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Parisa (given Name)
Parisā () is a Persian feminine given name. History The ancient Persian name "Parysatis" () is related to this name. Two notable women with the name "Parysatis" are: Parysatis, who was the wife of Darius II (), (''Dārayavahuš''), king of the Persian Empire and Parysatis II, the youngest daughter of Artaxerxes III of Persia, who was the wife of Alexander the Great. "Pari" can be used as a diminutive of Parisa, however Pari () is used as a name of its own right as well. Pari is sometimes incorrectly translated to angel; Fereshteh () is a feminine given name that means angel. The Pari (or Peri) in Persian mythology are described to be a race of beautiful and benevolent supernatural fairy beings, earlier regarded as malevolent. People with the given name Parisa Notable people with the name Parisa include: *Parisa (born 1950), Iranian vocalist and musician * Parisa Bakhtavar (born 1972), Iranian film and television director *Parisa Fakhri (born 1975), Iranian actress * Pari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Persian Language
Persian ( ), also known by its endonym and exonym, endonym Farsi (, Fārsī ), is a Western Iranian languages, Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian languages, Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian languages, Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages. Persian is a pluricentric language predominantly spoken and used officially within Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan in three mutual intelligibility, mutually intelligible standard language, standard varieties, respectively Iranian Persian (officially known as ''Persian''), Dari, Dari Persian (officially known as ''Dari'' since 1964), and Tajik language, Tajiki Persian (officially known as ''Tajik'' since 1999).Siddikzoda, S. "Tajik Language: Farsi or not Farsi?" in ''Media Insight Central Asia #27'', August 2002. It is also spoken natively in the Tajik variety by a significant population within Uzbekistan, as well as within other regions with a Persianate society, Persianate history in the cultural sphere o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parisa
Fātemeh Vā'ezi (, born March 16, 1950, in Tonekabon, Iran), better known as Parisā (), is a Iranian traditional music, Persian classical singer, Avaz (music), Avaz master, and one of the foremost female vocalists from Iran. Early life and musical training After finishing high school, emphasizing Persian literature, she started her musical work under the supervision of the renowned Persian Radif teacher, Mahmoud Karimi, a highly respected teacher of classical Persian music whose vast knowledge of the ancient repertoire was fundamental to her career. Karimi once commented: "Parisa is my most promising pupil, and she can sing all the modes with the skill of re-interpretation or improvisation necessary to perform Iranian music correctly". Career In the early 1970s, Parisa trained intensely with vocal master Mahmud Karimi at the Honarestan-e Musiqi-ye Meli (National Music Academy) and occasionally performed at the Ministry of Culture's Rudaki Hall. Fulbright scholar of Irani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shimmer And Shine
''Shimmer and Shine'' is an American animated television series created by Farnaz Esnaashari-Charmatz and produced by Guru Studio on Season 1, Xentrix Studios on Seasons 2–4, and Nickelodeon Animation Studio. It premiered on Nickelodeon's Nick Jr. block on August 24, 2015, and ran for four seasons until February 9, 2020. The show is about twin genies, Shimmer and Shine, who grant wishes for their human friend Leah.in the first season, Shimmer and Shine also love doing acrobatic skills and things that involve curling up into a ball or rolling(especially Shine), they do this in my secret genies, lights, camera, genies!, ahoy genies, and more season one episodes On March 19, 2018, new episodes moved to the separate Nick Jr. Channel. Plot The first season is set in the human world and focuses on a young girl named Leah who is friends with twin genie sisters named Shimmer and Shine. Each day, the genies grant Leah three wishes, but they often make mistakes. Each episode features ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parisa Tabriz
Parisa Tabriz is an American engineer, computer security expert, and executive working for Google as a Vice President and General Manager of Google Chrome. She is known professionally by her semi-official job title, "Security Princess". Early life and education Parisa Tabriz was born in 1983 to an Iranian father, a doctor, and a Polish-American mother, a nurse. She grew up in the suburbs of Chicago and is the older sister of two brothers. Tabriz was not exposed to coding and computer science until her first year at university. Tabriz initially enrolled at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign to study computer engineering, but soon became interested in coding and computer science. She completed a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degree at the university and did research in wireless security and attacks on privacy-enhancing technologies, co-authoring papers with her advisor Nikita Borisov. She was an active member of a student club interested in computer sec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parisa Mehrkhodavandi
Parisa Mehrkhodavandi is a Canadians, Canadian chemist and Professor of Chemistry at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Her research focuses on the design of new catalysts that can effect polymerization of sustainably sourced or biodegradable polymers. Education and training Parisa Mehrkhodavandi completed her undergraduate degree in chemistry at the University of British Columbia in 1998. During her undergraduate, she worked with Prof. Chris Orvig on the synthesis of novel sugar-containing Chelation, chelating ligands, and studies on the binding of these ligands to transition metal ions. Mehrkhodavandi also studied cationic lanthanide coordination complexes. Mehrkhodavandi pursued graduate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the supervision of Richard R. Schrock. Her work at MIT focused on the synthesis of cationic zirconium and hafnium complexes bearing arylated diamidopyridine ligands, and the polymerization of 1-hexene with these catalysts. Me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moderate Party
The Moderate Party ( , , M), commonly referred to as the Moderates ( ), is a Liberal conservatism, liberal-conservative* * * * * List of political parties in Sweden, political party in Sweden. The party generally supports tax cuts, the free market, civil liberties and economic liberalism. Globally, it is a full member of the International Democracy Union and the European People's Party. The party was founded in 1904 as the General Electoral League ( ) by a group of conservatives in the Riksdag, the Swedish parliament. The party was later known as The Right ( ; 1938–1952) and Right Party ( ; 1952–1969). During this time, the party was usually called the Conservative Party outside of Sweden. After holding minor posts in centre-right governments, the Moderates eventually became the leading opposition party to the Swedish Social Democratic Party and since then those two parties have dominated Swedish politics. After the 1991 Swedish general election, party leader Carl Bildt fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parisa Liljestrand
Parisa Mollagholi Liljestrand (born 15 March 1983) is a Swedish politician for the Moderate Party. She is the Minister for Culture in the Ulf Kristersson cabinet since 18 October 2022. Family background Liljestrand was born in Iran. When she was four, the family fled Iran after the fall of the Shah and during the Iran-Iraq War. Her father was a pilot in the Iranian armed forces and was able to steal a helicopter and fly his family out of the country in the dark over the mountains. After six months at the refugee center in Surahammar, the family finally ended up in Vallentuna. In an article in ''Svenska Dagbladet'' in 2016, she said that she "takes every opportunity" to celebrate both Swedish and Iranian holidays. She is for the protection of "the libertarian, the democratic values and independence, not least". Education Parisa Liljestrand studied to be a teacher at Uppsala University between 2001 and 2007. She was principal in Vaxholm until 2018. Career In 2002, she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parisa Damandan
Parisa Damandan, or Parīsā Damandān Nafīsī (born 1967, Isfahan, Iran) is an Iranian photographer and art historian. Early life and education She received a degree in photography from the University of Tehran.Book description and author biography for "Portrait photographs from Isfahan" from the publisher, Saqi Books She is the author of '' Portrait photographs from Isfahan: Faces in transition, 1920-1950'', a book illustrating the history of Isfahan in the early 20th century with |
Parisa Fitz-Henley
Parisa Fitz-Henley (born July 22, 1977) is a Jamaican-born American actress, best known for her role as Reva Connors in ''Jessica Jones'' and ''Luke Cage''. From 2017 to 2018, Fitz-Henley starred in the NBC drama '' Midnight, Texas''. Early life Fitz-Henley was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, where she attended St Andrew High School. She won the Fashion Model of the Year award in 1996 from the Pulse modeling agency. Her mother is of English/German/Italian descent and her father's ethnicity is African & Scottish. Philanthropy Fitz-Henley is on the advisory board of the Mona Foundation which works "to improve the lives of women and children around the world by funding educational initiatives." She and fellow actor Rainn Wilson Rainn Percival Dietrich Wilson (born January 20, 1966) is an American actor, comedian, podcaster, producer, writer, and director. He starred as Dwight Schrute on NBC's American adaptation of ''The Office'' from 2005 to 2013, and received t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parisa Fakhri
Parisa J. Fakhri is an Iranian American actress and voice actress who works for Funimation. Her voice roles include Arisa Uotani in '' Fruits Basket (2001)'' and Bra in ''Dragon Ball GT''. She has guest-starred in a number of live action television series, such as ''House'', '' CSI: NY'', and '' Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'' From 2009 to 2013, she starred as Mira in the serieDwelling and in 2022, appeared in episodes of '' What We Do in the Shadows'' as Marwa, one of Nandor's thirty-seven wives. Filmography Television roles * '' Make It or Break It'' - Dr. Eileen Curtis (Episode: "Growing Pains") * ''Castle'' - Colette (Episode: "Till Death Do Us Part") * '' House M.D.'' - Susan (Episode: "Saviors") * ''Eli Stone'' - Sana (Episode: "Should I Stay or Should I Go?") * '' Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'' (Episodes: " A Fractured House" as Senator's Aide and " Love in the Time of Hydra" as Lt. Decker) * '' The Thundermans'' - Lady Web (Episode: "A Hero Is Born", and "Secret Revealed") * '' SEAL ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parisa Bakhtavar
Parisa Bakhtavar () is an Iranian film and television director born on August 16, 1972, in Tehran, Iran. Biography She is best known for her television series ''Poshte Konkooriha'', which follows the lives of high school seniors studying for their college entrance exams. In 2008, Bakhtavar directed ''Tambourine'', which is her debut film that features an ensemble cast.Fars News Agency report on Dayereye Zangi Mehr News article on Dayerey Zendegi /ref> She is married to Iranian film director . < ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fairy
A fairy (also called fay, fae, fae folk, fey, fair folk, or faerie) is a type of mythical being or legendary creature, generally described as anthropomorphism, anthropomorphic, found in the folklore of multiple European cultures (including Celtic mythology, Celtic, Slavic paganism, Slavic, Germanic folklore, Germanic, and French folklore, French folklore), a form of Supernatural#Spirit, spirit, often with metaphysical, supernatural, or preternatural qualities. Myths and stories about fairies do not have a single origin but are rather a collection of folk beliefs from disparate sources. Various folk theories about the origins of fairies include casting them as either demoted angels or demons in a Christian mythology, Christian tradition, as deities in Paganism, Pagan belief systems, as Spirit (supernatural entity), spirits of the dead, as Prehistory, prehistoric precursors to humans, or as spirits of nature. The label of ''fairy'' has at times applied only to specific Magic (su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
