Izz El-Deen Sobhi Sheikh Khalil, from the Shajaiyeh district of Gaza City, presently a Hamas stronghold, was a senior member of the military wing of the Palestinian Islamist organization Hamas when he was killed by setting an automobile booby trap on September 26, 2004, in the al-Zahera district of southern Damascus, Syria. Although no specific groups have taken responsibility for his assassination, it is consistent in style with previous Israeli-sponsored assassinations, and with Israeli pledges to assassinate Hamas leaders.
Al-Ashraf Salāh ad-Dīn Khalil ibn Qalawūn was the eighth Mamluk sultan between November 1290 until his assassination in December 1293. He was well known for conquering the last of the Crusader states in Palestine in the capture of Acre in 1291.
Zakaria Tamer, also called Zakariya Tamir, is an influential master of the Arabic-language short story.
Gomaa Frahat is an Egyptian political cartoonist and satirist who publishes under the name Gomaa.
Khalil Mardam Bek (1895–1959) was a Syrian poet and critique who is most notable for composing the lyrics of the Syrian National Anthem.
Abdul-Fattah Abu-Abdullah Taiye Ejire Adelabu or simply Sheikh Adelabu, also known as Al-Afriqi (الإفريقي) or Shaykh Al-Afriqi is a Nigerian Muslim scholar, writer, academic, publisher and cleric from Osogbo, capital city of Osun State, Nigeria.
Hanna Mina was a Syrian novelist, described in Literature from the "Axis of Evil" as the country's "most prominent".
This is a list of official football games played by Iran national football team between 2000 and 2009.
Ali Farzat or Ali Ferzat is a Syrian political cartoonist. He has published more than 15,000 caricatures in Syrian, Arab and international newspapers. He serves as the head of the Arab Cartoonists' Association. In 2011 he received Sakharov Prize for peace. Farzat was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2012.
Wael Nader Al-Halqi is a Syrian politician who was Prime Minister of Syria from 2012 to 2016. Previously he was Minister of Health from 2011 to 2012. He was appointed as Prime Minister on 9 August 2012.
Yassin al-Haj Saleh is a Syrian writer and political dissident. He writes on political, social and cultural subjects relating to Syria and the Arab world.
M. Yaser Tabbara served as the spokesperson and legal advisor for the President of the Syrian Interim Government (SIG), the National Coalition of Syrian Revolution and Opposition Forces (SOC), and the Syrian National Council (SNC). He was also a founding member of the SNC.
Kafr Batna is a town in the Rif Dimashq Governorate in southern Syria and a suburb of Damascus. It is approximately 4 kilometers (2.5 mi) east of the Bab Sharqi neighborhood. Kafr Batna had a population of 22,535 in 2004.
Al-Thawra, also referred to as Ath-Thawra, is an Arabic language newspaper published by the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party of Syria. Another newspaper with the same name was published by the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party of Iraq but was disbanded during the invasion of Iraq in 2003 by the UK and the USA armies.
Khaldoon Fuad Gharaibeh is a Jordanian cartoonist and a caricature artist,.
Khalil Rahman is a Bangladeshi political cartoonist. His cartoons have been appearing on the front page of some leading Bengali dailies including The Daily Jugantor and the daily Samakal.
Mamdouh Hamadeh is a Syrian journalist and cartoonist. Hamadeh was born in 1959 in the Golan Heights. His family lived in Sweida in southern Syria until he traveled to the Soviet Union to study at the Faculty of Journalism at Belarus State University in Minsk, where in 1994 he was awarded a PhD degree.
Damascus Time is a 2018 drama movie by Ebrahim Hatamikia, Iranian director. The movie is about an Iranian pilot and his copilot son whose plane is seized by ISIS forces in Syria while carrying a cargo of humanitarian relief supplies to people in a war zone.
Maxim Hani Khalil is a Syrian actor; he is currently known as one of the most famous actors in Syria and Arab world.
