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A majority of the families in the United Arab Emirates ( UAE ) are part of the Bani Yas tribe whose origin can be traced back to Yas Bin Amer of the Nizar Bin Maid bin Adnan tribe.

In act of solidarity with Amiralay, Arab filmmakers Yousry Nasrallah, Annemarie Jacir, Nizar Hassan, Joana and Khalil Joreige, and Danielle Arbid subsequently pulled their films out of Competition to protest the festival's actions.

Al-Mustansir had already designated ( nass ) to his eldest son Nizar as his successor and it was wholeheartedly accepted by most Ismaili circles.

Nasri Maalouf was also a prominent lawyer, with one of his most important ( and mediatized ) cases the one involving the prosecution of Cheikh Nizar Halabi's assassination

* 1923 – Nizar Qabbani, Syrian diplomat, poet, and publisher ( d. 1998 )

Syrian poet Nizar Qabbani addressed less political themes, but was regarded as a cultural icon, and his poems provide the lyrics for many popular songs.

The safe and easy patronage in royal courts was no longer available but a successful poet such as Nizar Qabbani was able to set up his own publishing house.

According the Ismaili version of the events, in the year following the death of the Imam-Caliph al-Mustansir, a qadi ( judge ) by the name of Sa ’ idi travelled from Egypt to Alamut, taking with him Imam Nizar ’ s grandson, who was known as al-Hadi.

Second Lieutenant Idan Quris, who was at the time in command of an engineering platoon at the Israeli outpost, and Lieutenant-Colonel Nizar Fares of the Herev Battalion, at the time acting commander of the outpost, said they did not know who killed the boy, and that no one had seen him from the Israeli position.

In Latin script, ' Abdullah ibn ' Abdul Muttalib ( Shaiba ) ibn Hashim ( Amr ) ibn Abd Manaf ( al-Mughira ) ibn Qusai ( Zaid ) ibn Kilab ibn Murra ibn Ka ` b ibn Lu ' ay ibn Ghalib ibn Fahr ( Quraish ) ibn Malik ibn an-Nadr ( Qais ) ibn Kinanah ibn Khuzaimah ibn Mudrikah ( Amir ) ibn Ilyas ibn Mudar ibn Nizar ibn Ma ' ad ibn Adnan.

Following his expulsion from Egypt over his support for the Ismaili Imam Nizar b. Mustansir, Hasan-i Sabbah found that his co-religionists, the Ismailis, were scattered throughout Iran, with a strong presence in the northern and eastern regions, particularly in Daylaman, Khorasan and Quhistan.

The Fatimid Caliphate was ruled by seven leaders, after which a dispute regarding leadership developed between two brothers – Nizar and Mustali – ultimately resulting in the defeat of Nizar and his followers (" Nizari " Ismailis ), many of whom left Egypt for the region of Iran.

Ismailis loyal to Nizar, argued that the first nomination had never been cancelled and that it contradicted the basic principle of the Ismailis, and for the same principle they had not accepted the second nomination of Imam Ja ’ far al-Sadiq, Musa al-Kazim, and had remained faithful to his first nomination in favour of Ismail.

* Abu Mansoor Nizar al-Aziz Billah, fifth Fatimid Caliph in Egypt, dies and is succeeded by his son Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah.

* Abu Mansoor Nizar al-Aziz Billah, fifth Fatimid Caliph in Egypt

Rahim Nizar Jaffer (; born December 15, 1971 ) is a former Canadian politician and a former Member of Parliament.

Nizar ben Abdelaziz Trabelsi (, born 2 July 1970 ) is a Tunisian and former professional football player.

It is also said by later sources that the Ismaili Imam-Caliph al-Mustanṣir informed Hassan that his elder son Nizar would be the next Imam.

A fundamental change occurred when the Fatimid Caliph attempted to push into Syria in the later half of the 10th century, here they were faced with the now Turkish dominated forces of the Abbasid Caliph and began to realize the limits of their current military, thus during the reign of Abu Mansur Nizar al-Aziz Billah and Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah the Caliph began incorporating armies of Turks and later Black Africans ( even later, other groups such as Armenians were also used ).

On 1 January 2009, Nizar Rayan, a top Hamas leader who served as a liaison between the Palestinian organization's political leadership and its military wing, was killed in an Israeli Air Force strike during Operation Cast Lead.

In 1995 members of a salafi jihadi group called " Osbat al-Ansar " killed the leader of Al-Ahbash, Sheikh Nizar Halabi.

Organizational chart of Hezbollah, by Ahmad Nizar Hamzeh.

* September 30, Nizar Mahmoud Hasan Aida, 16, of Deir Ammar refugee camp, killed by IDF gunfire to his chest during a peace demonstration at Ayosh Junction.

He and his followers transferred their allegiance to his brother Nizar.

* In July of 2011, the ShiberHur Theatre Company of Palestine presented a new version of In the Penal Colony, adapted by Amir Nizar Zuabi, at London's Young Vic.

Nizar Trabelsi, a former professional football player, was the designated bomber.

Tunisian Nizar Trabelsi, a former professional football player in Germany, planned the attack and was the designated suicide bomber.

It was the 15th Fatimid / Ismaili / Dawoodi Bohra Imam Abu Mansoor Nizar al-Aziz Billah ( d. 386 AH / 996 ) who traced the site of the head of his great-grandfather through the office of his contemporary in Baghdad, in 985.

Afdal explained to the public that the deceased Imam and Caliph, al-Mustansir billah, on his deathbed changed his nomination in favour of his younger son al-Mustali and cancelled his earlier nomination of his eldest son Nizar.

Most Ismailis living within the countries under direct rule of the Fatimids accepted the Imamate of al-Mustali but those who supported Nizar as their Imam were forced to accept the Imamat of al-Mustali, who was duly installed as the 9th Fatimid Caliph in Cairo.

Imam Nizar fled to Alexandria where he had a substantial following, but after an armed struggle was defeated by the armies of his brother al-Afdal.

Imam Nizar was arrested, brought to Cairo and imprisoned till his death.

The supporters of Nizar managed to develop an Ismaili state in Iran and Syria whose founder and main architect was Hasan-i-Sabbah, the subject of my forthcoming book.

Kabbani advocates an understanding of Islam described by his supporters as fundamentally based on peace, tolerance, respect and love.

Kabbani allegedly thanked UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw in 2005 for the role the UK played in the Middle East, saying: “ We are glad to see changes taking place in the political mechanisms in the Middle East.

Kabbani works closely with the governments and people of Muslim nations around the world to restore what he views as traditional Islamic practices and prevent the increase of religious radicalism.

But Rana Kabbani believes that " French Orientalist painting, as exemplified by the works of Gérôme, may appear more sensual, gaudy, gory and sexually explicit than its British counterpart, but this is a difference of style not substance ...

The Islamic Supreme Council of America ( ISCA ) is a sufi based religious organization and think tank allegedly closely associated with the neoconservative lobby in the United States founded by the Naqshbandi Shaykh Hisham Kabbani.

The Naqshbandi Shaykh Hisham Kabbani, founding member and current chairman of ISCA, is critical of the Council on American-Islamic Relations ( CAIR ) and the American Muslim Council, saying, " There are many Muslim organizations that claim to speak on behalf of the Muslim community but that in reality are not moderate, but extremist.

Muhammad Hisham Kabbani ( born 13 Safar 1364 / 28 January 1945 ) is a prominent Lebanese-American Sufi Muslim.

Shaykh Kabbani is a spiritual teacher in the line of the Naqshbandi-Haqqani Sufi Order.