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Hafezor Hafiz orig. Muhammad Shams al-Din Hafiz(born 1325/26, Shiraz, Iran—died 1389/90, Shiraz) Persian poet. The recipient of a traditional religious education (hafiz designates someone who has learned the Qur'an by heart), he served as court poet to several rulers of Shiraz. He perfected the ghazel as a verse form of 6–15 couplets linked by unity of subject and symbolism rather than by a logical sequence of ideas. His poems are notable for their simple, often colloquial, musical language and his unaffected use of homely images and proverbial expressions. His most famous work is his Divan. He is regarded as one of the greatest Persian lyric poets. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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She now spends holidays "caught somewhere between Abdel Halim Hafez and Luis Miguel," she said, adding "Latino-Arab" to her already-hyphenated experience. Mitchell never misses a chance to testify her fearlessness, never more so than when she confronted the late Syrian president Hafez al-Assad while in Damascus as part of the press corps covering Clinton's efforts to broker a peace deal between Syria and Israel. Hama Rules," the name he gave to the mind-set behind then-Syrian President Hafez al-Assad's February 1982 massacre of more than 10,000 Sunnis in the town of Hama, became his shorthand for all tribal displays of retributive authoritarian brutality, whether in Iraq, Lebanon, or Yemen. |
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