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Akkad (city) Akkad (; or Agade, Akkadian: , also URI KI in Sumerian during the Ur III period) was the name of a Mesopotamian city. Akkad was the capital of the Akkadian Empire, which was the dominant political force in Mesopotamia during a period of about ...

, the capital of the Akkadian Empire *

Akkadian Empire The Akkadian Empire () was the first ancient empire of Mesopotamia after the long-lived civilization of Sumer. It was centered in the city of Akkad (city), Akkad () and its surrounding region. The empire united Akkadian language, Akkadian and ...

, the first ancient

empire An empire is a "political unit" made up of several territories and peoples, "usually created by conquest, and divided between a dominant center and subordinate peripheries". The center of the empire (sometimes referred to as the metropole) ex ...

Mesopotamia Mesopotamia ''Mesopotamíā''; ar, بِلَاد ٱلرَّافِدَيْن or ; syc, ܐܪܡ ܢܗܪ̈ܝܢ, or , ) is a historical region of Western Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the F ...

Akkad SC Akkad Sport Club ( ar, نادي أكد الرياضي), is an Iraqi football team based in Al-Shatrah, Dhi Qar, that plays in Iraq Division one The Iraq Division One is the second-highest division of the Iraqi football league system after the ...

, Iraqi football club

People with the name

Abbas el-Akkad Abbas Mahmoud al-Aqqad ( ar, عباس محمود العقاد, ; 28 June 1889 – 12 March 1964) was an Egyptian journalist, poet and literary critic,Abdulrahman Akkad Abdulrahman Akkad (Arabic: عبدالرحمن عقاد; born in Aleppo on May 17, 1998) is a Syrian political blogger public speaker and human rights Activist He currently resides in Berlin. Early life and education Akkad was born in 1998 in ...

, Syrian LGBT activist *

Bahaa el-Din Ahmed Hussein el-Akkad Bahaa el-Din Ahmed Hussein el-Akkad ( ar, بهاء الدين أحمد حسين العقاد; born 1949) is an Egyptian former Muslim imam who converted to Christianity. For more than 20 years, el-Akkad is a member of the fundamentalist Islamic ...

, Egyptian Muslim imam *

Hassan Akkad Hassan Akkad () is a British writer, filmmaker and human rights activist originally from Syria. Life Syria He is originally from Damascus, and worked as an English teacher and photographer. In 2011, as protests in Syria against the government o ...

, Syrian photographer and filmmaker *

Mohammed Akkad Mohammed Akkad ( ar, مُحَمَّدُ وَحِيدُ الْعَقَّادِ, Muḥammad Waḥīd al-ʿAqqād) is a Syrian politician and the former Governor of Aleppo. Akkad was appointed of Aleppo by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on 16 ...

, Syrian politician, Governor of Aleppo 2012 to 2014 * Moustapha Akkad, Syrian-American film producer and director *

Omar El Akkad Omar El Akkad (born 1982) is an Egyptian-Canadian novelist and journalist, whose novel ''What Strange Paradise'' was the winner of the 2021 Giller Prize. Early life and education Omar El Akkad was born in Cairo, Egypt, and grew up in Doha, Qat ...

(born 1982), Egyptian-Canadian novelist and journalist

People with the name

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