* July 22 – Palestinian cartoonist Naji Salim al-Ali is shot in London ; he dies August 28.

* Salim Naji Al-Hachami

Naji al-Ali a popular cartoon artist in the Arab world, loved for his defense of the ordinary people, and for his criticism of repression and despotism by both the Israeli military and Yasser Arafat's PLO, was murdered for refusing to compromise with his conscience.

* Naji al-Ali ( 1937 ?– 1987 ), Palestinian political cartoonist

* 22 July – Palestinian cartoonist Naji al-Ali is shot in London ; he dies 28 August.

* 29 August – Naji al-Ali, Palestinian cartoonist ( b. c1938 ).

On 22 August 1987, while outside the London offices of al-Qabas, a Kuwaiti newspaper for which he drew political caricatures, Naji al-Ali was shot in the face and mortally wounded.

Naji al-Ali died five weeks later in Charing Cross Hospital.

Naji al-Ali was born in 1938 or thereabouts in the northern Palestinian village of Al-Shajara, located between Tiberias and Nazareth and now over-built by the Israeli settlement of Ilanya.

Naji al-Ali then moved to Beirut, where he lived in a tent in Shatila refugee camp and worked in various industrial jobs.

In 1959 Naji al-Ali returned to Lebanon, and that year he joined the Arab Nationalist Movement ( ANM ), but was expelled four times within one year for lack of party discipline.

In 1963 Naji al-Ali moved to Kuwait, hoping to save money to study art in Cairo or Rome.

In his career as a political cartoonist, Naji al-Ali produced over 40, 000 drawings.

Naji al-Ali was a fierce opponent of any settlement that would not vindicate the Palestinian people's right to all of historic Palestine, and many of his cartoons express this position.

Naji al-Ali published three books of his cartoons, in 1976, 1983 and 1985, and was preparing another at the time of his death.

In 1979, Naji al-Ali was elected president of the League of Arab Cartoonists.

It is still not known who opened fire on Naji al-Ali outside the London office of Kuwaiti newspaper Al Qabas on the 22 July 1987, hitting him in the right temple.

Naji al-Ali remained unconscious until his death on 29 August 1987.

A statue of Naji al-Ali by the sculptor Charbel Faris was erected at the northern entrance of Ain al-Hilweh camp, where Naji was raised for most of his youth years and presumably where he got most of his inspirations.

Nour El-Sherif played the role of Naji al-Ali in a movie that had his name as the title

* Naji al-Ali, kamil al-turab al-falastini ( Naji al-Ali, All Palestine's Soil ), Mahmud Abd Allah Kallam, Bisan lil-nashr w ' al-tawzi ' w ' al-a ' lam, Beirut, 2001.

The remaining four Canadians taken hostage included: Fadi Ihsan Fadel, a Syrian-Canadian employed by the International Rescue Committee who was taken hostage in Najaf on 8 April 2004 and released eight days later ; Naji al-Kuwaiti, was taken hostage on 28 April 2004 and released on 4 May of the same year ; Fairuz Yamucky, who was abducted on 6 September 2004 and rescued by a United States National Guard unit sixteen days later ; and Scott Taylor, a journalist abducted by Ansar al-Islam in Tal Afar on 9 September 2004 and held captive for five days.

Elia Suleiman was born in 1960 in Nazareth in extreme poverty ; an interviewer later compared his background to the drawings by the late Palestinian cartoonist Naji al-Ali.

Muhammad Naji Shawkat was born to an Arabized family of Turkish and Caucasian origins in the Iraqi town of al-Kut where his father was stationed as provincial governor.

* Abdul Aziz Naji, presumably correct name of Aziz Abdul Naji ( born 1975 ), Algerian held in Guantanamo

Naji Subhy Paul Irénée Hakim ( born 31 October 1955 in Beirut, Lebanon )

Muhammad Naji al-Otari ( also Etri, Itri and Otri ) ( born 1944 ) is a Syrian politician who was Prime Minister of Syria from 2003 to 2011.

Later in the year, a group of Egyptian soldiers and emirs attempted to assassinate Saladin, but having already known of their intentions, thanks to his intelligence chief Ali bin Safyan, he had the chief conspirator, Naji, Mu ' tamin al-Khilafa — the civilian controller of the Fatimid Palace — arrested, and killed.

On 20 June 2005, the army chief of staff, General Ismail Qasim Naji, announced his intention to establish a new Somali army.

* Oueijan, Naji.

** Naji Talib, 52nd Prime Minister of Iraq ( b. 1917 )

Since 1963 the cathedral has been home to the St Albans International Organ Festival, winners of which include Dame Gillian Weir, Thomas Trotter and Naji Hakim.

In October 1932, Faisal dismissed Nuri as Prime Minister and replaced him with Naji Shawkat.

Muhammad Naji Shawkat Bey ( 1893 – 1980 ) was an Iraqi politician who served as Prime Minister of Iraq under King Faisal I.

Naji Shawkat was the assistant general prosecutor in the Iraqi city of al-Hila when World War I broke out, upon which he interrupted his legal career and joined the Ottoman army as a reserve officer.

He also rejected calls that Iraq break its ties with Fascist Italy and sent his Justice Minister, Naji Shawkat, to meet with the then German ambassador to Turkey, Franz von Papen, to win German support for his government.

Wiener later meets the Iraqi Minister of Information Naji Al Hadithi ( David Suchet ), and requests pieces of equipment and an interview with Hussein.

* David Suchet as Naji Al-Hadithi the Minister of Information who befriends Robert Weiner and provides Robert with much help and an insight into the Iraqi side of the war.

His best friend is called Naji Aziz.

Naji al-Kuwaiti is a Canadian who was held hostage in Iraq from April 28 to May 4, 2004.

Many of his students went on to become important musicians, including organist and composer Naji Hakim.

Along with his friends Nawaz Khan Naji, Mohammad Rafiq and Shujaat Ali, Khan established BNF on July 30, 1992.

In Syria, Air Force Commander Major General Naji Jamil attempted to persuade the Palestinians to release the hostages, but they refused.

In 1962, Qasmi published his own literary magazine Fanoon, with the support of writers and poets including Khadija Mastoor, Hajra Masroor, Ahmed Faraz, Amjad Islam Amjad, Ata ul Haq Qasmi, Munnoo Bhai and Nazeer Naji.

The most popular vote was for Hani Naji Atallah Abdel Masieh of United Beit Sahour with 2, 690 votes, followed by Elen Michael Saliba Qsais of Sons of Bethlehem with 2, 280 votes.

Note by Helen Naji: There is also a book written by Dr. Mahmoody called " Lost Without my Daughter.