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unusual facts about Umm al-Faraj



Ali al-Faraj

At the start of February 2010, it became public that al-Faraj had financed the purchase of the club by means of a £17 million bridging loan from Balram Chainrai's company Portpin Ltd.

Ali al-Faraj was allegedly introduced to Portsmouth via their then CEO Peter Storrie, through Israeli agent Pini Zahavi when the club was on the brink of financial meltdown.

Ali is reported to have seven brothers and two sisters, including Ahmed al-Faraj, who also claims a stake in SABIC.

With a holding in petrochemical giant SABIC, Faraj also has business interests in Saudi Uniform Manufacture, AKETIPS'S and Easyway Limited, which owns property in both Saudi Arabia and the UK

It has been asserted by some Portsmouth fans that Al-Faraj is actually a pseudonym for Balram Chainrai.

Ancient Ganja Gate

The inscriptions in Kufi Arabic on the surviving leaf of the gate read: "With the name of Allah, the merciful and benevolent. The Excellency Sayyid Shawur ibn Al-Fazl - May Allah keep his supremacy longer! - ordered this door to be built with the help of Abul Faraj Muhammad ibn Abdulla - Let Allah give success to him too. Smith Ibrahim ibn Osman Angaveyh's work. (1063)".

Book of Songs

Kitab al-Aghani, a collection of poems and songs by ninth-century Arab scholar Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani

Flag of the United Arab Emirates

The Flag of Umm al-Quwain consists of a red background, a white bar at the hoist similar the flags of Ajman and Dubai, and a large white star and crescent in the center similar to the flag of Turkey.

General Maritime Treaty of 1820

The General Maritime Treaty of 1820 was a treaty initially signed between the rulers of Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Ajman and Umm al-Quwain and the United Kingdom in January 1820, with the nearby island state of Bahrain acceding to the treaty in the following February.

Kathryn Leigh Scott

In 2013, Kathryn was reunited with her Dark Shadows co-stars Jerry Lacy and Lara Parker in the feature film Doctor Mabuse, written and directed by Ansel Faraj.

Muhammad Hasan Imam

Muhammad Hasan Imam (born 1946) is a Professor at the Civil Engineering Department of the Umm al-Qura University, and known for his many contributions to the fields of Mechanical and Civil Engineering.

Mutlaq Hamid Al-Otaibi

Al-Thubeiti was born Mutlaq Hamid Al-Thubeiti Al-Otaibi in Taif On September 9, 1937, in 1965 he graduated from the faculty of Sharia Islamic Studies in Mecca, in 1967 he traveled to the United Kingdom where he studied English at the university of manchester, He returned to Saudi Arabia in 1970s where he got many jobs including member of the faculty of sharia at the University of Umm al-Qura in Mecca.

Rashidieh

Robert Fisk: Pity the nation: Lebanon at war. (Chapter 2: Mrs Zamzam in Rashidieh recall Umm al-Faraj)

Shaykh Muhammad Amin al-Hasanat Shah

After his marriage in 1979, within a year he traveled to the holy city of Makka (KSA) and enrolled in Umm al-Qura University and for the next five years gained expertise in Islamic Law.

Tabqa Dam

There were missions from the United States on Dibsi Faraj, Tell Fray and Shams ed-Din-Tannira; from France on Mureybet and Emar; from Italy on Tell Fray; from the Netherlands on Tell Ta'as, Hadidi, Jebel 'Aruda and Selenkahiye; from Switzerland on Tell al-Hajj; from Great Britain on Abu Hureyra and Tell es-Sweyhat; and from Japan on Tell Roumeila.

Umm al-Fahm

Hapoel Umm al-Fahm played in Liga Artzit (the third tier), prior to their folding in 2009.

Umm al-Qura University

Mutlaq Hamid Al-Otaibi, Poet and writer and former associate professor in faculty of sharia at the University of Umm al-Qura.


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