The University of Damascus is the largest and oldest university in Syria,located in the capital Damascus,with campuses in other Syrian cities. It was founded in 1923 as the Syrian University through the merger of the Medical School and the Institute of Law. It adopted its current name after the founding of the University of Aleppo in 1958.
Magdi Wahba (1925–1991) was an Egyptian university professor,Johnsonian scholar,and lexicographer.
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh is the chairman and founder of the international Jordan-based organisation,the Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Organization (TAG-Org). Dubbed as the godfather of Arab accounting,Abu-Ghazaleh has also been credited for promoting the significance of Intellectual Property in the Arab World.
Suleiman Mousa was a Jordanian author and historian born in Al-Rafeed,a small village north of the city of Irbid. He wrote up to fifty books of which most prominent are Biography of Sharif Hussein Bin Ali,Jordan in the 1948 War,Great Arab Revolt,History of Jordan in the 20th century,and was the first and only Arab author to write about Lawrence of Arabia and show the Arab perspective.
Walid Khalidi is a Palestinian historian who has written extensively on the Palestinian exodus. He is a co-founder of the Institute for Palestine Studies,established in Beirut in December 1963 as an independent research and publishing center focusing on the Palestine problem and the Arab–Israeli conflict,and was its general secretary until 2016.
Rami George Khouri is a Jordanian-American journalist and editor with Palestinian background. He was born in New York City to an Arab Palestinian Christian family. His father,George Khouri,a Nazarene journalist in what was the British mandate of Palestine,had traveled with his wife to New York in 1947 to cover the United Nations (UN) debates about the future of Palestine. His family resides in Beirut,Amman,and Nazareth. He is also a public speaker. After attending secondary school at the International School of Geneva in Switzerland,Rami Khouri returned to the US to complete his education. Khouri has served for many years as the chief umpire for Little League Baseball in Jordan.
Mansour Eid (1944–2013) was a Lebanese writer,novelist,researcher and poet. Born in Bteddine El Loqch,a village of the Jezzine district in southern Lebanon on 12 February 1944. He completed his secondary studies in Our Lady of Mashmoushe School. He received a degree in Philosophical &Social Studies from Arab Beirut University and a degree in Arabic Literature from the Lebanese University and a PHD degree in Arabic Literature from Saint Joseph University.
Fadia Faqir is a Jordanian British author and academician,involved in human rights issues. She was born in Amman,Jordan,and her father is from Jordan,of the tribe Al-Ajarmah. But her mother is Circassian.
Fawwaz Ahmad Tuqan is a Joardanian-Palestinian poet,novelist and professor. He was born on 6 September 1940 to a Palestinian family in Jerusalem. His father is Ahmad Abdul Fattah Tuqan,a former Prime Minister of Jordan.
Amman Arab University,abbreviated AAU, is a private university in Amman,Jordan,established in 1997 as a non-profit private university for graduate studies to be the first Jordanian university specialized in postgraduate programs for masters and doctoral studies. On September 30,1998,the Higher Education Council approved the University to begin teaching by the decree No. 1625. It received its first group of students at the beginning of the second semester of the 1999/2000 academic year. The university went through two main milestones:The first was limited to graduate programs,and the second started in 2009 when it opened programs for bachelor degrees,the same year its name was changed to Amman Arab University.
Roshdi Rashed,born in Cairo in 1936,is a mathematician,philosopher and historian of science,whose work focuses largely on mathematics and physics of the medieval Arab world. His work explores and illuminates the unrecognized Arab scientific tradition,being one of the first historians to study in detail the ancient and medieval texts,their journey through the Eastern schools and courses,their immense contributions to Western science,particularly in regarding the development of algebra and the first formalization of physics.
Charbel Dagher is a Lebanese professor at the University of Balamand,Koura,Lebanon. He has been an active and prominent voice on the Arab cultural scene,mainly in the fields of poetry,Arabic language,and Arab and Islamic arts. He is a Poet,writer and story-writer in both Arabic and French.
Amin Mahmoud is a Jordanian politician,educator and author. He has served three times as a member of the cabinet of Ministers of Jordan,once as a member of the XXIV Senate of Jordan,and is currently serving as a member of the XXVI senate council. He has also held the position of president of four Jordanian universities. His written works include a wide range of books,research papers and published articles in the fields of history,education and other public issues.
Dawood Abdulmalek Yahya Al-Hidabi is a Yemeni researcher. Founder and Former President of University of Science and Technology || https://ust.edu/,from 1994 to 2007. He is also the Founder and President of the International Association for Talent Development.
Ali Oumlil is a Moroccan philosopher,thinker,human rights activist,diplomat and political persona.
Ammar Bouhouche was born on December 17,1938,in Al-Ancer,Algeria.
Dr. Rula Butros Audeh Quawas was a Jordanian academic known for her advocacy for women's advancement in Jordan and as the first academic to introduce courses on feminism at the University of Jordan.
Izz Al-Din Manasirah was a Palestinian poet,critic,intellectual and academic born in the town of Bani Naim,Hebron Governorate,Palestine. Winner of several prizes as a cadet and an academic,he was a poet of the Palestinian resistance from the late 1960s on,and his name was associated with armed and cultural resistance. He was with such poets as Mahmoud Darwish,Samih al-Qasim and Tawfiq Ziad,or as they are collectively called,the "Big Four in Palestinian Poetry." He sang poems by Marcel Khalife and others and was famous for his poems "Jafra" and "The Green Kannah."
Ibrahim Mohammed Mahmoud al-Kufahi is a Jordanian poet,critic and professor. He was born in Irbid,Jordan on March 1,1967,and it is where he studied. He obtained a degree in Arabic language and literature from Yarmouk University and a master's degree in literature and criticism from the same university. He worked as an Arabic teacher publishing his literary works in Jordanian newspapers and magazines such as Al Ra'i,Yarmouk and Voice of the Generation. He has a collection of poetry entitled The Qur’an and Venice (1991) and several other works.
Qasim Tawfiq is a Jordanian novelist and short story writer. He spent his childhood and youth and is still residing in Amman,studied in its schools,and completed his university education at the University of Jordan. He graduated with a BA in Literature. He worked in the banking sector since graduating from the University of Jordan in several Arab countries and the world until he retired to devote himself to his literary project,the novel,in 2013 as an assistant general manager in a Jordanian bank.
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