After finishing school, Yakin worked in the film business helping to develop projects for several companies, and saw his first screenplay reach the screen in 1989, when The Punisher, a vehicle for Dolph Lundgren, was released.

Wanting to take on more personal material, Yakin drew from his experiences growing up in New York's inner city for his next screenplay, Fresh.

Yakin went back to his youth for inspiration on his next project ; while his parents were non-practicing Jews, they enrolled their son in an Orthodox private school when he was five, and his experience with the Chassidic community informed his screenplay for A Price Above Rubies.

Uptown Girls is a 2003 teen comedy film directed by Boaz Yakin and adapted from the story by Allison Jacobs into screenplay by Julia Dahl, Mo Ogrodnik and Lisa Davidowitz.

It was written from a screenplay conceived by Boaz Yakin and Scott Spiegel.

Basel's biggest signings of the 2005 – 06 season were defenders Daniel Majstorović and Kōji Nakata, who were brought in to replace Patrick Müller, who was set to sign for Olympique Lyonnais, and the retiring Murat Yakin.

The game was drawn 3: 3 and Yakin gave all three assists as Basel cruised to a 3: 0 half time lead as they qualified, one point above Liverpool, for the 2002 – 03 UEFA Champions League second group stage.

Basel won the game 2: 0, Yakin scored the second goal in the 22 Minute, as they qualified ( 3: 3 on away goals ) for the 2002 – 03 UEFA Champions League group stage.

He is the elder brother of international football player Hakan Yakin ( former member of the Swiss national football team ), who is currently playing for FC Luzern.

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In July 2007, United Nations human rights expert Yakin Erturk called the situation in South Kivu the worst she has ever seen in four years as the global body's special investigator for violence against women.

Fresh is a 1994 crime film written and directed by Boaz Yakin in his film directorial debut, and produced by Lawrence Bender ( seen in a cameo appearance ), who was riding the wave of success of Reservoir Dogs.

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Remember the Titans is a 2000 American sports drama film produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and Chad Oman and directed by Boaz Yakin.

Boaz Yakin ( born June 20, 1966 ) is an American screenwriter and film director based in New York City.

Yakin rebounded with his next assignment, which was his first film that he directed but did not write ; Remember the Titans was a major box-office success, and moved him to the upper tier of bankable Hollywood talents.

He was classmates with screenwriter and film director Boaz Yakin.

At the end of the 2001 – 02 season Yakin won the national Double with Basel and a year later won the Swiss Cup again.

In 1961 Abraham Yakin won the international Adolphe Neumann Prize in Paris.

Yakin studied filmmaking at City College of New York and New York University.

Yakin studied filmmaking at New York's City College.

The expression mat Bit Yakin is also used, apparently synonymously.

It would appear that Bit Yakin was the chief or capital city of the land ; and the king of Chaldea is also called the king of Bit Yakin, just as the kings of Babylonia are regularly styled simply king of Babylon, the capital city.

In the same way, the Persian Gulf was sometimes called " the Sea of Bit Yakin, instead of " the Sea of the Land of Chaldea.

Hakan Yakin (; born 22 February 1977 in Basel ) is a Swiss footballer.

He is the younger brother of international football player Murat Yakin ( former member of the Swiss national football team ), who is currently manager of the Swiss Swiss Super League club FC Luzern.

His surname is based on the Turkish word Yakın ( meaning close, adjacent ), however as he is a Swiss resident and citizen, the name which he uses is Yakin.

As a child Yakin played in the youth teams of his local side FC Concordia Basel.

Yakin moved immediately into the starting eleven and therefore the loan was prolonged, before Yakin returned to the Grasshoppers.

Murat Yakin (; born 15 September 1974 in Basel ) is a Swiss-Turkish football coach and former Swiss national player.

Yakin was born in New York City to an Israeli couple who met in Paris while studying mime with Marcel Marceau.

Upon Jamaica's independence in 1962, the Cayman Islands broke its administrative links with Jamaica and opted to become a direct dependency of the British Crown, with the chief official of the islands being the Administrator.

" Since the rise of Modernism, some poets have opted for a poetic diction that de-emphasizes rhetorical devices, attempting instead the direct presentation of things and experiences and the exploration of tone.

As a result, direct international passenger service was limited because most international passengers simply opted to fly instead to Rio de Janeiro-Galeão International Airport and then connect to Congonhas Airport, which is located very close to downtown.

Anarchist sympathizers counter that the presence of a " coercive climate " was an unavoidable aspect of the war that the anarchists cannot be fairly blamed for, and that the presence of deliberate coercion or direct force was minimal, as evidenced by a generally peaceful mixture of collectivists and individualist dissenters who had opted not to participate in collective organization.

Both economic and direct police pressure were used to coerce peasants to join cooperatives, but large numbers opted instead to leave their villages.

Fifty-one direct grant schools chose to become comprehensives, 119 opted for independence, and five were " not accepted for the maintained system and expected to become independent schools or to close ".

Union Pacific engineers had initially considered a direct route across the lake but instead opted for the surveyed line over Promontory Summit.

His proficiency in super G is attributed to his thorough course inspection and his aggressive course tactics whereby he opted for the most direct and dangerous line down the hill.

This made the show one of the few direct sequels to a 1980s cartoon series — other franchises, such as Masters of the Universe and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, opted for series relaunches — and as such opted for a more realistic passage of time.

However by the mid 1930s, after disappointing electoral results and strong repression by the territorial police authorities, Albizu Campos opted against electoral participation and advocated direct, violent revolution.

Because of the immensely troubled production and disagreements with MGM, Trumbull opted never to direct a Hollywood film again.

Being constantly attacked by the regime, Guimarães opted to direct more commercial movies about sport events, since 1956.

He is a novelist who is about to direct the screen adaptation of his most recent bestseller ; she is an actress he has opted not to cast in the lead role, despite the fact it's partly based on her, because he feels she's too old for the part.

Steve Miner, associate producer on the first film, believed in the idea and would go on to direct the first two sequels, after Cunningham opted not to return to the director's chair.

He also spent several years developing The Game ( 1997 ), but opted instead to direct his own original screenplay for Breakdown.

Its purpose is to regulate England's NHS Foundation Trusts or Foundation Hospitals-hospitals that have opted out of direct governmental control.

In 1946 it became a direct grant grammar school and continued as such until 1975, when the trustees opted for the school to be independent in order to continue as a single-sex Selective school.