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Mustafa Barghouti

Mustafa Barghouti

Mustafa Barghouthi Mustafa Barghouti (Arabic: مصطفى البرغوثي , strict transliteration Muṣṭafā al-Barġūṯī, also transcribed Mustafa Barghouthi, Mustafa Al Barghuthi; born 1954) is a Palestinian democracy activist. He was a candidate for the presidency...

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Marwan Barghouti

Marwan Barghouti

Marwan Barghouti Marwan Hasib Ibrahim Barghouti (Arabic: مروان حسيب ابراهيم البرغوثي ) (born 6 June 1959) is a Palestinian political figure convicted and imprisoned for murder by an Israeli court. [1] He is regarded as a leader of the First and Second...

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Ismail Haniyeh

Ismail Haniyeh

Ismail Abdel Salam Ahmed Haniyeh ( Arabic : إسماعيل عبد السلام أحمد هنية , Ismaʻīl Haniyya ; sometimes transliterated as Ismail Haniya , Ismail Haniyah ; Arabic pronunciation ( help · info ) ) (born 29 January 1963) is a senior political leader of Hamas...

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Rashid al-Ghannushi

Rashid al-Ghannushi

Tunisian islamist leader Rached Ghannouchi Rashid al-Ghannushi (راشد الغنوشي, Rāšid al-Ġannūšī [1] , born 1941) is a Tunisian politician who co-founded the Ennahda Movement , currently the largest party in Tunisia. He has been called the party's "intellectual...

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Haile Selassie

Haile Selassie

Haile Selassie I (Ge'ez: ቀዳማዊ ኃይለ ሥላሴ qädamawi haylä səllasé [nb 1] ; Amharic: [ha.ɪlɜ sɨlːase] [nb 2] listen ( help · info ) )(23 July 1892 – 27 August 1975), born Tafari Makonnen Woldemikael, [4] was Ethiopia's regent from 1916 to 1930 and Emperor of...

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K2 Mountain

K2 Mountain

K2 (also known as Chhogori/Qogir, Ketu/Kechu, and Mount Godwin-Austen) is the second-highest mountain on Earth, after Mount Everest. It is located on the border [2] between Baltistan, in the Gilgit–Baltistan region of Pakistan, and the Taxkorgan Tajik...

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Mount Everest

Mount Everest

Mount Everest from Kalapatthar. Mount Everest (Nepali: सगरमाथा, Sagarmāthā; Tibetan: ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ, Wylie: jo mo glang ma; Chomolungma [4] [5] or Qomolangma / ˈ tʃ oʊ m oʊ ˌ l ɑː ŋ m ə / [6] "Holy Mother"; Chinese: 珠穆朗玛峰; pinyin: Zhūmùlǎngmǎ Fēng; [7] )...

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