Joko Widodo

Joko Widodo is the current President of Indonesia. He is popularly known in Indonesia as Jokowi. He was the mayor of Surakarta before becoming the governor of Jakarta.

Joko Widodo was born on June 21, 1961 is derived from the Indonesian politician who is now (October 2014) served as the President of Indonesia. Jokowi served as mayor of Surakarta (Solo) during the two periods 2005-2009 and 2010-2015, and was nominated to be guberjur Joko Widodo Jakarta in 2012. His success and achievements in leading Surakarta make Jokowi has credibility and quality to lead Jakarta. Jokowi and his deputy Basuki Purnama Cahya (Ahok) outperformed Fauzi Bowo in Jakarta governor election and make it as governor in the period 2012-2017. Not long after that Joko Widodo (Jokowi) nominated by a political party to become the President of Indonesia from 2014 to 2019.

Jokowi  was born in Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia, from couples and Sujiatmi Notomiharjo Mihardjo Noto. Jokowi Education starts from 111 Tirtoyoso Elementary School. With a simple family conditions, Jokowi must trade, rent an umbrella when it rains and a coolie to finance school supplies. After graduation, Jokowi continued his education to SMP Negeri 1 Surakarta and then proceed to the SMA Negeri 6 Surakarta. Joko Widodo also go on to college is the University of Gajah Mada (UGM) with a major in forestry science. Studies on the structure of the wood, and the use of technology gained from college into Jokowi capital to open a business furniture. Business Furniture is growing rapidly, and make it as a furniture entrepreneur widely known in Europe. From his friendship with the French named Micl Romaknan nickname “Jokowi” embedded in him.


In 2005, Joko Widodo ran for mayor of Surakarta. After years of work, success leads Jokowi Surakarta into a developed city, beautiful, and cultured. The things accomplished since served as mayor of Surakarta is:

• Build a new traditional markets.
• Build a 7-km city walk with a 3m wide pedestrian walkway along the main street of Surakarta.
• Revitalization and garden Balekambang Sriwedari.
• Strict regulations on felling trees along the main streets of the city.
• Rebranding Surakarta as the center of Javanese culture and tourism under the tagline “The Spirit of Java“.
• Promote the city as a center for meetings, incentives, conventions and exhibitions (MICE).
• “Blusukan“ culture, the way in which Jokowi impromptu visits to certain areas to hear directly from the people their needs and criticisms.
• Prohibits family members from bidding for city projects.
• Health insurance program for all residents.
• Public transport in the form of double-decker bus.
• Solo Techno Park, which helped support the project Esemka Indonesia.

To solve all existing problems in Jakarta, Jakarta Governor Jokowi as do some new breakthrough that can be said to benefit and make the people prosperous. Some policies issued by Jokowi. For the problem of traffic jam, Jokowi create policies to accelerate the development of mass transportation facilities such as MRT and monorail and multiply TransJakarta fleet. For the problem of flood, Jokowi also moved quickly to relocate the flood catchment areas and renew and increase parks and urban forests. Jokowi also issued Jakarta Health Card (KJS) and Jakarta Smart Card (KJP). As in Surakarta, Jokowi also intends to make Jakarta as a city of festivals. A total of 97 festivals held during the year 2013 in Jakarta, including Jakarta Night Festival, the Feast of the people, Pekan Raya Jakarta (PRJ) and others.

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Ferit Orhan Pamuk

Ferit Orhan Pamuk is a famous novelist from Turkey. He was born in Istanbul in 1952 and grew up in a large family.He completed his graduation from American Robert College in Istanbul and later he studied architecture at Istanbul Technical University for three years. He was 23 when he decided to become a novelist.

He wrote many novels and his work has been translated into 46 languages including Japanese and French. In 2006, TIME magazine chose him as one of the 100 most influential persons of the world and in the same year he was awarded with Nobel Prize in Literature.



His first novel Cevdet Bey and His Sons was published in 1982. The novel is the story of three generations of a wealthy Istanbul family living in Nisantasi, Pamuk's own home district. The novel won both the Milliyet literary and Orhan Kemal prizes. The following year Pamuk published his another novel The Silent House, the French translation of thais novel won the 1991 Prix de la découverte européene award. The White Castle (1985) about the frictions and friendship between a Venetian slave and an Ottoman scholar was published in English and many other languages from 1990 onwards, bringing Pamuk his first international fame. His novel The Black Book novel was published in 1990, and the French translation of this won the Prix France Culture.

In 2008 Pamuk published The Museum of Innocence, a novel about a man’s lifelong infatuation with a young woman and his attempt to build a museum housing the objects associated with his love. Pamuk opened the museum itself in 2012 in the Çukurcuma neighborhood of Istanbul. The catalogue of the museum, The Innocence of Objects, was published the same year. Pamuk’s second collection of essays was published in Turkey in 2010 under the title of Fragments of the Landscape, while his Charles Norton Eliot lectures on the art of the novel, entitled The Naive and The Sentimental Novelist, were published in 2011.



Apart from three years in United States, Orhan Pamuk has spent all his life in the same streets and district of Istanbul, and he now lives in the building where he was raised. Pamuk has been writing novels for 30 years and never done any other job except writing.

King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud

Born as Abdullah bin Abdulaziz bin Abdulrahman, He was one of 37 sons of King Abdulaziz bin Abdulrahman Al-Saud, the founder of modern Saudi Arabia. He was said to be one of the richest people in the world. King Abdullah became the sixth King of Saudi Arabia when his half-brother, King Fahd, died in August 1, 2005.


Before assuming the throne, King Abdullah held many positions in the government. One of which was being the Mayor of Mecca. He then became the commander of the Saudi Arabian National Guard. Add to that, he too served as the deputy defence minister and then became crown prince when Fahd became king in 1982. In a 2001 report, the king had four wives, seven sons and 15 daughters. On June 18, 2012, his third heir-apparent, Salman, was named Crown Prince. Because of King Abdullah family coming from political background, he was considered to be one of the most influential Muslim among 500 Muslims for the past four years.


Forbes even ranked him seventh on their 2012 list and 11th on their 2014 list of the “Wold’s Most Powerful People” thus making him the only Arab in the top fifteen. King Abdullah built two libraries in the Muslim world; there’s one in Riyadh (King Abdulaziz Library) and one in Casablanca, Morocco. Being a devout Muslim, he used to have meetings with the leaders of Saudi Arabia’s religious establishment on a weekly basis. He did this to get advice and guidance from them.
He died on 22nd of January 2015 at the age of 90.
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Below is some personal information about King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud as published by CNN.

Birth date: August 1, 1924

Death date: January 22, 2015

Birth place: Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Father: King Abdulaziz bin Abdulrahman al Saud

Mother: Fahda bint Al-Asi Al-Shuraim

Marriages: Wives' names not available publicly, but according to Islamic tradition he is allowed no more than four at a time.

Children: Exact number is not available publicly; sons include: Khalid (eldest son died June 2011 at age 54); Mitab; Abdulaziz; Mishal; Faisal; Badr

Education: early education at the Royal Court

Religion: Wahhabism (a conservative Islamic sect)

Military: Commander of the Saudi Arabia's National Guard, 1962-2010

Other Facts:
He was one of 37 sons.

He was  prime minister and head of state of KSA.

Helped create the Allegiance Authority, a committee of princes who vote on the eligibility of future monarchs and crown princes.

Under his leadership, Saudi Arabia joined the World Trade Organization.

Breeds pure Arabian horses and founded the equestrian club in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Malcolm X

Malcolm X was a prominent black nationalist leader. He joined Nation of Islam in 1949 and changed his name to El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz. He was also the founder of Muslim Mosque Inc. Born on May 19, 1925, in Nebraska, he was a famous black nationalist figure who served as the most popular spokesman for the Nation of Islam for the two decades of 1950s and '60s. It was only because of his efforts, the Nation of Islam grew from just 400 members at the time he was released from prison in 1952 to a huge 40,000 members by 1960.

Malcolm X spent his whole childhood life in different foster homes. His father was assassinated when he was just six years old. Three of Malcolm's four uncles were also murdered by white people. Later at the age of 13 his mother was hospitalised because of her mental illness. She remained in mental hospital for about 26 years. All her children were divided among several families, Malcolm spent his his childhood life in various state institutions and boarding houses.

At the age of 21, in 1946, he was sent to prison on a burglary conviction. During his time in jail, he encountered the teachings of Elijah Muhammad, the leader of the Nation of Islam, whose members are popularly known as Black Muslims. Elijah's teachings had a strong effect on him. He therefore joined Elijah's Organization.


Since joining the Nation of Islam, he had strictly adhered to the teachings of Nation of Islam chief Elijah Muhammad. Malcolm refused Elijah's request to help cover up the affairs and subsequent children. He was deeply hurt by his thinkings, because he had previously considered him as his only guide. Malcolm also felt bad about those people he had led to join the Nation of Islam, which he now felt was a fraudulent organization built on too many lies to ignore. He ended up by terminating his relationship with the Nation of Islam and further decided to establish his own religious organization, the Muslim Mosque, Inc.

In 1964, he went to Mecca as a pilgrim , his visit to Mecca proved to be life changing moment for him where he was impressed by the lack of racial discord among Muslims. For the first time, Malcolm shared his thoughts and beliefs with different cultures and found the response to be overwhelmingly positive. He returned to America as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz. On his return to United States, he said "I had met blued-eyed, blonde-haired men whom I could call my brothers".

Malcom was attacked many times along with his family but luckily escaped. In February 1965, the members of Nation of Islam were successful in their ruthless attempt. They shot him several times resulting his death. He was assassinated at the age of 39.

Malala Yousafzai

Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani education and youth activist. Native to Swat Valley in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Northwest Pakistan, she is known mainly for human rights advocacy for women and for education. She survived a gunshot attack by Taliban militants in October 2012. Attempt  to assassinate her received condemnation across the globe and protests throughout Pakistan. More than 2 million people signed the Right to Education campaign. The petition further helped the ratification of Pakistan’s first right to education bill. In 2014, Malala became the youngest person ever to win Nobel Peace Price. She achieved this feat at the age of 17.

Malala Yousafzai was born in 1997 in Swat valley of Pakistan. She received her basic education in a local school owned by her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, who is a poet and also an education activist. She had been banned from school after Taliban had set an edict that no girls could attend school after 15 January 2009. More than hundred girls' schools in the area were destroyed by pro Taliban activists.  She remained an anonymous BBC blogger for four months or more, writing about her life under the threat of the Taliban taking over her native place. After the BBC blog ended, she was featured in a documentary made Adam B.Ellick, a New York Times reporter . After her appearance in documentary, Malala received greater international coverage and later her identity about writing the BBC blog was revealed.


As reported by New York Times, Malala was attending her chemistry class at the Edgbaston High School for Girls near Birmingham, England when she was informed about her winning of Nobel Prize. She was called out of her class to hear the news. She was declared a Nobel prize winner along with Indian Kailash Satyarthi, a notable children's rights advocate and an activist against child labour.

In 2011, Malala Yousafzai was awarded with Pakistan’s National Youth Peace Prize, but later the prize been since renamed in her honour;  now the same prize is called as National Malala Peace Prize. In 2012, Malala was short-listed for TIME magazine's Person of the Year , and a year after in 2013, she was featured as one of the TIME 100. She has also been awarded with Simone de Beauvoir Prize for international human rights work  and Mother Teresa Memorial Award for Social Justice.

Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī

Abu Jafar Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī was a noted mathematician, astronomer and geographer of ancient times. He was native to Persia (Iran). He introduced many new concepts in mathematics and is generally regarded as father of Algebra.

Al-Khwarizmi's discussion was confined to the equations of the first and second degrees. His work mainly focused on time, astronomy, calculating exact positions of the Sun, Moon and the other planets. He also worked on calculating the tables of sines, cosec and tangents,  astrological tables, reason behind eclipse and their calculations, periodic visibility of the moon.

As written by E. F. Robertson and J. J. O'Conner in their book, MacTutor History of Mathematics archive "One of the most significant advances made by Arabic mathematics began with the mathematical  study and research of al-Khwarizmi, namely the beginning of algebra. It is important to understand just how significant this new idea was. It was a revolutionary move in real senseand much differ from the concept of mathematics adopted by Greeks. They (Greeks) mainly worked on geometry.

Al-Khwarizmi research was a unifying theory which allowed geometrical magnitudes, irrational numbers, rational numbers, etc., putting them under a single category of "algebraic objects". His work gave mathematics a new look if compared to that which had existed before, and became a tool for future development of maths." They further wrote "Another important aspect of the introduction of algebraic ideas was that it allowed mathematics to be applied to itself in a way which had not happened before."

Al-Khwarizmi supervised the work of seventy geographers and they successfully created a map of the then “known world”. When his work became popular in Europe through Latin translations, his popularity made a permanent mark on the development of science in the Western world.

Al-Khwarizmi also influenced the proper use of the term "algorithm". His name (al-Khwarizmi) was Latinized as "algorism" and later used to refer to the art of counting and calculating. Al-Khwarizmi also worked on astronomical tables and later wrote a book on the same subject. Some of his books were translated into Latin in the l2th century by Gerard and Adelard. A book on algebra, Al-Maqala fi Hisab-al Jabr wa-al-Muqabalah and a treatises on Arithmetic Kitab al-Jam'a wal-Tafreeq bil Hisab al-Hind are available only from Latin translations. It was this later translation which introduced the new science to the West "unknown till then." These books were used until the sixteenth century as the main mathematical books in European universities. The astronomical tables which he prepared were also translated into Chinese and many other European languages.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr., Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is a well known basket ball player. Native to United States, he converted from Catholicism to Islam and took the name Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, which means "noble, powerful servant.". Abdul-Jabbar was a record six-time NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP). He is also a best selling author. He wrote many books including his autobiography Giant Steps, 'On the Shoulders of Giants etc.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar started playing basket ball at a very early age. He guided his team to an astonishing 71 wins consecutively and three straight city titles also. His team was ranked at first spot by the National Sports Writers in 2001 and stated that Abdul Jabbar's team is number 1 High School Team of the Century. In 1974. He suffered a scratch on the cornea of his eye during a mid-game collision. Later he wore protective glasses during games to prevent further damage to his eye. He could be recognized easily in the court because of his protective goggles.

Jabbar was very popular as a college sports star, He was also an independent thinker, threading his way through the complex political and moral issues of the 1960s. Getting inspirations from the Autobiography of Malcolm X, he started studying Islam and later he eventually embraced it.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's retirement marked the end of an era for the NBA. Kareem left the game as the game's all-time high scorer, which no one ever be able to surpass, with 17,440 rebounds (11.2 rpg), .559 field-goal percentage, 3,189 blocks, and 38,387 points (24.6 ppg) from a career that lasted 20 years and 1,560 games. He scored in double figures in 787 straight games.

AKON

AKON is a big name in the world of entertainment today. Native to United States, he is a well known singer, composer, song writer, recording artist. He was listed by the Guinness Book of World Records as the number one selling artist for master ringtones in the world. Beyond singer, he is the owner of two clothing lines Aliaune and Konvict and has also invested in real estate.


Born as Aliaune Damala Badara Thiam in St. Louis, Missouri , Akon started singing and performing as a teenager. After growing up in New Jersey, United States, he turned his attention to the music business. Akon attended Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta, for a short time and later dropped out. He started his musician by making home recordings.

Akon is best known for his reggae music. One of his most popular song is Ghetto. He remained controversial and has been jailed many a times after facing different allegations. During his time in jail, he wrote many songs mainly on prison life and also on living in a ghetto setting. He realized his musical talent after leaving those freeman surroundings. The time when he was released from jail, he immediately began recording his music and sending out demo tapes. In 2006, he produced a single named Smack That, featuring a very popular rapper, Eminem. Later,after realese , the same song topped the Billboard singles chart.

He collaborated with Hindi music director duo Vishal-Shekhar and produced a hit track Chammak Challo for Shah Rukh Khan's Bollywood film Ra.One. He also appeared on WWE Raw, on its November, 2008 edition, with Santino Marella citing him in his speech. He also runs a charity  in Africa called Konfidence Foundation for the welfare of  for underprivileged children.

Abida Parveen

Abida Parveen is a Pakistani Sufi singer native to Sindh. She is considered as one of the finest Sufi singers of present era with a career spanning over forty years. Many National and International awards have been bestowed upon her including President of Pakistan's Award for Pride of Performance, the Sitara-e-Imtiaz and  Hilal-e-Imtiaz- Pakistan's second highest civilian award.

Abida Parveen was born in 1954 in Larkana region of Sindh, in southern Pakistan in a society where the Muslim Sufi culture was very popular. She is known for her blinding quality of voice. Her two most popular Sufi songs are Tere Ishq Nachaya which is based upon Baba Bulleh Shah's poetry and Yaar ko Humne from Raqs-e-Bismil album.

Abida Parveen has performed on every popular  stage all over the world. Recently, she created a mystical environment with her sizzling voice in Morocco's Fez Festival where she performed to an audience of over 10,000. Abida has also performed at renowned Royal Festival Hall in London on September 15, 2001 where she captured the hearts of listeners.


Abida's has an enormous fan following in Indian subcontinent. Her fans call her Undisputed Queen of Sufi Music. She says Sufi music will always be a source in unifying the two countries sharing so much common cultural and traditional legacy, peace will prevail one day and Sufi music will be the source.

Abida Parveen married Ghulam Hussain Sheikh in 1975. He was working at Radio Pakistan as a senior producer. Hussain later retired from his job in 1980s to look after  Parveen's career.

Sheikh Ahmad Muhammad Al-Tayyeb

Sheikh Al-Tayyeb is the leader of Al-Azhar University, which is the second-oldest university in the world, and was established in 975 AD. Al-Azhar represents the center of Sunni Islamic society. Jamia Al-Azhar is providing extensive Islamic education to Egyptian and international students since its establishment over a millennium ago. This history makes it a stronghold of Sunni traditionalism. The university is considered the most prominent Islamic educational institution worldwide.


Sheikh Al Tayyeb remained the president of the Al Azhar for seven years and prior to that, he served for two years as the most prominent cleric in Egypt as the Grand Mufti.  He served as the head of the theology faculty of the International Islamic University in Pakistan and also the dean of the teaching faculty of Islamic Studies in Aswan. His scholarly influence as a renowned intellectual is known throughout the world. He worked as professor in leading institutions of  Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE.

Jamia Al Azhar is the second oldest, and currently, one of the the largest universities in the world. This prominent institute has risen from a group of three schools in the 1950s to its current position with almost 75 affiliated schools, and a pupil strength of 400,000 studying there at one time, including those institutes that are part of Jamia's Waqf initiatives where there are about 19 lakhs students. This enormous size and respect makes the head of Al Azhar an immensely powerful and a person with a great influence.

Omar Sharif

Omar Sharif is a well known Muslim Actor of Hollywood. He became international star for his role in Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965) and  Funny Girl (1968). He has been nominated for Academy Awards many times. He has also won Golden Globe award thrice. Before starting his career as a Hollywood actor, Sharif appeared in over twenty Egyptians films.


In 2005, Omar Sharif was awarded the with the Sergei Eisenstein Medal by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in recognition of his significant contributions to world film and cultural diversity.

As an actor, Sharif returned to cinema in 2003 playing the title role of an elderly Muslim shopkeeper in the French film Monsieur Ibrahim. For this performance, he was given the Best Actor Award at the Venice Film Festival and the Best Actor César, France's, which is considered as an equivalent of the Oscar, from the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma.

Mehar Zain

Mehar Zain is a well known Islamic singer. Native to Lebanon, Zain's family moved to Sweden when he was eight years old. After gaining the Bachelors  degree in Aeronautical Engineering, he later entered the music industry and linked up with RedOne, a renowned Swedish song writer and music producer. He mastered keyboard at the age of 10 and started admiring music. His daughter is also a prominent musicians. She has a great fan following in Lebanese city of Tripoli.

Mehar Zain moved to United States in 2006 along with RedOne. On returning home to Sweden, he started producing Islamic music which gained him recognition. In 2009, Maher Zain signed and began work on an album with Awakening Records. 

His first album with this label peaked at number 2 on the Amazon album charts world. Through this album, he gained 8X platinum in Malaysia with sales of 120,000 units. After the release of this album, he released several other versions of the album including the percussion version in 2009 and the Platinum Edition in 2011. 
Zain's debut album Thank You Allah was an international hit and became the biggest selling album of the year in many countries including Malaysia. .


Maher Zain was chosen as Muslim Star of the year for 2011 in a voting which was organized by renowned Islamic website Onislam.net. He has been featured on the cover page of the United Kingdom based Muslim lifestyle magazine, Emel. He is also one of the most followed Muslim artists on social media.

Lubna Agha

Lubna Agha was an American-Pakistani painter. She was one of the leading woman artist of South Asia, particularly of Pakistan. Her paintings have been displayed in art museums and galleries all over the world, including Pakistan, United Kingdom, Jordan, Switzerland, and the United States of America.

Belonging to a family which moved from Delhi, Lubna Agha was born in Quetta in the Baluchistan province of Pakistan in 1949. She completed her schooling in Pakistan's southern most city of Karachi. She inherited the flair of art from her mother who was skilled in embroidery. Lubna joined the Mina School of Art, which was later renamed as 'Karachi School of Art. She graduated in 1967 and taught at the Imam Ali Central Institute of Art. She got married to art writer Yusuf Agha. 

Lubna was a successful graphic designer. Her paintings were mostly made on wood and canvas, depict ordinary objects using the patterns and narratives in the Islamic art. She was a senior art director for a major business communication agency in Boston. She died at Brookline in Massachusetts at the age of 63.

Shah Rukh Khan

Shah Rukh Khan is one of the leading actors of Indian film industry (Bollywood). Often called as King of Bollywood, he is recipient of many national as well as international awards including Padma Shiri, 4th highest civilian honour from the Government of India and Filmfare best actor award many times.

Shah Rukh Khan obtained Graduation degree from Hansraj College of Delhi University and further took admission in Jamia Millia Islamia University in New Delhi for Masters Degree in Mass Communications (Film making). But later after a year, he opted out as he decided to make his acting career in Bollywood.

With a net worth of more than $600 million, Shah Rukh Khan is the highest earning actor of Bollywood and also the world's second highest earning actor. He owns the motion pictures production company Red Chillies Entertainment and Kolkata Knight Riders cricket team of Indian Premier League.

Shah Rukh Khan pays huge amounts to charities but he always keeps his humanitarian work low-profile. He has recorded a series of public service announcements championing good health, child immunization and proper food and also joined India's Health Ministry and UNICEF in a nationwide child immunisation campaign as part of National Rural Health Mission of Government of India. 

Even with all the success and a statue among the elite in Madame Tussaud's, Khan is quoted as being one of the down to earth  and most humble personalities although his wit is unmatched by even the best in Bollywood. He has hosted many television programmes, game shows and award functions including India's version of British show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.

In 2011 Shah Rukh Khan teamed up with Amitabh Bachchan to promote Resul Pookutty's foundation that works to improve the living conditions of poor masses of India. He also owns a villa on  man made island in the United Arab Emirates on the coast of magnificent city of Dubai.

Shah Rukh Khan's family includes his wife, Gauri Khan, two sons Aryan and AbRam and a daughter, Suhana. Describing his own words "I have a beautiful family and a few friends with whom I spend lot of time. I don't want to be unknown. I would like to be just successful. Believe me it is lonely at the top."

Maryam Mirzakhani

Maryam Mirzakhani is a well known mathematician. She is an Iranian professor at Stanford University in California in United States of America. Maryam Mirzakhani is the first female among the 56 winners of Fields Medal since it was established in 1936. The Fields Medal is often described as the "Nobel Prize of Mathematics. She became the first woman to ever win this medal.
Maryam Mirzakhani completed her doctoral thesis in 2004, in her research she  answered the question of developing a formula for 'how the number of simple geodesics of length L grows as L gets larger'. 


Along the way, she also built links to two other major research questions by solving both of them. One was related to a formula for the volume of the so-called “moduli” space — the set of all possible hyperbolic structures on a given surface and the second was a surprising new proof of an old conjecture proposed by famous physicist Edward Witten of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, about certain topological measurements of moduli spaces related to string theory.

Maryam Mirzakhani is married to Jan Vondrák, a Czech theoretical computer scientist who works at IBM Almaden Research Center. They have a daughter named Anahita.

Dr. Ahmed Zewali

Ahmed Zewail is an Egyptian Scientist. He is known as father of Femtochemistry. He won Noble prize for Chemistry in 1999. Ahmed Zewail is the first originally Arab Muslim scientist to win Noble prize in a scientific field. He is presently working at California Institute of Technology.

After having his post doctorate activities and research activities at the University of California, Zewali was granted a position as a faculty at Caltech in the year 1976. Being a faculty member at Caltech he devoted his whole time and efforts as a researcher and by the year 1990, he was chosen and awarded the first ever Linus Pauling Chair Professor in Chemical Physics. It was in 1982 that Ahmed Zewail was vested and became a naturalized resident of the United States of America.

Because of his recognition  and huge achievements in chemical sciences and even in politics, he was rumored to contest for the general elections of Egypt in 2011 but he justified himself by announcing that he had no political agenda or ambitions. And further stated that all he wanted was to serve Egyptian nationals using Science as his armor and frankly voiced out that he prefer to die as a scientist and nothing else.

Dave Chappelle

Dave Chappelle  is a popular comedian. He is native to United States of America. He is also a well known screenwriter,TV and film producer. Dave Chappelle started his film career in early 90s. He also appeared in many films including The Nutty Professor in 1996. 

Shortly after completing his graduation, he moved to New York where he quickly established himself as a major talent. At the age of 19, He made his film debut in Robin Hood: Men in Tights.

Chappelle's mother has been a professor at Howard University, Wilberforce University, Central State University and University of Maryland. She is also a Unitarian Universalist minister. He also made it to the Forbes top 100 celebrities many times.
He has been declared at 43rd position on Comedy Central's 100 Greatest Standups of All Time. He is the youngest person ever to make it to this prestigious list.

Dave Chappelle converted to Islam in 1998. Chappelle and his wife, Elaine, have two sons, Sulayman and Ibrahim, and a daughter named Sonal.

Shahid Afridi

Native to Pakistan, Shahid Afridi is one of the most popular cricketers. Nick named as Boom Boom Afridi, he is known for his aggressive style both in batting and bowling. Shahid Afridi holds many International records including most sixes in ODI career. Out of seven fastest hundreds in One Day International Cricket of all time, Shahid Afridi has produced three of them. 


He is only third player in ODI history to achieve the combination of 5000 runs and 200 wickets. The other players are Sri Lankan batsman Sanath Jayasuriya and South African Legend Jacques Kallis. He is the only player in cricket to score 12 runs off one ball, he did it by hitting the roof of the Millennium Stadium. This took place in a game of Power Cricket.

Besides cricket he is involved in many other activities like, humanitarian work, he has been assigned by UNICEF to be in the board of anti polio campaign for tribal areas. Afridi is also involved in many TV advertisements for different brands. He also plays county cricket in which he represents different cities of UK and Australia.

                             
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Ibn Sina

Ibn Sina (Avicenna) was one of the frontmost philosophers of the Medieval times. He was the most famous physician, philosopher, encyclopaedist, mathematician and astronomer of his time. He wrote about 450 works on different subjects, unluckily only 240 of them have survived. In particular, 150 of his surviving works concentrate on philosophy and 40 of them concentrate on medicine. Ibn Sina also contributed to mathematics, physics, music and other fields.

Ibn Sina was a very religious man. During his childhood, he was highly baffled by Aristotle's work on Metaphysics and he used to leave all the work and used to spend his whole time in worship of God to guide him. Finally after reading a manual by a famous philosopher Al-Farabi, he found the solutions to his difficulties.

Ibn Sina was very self-conscious boy prodigy, professionally successful in his childhood; also at an early age he became a permanent exile from a home that ceased to exist; he was forced to serve hard-liners most of whom never appreciated his intellectuality and even did not esteem him as an intellectual; and yet he managed to stay with these rulers for whatever reasons.

Besides Ibn Sina's monumental writings, he also contributed to mathematics, physics, music and other science related fields. He long-winded the concept and applications of the “casting out of nines”. He also attempted  several successful astronomical observations, and devised a means similar to the venire, to enhance the accuracy of instrumental readings. In physics, his main contribution were different forms of energy, light, heat, mechanical studies, and other concepts like force, vacuum and infinity.