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Chalabi (surname)
Chalabi () is a surname. Notable people with the surname Chalabi or al-Chalabi include: *Ahmed Chalabi (1944–2015), Iraqi politician * Ammar Al-Chalabi (fl. 1999 – present), British neuroscientist and motor neuron diseases researcher *Burhan Al-Chalabi (born 1947), British-Iraqi writer and political commentator * Edgard Chalabi (1928–1963), Lebanese chess master * Fadhil Chalabi (1929–2019), Iraqi oil economist *Husam al-Din Chalabi (1225–1284), Kurdish Muslim Sufi and a prominent disciple of Rumi *Issam Al-Chalabi (1942–2025), Iraqi politician *Mona Chalabi (born 1987), British writer *''Nuri Ja'far Ali al-Chalabi'', known as Nuri Ja'far (1914–1991), Iraqi psychologist and philosopher of education *Salem Chalabi (born 1963), Iraqi lawyer *Selma Chalabi (fl. 2000s), British radio producer and journalist See also *Çelebi Çelebi (, ) was an Ottoman title of respect, approximately corresponding to "gentleman", "well-mannered" or "courteous". ''Çelebi'' also means " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahmed Chalabi
Ahmed Abdel Hadi Chalabi (; 30 October 1945 – 3 November 2015) was an Iraqi dissident politician, convicted fraudster and founder of the Iraqi National Congress (INC) who served as the President of the Governing Council of Iraq ( 37th Prime Minister of Iraq) and a Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq under Ibrahim al-Jaafari. He is believed to have been an Iranian agent and had ties with Iran. Chalabi was interim Minister of Oil in Iraq in April–May 2005 and December 2005 – January 2006 and Deputy Prime Minister from May 2005 to May 2006. Chalabi failed to win a seat in parliament in the December 2005 elections, and when the new Iraqi cabinet was announced in May 2006, he was not given a post. Once dubbed the "George Washington of Iraq" by American supporters, he was initially a CIA-backed operative, who later fell out of favor, with U.S. Special Forces raiding his private residence in Baghdad only one year after the invasion of Iraq. He later came under investigation by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ammar Al-Chalabi
Ammar Al-Chalabi is Professor of Neurology and Complex Disease Genetics at the Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute at King's College London, where he is also head of the Department of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience and Director of the King's Motor Neuron Disease Research Centre. In 2020, he received the Forbes Norris Award from the International Alliance Of Als/Mnd Associations and was a co-winner of the Healey Center International Prize for Innovation in ALS. His other awards include the Sheila Essey Award from the American Academy of Neurology and the Charcot Young Investigator Award from the Motor Neurone Disease Association. In 2021 he was appointed Senior Investigator at the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). Biography Al-Chalabi is married with two sons and is a drummer in a band in his spare time. As a child, Al-Chalabi hoped to join the Australian Flying Ambulance. His father worked for BP and the family moved often. He was initially rejected f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Floruit
''Floruit'' ( ; usually abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for 'flourished') denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicating the time when someone flourished. Etymology and use is the third-person singular perfect active indicative of the Latin verb ', ' "to bloom, flower, or flourish", from the noun ', ', "flower". Broadly, the term is employed in reference to the peak of activity for a person or movement. More specifically, it often is used in genealogy and historical writing when a person's birth or death dates are unknown, but some other evidence exists that indicates when they were alive. For example, if there are Will (law), wills Attestation clause, attested by John Jones in 1204 and 1229, as well as a record of his marriage in 1197, a record concerning him might be written as "John Jones (fl. 1197–1229)", even though Jones was born before ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burhan Al-Chalabi
Burhan Al-Chalabi (born 1 March 1947) is a British-Iraqi writer and political commentator, and an expert on Middle Eastern relations. He is also the publisher of the London magazine, London Magazine, Britain's oldest journal of the arts and literature (est 1732). Al-Chalabi is the founder and former chairman of the British-Iraqi Foundation, and has been described as one of the most prominent Iraqis living in the UK. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs. He is also a former academic advisor to the United Arab Emirates. Personal life Al-Chalabi was born in 1947 in Mosul, Iraq. In 1965 he was awarded a scholarship by the Iraqi Ministry of Oil to study in the UK. He holds a PhD in Thermal Power from Imperial College London. Al-Chalabi is the owner of BMC Properties, a large London-based property company. Work Dr Al-Chalabi holds the role of publisher for ''The London Magazine''. He purchased the historical public ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgard Chalabi
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Fadhil Chalabi
Fadhil Jafar al-Chalabi (1929–2019) was an Iraqi economist, and was Acting Secretary General of OPEC from 1983 to 1988. He was a second cousin of the politician Ahmed Chalabi. Biography Born in 1929 in Baghdad to Jafar Mohamad al-Chalabi and Fatima née al -Uzri, Chalabi studied law at Baghdad University and graduated in 1951 before gaining a PhD in economics from the University of Paris. In 1968 he was appointed director of oil affairs in the Iraqi Ministry of Oil, and in 1973 became Iraq's permanent undersecretary of oil. In 1975 he was one of the hostages taken by Carlos the Jackal at the OPEC-Conference in Vienna ( see OPEC siege). He was assistant secretary general to the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries in Kuwait from 1976 to 1978. From 1978 to 1988 he was deputy secretary general of OPEC, serving as acting secretary general from 1983 to 1988. In 1987 he became Executive Director of the Centre for Global Energy Studies, a London-based think-tank founded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Husam Al-Din Chalabi
Husam al-Din Chalabi, Ebn Akhi Tork (, , ) was a Turkish Muslim Sufi and a prominent disciple of Rumi. He encouraged Rumi to create his famous work ''Masnavi'' and contributed to writing and editing the book. Rumi repeatedly praised Husam al-Din in his poetry and letters. Husam al-Din is supposed to have been born in Konya around 1225. His grandfather was a Turkish Sufi originally from Urmia and buried in Baghdad. Some have recorded his grandfather's name as ''Shaykh Taj al-Din Abu al-Wafa''. Husam al-Din became a disciple of Rumi in Konya. Later in 1273, after Rumi's death, he became his successor. He remained in this position until his death in 1284 when he was succeeded by Rumi's son Sultan Walad Baha al-Din Muhammad-i Walad (), more popularly known as Sultan Walad (), was a Sufi, Hanafi Maturidi Islamic scholar and one of the founders of the Mawlawiya () order.Schubert, Gudrun. "Sulṭān Walad , Bahāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad-i Walad." Enc .... References {{DEFAULTS ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rumi
Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī (), or simply Rumi (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273), was a 13th-century poet, Hanafi '' faqih'' (jurist), Maturidi theologian (''mutakallim''), and Sufi mystic born during the Khwarazmian Empire. Rumi's works were written mostly in Persian, but occasionally he also used Turkish, Arabic and Greek in his verse. His ''Masnavi'' (''Mathnawi''), composed in Konya, is considered one of the greatest poems of the Persian language.C.E. Bosworth, "Turkmen Expansion towards the west" in UNESCO History of Humanity, Volume IV, titled "From the Seventh to the Sixteenth Century", UNESCO Publishing / Routledge, p. 391: "While the Arabic language retained its primacy in such spheres as law, theology and science, the culture of the Seljuk court and secular literature within the sultanate became largely Persianized; this is seen in the early adoption of Persian epic names by the Seljuk rulers (Qubād, Kay Khusraw and so on) and in the use of Pers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Issam Al-Chalabi
Issam Al-Chalabi (; 24 May 1942 – 8 February 2025) was an Iraqi politician. He served as Minister of Oil from 1987 to 1990. Al-Chalabi was born on 24 May 1942, and died in Amman Amman ( , ; , ) is the capital and the largest city of Jordan, and the country's economic, political, and cultural center. With a population of four million as of 2021, Amman is Jordan's primate city and is the largest city in the Levant ..., Jordan on 8 February 2025, at the age of 82. References 1942 births 2025 deaths Alumni of University College London Oil ministers of Iraq People from Baghdad {{Iraq-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mona Chalabi
Mona Chalabi is a British data journalist, illustrator, and writer of Iraqi descent, known for her publications with ''The New York Times'' and ''The Guardian''. Chalabi received the Pulitzer Prize for Illustrated Reporting and Commentary in 2023 for "striking illustrations that combine statistical reporting with keen analysis to help readers understand the immense wealth and economic power of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos." She was nominated for a News & Documentary Emmy Award in the Category ''New Approaches: Arts, Lifestyle & Culture'' in 2017 and received the 2020 Shorty Award in the category ''Best Journalist in Social Media''. Early life Chalabi was born to Iraqi immigrants and grew up in East London where she was educated at Woodford County High School For Girls. She received an undergraduate degree in International Relations from the University of EdinburghUniversity of Edinburgh and earned a master's degree in International Security from the Paris Institute of Pol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuri Ja'far
Nuri Ja'far Ali al-Chalabi (), better known as Nuri Ja'far (; 1914 – 7 November 1991), was an Iraqi psychologist, philosopher of education, and author. He wrote more than fifty works on pedagogy, psychology, history, philosophy, thought and literature. After graduating from the Higher Teachers' House in Baghdad, he went to the United States, and received a master's degree from Ohio University in 1948 and a doctorate in philosophy from the same university in the following year. He was a student of John Dewey and majored in neuropsychology. In his late years, he moved to Libya to teach at the University of Tripoli, until his death. Although Ja'far died in 1991, controversy about his death is continued by biographers. Biography Early years and education Ja'far was born in Al-Qurnah, Basra vilayet. His father, a farmer, and mother, Halimah bint Muhammad Ali Chalabi, were first cousins. Ja'far, referring to his mother, stated that "she was calm, very tolerant, and read the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salem Chalabi
Salem Chalabi (aka "Sam Challabi") (born 13 August 1963, in Baghdad) is an Iraq-born, British- and American-educated lawyer. He was appointed as the first General Director of the Iraqi Special Tribunal, set up in 2003 to try Saddam Hussein and other members of his regime for crimes against humanity. His appointment, by an order signed by Paul Bremer, the head of the occupation authority, was widely criticized for perceived nepotism (his uncle, Ahmed Chalabi, was critically involved in the US-led war against Iraq and Hussein) and he himself lacked any significant trial experience (he was a corporate securities lawyer). He was ultimately dropped from the Tribunal after an arrest warrant was issued for investigation into his role in the murder of a director-general of the Iraqi Ministry of Finance who was investigating Chalabi family properties acquired in Iraq; the charge was ultimately dismissed citing lack of evidence. Biography Salem Chalabi was educated in Britain and in the Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
