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Assad
Asad (), sometimes written as Assad, is an Arabic male given name literally meaning "lion". It is used in nicknames such as ''Asad Allāh'', one of the by-names for Ali ibn Abi Talib. People Among prominent people named "Asad" or "Assad" are: Given name * Asadullah (other), multiple people * Asad ibn Abd-al-Uzza, early Islamic historical figure * Asad Abdul Rahman (born 1944), Palestinian political scientist, academic and politician * Asad Ahmad, journalist for BBC News and newsreader for BBC London * Asad Q. Ahmed, American scholar * Asad Al Faqih (1910–1989), Lebanese lawyer and diplomat * Asad ibn al-Furat (760–828) jurist and theologian * Asad ibn Hashim, maternal grandfather of Ali ibn Abi Talib * Asaduddin Owaisi, Indian politician * Asad Raza (artist), Pakistani-American artist * Asad Rustum, Lebanese historian, academic and writer * Asad ibn Saman, early Samanid * Assad Saftawi (1935–1993), Palestinian Fatah cofounder and leader * Asad Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clarice Assad
Clarice Assad (born February 9, 1978) is a Brazilian-American composer, pianist, arranger, singer, and educator from Rio de Janeiro. She is influenced by popular Brazilian culture, Romanticism, world music, and jazz. She comes from a musical family, which includes her father, guitarist Sergio Assad, her uncle, guitarist Odair Assad, and her aunt, singer-songwriter Badi Assad. Assad has performed professionally since the age of seven. She holds a bachelor of music degree from Roosevelt University in Chicago and a master's degree in composition from the University of Michigan, where she studied composition with Michael Daugherty. She is a 2009 Latin Grammy :es:Anexo:Premios Grammy Latinos 2009 and 2022 Grammy nominee. Early years Born in Campo Grande, a suburb in the west portion of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Assad is the first daughter of musician Sergio Assad and school teacher Celia Maria Vasconcelos da Cunha, who named her child after the late Brazilian-Ukrainian writer Cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Audrey Assad
Audrey Nicole Assad (born July 1, 1983) is an American singer-songwriter. She has released six studio albums and four extended plays, EPs. Early life Audrey Assad's mother was from Virginia and her father is a Christian Syrian American, Syrian-born refugee. She was raised Protestant, as part of the Plymouth Brethren denomination. Assad started playing the piano at age two, and spent her youth moving around New Jersey before settling in Scotch Plains, New Jersey, Scotch Plains from ages 7 to 18. Music career Assad's musical career began in contemporary Christian music. Her debut album, ''The House You're Building'', was released through Sparrow Records in July 2010 and went on to be named on Amazon.com's list of Best Christian Music of 2010,The following source cites this same Amazon list, but misstates it as an apparent award rather than an entry on a list. See as well as the Christian and Gospel Breakthrough Album of the Year on iTunes. She has worked and toured with other Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sérgio Assad
Sérgio Assad (born 26 December 1952) is a Brazilian guitarist, composer, and arranger who often performs with his brother, Odair, in the guitar duo ''Sérgio and Odair Assad'', commonly referred to as the ''Assad Brothers'' or ''Duo Assad''. Their younger sister Badi is also a guitarist. Assad is the father of composer/singer/pianist Clarice Assad. He is married to Angela Olinto. Biography Born into a musical family in Mococa, São Paulo, Brazil, Assad began creating music for the guitar not long after he began playing the instrument. He learned Brazilian folk melodies from his father. By age 14, he was arranging and writing original compositions for the guitar duo he had formed with his brother, Odair. At the age of 17, he and Odair began their studies under the best known classical guitar teacher in Brazil at the time, Monina Tavora, a former disciple of Andrés Segovia. Sergio later went on to study conducting and composition at the Escola Nacional de Música in Rio de Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Javier Assad
Javier Eduardo Assad Ramírez (born July 30, 1997) is a Mexican professional baseball pitcher for the Chicago Cubs of Major League Baseball (MLB). Early life, family and education Assad was born and raised in Tijuana, Mexico. While playing Little League Baseball as a youth, he was teammates with future professional baseball player Alfonso Rivas. (Assad and Rivas became teammates on the Chicago Cubs following Assad's promotion in 2022.) Career Assad signed with the Chicago Cubs as an international free agent on July 27, 2015. He made his professional debut with the rookie-level Arizona League Cubs in 2016, pitching to a 2.87 ERA in 10 games. He spent the 2017 season with the Low-A Eugene Emeralds, logging a 5–6 record and 4.23 ERA with 72 strikeouts in 13 starts. He pitched in 23 games (21 starts) for the Single-A South Bend Cubs in 2018, registering a 5–7 record and 4.40 ERA with 89 strikeouts in innings of work. On May 3, 2019, while playing for the High-A Myrtle Beac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asad Ibn Abd-al-Uzza
Asad (), sometimes written as Assad, is an Arabic male given name literally meaning "lion". It is used in nicknames such as ''Asad Allāh'', one of the by-names for Ali ibn Abi Talib. People Among prominent people named "Asad" or "Assad" are: Given name * Asadullah (other), multiple people * Asad ibn Abd-al-Uzza, early Islamic historical figure * Asad Abdul Rahman (born 1944), Palestinian political scientist, academic and politician * Asad Ahmad, journalist for BBC News and newsreader for BBC London * Asad Q. Ahmed, American scholar * Asad Al Faqih (1910–1989), Lebanese lawyer and diplomat * Asad ibn al-Furat (760–828) jurist and theologian * Asad ibn Hashim, maternal grandfather of Ali ibn Abi Talib * Asaduddin Owaisi, Indian politician * Asad Raza (artist), Pakistani-American artist * Asad Rustum, Lebanese historian, academic and writer * Asad ibn Saman, early Samanid * Assad Saftawi (1935–1993), Palestinian Fatah cofounder and leader * Asad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
María De Lourdes Dieck-Assad
Dr. María de Lourdes Dieck-Assad is a Mexican economist who has held positions in academia, an international organization, government and business, including professorships in the United States and Mexico as well as serving as Mexico's ambassador to Belgium, Luxembourg and the institutions of the European Union from 2004 to 2007. For her service in this capacity, she was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown of Belgium. She attended the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM from its name in Spanish) from 1971 to 1975, graduating with a bachelor's in economics. She received her master's in 1976 from Vanderbilt University and her doctorate in the same field from the University of Texas in Austin in 1983 with a dissertation entitled “The effect of economic shocks under different monetary procedures and different economic structures,” which she wrote as an intern at the Brookings Institution . She has said that she wanted to work to make an i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asadullah (other)
Asadullāh (), also written Asadollah, Assadullah or Asad Ullah, is a male Muslim given name meaning ''Lion of Allah''. The name was initially used to refer to the Islamic Prophet Muhammad's closest kinsmen, Hamza ibn Abd al-Muttalib and Ali ibn abu Talib. Initially, the title was first given to Hamza ibn Abd al-Muttalib, Prophet Muhammad (s.a.v)'s uncle.Muhammad ibn Saad. ''Kitab al-Tabaqat al-Kabir'' vol. 3. Translated by Bewley, A. (2013). ''The Companions of Badr''. London: Ta-Ha Publishers. After the Battle of the Trench, when Ali defeated Amr ibn Abd al-Wud, Prophet Muhammad (s.a.v) reportedly gave Ali the name Asadullah (Lion of God) and praised him, saying 'Ali's strike on Amr ibn Abd al-Wud is greater than the worship of both mankind and jinn until the Day of Judgement.' The name may additionally refer to: *Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan or Mirza Ghalib (1797–1869), Urdu and Persian poet from the Indian subcontinent *Abu Abdulrahman al-Bilawi, called Asadullah by Islamic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assad Saftawi
Assad Saftawi (1935–1993) was a Palestinian cofounder and leader of the Fatah movement who was shot to death by three masked hitmen in the Gaza Strip on 21 October 1993. The assassination remains unsolved. Early life and education Saftawi was born in Al Majdal on 14 June 1935. His family left the city during the Nakba in 1948 and settled in Gaza. He attended the Teachers' Training College in Cairo between 1954 and 1957 and obtained a degree in teaching. During his studies in Cairo Saftawi became a member of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood and met Salah Khalaf. He was part of the Gaza branch in the group which also included Khalaf, Fathi Balawi, Khalil Al Wazir, Youssef Al Najjar and Kamal Adwan. Saftawi later left the Muslim Brotherhood and was involved in the establishment of the Fatah movement along with Khalaf and Yasser Arafat. Saftawi was expelled from Egypt due to his Brotherhood membership in 1957. He was put under house arrest by the Egyptian government in Gaza ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asaduddin Owaisi
Asaduddin Owaisi (born 13 May 1969) is an Indian politician who is serving as the third and current president of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) since 2008. He is a five time Member of Parliament (India), Member of Parliament representing the Hyderabad (Lok Sabha constituency), Hyderabad constituency in Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India, Indian Parliament. Born to the Owaisi family in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, Asaduddin Owaisi was trained as a barrister at Lincoln's Inn in London, England. He assumed leadership of the AIMIM upon the death of his father Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi in 2008. Owaisi is considered the leading political representative of Indian Muslims and is also regarded as a prominent member of the anti-Pakistan lobby in India. For years, he has been regularly listed by Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre, Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre (RISSC), among ''the 500 Most Influential Muslims'' of the world. Early life ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asaduzzaman (other)
Asaduzzaman () is a Bengali masculine given name of Arabic origin and may refer to: * Asaduzzaman Khan Hossainpuri (1916–1992), former Jute Minister of Bangladesh * Khandaker Asaduzzaman (1935–2020), first Finance Secretary of Bangladesh * Mohammad Asaduzzaman (1935–1993), Bangladeshi politician from Magura * Amanullah Asaduzzaman (1942–1969), Bangladeshi student activist * Asaduzzaman Noor (born 1946), Bangladeshi actor, politician * Mohammad Asaduzzaman (c. 1948–2008), Bangladeshi educator * Asaduzzaman Khan (born 1950), Bangladeshi minister of home affairs * Asaduzzaman Mohammad Raisul Islam (born 1953), Bangladeshi actor * A. K. Mohammad Asaduzzaman (born 1959), Bangladeshi High Court judge * Asaduzzaman Mia (born 1960), CEO of National Security Affairs Cell * Assaduzzaman Bablu (born 1996), Bangladeshi footballer * Asaduzzaman Bablu (politician) (born 1984), Bangladeshi politician * Mohammad Asaduzzaman Asad, Bangladeshi politician from Rajshahi * Mohammed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asad Rustum
Asad bin Jibrāʼīl Rustum Mujāʻiṣ (; 4 June 1897 – 23 June 1965) was a Lebanese historian, academic and writer. He published more than 15 books on the history of the Middle East. Life Rustum was born in Dhour El Choueir on 4 June 1897. He obtained his bachelor's and master's degree from the American University of Beirut in 1919, then a PhD in History of the Middle East from the University of Chicago in 1923. He then went back to Beirut, where he taught History of the Middle East at the American University of Beirut The American University of Beirut (AUB; ) is a private, non-sectarian, and independent university chartered in New York with its main campus in Beirut, Lebanon. AUB is governed by a private, autonomous board of trustees and offers programs le ... until his resignation in 1943. He was awarded the Order of Civil Merit of the Syrian Arab Republic and the Lebanese order of merit in 1964. Rustum died on 23 June 1965. References 1897 births People ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
