Muhammad (c. 26 April 570 – 8 June 632; also transliterated as Mohammad, Mohammed, or Muhammed; Arabic: محمد), full name: Muhammad Ibn `Abd Allāh Ibn `Abd al-Muttalib (Arabic: محمد بن عبدالله بن عبد المطلب ) was a leader from Mecca who unified the tribes of Arabia into a single religious polity under Islam. He is believed by Muslims and Bahá'ís to be a messenger and prophet of God. Muslims believe that Islam was not his own invention but was revealed by God, and most consider him to be the last prophet of God Muslims thus consider him the restorer of an uncorrupted original monotheistic faith (islām) of Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus and other prophets.
Born in 570 CE in the Arabian city of Mecca, he was orphaned at an early age and brought up under the care of his uncle Abu Talib. He later worked mostly as a merchant, as well as a shepherd, and was first married by age 25. Being in the habit of periodically retreating to a cave in the surrounding mountains for several nights of meditation and prayer, he later reported that it was there, at age 40, that he received his first revelation from God. Three years after this event Muhammad started preaching these revelations publicly, proclaiming that "God is One", that complete "surrender" to Him (lit. islām) is the only way (dīn) acceptable to God, and that he himself was a prophet and messenger of God, in the same vein as other Islamic prophets.
Maria Cornelia Frederika "Rita" Verdonk (born October 18, 1955) is a retired Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) later her own formed Proud of the Netherlands (Trots). She served as Minister for Integration and Immigration in Cabinets Balkenende II and III. During her time as Minister for Integration and Immigration she was considered to be the most powerful and influential Minister of the Cabinets Balkenende II and III. In 2006 after the Minister of Justice Piet Hein Donner resigned following a Netherlands Safety Board enquiry into a fire at a cell block near Schiphol Airport, she served as Minister of Justice from September 21, 2006 till September 22, 2006.
After the Dutch general election of 2006, the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy lost seats and became the leading Opposition party against the Cabinet Balkenende IV. Verdonk became a Member of the House of Representatives, but after continuing disagreement with Party leader Mark Rutte she was expelled from the parliamentary faction of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy on September 13, 2007. One month later she cancelled her membership, after a reconciliation attempt failed and the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy party board initiated a procedure of exclusion. In October 2007, she announced the creation of her own political movement, Proud of the Netherlands (Dutch: Trots op Nederland). She was the Lijsttrekker of the Proud of the Netherlands party for the Dutch general election of 2010, but didn't win any seats. On October 21, 2011 she announced her retirement from politics, leaving the future of the Proud of the Netherlands party unknown.
Mohammad Rafi (December 24, 1924 – July 31, 1980) is considered to be the greatest Indian male playback singer of all time. He was awarded the National Film Award, Best Singer Award, six Filmfare Awards and the Best Singer of the Millennium award. In 1967, he was honoured with the Padma Shri award by the Government of India. His singing career spanned about 35 years, and he is noted for his ability to sing songs of different moods and varieties: his songs ranged from classical numbers to patriotic songs, sad lamentations to highly romantic numbers, qawwalis to ghazals and bhajans. He is best known for romantic and duet songs, which he playback sings with the technique to mould the voice according to characters of the actor on the screen.
Rafi is primarily noted for his songs in Hindi-Urdu, over which he had a strong command. He also sang in other Indian languages including Konkani, Bhojpuri, Oriya, Punjabi, Bengali, Marathi, Sindhi, Kannada, Gujarati, Telugu, Maghi, Maithili and Assamese. He also recorded a few songs in foreign languages such as English, Persian, Spanish and Dutch. From available figures, Rafi sang 4,516 Hindi film songs, 112 non-Hindi film songs, and 328 private (non-film) songs from 1945 to 1980.
Lata Mangeshkar (born September 28, 1929) is a singer from India. She is one of the best-known and most respected playback singers in India. Mangeshkar's career started in 1942 and has spanned over six and a half decades. She has recorded songs for over a thousand Hindi films and has sung songs in over thirty-six regional Indian languages and foreign languages, though primarily in Hindi. She is the elder sister of singer Asha Bhosle, Hridayanath Mangeshkar, Usha Mangeshkar and Meena Mangeshkar. She is the second vocalist to have ever been awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour.
Mangeshkar was featured in the Guinness Book of World Records from 1974 to 1991 for having made the most recordings in the world. The claim was that she had recorded approximately 25,000 solo, duet, and chorus-backed songs in 20 Indian languages between 1948 to 1974. Over the years, while several sources have supported this claim, others have raised concerns over its veracity, claiming that this number was highly exaggerated and that Mangeshkar's younger sister, Asha Bhosle, had more song recordings than she had. In 2011 Guinness officially acknowledged Bhosle as the most recorded artist in music history.
Boonaa Mohammed is a Muslim Canadian spoken word poet and writer of Oromo ancestry.
Boonaa Mohammed is a critically acclaimed award winning writer and performer with accolades including a playwright residency at Theatre Passe Muraille, a short story published in a Penguin Canada anthology called “Piece by Piece” and various slam poetry titles credits including winner of the 2007 CBC Poetry Face-Off “Best New Artist” award.
His popular Youtube videos have received over One Million views to date, and as an Artist he has toured and traveled across the world, speaking alongside some of the most influential scholars and entertainers of our time. He frequently conducts writing workshops and seminars, sharing his experience and expertise in Spoken Word story-telling with mainly youth from all walks of life.
He graduated on the honour roll from Oakwood Collegiate Institute as class Valedictorian in 2005. He then went on to study at Ryerson University and graduated from the Radio and Television arts program.
There's a thin line between good and evil.
Who are we to decide who's Evil or not
Plot
In Cairo on her own as she waits for her husband, Juliette finds herself caught in a whirlwind romance with his friend Tareq, a retired cop. As Tareq escorts Juliette around the city, they find themselves in the middle of a brief affair that catches them both unawares.
Keywords: adultery, airport, aleppo-syria, alexandria-egypt, american-abroad, american-embassy, apple, apple-computer, arabic, arabic-music
An adventure of the heart.
Juliette Grant: Congratulations upon your retirement.::Tareq Khalifa: Thank you.
Tareq Khalifa: [about Alexandria] You know the library burned down.
Juliette Grant: I always wanted to be a singer.::Tareq Khalifa: What stopped you?::Juliette Grant: My voice.
Juliette Grant: [the men are all staring at her] Why are they looking at me?::Tareq Khalifa: This place is for men only.::Juliette Grant: [Surprised] Why don't they say anything?::Tareq Khalifa: [Smiles] That would be rude.
Tareq Khalifa: They say that if you drink water from the Nile, you will always come back.
Juliette Grant: [Last Lines] [Silently crying] I'm glad I waited.
Tareq Khalifa: [the two of them are on the train] What are you thinking about?::Juliette Grant: I was thinking what I'd do on my first day living in Cairo.::Tareq Khalifa: And?::Juliette Grant: I'd open a coffee shop for women only.::Tareq Khalifa: [laughs] That's brilliant.
Juliette Grant: My son eloped.::Yasmeen: Eloped?::Juliette Grant: He got married without telling his mother.::Yasmeen: Did you disown him?
Juliette Grant: [Repeated line] [In Arabic] Thank you.
Tareq Khalifa: [Pushing Juliette out of a motor scooter's path] I liked how Cairo was before.
When loved ones depart, there is someone waiting for the Good Omen
Plot
Pittsburgh, coming of age in the 1980s. At the beginning of June, Art Beckstein calls this the last summer of his life - after which he'll work as a stock broker. Art's father is the city's mob boss, steering Art's life, judging his choices. At a party, Art sees Jane, smart, blond, lovely. They meet; she has a boyfriend. The next day, Cleveland, the boyfriend, pulls Art from work and the summer of adventures begins. Cleveland lives close to the edge; he's explosive, with hints of problems with local thugs. The triangle of friendship gets complicated when Cleveland disappears for a couple weeks. Can Art sort out his feelings as well as help Cleveland? Where does his father fit in this?
Keywords: bare-chested-male, based-on-novel, bisexual, bisexual-male, bisexual-man, bisexuality, blue-dress, city-name-in-title, coitus, copulation
Sometimes life leads you to the most mysterious places.
Jane Bellwether: And what does he do? What does your father do?::Art Bechstein: He manipulates Swiss bank accounts with money that comes from numbers, whores, protection, and cigarette smuggling.::Jane Bellwether: Really?::Art Bechstein: No, he's in finance.
Fear Society
Plot
4 interlocking stories all connected by a single gun all converge at the end and reveal a complex and tragic story of the lives of humanity around the world and how we truly aren't all that different. In Morocco, a troubled married couple are on vacation trying to work out their differences. Meanwhile, a Moroccan herder buys a rifle for his sons so they can keep the jackals away from his herd. A girl in Japan dealing with rejection, the death of her mother, the emotional distance of her father, her own self-consciousness, and a disability among many other issues, deals with modern life in the enormous metropolis of Tokyo, Japan. Then, on the opposite side of the world the married couple's Mexican nanny takes the couple's 2 children with her to her son's wedding in Mexico, only to come into trouble on the return trip. Combined, it provides a powerful story and an equally powerful looking glass into the lives of seemingly random people around the world and it shows just how connected we really are.
Keywords: 4-stories, accident, accidental-shooting, actual-animal-killed, alone, ambulance, american, arrest, aunt-nephew-relationship, balcony
If You Want to be Understood...Listen
Tragedy is universal
A single gunshot heard around the world.
A global disaster.
Pain is universal... But so is hope.
One shot, many kills.
Richard: What about you? How many wives do you have?::Anwar: I can only afford one.
Yussef: I killed the American, I was the only one who shot at you. They did nothing... nothing. Kill me, but save my brother, he did nothing... nothing. Save my brother... he did nothing.
Amelia: Help! Ayudame! HELP!
Richard: [to other tourists] You leave, I'll kill you. I'll kill you!
Richard: This is your fucked-up country, it's your responsibility!
[first lines]::Hassan: It's almost new. Three hundred cartridges. The guy who gave it to me said you can hit as far as three kilometers.
[last lines]::Japanese newscaster: Susan Jones, who was wounded in a terrorist attack in Morocco, was discharged from a Casablanca hospital this morning, local time. The American people finally have a happy ending, after five days of frantic phone calls and hand wringing. In other news...
[last title card]::Title card: To my children, Maria Eladia and Elisio... the brightest lights in the darkest night.
Mike Jones: My mom said Mexico is dangerous.::Santiago: [in Spanish] Yes, it's full of Mexicans.
Chieko: [signing] They look at us like we're monsters.
Plot
Occupied Palestine: A serene landscape now pockmarked by military checkpoints. When a Palestinian film crew decides to avert a closed checkpoint by taking a remote side road, the political landscape unravels, and the passengers are slowly taken apart by the mundane brutality of military occupation. Both a visual poem and a narrative about the fragmentation of a people, "like twenty impossibles", also questions the politics of filmmaking and the opportunism of artists.
Plot
Al-Hajiz (The Barrier), the movie deals with social and emotional barriers imposed upon individuals by society and also with those that the individual imposes upon himself. The characters in the movie lack the ability to communicate with each other and therefore, fail to understand their own emotions. Hence, they fail to maintain healthy relationships with each other because of the lack of love amongst them. This failure is attributed to the surrounding environment that dose not allow for healthy relationships to grow and prosper.
His enemies only had to FIGHT the legend . . . he had to LIVE up to it!
Again and again I get up and say
I only want to get it right.
I only want to do the right thing,
but are these demons, I ask myself.
I wonder today, I'm alone, but then
No one can make their own life.
No one can say that they're an island
When all this freedom that you get is a lie.
Live without you
I don't know what I would do
If you ever left me
If I ever lost you
This heart of mine would be dying
Shadows would shine out the sun
It would be a whole dark world
Without your love beside me
And how do I survive
If I don't have you here
Here in my life
Make me walk across, across the burning sands
Make me hold the whole weight of the world in my hands
Baby don't , don't , don't make me live without you
And I'd never make it
Don't , don't , don't make me live without you
Live without you
Maybe I need you too much
Never needed anything the way I need your touch
If you ever go I'll go crazy
Take away all that I own
Take the very air that I breathe
My very heart and soul
But baby
Don't take your love from me
Cause if I don't have you here
I don't have a thing
Make me walk across , across the burning sands
Make me hold the whole weight of the world in my hands
Baby don't , don't , don't make me live without you
And I'd never make it
Don't , don't , don't make me live without you
Live without you
Live without you
I need you here in my arms
As long as I live
As long as I breathe
I need you here
Beside me
Make me walk across , across the burning sands
Make me hold the whole weight of the world in my hands
Baby don't , don't , don't make live without you
And I'd never make it
Again and again I get up and say
I only want to get it right.
I only want to do the right thing,
but are these demons, I ask myself.
I wonder today, I'm alone, but then
No one can make their own life.
No one can say that they're an island