14-1047: [REDACTED] Look up Akkad in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Akkad may refer to: Akkad (city) , the capital of the Akkadian Empire Akkadian Empire , the first ancient empire of Mesopotamia Akkad SC , Iraqi football club People with the name [ edit ] Abbas el-Akkad , Egyptian writer Abdulrahman Akkad , Syrian LGBT activist Bahaa el-Din Ahmed Hussein el-Akkad , Egyptian Muslim imam Hassan Akkad , Syrian photographer and filmmaker Mohammed Akkad , Syrian politician, Governor of Aleppo 2012 to 2014 Moustapha Akkad , Syrian-American film producer and director Omar El Akkad (born 1982), Egyptian-Canadian novelist and journalist See also [ edit ] List of kings of Akkad "Akkad Bakkad", song from
28-540: A member of the Chamber of Deputies. He wrote more than a hundred of books about philosophy, religion, and poetry, along with a philosophical study of the Qur'an and various biographies of historic Muslim leaders. He founded a poetry school with Ibrahim Al-Mazny and Abdel Rahman Shokry called Al-Diwan . Al-Aqqad experienced two major romantic relationships in his life. The first was whom he called "Sarah" in his novel of
42-413: A painting in his bedroom that displayed a beautiful cake with cockroaches crawling over it. Supposedly, Al-Aqqad kept this in his room as 'the first thing he looked at in the morning and the last thing he saw in the evening'. It symbolized beauty and purity (the cake) that is wasted to the glamor of spotlights (the cockroaches) as was the case (as he perceived) with actress Madiha Yousri . Al-Aqqad died on
56-402: The 2016 Indian film Sanam Re Akkad Bakkad Bambey Bo , an Indian television series Akkad Bakkad Rafu Chakkar , an Indian web series Akkadian language , an ancient language of Mesopotamia Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Akkad . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
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84-822: The 💕 [REDACTED] Look up Akkad in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Akkad may refer to: Akkad (city) , the capital of the Akkadian Empire Akkadian Empire , the first ancient empire of Mesopotamia Akkad SC , Iraqi football club People with the name [ edit ] Abbas el-Akkad , Egyptian writer Abdulrahman Akkad , Syrian LGBT activist Bahaa el-Din Ahmed Hussein el-Akkad , Egyptian Muslim imam Hassan Akkad , Syrian photographer and filmmaker Mohammed Akkad , Syrian politician, Governor of Aleppo 2012 to 2014 Moustapha Akkad , Syrian-American film producer and director Omar El Akkad (born 1982), Egyptian-Canadian novelist and journalist See also [ edit ] List of kings of Akkad "Akkad Bakkad", song from
98-627: The height of Hitler's military advances, al-'Aqqad wrote his scathing work Hitler in the Balance in June 1940 in which he lambasts Nazism as the greatest threat to freedom, modernity and the very existence of man. In addition to his general opposition to both fascism and communism , al-'Aqqad was also both a member of the Egyptian parliament for a time as a member of the Wafd Party , and later
112-488: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Akkad&oldid=1145127841 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Arabic-language surnames Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Akkad From Misplaced Pages,
126-611: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Akkad&oldid=1145127841 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Arabic-language surnames Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Abbas el-Akkad Abbas Mahmoud al-Aqqad ( Arabic : عباس محمود العقاد , ALA-LC : ‘Abbās Maḥmūd al-‘Aqqād ; 28 June 1889 – 12 March 1964)
140-541: The morning of 13 March 1964. His body was transported to his hometown, Aswan , for burial on the same day. In the early 1980s, an Egyptian television series was produced about the life of al-Aqqad, which was titled The Giant ( Al Imlaq in Arabic). It starred Egyptian actor Mahmud Mursi. There is a street in the Nasr City district of Cairo named after al-Aqqad. Abbās al-Aqqād was "a prolific writer, he authored over
154-417: The same name. The second was with the famous Egyptian actress Madiha Yousri . This relationship was ended by al-Aqqad himself, because of Yousri's career as an actress. Al-Aqqad wrote a poetry work about this relationship called Cyclones of a Sunset ( A-Asiru Maghrib in Arabic). It was reported by prolific Egyptian author Anis Mansour and various other attendees of Al-Aqqad's famous 'lounge' that he kept
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#1732766291259168-409: Was a money-changer originally from the Egyptian rural city of Damietta while his mother had Kurdish roots. He received little formal education, completing only his elementary education; he later supplemented his learning by buying books and reading on his own. Unlike his schoolmates, he spent all his weekly allowance on books. He read about religion, geography, history and many other subjects. He
182-695: Was an Egyptian journalist, poet and literary critic, and member of the Academy of the Arabic Language in Cairo. More precisely, because "his writings cover a broad spectrum, including poetry, criticism, Islamology, history, philosophy, politics, biography, science, and Arabic literature", he is perceived to be a polymath . Al-Aqqad was born in Aswan , a city in Upper Egypt , in 1889. His father
196-451: Was known for his excellent English and French . He was also particularly well-read in German literature . Al-'Aqqad was also an outspoken political thinker, and was jailed for a time between 1930 and 1931 for criticizing the country's government. In 1942 when the forces of Adolf Hitler advanced on Egypt, al-'Aqqad fled to Sudan due to fear of reprisal for his criticism of Hitler. At
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