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Hopscotch (Spanish: Rayuela) is a novel by Argentine writer Julio Cortázar.Written in Paris, it was published in Spanish in 1963 and in English in 1966. For the first U.S. edition, translator Gregory Rabassa split the inaugural National Book Award in the translation category.
Jalal Jamal Majid Bin Thaneya Al Marri (جلال جمال بن ثنية المري) (born February 26, 1986) is an Emirati activist from Dubai, United Arab Emirates.He is known for his movements and campaigns towards children and adults with special needs.
His full name was Abu al-Faraj Muhammad Jamal al-Din bin Muhammad Saeed bin Qasim bin Salih bin Ismail bin Abi Bakr al-Qasimi al-Kilani al-Hasani al-Dimashqi, with the honor of lineage associated with being a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad from both of the prophet's grandsons (he was a descendant of Sheikh Abdul Qadir al-Jilani from the Hasan Sibt dynasty and a descendant of the tribe of ...
Jamāl ibn ‘Abd Allāh Shaykh ‘Umar al-Ḥanafī al-Makkī (Arabic: جمال بن عبد الله شيخ عمر الحنفي المكي; d. 14 February 1868) [a] was an Islamic scholar and teacher in the Masjid al-Haram who served as Shaykh al-Ulama from 1264 AH (1847/1848) and Hanafi Mufti of Mecca from 1281 AH (1864/1865), until his death in 1868.
Adriano González León (Valera, Trujillo State, 14 November 1931 - Caracas, 12 January 2008) was a Venezuelan writer who is known in his country for the novel País Portátil (1968), widely regarded as the premier Venezuelan novel of the latter half of the 20th century [citation needed], and for his many years of hosting a television program dedicated to promoting literary appreciation among ...
Dan-el Padilla Peralta (also Dan-el Padilla) is an associate professor of classics at Princeton who researches and teaches the Roman Republic and early Empire, as well as classical reception in contemporary American and Latin American cultures. [1]
A page from El Libro de los Epítomes with corrections and marginal notes. The Libro de los Epítomes (The Book of Epitomes) is a catalogue summarising part of the library of around 15–20,000 books which Ferdinand Columbus (Spanish: Fernando Colón) assembled in the early sixteenth-century in an effort to create a library of every book in the world.
In 2015, MBRF launched Oxford - Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Graduate Scholarship (OMBR), in collaboration with University of Oxford, to enable Arab postgraduate students to attend the university and support researchers and enhance their capabilities in reaching the highest scientific ranks.