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Neda (given Name)
Neda is a unisex given name. It may refer to: * Neda (princess), ruler of the medieval South Slavic state of Duklja from 1043 to 1046 * Neda Agha-Soltan (1983–2009), student shot dead during the 2009 Iranian election protests * Neda Al-Hilali (born 1938), American fiber artist * Neda Alijani (born 1981), Iranian physician and professor * Neda Arnerić (1953–2020), Serbian actress * Neda Bahi (born 1992), Tunisian Paralympic athlete * Neda Bokan (born 1947), Serbian mathematician * Neda Hassani (1977–2003), Iranian dissident * Neda Kozić (born 1985), Serbian tennis coach and former tennis player * Neda Krmpotić (1921–1974), Croatian and Yugoslav journalist * Neda Maghbouleh, American-born Canadian sociologist and writer * Neda Moridpour, Iranian-born American artist and activist * Neda Naldi (1913–1993), Italian actress * Neda Parmać (born 1985), Croatian singer and member of Feminnem * Neda Shahsavari (born 1986), Iranian table tennis player * Neda Soltani (born 1977), I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neda Moridpour
Neda Moridpour is an artist, Teacher, educator and organizer who is the co-founder of two artist-activist collaboratives, Louder Than Words (with S.A. Bachman) and [P]Art Collective (with Pouya Afshar.) Moridpour's work investigates Cycle of violence, cycles of violence that leads to dislocation, gender, and racial inequity while establishing dialogue and attempting to mobilize communities. "Louder Than Words" received the 2014 Women's Caucus for Art International Honor Roll award. [P]Art Collective won the 1st prize in the Farhang Foundation Short Film Festival. Her work has been exhibited in the U.S., Iran, and China and is in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Center for the Study of Political Graphics, and was recently exhibited in the ''Islamic Art Now II: Contemporary Art of the Middle East'' at the L.A. County Museum of Art (LACMA.) Moridpour holds an MFA in Public Practice from Otis College of Art and Design Career * Professor of the Pra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neda Imasuen
Neda Bernards Imasuen is a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria from Edo State. He was disbarred by the New York State Supreme Court in 2010 for professional misconduct. He was elected in 2023 to represent Edo South senatorial district in the National Assembly. He is a member of the Labour Party. Early life and education Imasuen started his primary education from St. Thomas' Catholic School, in Benin City, Edo State where he obtained his Primary School Leaving Certificate. He proceeded to the Edo Boys High School, also Benin City and obtained the West African School Certificate. After his secondary education, he proceeded to the University of Maiduguri where he graduated with a Bachelor of Laws degree. He was certified and enrolled as a Solicitor and Advocate of the Supreme Court of Nigeria in 1985. He graduated with a Master's degree in Public Administration from the Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus in 2004. Career In the Nigerian general elections of 2023, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neda Ulaby
Neda Ulaby (, born 1970) is an American reporter for National Public Radio, covering arts, cultural trends and digital media. She lives in Washington, D.C. Early life and education Born during Black September in Amman, Jordan, Ulaby spent her childhood in Lawrence, Kansas, and Ann Arbor, Michigan. The father who raised her, Fawwaz Ulaby, is a professor of electrical engineering from Damascus, Syria. After graduating from the alternative Community High School in Ann Arbor, she attended Bryn Mawr College, graduating in 1993. She also studied at Oxford University, England, and in 1995 graduated with an MA in English from the University of Chicago. She is a former doctoral student in English literature. Career Ulaby began her career as an intern for the features desk of the '' Topeka Capital-Journal'' from 1993 to 1994 and later freelanced for the ''Chicago Reader'' and the ''Washington City Paper''. Ulaby became managing editor of Chicago Chicago is the List ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neda Ukraden
Neda Ukraden ( sr-Cyrl, Неда Украден; born 16 August 1950) is a Serbian-Croatian singer. Her professional career stretches back to 1967 and has collectively released thirty studio albums. With collective sales of over five million records, Ukraden is recognised as one of the most successful artists from former Yugoslavia. Personal life Ukraden was born in Glavina Donja, a village near the small Croatian town of Imotski, to ethnic Serbian parents Anđelija (1924–2018) and Dušan Ukraden (1927–1997). She lived in Imotski with her grandparents until the age of two when she relocated to Višegrad, in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina. When she was in elementary school, her family moved to Sarajevo where she lived until 1992 when the Bosnian War broke out. When the war started, Neda moved to Belgrade, Serbia. Between 1992 and 1996, she rented an apartment in Vienna, Austria. Respecting the wishes of her father, she attended the University of Sarajevo where she succes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neda Spasojević
Neda Spasojević (16 April 1941 – 16 July 1981) was a Serbian film, television and theater actress. She appeared in more than sixty films from 1964 until her 1981 death from cancer at age 40. Early life Neda Spasojević was born in the Yugoslav capital city Belgrade the week that the Kingdom of Yugoslavia was invaded by Germany in April 1941. Her father Milorad was a traveling actor. Her mother was an Austrian woman from Vienna named Hilda Lermer, who later adopted the Serbian name Jelena. Hilda worked as a seamstress for various theaters. Career Following a rejection at the Performing Arts Academy in Belgrade, Spasojević took her father's advice about moving to Titograd, SR Montenegro if she wished to pursue a career in acting. She performed in her first show on 23 March 1961. Spasojević appeared in her first film in 1964, acting alongside Danilo Stojković Danilo Stojković ( sr-cyr, Данило Стојковић; 11 August 1934 – 16 March 2002), commonly nicknam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neda Soltani
Neda Soltani (; born 1977, in Isfahan) is an Iranian exile. During the 2009 Iranian election protests, she was teaching English at Azad University when her Facebook profile photo was mistakenly published in many articles about the death of the similarly named Neda Agha-Soltan Neda Agha-Soltan ( – ''Nedā Āghā-Soltān''; 23 January 1983 – 20 June 2009) was an Iranian student of philosophy, who was participating in the 2009 Iranian presidential election protests, 2009 presidential election protests with ..., who was shot and killed during the protests. As a result, her identity was confused with that of Agha-Soltan, to whom she bore a superficial facial resemblance. She tried vainly removing her photo from the Internet and the media. Claims and counter-claims were made, including claims from the Iranian government that she was the same person as Agha-Soltan, and had faked her death, and others who claimed that she was herself an agent of the Iranian government, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neda Shahsavari
Neda Shahsavari (, born 21 September 1986 in Kermanshah) is an Iranian table tennis player who qualified to compete in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Through qualifying, she became the first woman to represent Iran in table tennis for the 2012 Olympic Games. She was born in the city of Kermanshah and she studied physical education at university. Olympic She has also qualified to play in her second olympics, at Rio 2016. On May 19, 2024, after winning the Central Asia Championship, Shahsavari was able to get a quota for the 2024 Summer Olympics The 2024 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad () and branded as Paris 2024, were an international multi-sport event held in France from 26 July to 11 August 2024, with several events started from 24 July. P ... and go to the Olympics for the third time. References External links * Living people Iranian female table tennis players Table tennis players at the 2012 Summer Olympics Table ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neda Parmać
Feminnem is a girl group from Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina composed of three members. They represented both countries at the Eurovision Song Contest; Bosnia and Herzegovina in Eurovision Song Contest 2005, 2005 (with original members Ivana Marić, :hr:Neda_Parmać, Neda Parmać and :hr:Pamela_Ramljak, Pamela Ramljak) and Croatia in Eurovision Song Contest 2010, 2010 (when the group consisted of Nika Antolos, Parmać and Ramljak). On 21 February 2012, Pamela, Neda and Nika decided to start solo careers and leave Feminnem and effectively disbanded the group. They were named after American rapper Eminem. In May 2022, the group decided to get back together, and the members posted on social media the announcement for their comeback. Band members Neda Parmać Parmać was born in Split (city), Split, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia and took dance lessons from an early age. At the age of thirteen, she performed as a member the band ''Kompas''. In 2004, she entered the Hrvatski Idol c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neda Naldi
Neda Naldi (30 January 1913 – 26 June 1993) was an Italian theatrical actress—also known under her stage name Talia Volpiana—and television and film actress. She was born as Italia Volpiana on 30 January 1913 in Tramutola, Basilicata, Italy. She was an actress and writer, known for ''La leggenda azzurra'' (1940), ''Lacrime di sangue'' (1944) and ''Vietato ai minorenni'' (1944). She was married to Salvo Randone. She died on 26 June 1993 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. Selected filmography Source: * ''Guest for One Night'' (1939) * ''The Sons of the Marquis Lucera ''The Sons of the Marquis Lucera'' () is a 1939 Italian comedy film directed by Amleto Palermi and starring Armando Falconi, Caterina Boratto and Sergio Tofano. It is based on a play of the same name by Gherardo Gherardi.Goble p.178 The film was ...'' (1939) References External links * 1913 births 1993 deaths Italian stage actresses Italian television actresses Italian film actresses 20th-century Italian ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neda Maghbouleh
Neda Maghbouleh is an American sociologist, scholar, writer, author, and educator. She is the Canada Research Chair in Migration, Race, and Identity and associate professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto Mississauga. Biography Neda Maghbouleh was born in New York City, and raised in Portland, Oregon. She attended Smith College (B.A. 2004); University of California, Santa Barbara (M.A. 2008 and PhD 2012). She moved to Canada with her family in 2013 for work. Her book ''The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race'' (2017; Stanford University Press) looked at historical and legal evidence, as well as the sociological structures of how Iranian Americans have moved between the categorization of white and "not white" in race. It is about the people of all MENA communities, but it specifically centers around Iranians. ''The Limits of Whiteness'' also discusses the "Aryan narrative" used to describe Iranians by both the people in Iran and by th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neda Agha-Soltan
Neda Agha-Soltan ( – ''Nedā Āghā-Soltān''; 23 January 1983 – 20 June 2009) was an Iranian student of philosophy, who was participating in the 2009 Iranian presidential election protests, 2009 presidential election protests with her music teacher, and was walking back to her car when she was fatally shot in the upper chest. Eyewitnesses are reported by Western sources as saying Agha-Soltan was shot by a militiaman belonging to Basij paramilitary organization. Her death was captured on video by bystanders and broadcast over the Internet, and the video became a rallying point for the opposition. Agha-Soltan's death sparked renewed protests against the 2009 Iranian presidential election, disputed election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Etymology ''Nedā'' (ندا) is a word used in Persian language#Classic Persian, classical Persian and Persian language, modern Persian to mean "voice", "calling" (sometimes understood as a "divine message", but this is not the et ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
