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Was a scholar and professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies at the University of Tehran.The topic chosen

Was a scholar and professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies at the University of Tehran.The topic chosen for his thesis was also an indication of his life long love for his country and his determination to bear witness through his writing to major literary, philosophic and scientific contributions made by Iranians to civilization at large. His precocious talents and productivity also manifested itself in his journalistic activities as a young man. As early as 1933 he began contributing to the influential journal Mehr, and was its chief editor from 1937 to 1941.

An Indian Muslim author and journalist based in New Delhi. He is currently editor and publisher of M

An Indian Muslim author and journalist based in New Delhi. He is currently editor and publisher of Milli Gazette fortnightly focusing on issues concerning the Muslim community, which is a minority in India. He is also the founder and chairman of Charity Alliance, an organisation involved in relief and welfare work in India. [1] He is author and translator of over 40 books in Arabic, English and Urdu including Hijrah in Islam (Delhi, 1996) and Palestine Documents (New Delhi 1998). He has contributed eight articles to the Encyclopaedia of Islam (Leiden) on Indo-Muslim themes. He is a regular commentator on Islamic and South Asian issues on radio and TV channels, including Al Jazeera, Al Arabiya and BBC Arabic and his writings appear in Arabic newspapers and magazines. In December 2007, he was elected for a two year term (2008-2009)as President of the All India Muslim Majlis-e Mushawarat, the umbrella body of Muslim organisations in India.

Was a Romanian prose writer, novelist, poet, and philosopher.

Was a Romanian prose writer, novelist, poet, and philosopher.

An Indian born international TV Journalist of the Arab origin. He has worked with The Times of India

An Indian born international TV Journalist of the Arab origin. He has worked with The Times of India and various international TV channels including NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) and most recently Al Jazeera English.At the age of 22, he worked as NHK’s South Asia correspondent and covered the Asian tsunami disaster and filed special reports on post-tsunami life in the Maldives, Sri Lanka and Tamil Nadu.Previously Zain was based in New Delhi and freelanced with APTN, Sky News and China Central TV from across India, covering the Chinese Prime Minister's historic visit to India (2005), Kashmiri cross-border bus and President Musharraf’s ‘Cricket Diplomacy’.

Was an Egyptian musician and composer. He composed many pieces in a traditional folk Egyptian style.

Was an Egyptian musician and composer. He composed many pieces in a traditional folk Egyptian style. His works included solo pieces and film scores, and he composed for Umm Kulthum beginning with a taqtuqa written in 1925.

Was an African folklorist and writer.Mangoaela grew up in Lesotho (called Basutoland at the time) an

Was an African folklorist and writer.Mangoaela grew up in Lesotho (called Basutoland at the time) and went to the Basutoland Training College.

Was a composer from the nation of Georgia. He is regarded as a founder of Georgian classical music.

Was a composer from the nation of Georgia. He is regarded as a founder of Georgian classical music. As a young boy he sang in a choir and learned to play the organ in the St. Mary Catholic Church of Kutaisi. His first tutor was his brother Ivan, who later

Was an Egyptian philosopher, intellectual and thinker. Considered as a leader pathfinder in modern A

Was an Egyptian philosopher, intellectual and thinker. Considered as a leader pathfinder in modern Arabic philosophy. Best known with "The philosopher of authors and author of philosophers" as Abbas Mahmoud al-Akkad called him. Mahmoud adhered to logical positivism and adopted science interpretation with social motivations to reconcile the Arab tradition with modernism.

Is a well-known Moroccan journalist.She became a Moroccan citizen in 1959.[1] Zakya Daoud started he

Is a well-known Moroccan journalist.She became a Moroccan citizen in 1959.[1] Zakya Daoud started her career as a journalist in 1958 for the Moroccan radio and then as correspondent in Morocco for the weekly Jeune Afrique. At the request of the African weekly, Jacqueline Loghlam signed her articles with the pseudonyme Zakya Daoud, a borrowed name under which she kept writing.

Was a Deputy Controller CPU and a literary critic. He wrote two books. The first on Modernism And Po

Was a Deputy Controller CPU and a literary critic. He wrote two books. The first on Modernism And Post-Modernism and received Baba-e-Urdu Award by Academy of Letters. The second, Mabaad-i-Jadeediat Ka Doosra Rukh, was published by Scheherzade publications.

Was a pianist and composer. She was from a Jewish family. Zara Levina studied piano in the Odessa Co

Was a pianist and composer. She was from a Jewish family. Zara Levina studied piano in the Odessa Conservatory, which she passed with a gold metal. She graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 1932, where she had studied piano and composition. In her ear

Is a Macedonian novelist and playwright. His short stories and essays have been translated in severa

Is a Macedonian novelist and playwright. His short stories and essays have been translated in several languages and have won many awards.

Is a Brazilian composer of Polish descent. He chose the pseudonym "Henrique de Curitiba" to become k

Is a Brazilian composer of Polish descent. He chose the pseudonym "Henrique de Curitiba" to become known in Brazil and abroad under a more commonly and better pronounceable name.In 1981 Morozowicz received the Master's Degree at the Cornell University and the Ithaca College in New York, under guidance of Karel Husa, and became a well-known and recognised composer as "Henrique de Curitiba". Morozowicz has composed more than 150 works, amongst them many choral works. He taught at UFPR in the 80's and in the 90's, and at UFG until 2006. He died in Curitiba in February 22, 2008.

Was an influential Polish poet, essayist, drama writer, author of plays, and moralist. A member of t

Was an influential Polish poet, essayist, drama writer, author of plays, and moralist. A member of the Polish resistance movement – Home Army (AK) during World War II, he is one of the best known and the most translated post-war Polish writers. [1]He was

Was a Polish writer.His works consist of adventure stories aimed at teenagers as well as adult novel

Was a Polish writer.His works consist of adventure stories aimed at teenagers as well as adult novels. He achieved his greatest acclaim for his Pan Samochodzik series, a sequence of historical detective stories centering around a museum employee and his fantastic automobile (samochodzik means a little car in Polish). The works Raz w roku w Skirolawkach and Dagome Iudex contain controversial opinions on erotic subject matter.Aside from being forcibly relocated during World War II and his brief studies in cinematography in Moscow, he spent most of his life until 1967 in Lódz. In 1967 he moved to Masuria (Polish: Mazury), a lake filled region in northeastern Poland, where he remained until his death. Mazury are sometimes the setting for Pan Samochodzik and feature in some of his other works.

Was a Polish writer and theatre historian.Shortly after his birth his family moved to Bydgoszcz, whe

Was a Polish writer and theatre historian.Shortly after his birth his family moved to Bydgoszcz, where he spent his childhood and youth. He wrote one of the best books on the town, and more broadly on Polish-German relations there, in the form of Pamietnik gapia. Bydgoszcz, jaka pamietam z lat 1930-1945 Wyd. Pomorze Bydgoszcz., a compendium of memoirs.

Was a prominent Czech composer of New Music.Vostrák initiated his work in the generic Romantic styl

Was a prominent Czech composer of New Music.Vostrák initiated his work in the generic Romantic style. Beginning with his cycle of songs entitled While Falling Asleep, he turned to dodecaphony and techniques proceeding from this particular principle. In the following years Vostrák employed the style known by the general title of New Music. During the late 1960s and early 1970s he was widely engaged in composing electronic music which he sometimes combined with live performers. During the first stage of his career Vostrák wrote several successful operas and ballets. The following phase featured almost exclusively concert compositions with a predominance of instrumental music.

Was a Czech composer of classical music, including chamber works (including two string quartets, a p

Was a Czech composer of classical music, including chamber works (including two string quartets, a piano trio, piano quartet and a quintet for piano, strings and winds), symphonic poems, three symphonies, at least seven operas, the most famous probably Šárka and The Bride of Messina; melodramas including the substantial trilogy Hippodamia, liturgical music including a mass - a missa brevis; and a large cycle (almost 400 pieces, from the 1890s) of piano works called Moods, Impressions, and Reminiscences among other works.

Was a Czech composer who produced a large of number film scores across a prolific career that starte

Was a Czech composer who produced a large of number film scores across a prolific career that started in the 1950s. He worked notably with animator Jan Švankmajer, scoring several of his earlier short films: Punch and Judy (1966), Et Cetera (1966), Historia Naturae (Suita) (1967), The Flat (1968), Don Juan (1969), The Ossuary (1970), Jabberwocky (1971), and Leonardo's Diary (1972), and later The Castle of Otranto (1979). Liška's music for Švankmajer's Historia Naturae (Suita), The Flat, and The Ossuary was also featured in the 1984 short film by American animators the Brothers Quay entitled The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer.

Was a prolific Czech composer having composed over 330 works. He graduated from a teachers' college

Was a prolific Czech composer having composed over 330 works. He graduated from a teachers' college and worked as a teacher from 1953 to 1963. He was a musical editor and program director at the National Broadcasting Company in Pilsen and conducted the Ceská písen, one of the most famous choirs in the Czechoslovakia.

Is a Polish historian of literature, a former opponent of the government of the Polish People's Repu

Is a Polish historian of literature, a former opponent of the government of the Polish People's Republic, and former director of the Polish section of Radio Free Europe.When martial law was declared in Poland (December 13, 1981) Najder, internationally renowned for his work on Joseph Conrad, was a visiting scholar at Oxford University. A supporter of Solidarity, he remained abroad and, on the recommendation of Jan Nowak-Jezioranski, was appointed director of the Polish-language service of Radio Free Europe (RFE), a post he held until 1987. During his tenure, in Poland he was sentenced to death in absentia for alleged collaboration with U.S. intelligence.

Was a Japanese aesthetician, actor and playwright.Zeami was educated by his father, Kan'ami, who was

Was a Japanese aesthetician, actor and playwright.Zeami was educated by his father, Kan'ami, who was also an actor. The father-son team established the Noh theatre. When Kan'ami's company performed for Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, the Shogun of Japan, he asked for Zeami to have a court education in the arts. The Shogun took the boy as his lover, in the shudo tradition, in 1374.Scholars attribute nearly 50 plays to Zeami. Among them are the works Izutsu, Hagoromo (The Feather Mantle), Koi no omoni (The Load of Love), and a play about Atsumori based on the 14th-century Tales of the Heike.

Is a television and radio reporter and news presenter in the United Kingdom. She was the first prese

Is a television and radio reporter and news presenter in the United Kingdom. She was the first presenter of the ITV Morning News co-presented Channel 4 News with Jon Snow for several years, before joining BBC News.

Is an Israeli author. Shalev has published four novels, a book of poetry and a children's book. Her

Is an Israeli author. Shalev has published four novels, a book of poetry and a children's book. Her bestselling novels Love Life and Husband and Wife have received critical acclaim both in Israel and abroad. They have been translated into 21 languages and have been bestsellers in several countries. On January 29, 2004 she was returning home after taking her child to kindergarten when Bus number 19 exploded next to her. She has undergone extensive recovery over the year and a half that followed.

Also known as Tamkin, was an Azerbaijani geographer, philosopher and poet.Kashf ul-Maarif (The Disco

Also known as Tamkin, was an Azerbaijani geographer, philosopher and poet.Kashf ul-Maarif (The Discovery of Enlightenment) represents a rather philosophical piece of writing. It consists of Shirvani's biography in the preface, his meetings with famous scholars, and their beliefs and theories. The only copy of the book was discovered by Azerbaijani historian Agamir Guliyev in Kabul in 1973. The book was never published and the manuscript remained at Guliyev's private library.