Fátima, Portugal

Fátima (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈfatimɐ]) is a civil parish in the municipality of Ourém, in the Portuguese Santarém District. The population in 2011 was 11,596, in an area of 71.84 km². The parish encompasses several villages and localities of which Fátima, with a population of 7,756 residents, is the largest. Part of the urban agglomeration of Leiria, it is 187 km (116 mi) south of Porto and 123 km (76 mi) north of Lisbon. It has been permanently associated with the Marian apparitions that occurred in Cova da Iria in 1917 and which were later recognized by the Catholic Church.

History

The name of the town and parish is a rendition of the Arabic given name Fatima ( فاطمة Fāṭimah), reportedly the name of a Moorish princess whom Gonçalo Hermigues and his companions kidnapped. The knight took Fatima to a small village of the recently created Kingdom of Portugal, in the Serra de Aire hills. According to the Western narrative, Fatima fell in love with her kidnapper and decided to become herself a Christian to marry him. She was baptized and given a Christian name "Oureana". Arab sources, however, claim that Fatima -as most Reconquest captives- was forced into Christianity , but there is no proof to support either scenarios of her conversion. (Fatimah is also the name of a daughter of Muhammad).

Fátima (Buenos Aires Premetro)

Nuestra Señora de Fátima (commonly known as Fátima) is a station on the Buenos Aires Premetro. It was opened on 13 March 2000 by the Buenos Aires Underground operator Metrovías and is one of only two Premetro stations (the other being Pola) to have been opened after the original inauguration of the Premetro in 1987. The station is located in the Barrio of Villa Soldati.

In 2015 the City of Buenos Aires presented plans to refurbish the station and currently the station is being renovated (along with the remodelling of the Intendente Saguier terminus) to serve as the model station on which all the other Premetro stations will be based once they too are renovated.

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External links

Media related to Fátima at Wikimedia Commons

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Maya (2001 film)

Maya is a 2001 Hindi film directed by Digvijay Singh with Nitya Shetty, Mita Vashisht, Anant Nag and Nikhil Yadav in lead roles.

Plot

12-year-old Maya lives with her aunt Lakshmi, uncle Arun and cousin Sanjay, a typical middle-class family in rural India. The cousins enjoy a playful summer indulging in mischiefs and youthful pranks. But then the young girl has her first period that proves to be a turning point in her life. Maya's family begins making plans for a celebratory feast that involves a ritual rape.

Cast

Reception

The Film won international acclaim at the major film festivals it participated in. The music score by the America based duo of Manesh Judge and Noor Lodhi won Critics Mention at the Flanders Film Festival in Belgium. The music also received an award in England and came in third behind John Williams' score for Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, and Leonardo DiCaprio's Catch me if you Can. The movie was first runners-up in People's Choice Award at the Toronto Film Festival, one spot ahead of Mira Nair's well known hit, Monsoon Wedding.

Maya (2015 Pakistani film)

Maya is a 2015 Pakistani horror film which is directorial debut of Jawad Bashir and produced by Hina Jawad under production banner Twister Films. The film features assembled cast including Ahmed Abdul Rehman, Hina Jawad, Zain Afzal, Sheikh Mohammad Ahmed and Anam Malik. Hina Jawad played the lead role of Maya in film. The film's story is inspired from a real paranormal event that occurred in Denmark.

The film was released nationwide on June 12, 2015.

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Production

Marketing

A teaser trailer and poster was revealed by official Facebook on May 2, 2015. The film trailer was reviewed by DAWN.com as "Given that a good "screenplay and creative cinematography couldn't save Siyaah from a poor box office performance, Maya can hardly be expected to haunt the audience."