Sunday, August 31, 2014

A00042 - Hashim Khan, Patriarch of a Squash Dynasty

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Hashim Khan  (Urdu:  ہاشم خان ‎;  c.  1910 to 1914  – August 18, 2014) was a squash player from Pakistan. He won the British Open Squash Ch...
Tuesday, August 26, 2014

A00041 - Simin Behbahani, The Lioness of Iran

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Behbahani, Simin Simin Behbahāni   (Persian:   سیمین بهبهانی ‎‎) (June 20, 1927 – August 19, 2014) was a prominent Iranian poet, activist ...
Friday, August 15, 2014

A00040 - Ibn al-Nadim, Author of Kitab al-Fihrist (The Index)

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Ibn al-Nadim Ibn al-Nadim  ( Abu'l-Faraj Muhammad bin Is'hāq al-Nadim ) (c. 936 - September 17, 995).  Shi‘a of Baghdad and the auth...

A00039 - Hassan Rouhani, Seventh President of Iran

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Rouhani, Hassan Hassan Rouhani  (Persian:   حسن روحانی ‎), born November 12, 1948, became  the 7th President of Iran  in 2013. He is also...
Thursday, August 14, 2014

A00038 - Maryam Mirzakhani, First Woman to Receive Fields Medal

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Maryam Mirzakhani  (Persian:  مریم میرزاخانی ‎; born May 1977) is an Iranian mathematician, and a full professor of mathematics (since 1 Se...
Wednesday, August 13, 2014

A00037 - Idris Muhammad, Multi-Genre Drummer

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Idris Muhammad  (Arabic:   إدريس محمد ‎; born  Leo Morris ; November 13, 1939 – July 29, 2014) was an American jazz drummer  who recorded e...
Tuesday, August 12, 2014

A00036 - Harun Farocki, Filmmaker of Modern Life

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Farocki, Harun Harun Farocki  (January 9, 1944 – July 30, 2014) was a German filmmaker. Farocki was born as Harun El Usman Faroqhi in Ne...