Najaf (; BGN: An Najaf ) is a city in Iraq about 160 km ( roughly 100 miles ) south of Baghdad.

Karbala (; BGN: Al-Karbalā ’; also referred to as Karbalā ' al-Muqaddasah ) is a city in Iraq, located about southwest of Baghdad.

Al Diwaniyah (; BGN: Ad Dīwānīyah ; also spelled Diwaniya ) is the capital city of Iraq's Al-Qādisiyyah Governorate.

Medina (;,, “ the radiant city ” ( officially ), or ), also officially transliterated as Madinah on Saudi maps and in modern Islamic literature generally, is a modern city in the Hejaz region of western Saudi Arabia, and serves as the capital of Al Madinah Province.

Alfredo James " Al " Pacino (; born April 25, 1940 ) is an American film and stage actor and director.

Jorge Ramos Ávalos (; born March 17, 1958 ) is a Mexican Journalist, anchor for Noticiero Univision and host of the Sunday morning news talk show Al Punto.

Albert William " Al " Kaline (; born December 19, 1934 in Baltimore, Maryland ) is a former Major League Baseball right fielder.

Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum ( 1943 – 4 January 2006 ) (; ), also referred to as Sheikh Maktoum ( honorific ) was the Vice President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates ( UAE ) and the emir ( ruler ) of Dubai.

Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, GCB, GCMG (; June 3, 1933 – March 6, 1999 ) was the monarch or emir of Bahrain from 1961 until his death.

Note that south is at the top of the map. Abu Abd Allah Muhammad al-Idrisi al-Qurtubi al-Hasani al-Sabti or simply Al Idrisi (; ) ( 1099 – 1165 or 1166 ) was a Muslim geographer, cartographer, Egyptologist and traveller who lived in Sicily, at the court of King Roger II.

The General People's Congress (; transliterated: Al-Mo ' tamar Ash-Sha ' abiy Al -' Aam ) is the ruling political party in Yemen.

Agadir – Al Massira Airport (; transliterated: Matar al-Maseera ) is an international airport serving Agadir, a major city in southwest Morocco.

Anbar Province (; ) ( or Al Anbar Governorate ) is the largest province in Iraq geographically.

Al Ain International Airport (; transliterated: Matar al-Ayn ad-Dowaly ) is an airport located in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates.

Muhammad Ibn Abbad Al Mutamid (; reigned c. 1069 – 1091, lived 1040-1095 ) was the third and last ruler of the taifa of Seville in Al-Andalus.

Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan (; born 25 January 1948 ; referred to as Sheikh Khalifa ) is the President of the United Arab Emirates ( UAE ) and emir of Abu Dhabi.

King Khalid Military City ( KKMC ) (; transliterated: Medinat Al Malek Khaled Al Askariyah ) is a special city in northeastern Saudi Arabia and about 60 km south to Hafar Al-Batin City, designed and built by the Middle East Division, a unit of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, in the 1970s and 1980s.

Al Wefaq National Islamic Society (; transliterated: Jam ' īyat al-Wifāq al-Watanī al-Islāmīyah ), or Al Wefaq for short is a Bahraini political society, and the largest party in the Bahrain, both in terms of its membership and its results at the polls.

Al-Faw (; sometimes transliterated as Fao ) is a small port on the Al Faw Peninsula in Iraq near the Shatt al-Arab and the Persian Gulf.

Al-Ain Sports and Cultural Club (; transliterated: Nady al -' Ayn ) is a professional association football and mult-sports club based in the city of Al Ain in the United Arab Emirates.

Al Ghurabaa (; ) is a Muslim organization which, along with the The Saviour Sect, is widely believed to be the reformed Al-Muhajiroun after it disbanded in 2004 by order of Omar Bakri Muhammad.

The Aegean Sea (;, Aigaio Pelagos ; or historically ) is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea located between the southern Balkan and Anatolian peninsulas, i. e., between the mainlands of Greece and Turkey.

Athens (;, Athína ; ; Katharevousa: Ἀθῆναι, Athinai ; Ancient Greek: Ἀθῆναι, Athēnai ) is the capital and largest city of Greece.

Ahab (; ; ) was king of Israel and the son and successor of Omri according to the Hebrew Bible.

An acropolis (; akros, akron, edge, extremity + polis, city ; plural: acropoleis or acropolises ) is a settlement, especially a citadel, built upon an area of elevated ground — frequently a hill with precipitous sides, chosen for purposes of defense.

In Greek mythology, Agamemnon (; Ancient Greek: ; modern Greek:, " very steadfast ") was the son of King Atreus and Queen Aerope of Mycenae, the brother of Menelaus, the husband of Clytemnestra, and the father of Electra and Orestes.

Aga Khan I (; or, less commonly but more correctly (; ), was the title accorded to Hasan Ali Shah (; ; 1804 in Kohak, Iran – 1881 in Bombay, India ), the governor of Kirman, 46th Imam of the Nizari Ismaili Muslims, and prominent Muslim leader in Iran and later in the Indian Subcontinent.

Anaxarchus (; ; c. 380-c. 320 BC ) was a Greek philosopher of the school of Democritus.

Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (; ; born July 30, 1947 ) is an Austrian and American former professional bodybuilder, actor, businessman, investor, and politician.

Alexander Grothendieck (; ; born 28 March 1928 ) is a mathematician and the central figure behind the creation of the modern theory of algebraic geometry.

Arcadius (; ; 377 / 378 – 1 May 408 ) was the Byzantine Emperor from 395 until his death in 408.

Ajaccio (;, ; ) is a commune on the island of Corsica in France.

Amr Abdul-Basset Abdul-Azeez Diab (; born 11 October 1961 ) is an Egyptian singer and composer of geel music ; he is the contemporary face of Egyptian el-geel pop music, according to World Music.

Byzantium (;, Byzántion ; Latin: ) was an ancient Greek city, founded by Greek colonists from Megara in 657 BC and named after their king Byzas ( Greek: Βύζας, Býzas, genitive Βύζαντος, Býzantos ).

Brandenburg (;, Lower Sorbian: Bramborska ; Upper Sorbian: Braniborska ) is a city in one of the sixteen federal-states of Germany.

Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot (; ; born 28 September 1934 ) is a former French fashion model, actress, singer and animal rights activist.

The Book of Ruth (; Sephardic, Israeli Hebrew: ; Ashkenazi Hebrew: ; Biblical Hebrew: Megilath Ruth " the Scroll of Ruth ") is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible, Tanakh, or Old Testament.

Béla Viktor János Bartók (; ; March 25, 1881 – September 26, 1945 ) was a Hungarian composer and pianist.

Basel () or Basle (; ; ) is Switzerland's third most populous city with about 166, 000 inhabitants.

Çatalhöyük (; also Çatal Höyük and Çatal Hüyük, or any of the three without diacritics ; çatal is Turkish for " fork ", höyük for " mound ") was a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic settlement in southern Anatolia, which existed from approximately 7500 BC to 5700 BC.

The Chechen Republic (;, Chechenskaya Respublika ;, Noxc ̈ iyn Respublika ), commonly referred to as Chechnya (;, Chechnya ;, Noxc ̈ iyc ̈ ó ), also spelled Chechnia or Chechenia, sometimes referred to as Ichkeria (), is a federal subject ( a republic ) of Russia.