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    Said Akl (Arabic: سعيد عقل, Saʿīd ʿAql, also transliterated Saïd Akl, Said Aql and Saeed Akl; 4 July 1911 – 28 November 2014) was a Lebanese poet, philosopher...
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    /θ/ sound is replaced with /t/ for both words. Lebanese literary figure Said Akl led a movement to recognize the "Lebanese language" as a distinct prestigious...
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  • Lebanese singer Fairuz, composed by the Rahbani brothers and written by Said Akl. A somber musical response to the Naksa, its lyrics extol the city of Jerusalem...
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  • painter Said Akl (1911–2014), also Said Aql, Saeed Akl, Lebanese writer Selim Akl (born 1948), computing academic at Queen's University, Canada AKL (disambiguation)...
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    Arabic, Syrian Arabic, or Levantine as a whole. Lebanese literary figure Said Akl led a movement to recognize the "Lebanese language" as a prestigious language...
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    Greater Lebanon, this ideology has been endorsed by figures such as poet Said Akl, and political groups such as the Lebanese Renewal Party and its successor...
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    Arabic, Syrian Arabic, or Levantine as a whole. Lebanese literary figure Said Akl led a movement to recognize the "Lebanese language" as a distinct prestigious...
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    quoted Said Akl, a famous Lebanese poet and philosopher, as saying; "I would cut off my right hand, and not associate myself to an Arab." Akl believes...
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    movement to Romanize the script was a Zionist plan to dominate Lebanon. Said Akl created a Latin-based alphabet for Lebanese and used it in a newspaper...
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  • "Ya Shadi Al Alhan" 1967 Jerusalem in My Heart Assi & Mansour Rahbani Said Akl "Zahrat Al Mada'in" Good Friday Eastern Sacred Songs Assi & Mansour Rahbani...
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  • 'May Murr, you are filled with poetry to infinity', while Lebanese poet Said Akl wrote, in 1967, an article entitled 'A woman invades the conscience of...
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    Party, spearheaded by the renowned late Lebanese poet and philosopher Said Akl. It was also present among the Shiite Muslims of the Amal movement and...
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    (I'm dreaming of you, Lebanon) with collaboration with the Lebanese poet Said Akl and musician Elias Rahbani. The song, released at the outbreak of the Lebanese...
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  • Kashgari Muhammad al-Maghut Nizar Qabbani Abbās al-Aqqād Mustafa Wahbi al-Tal Said Akl Fayeq Abdul-Jaleel Sinan Antoon Ibrahim Tuqan Emile Habibi Ghassan Kanafani...
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  • of staunch Lebanese nationalists including activist Etienne Saqr, poet Said Akl and writer May Murr. Its ideology was based on Phoenicianism and that the...
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    Kathir also said in the book, "Abu Abd al-Rahman al-Sulami Amr ibn Uthman[clarification needed] said on the authority of al-Makki: He said: "I was walking...
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    Kashgari Muhammad al-Maghut Nizar Qabbani Abbās al-Aqqād Mustafa Wahbi al-Tal Said Akl Fayeq Abdul-Jaleel Sinan Antoon Ibrahim Tuqan Emile Habibi Ghassan Kanafani...
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    LEBNAAN in proposed Said Akl alphabet (issue #686)...
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    time in Najran. The biography of al-Shafi'i is difficult to trace. It was said Dawud al-Zahiri (d. 884 CE) was the first to write one, but the work has...
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    passion for news and wanted to work in the media industry. Eid received the Said Akl Award in 2007 for best poetic performance. He was also awarded the first...
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    Sufis of Andalusia: "My saintly wife, Maryam bint Muhammad binti Abdun, said, ‘I have seen in my sleep someone whom I have never seen in the flesh, but...
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    Kashgari Muhammad al-Maghut Nizar Qabbani Abbās al-Aqqād Mustafa Wahbi al-Tal Said Akl Fayeq Abdul-Jaleel Sinan Antoon Ibrahim Tuqan Emile Habibi Ghassan Kanafani...
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    Americas, and an account by the Ottoman ambassador Yirmisekizzade Mehmed Said Pasha of his 1719 embassy to France. In his postscript to the German edition...
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    a thousand ritual prostrations both during the day and at night, she is said to have answered, "I desire no reward for it; I do it so that the Messenger...
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  • Mashar (1889–1928), Yusuf Ghusub (b. 1900) and Said Akl, and also Bishr Faris in Egypt. Ghusub with Akl, both, preached the use of Latin script. The mentioned...
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    Kashgari Muhammad al-Maghut Nizar Qabbani Abbās al-Aqqād Mustafa Wahbi al-Tal Said Akl Fayeq Abdul-Jaleel Sinan Antoon Ibrahim Tuqan Emile Habibi Ghassan Kanafani...
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    Persian-born secretary Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ shortly before his death in 757." Said Amir Arjomand, "`Abd Allah Ibn al-Muqaffa` and the `Abbasid Revolution,"...
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    بن سعيد بن حماد الصنهاجي البوصيري, romanized: Abū ʿAbdallāh Muhammad ibn Saʿīd al-Ṣanhājī al-Būṣīrī; 1212–1294) was a Sanhaji Berber Muslim poet belonging...
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    royal glory (kharreh) and with luminous splendor (farreh), and—as we have said elsewhere—divine light will further bestow upon him the cloak of royal power...
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  • Kashgari Muhammad al-Maghut Nizar Qabbani Abbās al-Aqqād Mustafa Wahbi al-Tal Said Akl Fayeq Abdul-Jaleel Sinan Antoon Ibrahim Tuqan Emile Habibi Ghassan Kanafani...
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