Nawal El Moutawakel () ( born on April 15, 1962 in Casablanca ) is a Moroccan hurdler, who won the inaugural women's 400 m hurdles event at the 1984 Summer Olympics, thereby becoming the first female Muslim born on the continent of Africa to become an Olympic champion.

In 2007, El Moutawakel was named the Minister of Sports in the upcoming cabinet of Morocco.

Although she had been a quite accomplished runner, the victory of El Moutawakel, who studied at Iowa State University at the time, was a surprise.

King Hassan II of Morocco telephoned El Moutawakel to give his congratulations, and he declared that all girls born the day of her victory were to be named in her honor.

In 1995, El Moutawakel became a council member of the International Association of Athletics Federations ( IAAF ), and in 1998 she became a member of the International Olympic Committee ( IOC ).

In 2006, El Moutawakel was one of the eight bearers of the Olympic flag at the 2006 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony in Turin, Italy.

** Nawal El Moutawakel, Moroccan hurdler

After a period of analysis by the IOC, the cities were visited by the IOC Evaluation Commission, consisting of twelve members and chaired by Moroccan IOC member Nawal El Moutawakel.

But whether the murder of El Benefactor in Ciudad Trujillo means freedom for the people of the Caribbean fiefdom is a question that cannot now be answered.

Douglas M. Pratt, president of the PTC, who attended the meeting, said the transit company is reviewing the work on the El.

From International Airport in Los Angeles to International Airport in Houston, as the great four-jet Boeing 707 flies, is a routine five hours and 25 minutes, including stopovers at Phoenix, El Paso, and San Antonio.

The undisputed master of this music is El Hadj M ' Hamed El Anka.

In the late 2nd century CE floor mosaic from El Djem, Roman Thysdrus, he is identifiable as Apollo Helios by his effulgent halo, though now even a god's divine nakedness is concealed by his cloak, a mark of increasing conventions of modesty in the later Empire.

It was the mutual bond and obligation between monarch and subjects, whereby subjects are called his liege subjects, because they are bound to obey and serve him ; and he is called their liege lord, because he should maintain and defend them ( Ex parte Anderson ( 1861 ) 3 El & El 487 ; 121 ER 525 ; China Navigation Co v Attorney-General ( 1932 ) 48 TLR 375 ; Attorney-General v Nissan 1 All ER 629 ; Oppenheimer v Cattermole 3 All ER 1106 ).

Natural allegiance and obedience is an incident inseparable to every subject, for parte Anderson ( 1861 ) 3 El & El 487 ; 121 ER 525 ).

He visited the ruins of Babylon and the subterranean secret of Memphis and spent ten years alone in the great southern desert of Arabia — the Roba El Khaliyeh or " Empty Space " of the ancients — and " Dahna " or " Crimson " desert of the modern Arabs, which is held to be inhabited by protective evil spirits and monsters of death.

Countries where ASL or a derivative of ASL is the national or a widespread language include Barbados, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Botswana ( with BSL ), Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, the Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d ' Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Kenya ( minority use ), Liberia, Madagascar ( minority use ), Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Philippines ( L2 use ), Puerto Rico, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Trinidad and Tobago, Togo, and Zimbabwe ( with ZSL ).

Park Güell ( ) is a garden complex with architectural elements situated on the hill of El Carmel in the Gràcia district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

* 1895 – American Frontier murderer and outlaw, John Wesley Hardin, is killed by an off-duty policeman in a saloon in El Paso, Texas.

* 1881 – The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight is fought in El Paso, Texas.

While BASE jumps had been made prior to that time, the El Capitan activity was the effective birth of what is now called BASE jumping.

The museum is one of the best galleries in south west France and has paintings by Degas, El Greco, Botticelli and Goya among others.

* Ivan, one of the protagonists of the historical novel by the Cuban writer Leonardo Padura Fuentes, El hombre que amaba a los perros ( The Man Who Loved Dogs ), is the editor of a university journal of veterinary medicine, who manages to make a living during the Special Period in Cuba by helping people take care of their dogs.

The Second Battle of El Alamein reversed German ambitions in North Africa, and is often cited as one of the turning points of the Second World War.

This union consisted of the present day nations of Guatemala ( which included the former state of Los Altos ), El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica ( which included a region which is now part of Panama, and the Guanacaste Province which was once part of Nicaragua ), and Soconusco, a portion of the modern Mexican state of Chiapas.

E is currently held in El Escorial and contains the largest number of songs ( 406 Cantigas, plus the Introduction and the Prologue ); it contains 41 carefully detailed miniatures and many illuminated letters.

An entire episode of The X-Files series, El Mundo Gira, is devoted to the chupacabras.

alt = An adult cane toad with dark colouration, as found in El Salvador: The parotoid gland is prominently displayed on the side of the head.

Carlos Alberto Valderrama Palacio (; born September 2, 1961 in Santa Marta, Colombia ), also known as El Pibe (" The Kid ") is a former Colombian football player.

The U. S. argument was affirmed, however, by the dissenting opinion of ICJ member U. S. Judge Schwebel, who concluded that in supporting the contras, the U. S. acted lawfully in collective self-defence in El Salvador's support.

El Salvador is a member of the United Nations and several of its specialized agencies, the Organization of American States ( OAS ), the Central American Common Market ( CACM ), the Central American Parliament ( PARLACEN ), and the Central American Integration System ( SICA ).

El Salvador also is a member of the World Trade Organization and is pursuing regional free trade agreements.

El Salvador has been a committed member of the coalition of nations fighting against terrorism and has sent 10 rotations of troops to Iraq to support Operation Iraqi Freedom.

He also painted a canvas for the altar of the Church of San Francisco El Grande in Madrid, which led to his appointment as a member of the Royal Academy of Fine Art.

One of the first instances when it was used by militants was on 13 January 1975 at the Orly airport in France, when Carlos the Jackal, together with another member from the PFLP, used two Soviet RPG-7 grenades to attack an Israeli El Al airliner.

This is illustrated by the Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint texts of Deuteronomy 32: 8 – 9, in which El, as the head of the divine assembly, gives each member of the divine family a nation of his own, " according to the number of the divine sons ": Israel is the portion of Yahweh. The later Masoretic text, evidently uncomfortable with the polytheism expressed by the phrase, altered it to " according to the number of the children of Israel "

An emeritus professor of the Sorbonne and member of the FNSP, he has published many books and articles in newspapers, such as Corriere della Sera, la Repubblica, El País, and especially Le Monde.

Nicknamed El Buitre ( The Vulture ), he was a member of the legendary Quinta del Buitre, along with Manolo Sanchís, Rafael Martín Vázquez, Míchel and Miguel Pardeza.

Arkansas Attorney General Bruce Bennett was born in Phillips County in 1917 but reared and lived his adult years in El Dorado, the seat of Union County, Arkansas in southern Arkansas. Barry Williamson, an attorney in Austin, Texas, and a former member of the Texas Railroad Commission was reared in Phillips County.

* Famous musicians such as Kirk Hammett of Metallica and Exodus, Marc Biederman of Blind Illusion, Les Claypool ( former member of Blind Ilusion currently of Primus ), Larry " Ler " LaLonde of Primus and Possessed, Jason Beebout of Samiam and Isocracy and John Kiffmeyer of Green Day and Isocracy all grew up in El Sobrante, and most of them attended De Anza High School.

* Tim Agnello, founding member of the band Exodus, grew up in El Sobrante.

He has been a member of the El Tejon Unified School District Board for nine years, four of them as chairman.

King an Undersheriff of Los Angeles County ( and former member of the earlier " Monte Rangers " or " Monte Boys ") with other influential men in El Monte, formed a secessionist militia company, like the Los Angeles Mounted Rifles, called the Monte Mounted Rifles on March 23, 1861.

* Derrick Caracter ( born 1988 ), played power forward / center formerly for the Louisville Cardinals basketball team, then the University of Texas at El Paso ( UTEP ) Miners basketball team, current member of NBA's Los Angeles Lakers.

After the more-or-less " formal " meetings the participants often reconvened at The Oasis, a bar and grill on El Camino Real in nearby Menlo Park, recalled years later by a member as " Homebrew's other staging area ".

On June 7, 2007, Senator Rosselló officially ended his bid for the Senate Presidency, stating in an article in El Vocero newspaper that he was no longer interested in the post, held since 2005 by fellow party member Kenneth McClintock.

To stop the excesses, the highly respected D. Alonso Fernandez de Aguilar, whose wife was a member of the converso family of Pacheco, together with his brother D. Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba (" El Gran Capitán "), and a troop of soldiers, hastened to protect the New Christians.

His running mate was Francisco Santos, a member of the Santos family, who have a long-lasting tradition as members of the Colombian Liberal Party and as owners of Colombian daily newspaper El Tiempo.

The Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico ( Spanish: El Comisionado Residente de Puerto Rico ) is a non-voting member of the United States House of Representatives elected by the voters of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico every four years.

Willis is a member of the Puerto Rican Women's National Basketball Team which played at the 2003 Central American and Caribbean Games in El Salvador, and in 2004 in Guatemala.