Famous People with Name Massoud

Massoud Behnoud            Origin/Culture/Country: Iranian

Massoud Behnoud: a prominent Iranian journalist and writer.He started his work as a journalist in 1964. During his long career he worked as an investigating journalist for different newspapers. He founded more than 20 newspapers and magazines, none of them are currently in publication.

Massouda Jalal            Origin/Culture/Country: Afghan

Massouda Jalal: is a politician in Afghanistan, who served as Minister of Women's Affairs from October 2004 to July 2006. She was also the only woman candidate in the Afghan presidential election, 2004. She has a background as a pediatrician, teacher at Kabul University,

Ahmad Shah Massoud            Origin/Culture/Country: Afghan

Ahmad Shah Massoud: was a Kabul University engineering student turned military leader who, with support from the United States and other foreign nations, played a leading role in driving the Soviet army out of Afghanistan, earning him the nickname Lion of Panjshir. Many Afghans call him Amer Sahib e Shaheed, translating to (Our) Martyred Commander. Massoud was the most pro-Western and popular of the anti-Soviet resistance leaders

Ahmad Zia Massoud            Origin/Culture/Country: Afghan

Ahmad Zia Massoud: the current first Vice President of Afghanistan in the administration of President Hamid Karzai. He is the younger brother of Ahmad Shah Massoud.Zia was born in Muqur, which is in Ghazni province of Afghanistan. He attended Esteqlal High School, the French sponsored school in Kabul, for his primary and secondary studies, and then entered the Polytechnical University of Kabul.[citation needed] However, he left school in his third year, in 1978, caught up in the tumultuous events in the country, and joined the mujahideen with his brother Ahmad Shah, in the Panjsher Valley north of Kabul.[citation needed]

Hassan Massoudy            Origin/Culture/Country: Arabic

Hassan Massoudy: an Iraqi calligrapher who has published many collections of his work.He was born in 1944, in Najaf and currently lives in Paris, France.Hassan Massoudy was born in 1944 in Najef, South of Iraq. He grew up amid the scalding heat of the desert, in a traditional Iraqi society characterised by strong religious beliefs, a high sense of solidarity and a keenness for festive gatherings. As a youngster, in this town where all images were prohibited, he fulfilled his passion for art by making drawings and calligraphies while investing all his energy to get paper and pigments. In 1961 he left for Baghdad and started working as an apprentice for various calligraphers. He visited exhibitions of modern art which fascinated him and from then on, started to dream of studying art. The unfolding political events and ensuing dictatorship prevented him to do so. He eventually left Iraq for France in 1969, freed from the oppressing regime but heartbroken.