Imad (also
transliterated as Emad, Imed and Aimad ar, عماد) is an Arabic masculine
given name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a fa ...
and surname and means "support" or "pillar".
Given name
* Imād ad-Dīn
Muhammad bin Qasim
Muḥammad ibn al-Qāsim al-Thaqāfī ( ar, محمد بن القاسم الثقفي; –) was an Arab military commander in service of the Umayyad Caliphate who led the Muslim conquest of Sindh (part of modern Pakistan), inaugurating the Umayya ...
, Umayyad Caliphate general
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Imad Abbas
Imad Abbas ( ar, عماد عباس) was an engineer and bomb maker for Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas. He was killed by an Israeli Apache helicopter on 21 October 2004, in Gaza City."Palesti ...
, Palestinian military commander
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Imad Baba
Imad Baba (born March 15, 1974) is a former American association football, soccer midfielder. He spent seven years in Major League Soccer (MLS) with the New England Revolution and Colorado Rapids. He was also a member of the American squads at th ...
, American soccer player
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Emad Hajjaj
Emad Hajjaj ( ar, عماد حجاج) is a Palestinian-Jordanian editorial cartoonist. He is best known for his work in '' Al Ra'i'' and the ''Jordan Times'' daily newspapers.
Early life
Emad was born in Jordan's West Bank in 1967. He received his ...
, Jordanian political cartoonist
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Emad al-Janabi
Emad Khudhayir Shahuth al-Janabi ( ar, عماد خضير شهوته الجنابي) (born c. 1965) was an Iraqi blacksmith detained in Abu Ghraib prison where he alleges he was abused by American military personnel and defense contractors.
Impri ...
, Iraqi blacksmith
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Imad Khalili
Imad Khalili ( ar, عماد خليلي; born 3 April 1987) is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a midfielder or a striker. He is the assistant coach of Hammarby IF in Allsvenskan.
Club career
Breakthrough
At age five, Khal ...
, Swedish footballer
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Imad Khamis, Syrian politician
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Imad Kotbi Imad Kotbi ( ar, عماد قطبي) (born June 8, 1978) is a Moroccan radio presenter and a disk jockey. He was born in Casablanca, and is currently working for Casa FM radio station presenting a show called "Ze Kotbi Show".
Kotbi is a Guinnes ...
, Moroccan radio presenter
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Emad Mohammed, Iraqi footballer
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Imad Rahman, Pakistani American fiction writer
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Imad Rami, Syrian Nasheed singer
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Imad Wasim, Pakistani international cricketer
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Imad Feghaly
Imad Feghaly () is a Lebanese actor and voice actor.
Filmography
Film
*''Bil Kanoun''. 2014
*''Al Mashhad Al Akhir''. 2005
Television
*'' Khtarab El Hay'' - Fadi. 2014
*Game of the Death. 2013
*The Victors 2. 2012
*Stability and Plant. ...
, Lebanese actor and voice actor
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Imad Abullah Sarah, Syrian politician
Imed
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Imed Abdelnabbi (born 1957), Egyptian chess player
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Imed Louati
Imed Louati (born 11 October 1993) is a Tunisian professional footballer.
Club career CS Sfaxien
Louati started his football career with Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 club CS Sfaxien in 2012. On 1 September 2012, he made his senior debut in a ...
(born 1993), Tunisian footballer
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Imed Memmich (born 1966), Tunisian scholar and politician
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Imed Meniaoui
Imed Meniaoui (born 19 April 1983) is a Tunisian football striker
Forwards (also known as attackers) are outfield positions in an association football team who play the furthest up the pitch and are therefore most responsible for scoring goal ...
(born 1983), Tunisian footballer
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Imed Mhedhebi
Imed Mhedhebi or Mhadhbi ( ar, عماد المهذبى) (born 22 March 1976 in Tunis) is a former Tunisian football winger.
He was a member of the Tunisian national team that participated at the 2002 FIFA World Cup and won the 2004 African Cup ...
(born 1976), Tunisian footballer
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Imed Ketata
Imed Ketata is a Tunisian football player that plays defense.
He formerly played for the Océano Club de Kerkennah, the Club Sportif Sfaxien, and the AS Djerba .
Awards
*Winner of the 2003 Tunisian League Cup The Coupe de la Ligue Professionell ...
, Tunisian footballer
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Imed Trabelsi (born 1974), Tunisian businessman and politician
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Imed Ben Younes
Imed Ben Younes ( ar, عماد بن يونس) (born 16 June 1974) is a Tunisian former football player and current coach.
He played for a few clubs in Tunisia including Étoile Sahel and CS Sfaxien and played a single season at Qatari club Al- ...
(born 1974), Tunisian former football player and current coach
Surname
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Mitra Emad
Mitra C. Emad is an American anthropologist and Distinguished University Teaching Professor at the University of Minnesota Duluth. She is known for her works on cultural constructions of the human body. Emad is a recipient of the Horace T. Morse-U ...
, American anthropologist
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Parvis Emad, American philosopher and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at DePaul University
Family origin
The Imad family is named for al-Amadiyyah, near Mosul in northern Iraq and, like the
Jumblatt family, is thought to be of Kurdish origin.
[Origins of the Druze People and Religion, by Philip K. Hitti, 1924]
Some unconfirmed sources allege that the roots of Family Imad ancestors are associated with those of Imad ad-Din
Zengi (1087; † 1146), who was in turn the Atabeg of Mosul from 1127 to his death in 1146.
Imad as a family name also indicates descent from the originally
Druze
The Druze (; ar, دَرْزِيٌّ, ' or ', , ') are an Arabic-speaking esoteric ethnoreligious group from Western Asia who adhere to the Druze faith, an Abrahamic, monotheistic, syncretic, and ethnic religion based on the teachings of ...
feudal
Feudalism, also known as the feudal system, was the combination of the legal, economic, military, cultural and political customs that flourished in Middle Ages, medieval Europe between the 9th and 15th centuries. Broadly defined, it was a wa ...
family Al-Imad in the
Chouf region of Mount Lebanon.
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Arabic masculine given names