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Farhan
Farhan or Farhaan is an Arabic name which means "happy, joyful, blessed, delightful, rejoicing, merry, inclined to hopefulness". The name is the male variant from the female stem given name Farah (name), Farah, and is widely used in West Asia, North Africa and South Asia. It is a variant of Farhang (given name), Farhang as well. Notable people with these names include: Farhan *Farhan Akhtar (born 1974), Indian film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, playback singer and television host *Farhan Khan (actor) (born 1983), Indian actor *Farhan Lalji, Canadian sports reporter *Farhan Nizami, South Asian historian *Farhan Saeed (born 1984), Pakistani singer-songwriter and actor *Farhan Saleh (writer), Farhan Saleh (born 1947), Lebanese writer and militant *Farhan Zaidi (born 1976), Canadian-American baseball executive of Pakistani descent *Farhan Alanazi (born 1995) One of the firefighters is a hazardous material. Farhaan * Farhaan Behardien (born 1983), South African cric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farhan Akhtar
Farhan Akhtar (born 9 January 1974) is an Indian actor, filmmaker and singer who works in Hindi films. Born to screenwriters Javed Akhtar and Honey Irani, he established the production company Excel Entertainment, along with Ritesh Sidhwani, in 1999. Akhtar made his directorial debut with the coming-of-age film '' Dil Chahta Hai'' (2001), receiving critical acclaim for portraying realistic modern Indian youth, and winning the National Award for Best Hindi Film and Filmfare Awards for Best Film (Critics) and Best Screenplay. He then directed the war film '' Lakshya'' (2004), the action thriller '' Don'' (2006) and its sequel ''Don 2'' (2011). As an actor, Akhtar made his screen debut with the musical drama ''Rock On!!'' (2008), for which he won a second National Film Award for Best Hindi Film (as producer) as well as the Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut. He starred in, wrote the dialogues for, and produced the buddy-road film ''Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara'' (2011), whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farhan Saeed
Farhan Saeed (born 14 September 1984) is a Pakistani singer-songwriter, actor and entrepreneur. Saeed is the former lead vocalist of the Pakistani band Jal and owns the Cafe Rock restaurant in Lahore. He sings in Urdu and Punjabi. He made his acting debut with the drama '' De Ijazat Jo Tu'' (2014). Saeed had his breakthrough with ''Udaari'', for which he received the Hum Award for Best Supporting Actor nomination. He earned wider recognition with his portrayals in '' Suno Chanda'' (2018), '' Suno Chanda 2'' (2019) and '' Mere Humsafar'' (2021-22). The former won him Hum Award for Best Actor Popular. Saeed made his film debut with '' Tich Button'' (2022). Early life and career Farhan Saeed Butt was born into a Punjabi-Kashmiri family. Both his parents are practicing doctors. A music fan from the very start, he used to listen to Vital Signs and Junoon and centred his music around pop, and at times folk. In his teens, he took A-level from the Keynesian Institute of Manageme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farhan Zaidi
Farhan Zaidi (born November 11, 1976) is a Canadian professional baseball executive. He has also served as president of baseball operations for the San Francisco Giants, general manager for the Los Angeles Dodgers, and as assistant general manager of the Oakland Athletics of Major League Baseball (MLB). He currently works for the Dodgers as a special advisor and also assists Dodgers owner Mark Walter with his other sports interests. Zaidi is one of the only Muslim executives in Major League Baseball. He was the first Muslim, Pakistani-Canadian, and, subsequently, South Asian-Canadian general manager in Major League Baseball. He was also the first Muslim to run a major North American sports team. Early life Zaidi was born on November 11, 1976, in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, to a family of Pakistani ancestry. His parents, Sadiq and Anjum, raised four children: Zeeshan, Farhan, Noor, and Jaffer. Zaidi grew up in the Philippines after his family moved to Manila when he was four ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farhan Alanazi
Farhan or Farhaan is an Arabic name which means "happy, joyful, blessed, delightful, rejoicing, merry, inclined to hopefulness". The name is the male variant from the female stem given name Farah, and is widely used in West Asia, North Africa and South Asia. It is a variant of Farhang as well. Notable people with these names include: Farhan *Farhan Akhtar (born 1974), Indian film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, playback singer and television host * Farhan Khan (actor) (born 1983), Indian actor *Farhan Lalji, Canadian sports reporter * Farhan Nizami, South Asian historian *Farhan Saeed (born 1984), Pakistani singer-songwriter and actor * Farhan Saleh (born 1947), Lebanese writer and militant *Farhan Zaidi Farhan Zaidi (born November 11, 1976) is a Canadian professional baseball executive. He has also served as president of baseball operations for the San Francisco Giants, general manager for the Los Angeles Dodgers, and as assistant general mana ... (born 1976), Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farhan Saleh (writer)
Farhan Osman Saleh (Arabic: فرحان صالح) is a writer, researcher and militant from Lebanon. He was born in 1947, in the town of Kfarchouba in southern Lebanon. He is known for supporting Arab nations involved in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Saleh has published several books on politics, social, history and culture. He also writes fot Lebanese and Arab newspapers and magazines. He has also contributed to the establishment of a house for the dissemination of enlightening and modernist thought, a cultural magazine, and a seminar for cultural dialogue with a group of thinkers and intellectuals in Lebanon and the Arab world. Early life Farhan was born on 11 September 1947 in the town of Kfarchouba, in the Hasbaya District of the Nabatieh Governorate. His southern village overlooks Galilee in Palestine, and from the opposite side the Syrian Golan. Since his childhood, he has been aware of the Nakba and the diaspora of the Palestinian people, and has closely followed t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farhan Khan (actor)
Farhan Khan is an Indian model and television actor. He is mostly known for his brief role in Sony TV's ''Chhanchhan''. Overview Farhan Khan was born in Burhanpur. He comes from a family of people with a film, TV and stage background. His grandfather was a distributor and film publicist and his father is a theatre artiste, a film and TV producer and a documentary filmmaker. His uncle is an established producer and also makes documentaries edits of education, and his brother Tabrez Khan is a director of TV shows like ''Bhagyavidhaata'' among others. His older brother and mother are both writers. Career Khan's first television role was the male lead in Sony Entertainment Television's show, ''Chhanchhan ''Chhanchhan'' is an Indian family drama TV series which aired from 25 March 2013 through 19 September 2013 on Sony Entertainment Television Sony Entertainment Television (abbreviated as SET) is an Indian Hindi-language general entertainm ...'' it failed to gain ratin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farhan Lalji
Farhan Lalji is a Vancouver-based sports reporter and the Vancouver Bureau Reporter for The Sports Network, TSN's SportsCentre. He previously anchored ''SportsCentre, SportsDesk'' between 1997 and 2000. Career Lalji joined TSN in 1997 as an anchor of The Sports Network, TSN's flagship sports news program, ''SportsCentre'' (then ''SportsCentre, SportsDesk''). He currently covers the Canucks, Lions, and Whitecaps FC, as well as other sports stories from around the Vancouver area as ''SportsCentres Vancouver Bureau Reporter. He has reported from many of the biggest sporting events in North America, including the Stanley Cup Finals, NBA Finals, Grey Cup, MLB and NBA All-Star Games, golf's U.S. Open (golf), U.S. Open and PGA Championship, and the 2004, 2006, and 2010 Olympic Games. Lalji is also a regular contributor on TSN 1040 radio and a fill-in sports anchor at CTV Vancouver. Prior to joining TSN, Lalji worked as a sports and weekend news anchor for the CBC News, CBC from 1995 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farhan Nizami
Farhan Nizami CBE is a historian of South Asia. Early life and education Nizami is the youngest of five children of the historian K. A. Nizami and Razia Nizami. Nizami completed his B.A. (Hons.) and M.A. in history at Aligarh Muslim University with a first class. He was awarded the University Medal, and the Khursheed Nurul Hasan Gold Medal in 1977. He was a National Scholar at the Centre for Advanced Study in History (1977–79) and the recipient of the University Medal in 1979. He completed his D.Phil. in modern history at Wadham College on an Oxford Overseas Scholarship in 1983. During 1982–83 he was elected to the Frere Exhibition. Career Nizami has been described as having "contributed much towards a better understanding of inter-racial and inter-religious relations all over the world". Academic He is the founder-director of the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies and Prince of Wales Fellow in the study of the Islamic World, Magdalen College, Oxford. From 1983 he has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farhang (given Name)
Farhang () is a masculine given name meaning 'culture Culture ( ) is a concept that encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and Social norm, norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, Social norm, customs, capabilities, Attitude (psychology), attitudes ...'. Notable people with the name include: * Farhang Holakouee * Farhang Mehr * Farhang Sharif {{given name Persian masculine given names Masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farah (name)
Farah, or Farrah, is a feminine given name in Arabic and Persian, among other languages. Derived from the concept of Khvarenah (divine radiance, halo) in Zoroastrianism, it has more recently risen in popularity in the Anglosphere due to association with the American celebrities Farrah Fawcett (1947–2009) and Farrah Abraham (born 1991); the name Farrah was among the top 1,000 names for newborn girls in the United States between 1976 and 1980, between 1987 and 1988, and again between 2010 and 2016. Arabic Farah (Arabic: فَرَح, ''faraḥ'') is an Arabic female given name and sometimes male given name meaning "happiness, joy, gladness, gleefulness, joyful, joyfulness, merriment, rejoice" The name is based on the Arabic root ف ر ح (f-r-ḥ), variants from the root are: * Faruh/ Farouh (Arabic: فَرُوح, ''farūḥ'') - male given name * Farhat/ Farhaat (Arabic: فَرْحَات, ''farḥāt'') - male given name (but the written form is in the female plural form), the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Asia
West Asia (also called Western Asia or Southwest Asia) is the westernmost region of Asia. As defined by most academics, UN bodies and other institutions, the subregion consists of Anatolia, the Arabian Peninsula, Iran, Mesopotamia, the Armenian highlands, the Levant, the island of Cyprus, the Sinai Peninsula and the South Caucasus. The region is separated from Africa by the Isthmus of Suez in Egypt, and separated from Europe by the waterways of the Turkish Straits and the watershed of the Greater Caucasus. Central Asia lies to its northeast, while South Asia lies to its east. Twelve seas surround the region (clockwise): the Aegean Sea, the Sea of Marmara, the Black Sea, the Caspian Sea, the Persian Gulf, the Gulf of Oman, the Arabian Sea, the Gulf of Aden, the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aqaba, the Gulf of Suez, and the Mediterranean Sea. West Asia contains the majority of the similarly defined Middle East. The ''Middle East'' is a political term invented by Western geographers that has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Africa
North Africa (sometimes Northern Africa) is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region. However, it is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of the Western Sahara in the west, to Egypt and Sudan's Red Sea coast in the east. The most common definition for the region's boundaries includes Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, and Western Sahara, the territory territorial dispute, disputed between Morocco and the list of states with limited recognition, partially recognized Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic. The United Nations’ definition includes all these countries as well as Sudan. The African Union defines the region similarly, only differing from the UN in excluding the Sudan and including Mauritania. The Sahel, south of the Sahara, Sahara Desert, can be considered as the southern boundary of North Africa. North Africa includes the Spanish cities of Ceuta and Melilla, and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
