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Omar Abdul Rahman (other)
Omar Abdul Rahman may refer to: *Omar Abdel-Rahman Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman (), (ʾUmar ʾAbd ar-Raḥmān; 3 May 1938 – 18 February 2017), commonly known in the United States as "The Blind Sheikh", was a blind Egyptians, Egyptian Islamist militant who served a Life imprisonment, life senten ... (1938–2017), Egyptian leader of militant group, Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya * Omar Abdul Rahman (academic) (born 1932), Malaysian academic * Omar Abdulrahman (born 1991), Emirati footballer {{hndis, Abdul Rahman, Omar ...
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Omar Abdel-Rahman
Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman (), (ʾUmar ʾAbd ar-Raḥmān; 3 May 1938 – 18 February 2017), commonly known in the United States as "The Blind Sheikh", was a blind Egyptians, Egyptian Islamist militant who served a Life imprisonment, life sentence at the Federal Medical Center, Butner near Butner, North Carolina, United States. Formerly a resident of New York City, Abdel-Rahman and nine others were convicted of seditious conspiracy in 1995. His prosecution grew out of investigations of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Abdel-Rahman was the leader of Al-Jama'a al-Islamiyya (also known as "The Islamic Group"), a Islamism, militant Islamist movement in Egypt that is considered a terrorism, terrorist organization by the European Union and the Egyptian government. The group was responsible for many acts of violence, including the November 1997 Luxor massacre, in which 58 foreign tourists and four Egyptians were killed. The official 9/11 Commission Report mentions his lectures as an ...
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Omar Abdul Rahman (academic)
Omar bin Abdul Rahman Panglima Setia Mahkota, P.S.M., Johan Mangku Negara, J.M.N., Johan Setia Mahkota, J.S.M. (born 1932) is a Malaysian academic and corporate figure. He is currently the president and Chief Executive Officer, CEO of the MUST Ehsan Foundation, a nonprofit Foundation (nonprofit organization), foundation that manages and administers the Malaysia University of Science and Technology (MUST). Career Early academic career Omar graduated from the University of Sydney in 1958 with a degree in Veterinary Science and later earned a Ph.D from University of Cambridge in 1966. He started his professional career in 1960 in veterinary research, then in 1972 moved on to academic life at Universiti Pertanian Malaysia (UPM), now Universiti Putra Malaysia where he was the Founding Dean of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Sciences and the first professor appointed by the university. Omar played major roles in the establishment phase of the university and in the found ...
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