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unusual facts about Farah


Navy Ten Nautical Miler

In April 2010, race coordinators were contacted by Navy personnel serving in Farah, Afghanistan interested in running a satellite version of the race there.


2010 All Stars match

3 - Gareth Ellis was originally selected but withdrew due to personal reasons (replaced by Robbie Farah).

2011 Open Seguros Bolívar – Men's Doubles

Treat Conrad Huey and Izak van der Merwe won the title, defeating Cabal and Farah 7–6(7–3), 6–7(5–7), 7–2.

Abdulrahim Abby Farah

In 1964 and 1965, Ambassador Farah represented Somalia at Council of Ministers meetings in the Organisation of African Unity (OAU).

Buddy Farah

Farah had been sent to hospital in early 2004, having been diagnosed with Hepatitis A, after eating contaminated seafood.

Bulus Farah

Bulus Farah was a Palestinian trade unionist who founded the Federation of Arab Trade Unions and Labor Societies in 1942.

Calabar International Conference on African Literature and the English Language

Till date a host of African writers have featured at the conference including Cyprian Ekwensi, Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Chinweizu, Dennis Brutus, Buchi Emecheta, Flora Nwapa, Elechi Amadi, Ken Saro Wiwa, Chukwuemeka Ike, Nurrudin Farah, Syl Cheney Coker, to mention a few.

Daher Ahmed Farah

Farah successful in 1983 the Inter-African admission to the competition Special Military School of Saint-Cyr, and studied management at Reims and Limoges.

Elias Farah

Farah left Syria after the 1966 Syrian coup d'état that was carried out by the military wing of the Baath party on February 23, 1966, and led by Salah Jadeed and Hafez al-Assad.

Farah Asyikin binti Zulkifli

Farah Asyikin binti Zulkifli (born on November 11, 1979) is a Malaysian singer and songwriter, who placed third on the second season of Malaysian Idol and fifth on the first season of its replacement show One in a Million.

Farah City District

"Khake-e Sefid district fell into Taliban hands without any resistance from Afghan forces," Qadir Daqiq, a Farah provincial council member at the time told Reuters.

Bakwa and Farah districts make up the bulk of critical poppy growing areas.

Farah Province

A 1995 Oxfam report lists Farah as "severely mined", and indicated that Farah was particularly problematic due to the wide variety of mine devices employed there, as well as usage of mines to deny access to irrigation systems.

Hassan Abshir Farah

On August 1, 2006, Farah resigned along with seven other ministers, in protest at Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Ghedi's postponement of talks with the Islamic Courts Union (ICU).

Iranian Georgians

There were other compact settlements in Khorasan at Abbas Abad (half-way between Shahrood and Sabzevar where there remained only one old woman who remembered Georgian in 1934), Mazandaran at Behshahr and Farah Abad, Gilan, Isfahan Province at Najafabad, Badrud, Rahmatabad, Yazdanshahr and Amir Abad.

Moumin Bahdon Farah

Farah was arrested in early May 1998 on the grounds that he was suspected of financing a radical faction of the Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy (FRUD).

Paramedics incident in Oslo 2007

An ambulance was requested and one arrived and eventually transported Farah to Ullevål University Hospital where he arrived at 19.13 pm.

The decision by the paramedics to leave Farah in the park led to a massive outcry when the story first broke in the Norwegian media and accusations of blatant racism were directed towards the paramedics by several politicians and leading figures, including Beate Gangås, the Norwegian Equality and Anti-Discrimination Ombud.

Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones

While searching for the Vizier, the Prince encounters Farah (voiced by Helen King), who does not remember him, and is surprised that the Prince knows her name.

Sikrehra Khola

Sayyed Abul Farah Wasti was a descendant of Zaid bin Ali, who came to India from Wasit, Iraq.

Suvarna Jha

It was Farah Khan, the daughter of the yesteryear Bollywood actor Sanjay Khan who offered her role in a show titled `Jannat` which was broadcast on Channel Nine Gold.

Zaranj

A new highway called Route 606 was built between Zaranj and Delaram in Farah province by the Indian Government's Border Roads Organization at a cost of about US $136 million to open up a link between the deep sea port at Chabahar in Iran to Afghanistan's main ring road highway system which connects Kabul, Kandahar, Herat, Mazar-i-Sharif and Kunduz.

Zawarib

The most prominent intellectual personality from Zawarib is Dr. Suheil Farah, a professor in history who was the first foreigner to be granted the highest award of the Russian Academy.


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