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Albasheer Show
''Albasheer Show'' (Arabic: البشير شو) is an Iraqi satirical news programme, created and hosted by Ahmed Albasheer. It currently airs weekly on DW's Arabic language channel, with episodes also posted onto YouTube. The show first premiered on 30 August 2014 and until 2017 aired intermittently on various Iraqi television channels. Pressure from the Iraqi Communications and Media Commission has meant that the show is no longer broadcast in Iraq, although citizens are able to access the programme online. By 2015 the show had a recorded audience of 19 million, over half of Iraq's total population, and the show and its host has been called among the most influential in the country, with it being cited as playing a major role in the 2019-2021 Iraqi protests. Development and content Albasheer was born in Ramadi, Iraq, and worked for eight years as a political commentator on Iraq's state-owned television channels. In 2011, after being injured in a suicide bombing in which hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
News Satire
News satire or news comedy is a type of parody presented in a format typical of mainstream journalism, and called a satire because of its content. News satire has been around almost as long as journalism itself, but it is particularly popular on the web, with websites like ''The Onion'' and ''The Babylon Bee'', where it is relatively easy to mimic a legitimate news site. News satire relies heavily on irony and deadpan humor. Two slightly different types of news satire exist. One form uses satirical commentary and sketch comedy to comment on real-world events, while the other presents wholly fictionalized news stories. In history Author Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) was employed as a newspaper reporter before becoming famous as a novelist, and in this position he published many satirical articles. He left two separate journalism positions, Nevada (1864) fleeing a challenge to duel and San Francisco fleeing outraged police officials because his satire and fiction were often taken f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 U.S. state, states, a Washington, D.C., federal district, five major unincorporated territories, nine United States Minor Outlying Islands, Minor Outlying Islands, and 326 Indian reservations. The United States is also in Compact of Free Association, free association with three Oceania, Pacific Island Sovereign state, sovereign states: the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and the Palau, Republic of Palau. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, third-largest country by both land and total area. It shares land borders Canada–United States border, with Canada to its north and Mexico–United States border, with Mexico to its south and has maritime borders with the Bahamas, Cuba, Russia, and other nations. With a population of over 333 million, it is the List of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maysoon Al-Damluji
Maysoon Salem Al-Damluji (Arabic: ميسون سالم الدملوجي); born 1962) first name also spelt Maysun, is a liberal Iraqi politician and women's rights campaigner. She was Iraq's deputy minister of culture from June 2004 until March 2006 and is a member of the Council of Representatives for the Al-Wataniya national coalition, headed by former Prime Minister and Vice President Iyad Allawi. Al-Damluji is the president of the Iraqi Independent Women's Group (IIWG). Her brother, Omar Al-Farouq Al-Damluji, was Iraq's minister of housing in 2004-5. Her nephew, Hassan Al-Damluji, is a British-Iraqi development strategist. In 2010, Al-Damluji became the official spokesman for the Iraqiya movement, which later dissolved in December 2012. Background and Exile Al-Damluji was born in 1962 in Baghdad to a distinguished family of doctors and politicians, and raised in an upper-middle class society. Her great uncle, Abdullah Beg al-Damluji, was the first foreign minister of Saudi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larry Charles
Larry Charles (born ) is an American comedian, screenwriter, director, actor, and producer. He was a staff writer for the sitcom ''Seinfeld'' for its first five seasons. He has also directed the documentary film ''Religulous'' and the mockumentary comedy films ''Borat'', ''Brüno'', and '' The Dictator''. His Netflix documentary series ''Larry Charles' Dangerous World of Comedy'' premiered in 2019. Early life Charles was raised in a Jewish family in Trump Village, located between Brighton Beach and Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York. After graduating from John Dewey High School, he attended college at Rutgers University in New Jersey, but he left school to perform comedy routines. Career Early career Charles performed stand-up comedy during the 1970s until he was hired to write for the short-lived sketch comedy show '' Fridays'', where he worked with Larry David. This began Charles's career in television writing that included ''The Arsenio Hall Show'' and eventually ''Seinfel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Raad
Joe Raad ( ar, جو رعد; born February 4, 1985, in Beirut) is a Lebanese singer, composer, music director, and songwriter of Syrian descent. Discography Studio albums *2007: ''Malawe'' *2008: ''Berohl'' *2012: ''Talei'' *2014: ''Nazra Minnak'' *2015: ''Aayb Aalli Byaamel Aayb'' *2015: ''Ana Bachhadlak'' *2016: ''Wesh Endak'' *2017: ''Mastah'' Live albums *2014: ''Nazra Minnak'' *2015: ''Aayb Aalli Byaamel Aayb'' *2015: ''Ana Bachhadlak'' *2016: ''Wesh Endak'' *2017: ''Mastah'' *2018: ''Hobbak Backwashni'' *2018: ''Habib Mawzati'' References External links Joe Raadon Anghami (Joe Raad)(EN) Official Website of Joe RaadAn interviewwith Joe Raad on Sayidaty ''Sayidaty'' ( Arabic سيدتي ''Sayyidatī'', meaning ''My Lady'' in English) is a weekly Arabic and a monthly English women's magazine published in both Riyadh and Beirut and distributed throughout the Middle East, North Africa, Europe ... An interview with Joe Raad on Rotana TV Living people 198 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zainab Salbi
Zainab Salbi (Arabic: زينب سلبي; born 1969) is an Iraqi American women's rights activist and writer. She is the co-founder of Women for Women International and host of ''Through Her Eyes'' with Yahoo! News and '' #MeToo, Now What?'', PBS documentary mini series. She is the author of several books, including '' Between Two Worlds: Escape From Tyranny: Growing Up in the Shadow Of Saddam'' and ''The Other Side of War: Women's Stories of Survival & Hope''. Early life and education Salbi was born in 1969 in Baghdad, Iraq. In 1971, she moved to the Mansour district with her parents. Her mother worked as a teacher and her father was a commercial pilot. Her memoir describes her mother Alia as secular, while according to ''The Daily Beast'' she was Shia, and raised Salbi "undogmatically". When Salbi was 11, her father became the personal pilot for Saddam Hussein, who then regularly visited the family at their home while he was president of Iraq. The Iran-Iraq War also occu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claudia Roth
Claudia Benedikta Roth (born 15 May 1955) is a German politician (Alliance 90/The Greens). She was one of the two party chairs from 2004 to 2013 and previously served as one of the vice presidents of the ''Bundestag''. She is also currently serving as Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media in the government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz since 2021. Biography Roth was born in Ulm, Germany. She began her artistic work, which she always regarded as also being political, in the 1970s as a trained artistic director at a theatre in Memmingen. She then worked at the municipal theatre in Dortmund and the Hoffmanns-Comic-Teater, and subsequently began managing the political rock band "Ton Steine Scherben" until 1985, when the band disbanded due to the band's high debt burden. She came into contact with the Green party on election campaign tours. In 1985, she became press spokesperson for the Green Party's parliamentary group in the Bundestag, despite being a newcomer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fareed Lafta
Fareed Lafta ( ar, فريد لفتة) is an Iraqi pilot and athlete. He was the first qualified cosmonaut from Iraq, and has appeared in Guinness World Records for participating in the first skydive above Mount Everest. Guinness World Records Largest flag flown whilst skydiving by Fareed, according to Guinness World Records, Whilst parachuting over the Skydive Chicago facility in Ottawa, Illinois, USA, Fareed flew an Iraq flag measuring 1,226.27 m² (13,199.49 ft²). As well Fareed flew in a lawn chair suspended by helium-filled party balloons over central Oregon, USA. Lawn chair balloon flight cancelled early. Due to thunderstorms and winds Fareed and Kent Couch faced a loss due to end of flight which failed the plan of taking off out of Oregon to Montana, the two lawn - chairs were attached 350 helium balloons. The flight almost travelled around 30 miles (48km.) at an altitude of 10,000 feet (3048 metres) from the start point in the north east. Peace and Sport Forum At the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salim Al-Jabouri
Salim Abdullah al-Jabouri ( Arabic: سليم عبدالله الجبوري) (born 12 August 1971) is an Iraqi politician who was elected as the Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament on 15 July 2014 until 1 July 2018. Al-Jabouri now holds the position of president of Iraqi Parliament starting from 2014. Al-Jabouri is a Sunni Arab from Muqdadiya, Diyala Governorate who obtained a doctorate in law in 2001. He worked as a law professor at Nahrain University in Baghdad. He was originally a member of the Iraqi Islamic Party. He was elected to the Council of Representatives of Iraq in December 2005 for the Iraqi Accord Front list and he became deputy head of parliament's legal committee. Two of his brothers, Fuad and Ahmed al-Jabouri, were killed in an attack in 2007 in Muqdadiya. He stood in Diyala in the March 2010 general election but the Iraqi Accord Front failed to have any MPs elected from that province. However, he defected to the Iraqiya list and was nominated to parliament i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eva Kaili
Eva Kaili ( el, Εύα Καϊλή; born 26 October 1978) is a Greek politician who has been serving as a member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2014. She served as one of fourteen vice presidents of the European Parliament from January 2022 until she was arrested and charged with corruption in December 2022. Kaili is a former Member of the Hellenic Parliament and former television news presenter for Greek television channel MEGA Channel. Kaili's arrest was the most striking action during the Qatargate operations that caused a seismic uproar in European Union politics, because she enjoyed parliamentary immunity as a sitting vice president of the EP. Belgian authorities justified it as a case of her being caught ''in flagrante delicto''; Kaili's lawyers claim that the lengthy interrogation that immediately followed her arrest was conducted while Kaili was in a state of extreme shock, fear and confusion and led her to testify some things under stress, duress and mistreatment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Critch
Mark Critch (born May 14, 1974) is a Canadian comedian, actor, and writer. He is best known for his work on the comedy series ''This Hour Has 22 Minutes'', initially as a writer and then as a regular cast member beginning in 2003. Career Critch has been a guest on CBC Radio One's ''Madly Off in All Directions'', the CBC Television show ''Republic of Doyle'', and is the host of CBC TV's Halifax Comedy Festival. He performed at the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal and the Winnipeg Comedy Festival. He played the recurring role of Gary Breakfast on the CTV sitcom '' Satisfaction''. He appeared in several films, including ''Anchor Zone'', ''Rare Birds'' and ''Above and Beyond''. In 2013, Critch played Henry Tilley in ''The Grand Seduction'', a remake of Jean-François Pouliot's French-Canadian ''La Grande Séduction'' (2003) directed by Don McKellar. Critch and fellow Newfoundland actor Allan Hawco featured in a documentary entitled ''Trail of the Caribou'', which followed the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UTN1
UTN1 or Unknown to No One is an Iraqi pop/rock band formed in 1999 in Baghdad - Iraq Moved to Beirut in 2005. It is notable for being a pioneering group that sings in both Arabic and English, and for being formed under Saddam Hussein's regime. It was founded by Shant Garabedian and Artin Haroutunian. They were later joined by Hassan Ali Al-Falluji, Akhlad Raof, Artin Haroutunian who left the band in 2011 due to his decision to live in Holland, Marwan Sameer (Pianist/Keyboardist) joined in 2012 and left 2014. Pre-2003 Invasion The brainchild of Art (Artin) and Shant, the group was originally formed in 1999, during the last years of Saddam Hussein's presidency. The duo dared to form a pop band where few had the courage to do so. They found the resources to produce their first demo song, with limited sound engineering devices. They eventually advertised for vocalists and recruited the other three members into the band - Hassan who answered the advertisement running on the local ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
