" in 1956. He published a collection of short stories, ''Port Saeed and other stories'', in 1957. In 1963, the government after 1963 coup destroyed his two novel manuscripts one under review, "The Old Case" and "The Strike". Government censorship prevented his novel ''Rhythm and Obsession'' from being published in 1968, and banned his novel ''Rue Ben Barka'', in 1970. ''Rue Ben Barka'' was published fifteen years later in Egypt 1985, Jordan 1992/1993, and Beirut in 1997. Authorities banned the publication of any book written by the author from 1963 to 2008. His most important novels after ''Ben Barka Lane'' are ''The Girls of Jacob'', ''The World Through the Angel's Eyes'', ''I am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Salter
Samuel Salter (born August 9, 2000) is a Canadian professional soccer player who plays as a forward for Atlético Ottawa in the Canadian Premier League. Early life Salter played in the Montreal Impact Academy from 2013 until 2016. Afterwards, he played with CS Étoiles de l'Est. In high school, he attended the ecole secondaire Antoine de Saint-Exupery where he was coached by Sandro Grande. He played for the Quebec provincial team, helping them to win a national bronze in 2017. In 2018, he moved to France to join ASPTT Dijon in France's top U19 league. He also had a two-week trial with the U19 team of RC Lens. College career After graduating high school, he attended Dawson College in Quebec, in 2017, where he was the CCAA - ACSC Men's Soccer All-Canadian for the 2017, the RSEQ Rookie of the Year, Player of the Year and led the conference in scoring with nine goals in nine games. He was named the school's Athlete of the Year. In 2019, he decided to attend California Stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rafah Abuinnab
Rafah ( ar, رفح, Rafaḥ) is a State of Palestine, Palestinian city in the southern Gaza Strip. It is the district capital of the Rafah Governorate, located south of Gaza City. Rafah's population of 152,950 (2014) is overwhelmingly made up of former Palestinian refugees. When Israel withdrew from the Sinai in 1982, Rafah was split into a Gazan part and an Rafah, Egypt, Egyptian part, dividing families, separated by barbed-wire barriers. The core of the city was destroyed by Israel Of this, 275 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 24,173 used for cereals, while 16,131 dunams were un-cultivable land. 1948–1967 After the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Egypt governed the area (see All-Palestine Protectorate, Palestinian Protectorate) and refugee camps were established. In the Suez Crisis, 1956 war involving Israel, Britain, France, and Egypt, 111 people, including 103 refugees, were killed by the Israeli army in the Palestinian refugee camp of Rafah, during the Rafah massac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Arabic English Translators
The following is a list of translators primarily translating literary works in the Arabic language into English editions that have been published in print. The leading prizes in this field of translation are the Banipal Prize and the Arkansas Arabic Translation Award. A *Farouk Abdel Wahab *Leila Abouzeid *Kareem James Abu-Zeid * Sinan Antoon * A. J. Arberry * Albakry Mohammed * Forster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot B * Adil Babikir *Aida Bamia * Joseph Bell * Marilyn Booth * Keith Bosley *Angele Botros Samaan *Issa J. Boullata *Sargon Boulus * Paul Bowles *Leon Carl Brown * Richard Francis Burton C * Anthony Calderbank *Yigal Carmon * Catherine Cobham * Thomas Cleary *Elliot Colla * Miriam Cooke * Michael Cooperson * Robyn Creswell D * Humphrey T. Davies *N. J. Dawood E * Abba Eban F * Nicole Fares * Ahmed Fathy * Elizabeth Fernea *Bassam Frangieh G *Ferial Ghazoul *Sayed Gouda *William Granara *William Alexander Greenhill H * Marilyn Hacker *Hala Halim *Stuart A. Hancox *Nay Hannaw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American People Of Lebanese Descent
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
