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Mazen Shehata
Mazen is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Ahlam Mazen At-Tamimi (born c. 1980), Palestinian militant known for her role in Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing *Mazen al-Hamada (1977–2024), Syrian human rights activist *Mazen Dana (1962–2003), Palestinian journalist who worked as a Reuters cameraman *Mazen Darwish (born 1974), Syrian lawyer and free speech advocate *Mazen Gamal (born 1986), Egyptian squash player *Mazen Hesham, (born 1994), professional squash player who represents Egypt *Abu Mazen (born 1935), President of the State of Palestine and Palestinian National Authority *Mazen al-Tumeizi (1978–2004), Palestinian journalist, killed during the Haifa Street helicopter incident *Mazen Metwaly (born 1990), Saudi Arabian-born Egyptian professional swimmer, specialising in Open water swimming *Mazen Mneimneh (born 1986), Lebanese basketball player *Mazen Sinokrot (born 1954), Palestinian politician See also *Matzen (other) *Mazenod (disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahlam Mazen At-Tamimi
Ahlam Aref Ahmad al-Tamimi (; born 1980) is a Jordanian national known for assisting in carrying out the Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing in Jerusalem, in 2001. She was convicted by an Israeli military tribunal and received multiple life sentences, but was released in 2011 as part of the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange and exiled to Jordan. She hosts a television show about Palestinians in Israeli prisons. Background Al-Tamimi was born in Zarqa, Zarqa, Jordan. Tamimi was a journalism student at Birzeit University in the West Bank. Her brother Mohamed speculates that her English as a foreign language, fluency in English and the fact that she did not wear a hijab, headscarf made her less suspicious to Israeli officials.Greenwood, Phoebe.Palestinian families wait to hear prisoners' fate" ''The Guardian''. Thursday 13 October 2011. Retrieved on 26 May 2013. Tamimi originates from Nabi Salih, a Palestinian territories, Palestinian village in the central West Bank. Ben Ehrenreich of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mazen Al-Hamada
Mazen al-Hamada (; - ) was a Syrian activist from Deir ez-Zor. Hamada was imprisoned and tortured for more than a year and a half for participating in anti-government protests in the context of the Arab Spring in 2011. After being exiled from Syria, he became an asylum seeker in the Netherlands. While residing in Europe, he testified to the abuse he had suffered and witnessed. Hamada became internationally known for his testimony on the crimes of the Ba'athist regime. In 2020, Hamada decided to return to Syria, only to become the victim of enforced disappearance, when he was arrested upon arrival at the airport by Syrian intelligence. His body was found in Sednaya Prison's morgue on December 9, 2024 after the fall of the Assad regime. His funeral, held on 12 December, was attended by hundreds of Syrians; he has since been hailed as a martyr and a symbol of the Syrian opposition. Biography Hamada was a graduate of the Institute of the Petroleum Industry, and worked a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mazen Dana
Mazen Dana (, 1962 – 17 August 2003) was a Palestinian journalist who worked as a Reuters cameraman. He spent a decade covering the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in Hebron in the West Bank, for which he was awarded the 2001 International Press Freedom Award of the Committee to Protect Journalists. He was shot and killed by US soldiers in Baghdad, Iraq on 17 August 2003. Work in Hebron Dana worked for Reuters for over ten years, mostly in his home town of Hebron in the West Bank. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Dana was wounded several times in the course of his journalism. In May 2000, he was struck in the leg by an Israeli rubber bullet while filming Palestinian rock throwers. In July of that year, he was beaten into unconsciousness by Jewish settlers that he was attempting to film and had his head slammed in an ambulance door by an Israeli policeman. In October of that year, he was shot again in the leg. By March 2003, Reuters had assigned Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mazen Darwish
Mazen Darwish () is a Syrian lawyer and free speech advocate. He is the president of the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression. News organizations, including Reuters and the Associated Press, have described him as one of Syria's most prominent activists. He was imprisoned in Syria from 2012 until his release in August 2015. Since October 2022, Mazen Darwish has been one of the Secretaries General of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH). Activism Darwish is the president of the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression, a partner organization of Reporters Without Borders, founded in 2004. The organization was refused accreditation by the Syrian government, but it continues to operate in secret. In 2006, the group launched an independent news website, syriaview.net, but the site was soon banned by the Syrian government. In April 2008, Darwish and a colleague were arrested after their reporting on riots in Adra, a town near Damascus. He was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mazen Gamal
Mazen Gamal (born 30 January 1986 in Riyadh Riyadh is the capital and largest city of Saudi Arabia. It is also the capital of the Riyadh Province and the centre of the Riyadh Governorate. Located on the eastern bank of Wadi Hanifa, the current form of the metropolis largely emerged in th ...) is an Egyptian professional squash player. Coached by Karim Darwish, he reached his career-high PSA ranking of World No. 49 in September 2022. References 1986 births Living people Egyptian male squash players 21st-century Egyptian sportsmen {{Egypt-sport-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mazen Hesham
Mazen Hesham Al Sabry (; born 29 March 1994 in Cairo) is a professional squash player who represents Egypt. He is a two-times world team champion and reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 5 in May 2024. Career Hesham first became prominent in 2012, when he secured third place in the WSF junior championships in Doha. Following this result, he joined the PSA world Tour. Hesham secured his first PSA world tour title in March of the same year in the NSC scram series in Kuala Lampur, Malaysia. He went on to help the Egyptian junior national team win the world title at the World junior Team Squash championships in July 2012. He helped the junior national team defend their crown against the second seed Pakistan. Hesham went on to win his second PSA title in Hong Kong at the Crocodile Challenge cup in August 2012. He upset the number one seed and defending champion Max Lee in the final 11–13, 6–11, 11–9, 11–4, 11–3. Hesham opened his second year as a part of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abu Mazen
Mahmoud Abbas (; born 15 November 1935), also known by the Kunya (Arabic), kunya Abu Mazen (, ), is a Palestinian politician who has been serving as the second president of Palestine and the President of the Palestinian National Authority, Palestinian National Authority (Palestinian National Authority, PNA) since 2005. He has also been the fourth chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) since 2004. Abbas is also a member of the Fatah party and was elected the party's chairman in 2009. Abbas was 2005 Palestinian presidential election, elected on 9 January 2005 to serve as President of the Palestinian National Authority until 15 January 2009, but extended his term until the next election in 2010, citing the PLO constitution, and on 16 December 2009 was voted into office indefinitely by the PLO Central Council. As a result, Fatah's main rival, Hamas, initially announced that it would not recognize the extension or view Abbas as the rightful president. Nonetheless, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mazen Al-Tumeizi
Mazen al-Tumeizi ( also transliterated Mazen Tumesi, c. July 5, 1979 – September 12, 2004) was a Palestinian journalist, killed on-camera in Baghdad, Iraq by U.S. helicopter gunfire while covering the Haifa Street helicopter incident. Tumeizi, a Palestinian reporter, was covering a group of Iraqis ululating around the wreckage of a U.S. Bradley Fighting Vehicle that had been recently abandoned after suffering damage from an improvised roadside bomb attack. A loud explosion can then be heard, followed by layers of smoke and debris. Tumeizi collapses from the impact, falling toward the camera, and the camera's lens is spattered with his blood as he falls. The cameraman (identified by Tumeizi as "Seif") loses focus, but Tumeizi's last words are captured in the camera's audio feed: ''I'm going to die. I'm going to die. Seif. Seif. I'm going to die.'' "Seif" would later be identified as Reuters camera operator Seif Fouad, who was also injured in a subsequent rocket strike. R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haifa Street Helicopter Incident
The Haifa Street helicopter incident or the Haifa Street massacre was a controversial event in Baghdad, Iraq, on September 12, 2004. The fighting started before dawn on Haifa Street, where insurgents detonated two car bombs and attacked American troops with heavy gunfire. An American Bradley armored fighting vehicle was mobilized to support US troops, but it was struck by a car bomb around 6:30 a.m., wounding four American soldiers. After the wounded Americans were evacuated, witnesses reported that a crowd had gathered around the burning Bradley, apparently celebrating. Media personnel also arrived on the scene, filming the burning wreckage. Reports said that the media and crowd had been gathered around the vehicle after the fighting ended. At around 8:00 a.m., an American helicopter fired two missiles and machine guns at the burning tank, killing 13 people and injuring about 60 others. Among the dead was Mazen al-Tumeizi, a Palestinian Palestinians () are an Ara ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mazen Metwaly
Mazen Mohamed Aziz Metwaly (; born 14 March 1990) is an Egyptian professional swimmer, specialising in open water swimming. At the 2007 Open Water Swimming World Cup, he won a bronze medal. In 2008, he winning the event at Lac Saint-Jean. That year he also won one silver and one bronze medal and finished third overall in the World Cup. Mazen Aziz won the at the 2006 African Swimming Championships in Dakar. At these championships, he also won a bronze medal in the 4x200m freestyle. At the 2008 African Swimming Championships in Johannesburg, he won a silver medal in the 5km open water race. He finished ninth in the Open water swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 10 km, 10 km open water swimming event at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships in Rome. He competed at the Swimming at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon 10 kilometre, 2012 Summer Olympics. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mazen Mneimneh
Mazen Mneimneh (born 1 February 1986 in Lebanon) is a Lebanese basketball player. He is a six-foot-four-inch tall shooting guard.Profile at basketpedya.com Mneimneh currently plays for Champville BC of the . Prior to this, he played five seasons with Lebanese and 4 seasons for Al Mouttahed Tripoli
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Mazen Sinokrot
Mazen Sinokrot () is a Palestinian businessman who founded Sinokrot Global Group established in 1982. Family and early life Mazen was born in East Jerusalem on 30 November 1954. In 1980, Sinokrot received a BSC in Industrial Engineering and Production Management with honors from The University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom. Business career Sinokrot is the founder of Sinokrot Holding, the leading family owned business in Palestine with regard to investment size and number of employees. SGG focuses its investments in Food and Agro-Industries, Agriculture, Tourism and Hospitality, Trade and Consumable products, and Information Technology. He led the national effort to establish a number of private sector institutions including the Federation of Industries which he chaired for a full term. He was the founder and first chairman of the Palestine Trade Center (Paltrade), and continues to serve on the boards of a number of these institutions. He also serves on the boards o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
