Kateb is a surname, and may refer to;
Kateb derives from كاتب which means
scribe
A scribe is a person who serves as a professional copyist, especially one who made copies of manuscripts before the invention of Printing press, automatic printing.
The work of scribes can involve copying manuscripts and other texts as well as ...
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Arabic
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Kateb Yacine
Kateb Yacine (; 2 August 1929 or 6 August 1929 – 28 October 1989) was an Algerian writer notable for his novels and Play (theatre), plays, both in French language, French and Algerian Arabic, and his advocacy of the Berberism, Berber caus ...
, Algerian writer
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Kateb al Shammary
Kateb al Shammary is a Saudi Arabian lawyer. His clients include a number of those who were, or remain, detained in Camp Delta in the American naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
One of his clients is Abdul Salam Gaithan Mureef Al Shehry, who was ...
, Saudi Arabian lawyer
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Amazigh Kateb
Amazigh Kateb (born September 16, 1972) is an Algerian singer and musician.
Early life
He emigrated to France in Grenoble in 1988, he was a member of the group Gnawa Diffusion (formed in 1992). He is the son of the writer Kateb Yacine
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, Algerian singer and musician
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Faiz Mohammad Katib Hazara
Faiz Muhammad Kāteb () also known as Kāteb () was a prominent writer and historian. He was Afghan court's chronicler, a skilled calligrapher and secretary to the Afghan ruler Habibullah Khan from 1901 to 1919.Kitab-e Tadakkor-e Enqilab, Tran ...
, also known as Fayż Mohammad Kāteb, Afghan intellectual
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George Kateb
George Anthony Kateb is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics, Emeritus, at Princeton University.
Life
Kateb earned his A.B., A.M. and Ph.D. at Columbia University and was a Junior Fellow at Harvard University. He then taught at Amhe ...
, American political writer
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Marjan al-Katib al-Islami Marjan al-Katib al-Islami (Persian: Marjan Kateb Islami) a famous female Iranian calligrapher who lived in Safavid Persia under 17th century. She was active in the period around 1670.
Works
In August 2005 a copy of Koran transcribed by Marjan al-Ka ...
, also known as Marjan Kateb Islami, Iranian calligrapher
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Reda Kateb
Reda Kateb (; ; born 27 July 1977) is a French actor.
Life and career
Kateb was born in Ivry-sur-Seine, France, to an Algerian actor, Malek-Eddine Kateb, and a French nurse of Czech and Italian origin. He is a grandnephew of the Algerian writer ...
, French actor
References
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Arabic-language surnames
Surnames of Algerian origin