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Najwa Gibran
Najwa may refer to: People Given name * Najwa Karam (born 1966), Lebanese actress and singer * Najwa Ghanem, wife of Osama bin Laden * Najwa Najjar, Palestinian filmmaker * Najwa Nimri (born 1972), Spanish actress * Najwa Latif (born 1995), Malaysian singer * Najwa Qassem (1967–2020), Lebanese journalist * Najwa Barakat (born 1966), Lebanese novelist * Najwa Binshatwan (born 1970), Libyan author * Najwa Kawar Farah (1923–2015), Palestinian educator Surname * Aina Najwa Aina Najwa (born 1 August 1996) is a Malaysian cricketer. She made her Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) debut for Malaysia on 7 June 2018, in the 2018 Women's Twenty20 Asia Cup. In June 2022, she was selected in Malaysia's squad for 202 ... (born 1996), Malaysian cricketer Music * ''Najwa'' (album), a 2017 studio album by jazz trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith See also * Najwan {{disambiguation, given name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Najwa Karam
Najwa Karam (; ; born 26 February 1966) is a Lebanon, Lebanese singer, songwriter, producer, fashion icon, and television personality. She has sold over 60 million records worldwide and was recognized as the highest-selling Lebanese people, Lebanese artist in 1999, 2008, and 2011. Nicknamed Shams el-Ghinnieh (''The Sun of Arabic Song''), Karam is noted for her mawwal, mawwal—a traditional and popular Arabic Music, Arabic genre of vocal music that is very slow in Music beat, beat and Sentimental ballad, sentimental in nature, characterized by prolonging vowel syllables, emotional vocals, and is usually presented before the actual song begins. She was recognized for her fusion of Music of Lebanon#Traditional music in Lebanon, traditional Lebanese music with contemporary sounds, contributing to the wider adoption of the Lebanese dialect in Arabic Music. Karam was featured in the ''Forbes'' 50 Over 50 list: Europe, Middle East, and Africa 2023. Karam continues to perform regularly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Najwa Ghanem
Najwa Ghanem (; born 1958) is a Syrian woman who was the first wife and first cousin of Osama bin Laden, being the daughter of his mother's brother. She is also known as '' Umm Abdallah'' (mother of Abdallah). Biography Najwa was born to Ibrahim and Nabeeha in Latakia, United Arab Republic (present-day Syria), and her family was originally from Yemen. She had five siblings. Osama married Najwa in 1974 when she was almost 16 in Latakia. She travelled with him to Sudan and Afghanistan. According to Abu Jandal, she left Afghanistan before the September 11 attacks and did not return. According to Najwa and her son Omar bin Laden, desiring to return to a normal life, she left Afghanistan sometime between September 7 and 9, 2001. In 2005, Huthaifa Azzam, son of Abdullah Azzam, stated that she was living in Damascus with her son Abdel Rahman. From about April 2012, she moved to Qatar, where seven of her surviving children also continued to reside. Family She is the mother of 11 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Najwa Najjar
Najwa Najjar () is a film writer and director. She was born to a Jordanian father and Palestinian mother. She began her career making commercials and has worked in both documentary and fiction since 1999. Najjar lives in the Palestinian Territories. works Her debut feature film '' Pomegranates and Myrrh'' won 10 awards, and was released theatrically and screened at over 80 international festivals. When the film was first screened in Ramallah, there was public outcry by the Hamas Government in Gaza over the film's portrayal of "what was deemed its 'unpatriotic' portrayal of an untrustworthy wife of a political prisoner." At the Doha Tribeca Film Festival, the film won the Best Arab Film award. The 1999 documentary film ''Naim and Wadee’a'' was based on Najjar's family and includes the oral histories of Na’im Azar and Wadee’a Aghabi, a couple who were forced to leave their Jaffa home in 1948. The film won the Award for Films of Conflict and Resolution at the 2000 Hamptons I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Najwa Nimri
Najwa Nimri Urrutikoetxea (; born 14 February 1972) is a Spanish actress and singer. In 1996, Nimri formed the musical duo ''Najwajean'' along with producer Carlos Jean, launching ''No Blood'', an early instance of a trip-hop album in Spain. She first appeared in a film with a leading role in '' Jump into the Void'' (1995), eventually becoming one of the big names of 1990s and 2000s Spanish cinema. Film roles that came after her debut include performances in '' Passages'' (1996), '' Open Your Eyes'' (1997), '' Blinded'' (1997), '' Lovers of the Arctic Circle'' (1998), '' Asfalto'' (2000), '' Sex and Lucia'' (2001), and '' Fausto 5.0'' (2001). After spending some time on the back burner as an actress, her popularity greatly increased in the streaming era for her television work in villain roles in crime drama series '' Locked Up'' and '' Money Heist''. Early life Nimri's mother is from Pamplona and her father, Karam Nimri, is Jordanian. She has a brother, a half-brother and two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Najwa Latif
Imratul Najwa binti Abdul Latif (born May 23, 1995), better known by her stage name Najwa Latif, is a Malaysian singer, composer and idol. She became popular after her first song, "Cinta Muka Buku" (Facebook Love) gained popularity. Career Najwa learned how to play guitar in 2009 when she was 14 years old and afterward began writing music for songs with her sister Ika, who wrote the lyrics. In September 2010, Najwa began uploading cover songs to YouTube; the first was a cover of Justin Bieber's "Baby". In March 2011, she was signed to NAR Records and her first official single, "Cinta Muka Buku", was released in June 2011. A pre-release video of the song was uploaded to YouTube. According to Najwa, this single is very meaningful to her, as it marked her first steps into the Malaysian music industry as well as to finally fulfill her dream and ambition of becoming a singer. It was also a gift for her fans who had long-awaited her single and showed their support towards her long ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Najwa Qassem
Personal Najwa Qassem was born in a Lebanese Druze family on 7 July 1967 in Joun, Lebanon, a few years before the Lebanese Civil War. Qassem initially aspired to study architecture but soon fell in love with media and televised broadcasting. Career She first appeared on television in 1991 on Al Jadeed (New TV Lebanon) as a program presenter, then in 1993 moved to Future TV of Beirut. In 2003 she became a part of the team for Al Arabiya. Since 2003 Qassem has been a senior anchor and correspondent of the Al Arabiya news channel. She has covered numerous wars and assassinations during her career including the assassination of Rafic Hariri in 2005, and was considered a veteran news reporter. A year after joining the Al Arabiya team, she experienced and survived a bombing attack on the Al Arabiya's Baghdad news station. Eight people died in the bombing. Najwa Qassem reported updates on the Iraq War, Iraqi war from the front lines in Baghdad. During her last week in Baghdad, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Najwa Barakat
Najwa Barakat (; born 1966, in Beirut) is a Lebanese Arab novelist, journalist and film director. Career After achieving studies in theater (Beirut Fine Arts Institute) and cinema (French cinema Institution), she moves definitely to Paris where she works as a freelance journalist in a number of Arabic newspapers and magazines, and gathered the materials for several cultural programs produced by Radio France Internationale (RFI) and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). She also prepared the first fifteen episodes of the cultural program broadcast at Aljaz, and authored several movie scripts as well as directing several documentaries. Najwa Barakat has published six novels (five in Arabic and one in French), most of which were published by Dar al-Adab in Beirut. Some of them have obtained awards and were translated into foreign languages, among which “''The bus of good people''” (1996), which received the "''Prize of the best literary creation of the year''", by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Najwa Binshatwan
Najwa Bin Shatwan () is a Libyan academic and novelist, the first Libyan to ever be shortlisted for the International Prize of Arabic Fiction (in 2017). She has authored four novels: Waber Al Ahssina (The Horses’ Hair); Madmum Burtuqali (Orange Content); Zareeb Al-Abeed (The Slave Yards); and Roma Termini, in addition to several collections of short stories, plays and contributions to anthologies. She was chosen as one of the thirty-nine best Arab authors under the age of forty by Hay Festival’s Beirut 39 project (2009). In 2018, she was chosen from hundreds of Arab writers for the 2018 Banipal Writing Fellowship Residency at the University of Durham and in 2020, she was chosen to co-lead a series of creative writing workshops in Sharjah (World Capital of the year book 2019) for Arab writers. Also, she was chosen as a member of jury in various literary awards/grants. Biography Najwa Binshatwan was born in Ajdabiya, Libya. She obtained a master's degree in education, after which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Najwa Kawar Farah
Najwa Kawar Farah (), (April 30, 1923 - August 1, 2015) was a Palestinian educator and writer. She was born Najwa Kawar in Nazareth and was educated there, later attending the Teachers' Academy in Jerusalem. She taught school in Nazareth. She married Reverend Rafiq Farah in 1950; the couple produced the magazine ''al-Ra'id'' in 1967. Farah also wrote articles for the press and for radio. She lived in Haifa until the mid-1960s, when she left the region. The family moved to Jerusalem in 1965, then to Beirut in 1977 and to London in 1986. Since 1998, they lived in Scarborough Scarborough or Scarboro may refer to: People * Scarborough (surname) * Earl of Scarbrough Places Australia * Scarborough, Western Australia, suburb of Perth * Scarborough, New South Wales, suburb of Wollongong * Scarborough, Queensland, sub ... in Ontario, Canada. She died on August 1, 2015, in Toronto, Canada. Selected works Source: * Abiru al-sabil'' (The passersby), short stories (1954) * ''Duru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aina Najwa
Aina Najwa (born 1 August 1996) is a Malaysian cricketer. She made her Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) debut for Malaysia on 7 June 2018, in the 2018 Women's Twenty20 Asia Cup. In June 2022, she was selected in Malaysia's squad for 2022 ACC Women's T20 Championship. In October 2022, she played for Malaysia in Women's Twenty20 Asia Cup. References External links * 1996 births Living people Malaysian women cricketers Malaysia women Twenty20 International cricketers Cricketers at the 2014 Asian Games Cricketers at the 2022 Asian Games Asian Games competitors for Malaysia SEA Games medalists in cricket SEA Games bronze medalists for Malaysia Medalists at the 2023 SEA Games {{Malaysia-cricket-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Najwa (album)
''Najwa'' is a studio album by American jazz trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith. The album was released on October 20, 2017 via Finnish TUM Records label. Background ''Najwa'' continues a series of Smith's dedicatory albums of varying size and breadth, embracing human and natural subjects. Four of the five tracks pay homage to composers or performers long or recently departed: Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Ronald Shannon Jackson, and Billie Holiday. The fifth and title track simply and enigmatically references "a love lost." Reception A reviewer at Dusty Groove wrote, "Wadada Leo Smith is really on fire here – on a record that feels a lot more like something from the early 80s underground than some of his earlier work – from the lineup of performers, right down to the overall sound of the set! The group's very heavy on guitars – and features work from Michael Gregory Jackson, Henry Kaiser, Brandon Ross, and Lamar Smith on the instrument – often criss-crossing and weaving these ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
