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Asad I
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 Shafiq, P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lion
The lion (''Panthera leo'') is a large Felidae, cat of the genus ''Panthera'', native to Sub-Saharan Africa and India. It has a muscular, broad-chested body (biology), body; a short, rounded head; round ears; and a dark, hairy tuft at the tip of its tail. It is sexually dimorphic; adult male lions are larger than females and have a prominent mane. It is a social species, forming groups called prides. A lion's pride consists of a few adult males, related females, and cubs. Groups of female lions usually hunt together, preying mostly on medium-sized and large ungulates. The lion is an apex predator, apex and keystone predator. The lion inhabits grasslands, savannahs, and shrublands. It is usually more diurnality, diurnal than other wild cats, but when persecuted, it adapts to being active nocturnality, at night and crepuscular, at twilight. During the Neolithic period, the lion ranged throughout Africa and Eurasia, from Southeast Europe to India, but it has been reduced to fr ... [...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] |
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] |
Omar Asad
Omar Andrés Asad (born 9 April 1971) is an Argentine football manager and former player who played as a forward. He is the current manager of Ecuadorian club El Nacional. As a player, Asad spent all of his career in Vélez Sársfield, winning 8 titles with the club (including both the Copa Libertadores and the Intercontinental Cup). Asad is nicknamed ''el Turco'' (in English: "the Turk") because he has Syrian and Lebanese ethnicity. In Argentina, Arabs are usually mistakenly called Turks since they came to the country with Ottoman Turkish documents in the 1900s. Playing career Asad played as a striker and was characterised by being strong and quick. His first match in the Argentine Primera División came in 1992, when he played for Vélez Sársfield against Talleres de Córdoba. He was a determinant player in Vélez' most successful years, along manager Carlos Bianchi and Paraguayan goalkeeper José Luis Chilavert. With Vélez, Asad won the Argentine Primera Divisi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muhammad Asad
Muhammad Asad (born Leopold Weiss; 2 July 1900 – 20 February 1992) was an Austria-Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Muslim polymath, born in modern day Ukraine. He worked as a journalist, traveler, writer, List of political theorists, political theorist, and diplomat. His translation of the Quran in English, "''The Message of The Qur'an''" (1980) is one of the most notable of his works. In Asad's words in "''The Message of the Quran''": "the work which I am now placing before the public is based on a lifetime of study and of many years spent in Arabia. It is an attempt – perhaps the first attempt – at a really idiomatic, explanatory rendition of the Qur'anic message into a European language." By age 13, Weiss had acquired a passing fluency in Hebrew language, Hebrew and Aramaic language, Aramaic, in addition to his First language, native German and Polish language, Polish languages. By his mid-twenties, he could read and write in English, French, Persian language, Persia ... [...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] |
Julio Asad
Julio Daniel Asad (; born 7 June 1953) is an Argentine former football player and manager. He played as a midfielder, and participated with Argentina in the 1975 Copa América. Asad was nicknamed "El Turco" due to his Syrian and Lebanese ethnicity. In Argentina, Arabs were mistakenly called Turks, since they came to Argentina with Ottoman Turkish documents in the 1900s. After he retired from professional football, he became a manager. He has coached clubs in Argentina, Ecuador, Saudi Arabia, and El Salvador. He is the uncle of Omar Asad, who was also a successful player for Vélez in the 1990s.100 x 100 El Turco Asad", Diego Borinsky, El Gráfico, número 4398, maio de 2010, pp. 24-35 Honours Manager Club Deportivo Riestra * Champion: 1985 Defensores de Belgrano * Champions: 1991–92 Club Leandro N. Alem * Champions: Clausura 1996 Centro Deportivo Olmedo * Champions: 2000 Club Deportivo Cuenca * Champions: 2004 Al-Nassr * Federation Cup: 2007 Personal * Coach Of The ... [...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] |
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] |
Mohammed Asad Ullah Sayeed
Mohammed Asad Ullah Sayeed (6 October 1918 – 18 March 1997) was an IAS officer with government of Andhra Pradesh from 1950 to 1978 and former founding chairman of the National Association Of Muslims (NAM), a charitable organisation based in Hyderabad, India. He served as district collector of Mahbubnagar, Khammam and East Godawari districts of the then undivided state of Andhra Pradesh. Early life Mohammed Asad Ullah Sayeed was born in Hyderabad, Telangana (former undivided Andhra Pradesh Andhra Pradesh (ISO 15919, ISO: , , AP) is a States and union territories of India, state on the East Coast of India, east coast of southern India. It is the List of states and union territories of India by area, seventh-largest state and th ...). His father Mohammad Habib Ullah Sayeed and Ayesha Begum Sayeed were from a prominent family of Navayets from Hyderabad of whom were several officers under the Nizam's government of Hyderabad state like Hasnuddin Ahmed, father of Allahud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asad Umar
Asad Umar (; born 8 September 1961) is a Pakistani former business executive and politician who served as the Finance, Revenue, and Economic Affairs Minister of Pakistan from August 2018 to April 2019 and the Federal Minister for Planning, Development, Reforms and Special Initiatives from November 2019 to April 2022. Prior to entering politics, he served as the chief executive officer (CEO) of Engro from 2004 to 2012. Asad joined politics in 2012 and served as secretary-general of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf from December 2021 to 24 May 2023. Early life and education Asad Umar was born in Rawalpindi in 1961 to a military family. His father, Ghulam Umar, who retired as a major general, was considered a close aide to President Yahya Khan and served as the first National Security Advisor from 1969 to 1971. He is also the youngest brother of Mohammad Zubair and is the youngest of six brothers and one sister. After his father's retirement from the military, he moved to Karachi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
