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2 unusual facts about Amin al-Hafez


Amin al-Hafez

Amin al-Hafiz (1921-2009), Syrian politician, military officer and member of the Ba'th Party

Sami al-Jundi

He was minister of information, culture and national guidance in Prime Minister Bitar's second cabinet, and remained in government under President Amin al-Hafez until October 1964.


Air Force Intelligence Directorate

The service was headed for nearly thirty years by Maj. Gen. Muhammad al-Khuli, who was trusted by Hafez al-Assad and had an office adjacent to the president's in the presidential palace.

Amin al-Hindi

In its obituary, The New York Times described Hindi as being "widely suspected of having played an organizing role" in the Black September attack in Munich that led to the deaths of 11 athletes and coaches representing the Israeli Olympic team at the 1972 Summer Games who had been taken as hostages at the Olympic village on the morning of September 5, 1972.

Bornu Empire

Muhammad al-Amin al-Kanemi was a Muslim scholar and non-Sayfawa commander who had put together an alliance of Shuwa Arabs, Kanembu, and other seminomadic peoples.

Hermann Brockhaus

Among his better written works was an edition of tales by Somadeva Bhatta known as Kathâsarit-sâgara, and an edition of songs by the Persian lyric poet Hafez (Lieder des Hafis).

Ibn Razqa

A short biography of Ibn Razqa is contained in the beginning of Al-Wasit by Ahmad ibn al-Amin al-Shinqiti.

Muhammad al-Amin al-Kanemi

Born to a Kanembu father and an Arab mother near Murzuk in what is today Libya, Al-Kanemi rose to prominence as a member of a rural religious community in the western provinces of what was then a much atrophied Borno Empire.

By planning, inspiration, and prayer, he attracted a following, especially from Shuwa Arab networks and Kanembu communities extending far outside Borno's borders.

Mustafa Tlass

During the 1960s, Hafez al-Assad rose to prominence in the Syrian government through the 1963 coup d'état, backed by the Ba'ath party.

Qu'aiti

;HH Princess Muzna bint Ghalib Al Qu'aiti: born 28 December 1980 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, holds a MA from the School of Oriental and African Studies, SOAS and BA from the American University in Cairo; married Hisham Hafez of Medina, Saudi Arabia.

Shahrokh Meskoob

His major published works include translations of Sophocles' Antigone, Oedipus Rex, and Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath; he has also written Moqaddame-'i bar Rostam va Esfandiar (a study of the ethics of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh); Soug-e Siavosh (a study of the myth of martyrdom and resurrection in the Shahnameh); and Dar kuy-e dust (an interpretive study of Hafez's views on man, nature, love, and ethics).

Sufi rock

It is mostly based on the poetry of famous sufi poets like Rumi, Hafez, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai, Bulleh Shah, Waris Shah and even Kabir and is mostly sung in languages like Urdu, Punjabi, Sindhi, Persian and Turkish.

The Attenbury Emeralds

There are several other nearly identical emeralds, linked by inscribed verses from the Persian poet Hafez; an Indian Maharaja to whose ancestors all of them once belonged and who seeks to reunite them; and a patient killer, who over decades committed several murders for the sake of these emeralds.

The World Intellectuals

The World Intellectuals is a series by Mahmoud Shoolizadeh, a part of the life and belief of some of the intellectuals in art and literature are shown, The life of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the famous German poet, who was very much influenced by the famous Iranian poet - Hafez, also, the effective life and word of George Bernard Shaw, the British writer, are among them.

Visual arts of Azerbaijan

Heores of poetic works by Ferdowsi, Nizami, Saadi, Hafez, Jami, Navoiy, Amir Khusrow Dehlawi and others took an important place in creativity of Persian miniature artists.

Zohreh Jooya

Her works with Majid Derakhshani comprises poetry Shamsudin Mohammad Hafez, and Shafii Katkani played on Oriental and European instruments.


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