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unusual facts about Taleb el-Sana


Taleb el-Sana

El-Sana is known for his outspoken criticism of the Israeli government, prompting one Jerusalem Post commentator to suggest recently that el-Sana be deported to Palestinian Authority controlled territory just as Abraham Lincoln deported United States Congressman Clement Vallandigham to the Confederated States of America during the American Civil War.


Al-Mansur Ahmad

The population of Sana'a, Dhamar and Yarim split into factions backing either Ali or Abbas.

Armand Cabrera

He has loaned two Western American paintings to the U.S. Embassy in Sana'a, Yemen.

Arwa al-Sulayhi

One of her first actions was to move the capital from Sana'a to Jibla in order to be in a better position to destroy the Najahid ruler Sa'id ibn Najar of Zabid and thus avenge her father-in-law's death.

Bettie Cilliers-Barnard

Most recently in 1992 she painted "Vision" for the Pretoria Eye Institute and some of her other commissions including the painting "Flight" for South African Airways, 1983, the tapestry "Guardian Angel of the Arts" for t he State Theatre of Pretoria, 1981, and her mural in oils "Mensa sana corpore sano" for the Department of Health in Pretoria, 1980.

Death of Jamal al-Sharaabi

Death of Jamal al-Sharaabi, also known as Jamal Ahmad Al-Sharaabi, (Arabic: جمال احمد الشرعبي, c. 1976 - 18 March 2011) was a Yemeni photojournalist with the independent weekly, Al-Masdar, in Sana'a, Yemen.

Dor Daim

Over time more and more Kabbalistic practices became popular among the Yemenite Jews to the point that the Baladi community became localized as a significant population only around the area of Yemen's capital city, Sana'a.

Europa Philharmonie

In 2004, the orchestra was the first classical symphony orchestra in the world to perform in Sana'a, the capital city of Yemen, at the opening concert for "Sana'a - Cultural Capital of the Arab World", which was attended by its patron, the former President of the Bundestag, Wolfgang Thierse, and the Yemen Minister for Culture and Tourism, Khalid Al-Rewaishan.

Fatima Sana Shaikh

Fatima Sana Shaikh is an Indian actress known for her roles in Chachi 420 (1997) as Baby Sana (Bharti), Agle Janam Mohe Bitiya Hi Kijo as Suman, and Akaash Vani (2013).

Gunnar Brands

He received a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute in 1987, and was a research fellow working on the site of Sana'a in the Yemen Arab Republic in a project operated by that Institute .

Jamal Amer

On 25 August, Amer was abducted outside his home in Sana'a by four men in a vehicle with military license plates.

Jasenovac

Jasenovac, Bosanski Petrovac, village in the Una-Sana Canton in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Mens Sana Basket

The basketball club's parent multi-sports club, Polisportiva Mens Sana, founded in 1871, claims to have been the first sports club in Italy to play and organize basketball; asserting that it did so in 1907, just sixteen years after James Naismith invented the sport, in 1891.

Mocha, Yemen

Even after other sources of coffee were found, Mocha beans (also called Sanani or Mocha Sanani beans, meaning from Sana'a) continued to be prized for their distinctive flavor—and remain so even today.

MTV Splitsvilla

This season also had a review show for each episode titled "Sexy Sana" hosted by Sana Saeed.

Muhammad al-Badr

Meanwhile Sayf al-Islam Ahmad had managed to get away from Taizz and made for Hajjah, where he gathered the tribes around him, proclaimed himself Imam with the title of al-Nasir and within a month of the assassination had easily regained control of Sana'a and executed the principal perpetrators of the rebellion.

Ölürüm Sana

"Ölürüm Sana" (English "I Will Die For You") was recorded in 1997 by Tarkan, named after the similarly named song "Ölürüm Sana" that is featured in the album.

Operation Tiger Rescue

Because of disorganization at Sana'a International Airport and delays loading (ground times for some C-130 aircraft exceeded three hours), all four C-130s involved departed Sana'a overloaded with passengers and forced to make an emergency divert to Ta'if Regional Airport, landing dangerously low on fuel (in some cases with less than 20 minutes of flight time remaining) before continuing on to Riyadh Air Base.

Pani Jaisa Piyar

A DNA report shows that the baby is in fact Adarsh's son, but Sana argues that the child is hers and hers only.

Partners for Democratic Change International

PY operated four programs focused primarily in Shabwa, Al-Baydha', Mareb, Ibb, and Al-Jawf, with national level activities and main office in the capital city of Sana’a.

Rechabite

In 1839 the Reverend Joseph Wolff, who later went to Bokhara to attempt to save Lieutenant Colonel Charles Stoddart and Captain Arthur Conolly, found in Yemen, near Sana'a, a tribe claiming to be descendants of Jehonadab; and in the late nineteenth century a Bedouin tribe was found near the Dead Sea who also professed to be descendants of Jehonadab.

Sana Amin Sheikh

Sana emerged again in April 2009 and gained fame for playing Ritu Shah on the Disney Channel India Original Series, Kya Mast Hai Life.

Sana Mir

Sana Mir (born 5 January 1986) is a female Pakistani cricketer of Kashmiri origin and captain of the Pakistan women's team.

Sana Nawaz

Ghar Kab Aao Gay 2000 Saima, Shaan, Sana, Meera, Zeeshan, Javed Shaikh

Sana'a manuscript

The German scholar Elisabeth Puin (of Saarland University), whose husband was the local director of the restoration project until 1985, has transcribed the lower text of six folios (and one side of another folio) in four successive publications.

Sarah Jane Salazar

Her life story was made into a movie The Secrets of Sarah Jane/Sana'y mapatawad mo in 1994 starring Gelli de Belen, who won a best actress award for the role at the 1995 Gawad Urian Awards.

Tarek Al-Wazir

His parents divorced while he was a child, and he spent several years of his youth in the Yemeni capital (Sana'a) with his father, an experience he later described as very influential in his personal development.

Tirabin al-Sana

In 2011 an Israeli solar energy company Arava Power signed a contract with the Tarabin tribe in the Negev Desert to build a solar installation.

Turan-Shah

In 1175, he drove out the Hamdanid emir, Ali ibn Hakim al-Wahid, from Sana'a after the latter's army was weakened by continuous raids from the Zaidi tribes of Sa'dah.

Una-Sana Canton

Due to the proximity to Croatia and that country's narrow northern outline, various important traffic lines between Zagreb and the Adriatic traverse the Una-Sana canton, such as the railway line Bosanski Novi — Bihać — Knin.

What the Koran Really Says

Within the book is an article written by Gerd R. Puin titled "Observations on Early Qu'ran Manuscripts in Sana'a".

Windhoek Declaration

Subsequently several similar documents were drafted in other parts of the developing world: The Alma-Ata Declaration for central Asia, Sana'a Declaration for the Middle East, and the Santiago Declaration for Latin America and the Caribbean.


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