Tuesday, February 28, 2017

A00088 - Mostafa el-Abbadi, Champion of Alexandria's Resurrected Library

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Mostafa El-Abbadi (Arabic:  مصطفى العبادي ‎‎; b. October 10, 1928, Cairo, Egypt - d. February 13, 2017, Alexandria, Egypt) was a prominent ...
Monday, February 20, 2017

A00087 - Omar 'Abdel Rahman, "Radical" Egyptian Cleric

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'Abdel Rahman, Omar 'Abdel Rahman, Omar  ( Omar 'Abdel Rahman ) ( Omar Ahmed 'Ali 'Abdel Rahman ) ( 'Umar 'Abd a...
Sunday, February 19, 2017

A00086 - Saloua Raouda Choucair, Lebanese Abstract Painter and Sculptor

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Saloua Raouda Choucair  (Arabic :  سلوى روضة شقير ‎‎) (b. June 24, 1916, Beirut, Lebanon – d. January 26, 2017, Beirut, Lebanon) was a Leba...
Tuesday, January 10, 2017

A00085 - Ali Akbar Hashimi Rafsanjani, President of Iran (1989-1997)

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Rafsanjani, Ali Akbar Hashimi Rafsanjani, Ali Akbar Hashimi  ( Ali Akbar Hashimi Rafsanjani ) ( Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani ) (b. August 2...
Tuesday, November 1, 2016

A00084 - Ali Mazrui, Author of The Africans

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Mazrui, Ali  Ali al-Amin Mazrui   (b.  February 24, 1933 , Mombasa, Kenya — d.  October 12, 2014 , Vestal {Binghamton}, New York, United St...

A00083 - 'Abd Allah II ibn 'Ali 'Abd ash-Shakur, Emir of Harar

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'Abd Allah II ibn 'Ali 'Abd ash-Shakur, also known as Amir Hajji 'Abdu'llahi II ibn 'Ali 'Abdu's Shakur, (1...
Tuesday, October 25, 2016

A00082 - Hamad ibn Khalifah al-Thani, Emir Qatar

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Ḥamad ibn Khalīfa al-Thānī  took power from his father, Sheikh Khalifa ibn Hamad al-Thani,  who had become Qatar’s leader just months after ...