Famous People with Name Azar

Azar Karadas            Origin/Culture/Country: Norwegian

Azar Karadas: a Norwegian football player, born on August 9, 1981. He also has Turkish citizenship. His mother is Norwegian, and his father is Turkish-Cypriot.

Azar Nafisi            Origin/Culture/Country: Iranian

Azar Nafisi: an Iranian academic and writer who has resided in the United States since 1997 when she emigrated from Iran. Nafisi is currently a visiting Fellow and lecturer at the Foreign Policy Institute of Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and serves on the Board of Trustees of Freedom House.Nafisi's bestselling book Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books has gained a great deal of public attention and been translated into 32 languages. It was 117 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list, and has won numerous literary awards, including the 2004 Non-fiction Book of the Year Award from Booksense, and the Europe based Persian Golden Lioness Award for literature.

Azariah Cutting Flagg            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Azariah Cutting Flagg: was an American newspaper editor and politician. He was a member from Clinton County of the New York State Assembly in 1823 and 1824. He was elected Secretary of State of New York in 1826, and re-elected in 1829 and 1832. He was elected New York State Com

Étienne Tshisekedi Wa Mulumba            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Étienne Tshisekedi Wa Mulumba: was one of four vice-presidents in the transitional government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo between 2003-2006. He has been president of the Rassemblement Congolais pour la Démocratie since 2003. He was an unsuccessful candidate for president in 2006. He is a member of the Banyamulenge community of South Kivu who belong to the tutsi tribe. Ruberwa trained as a lawyer at the University of Lubumbashi. He also practiced law in Lubumbashi before the AFDL war in 1996. After losing the presidential election in 2006, he became a member of the bar in Kinshasa and re-opened his law practice.

Azartash Azarnoush            Origin/Culture/Country: Iranian

Azartash Azarnoush: is a linguist and scholar of Iran.He is a faculty at Imam Sadeq University and Tarbiat Modarres University and has been director of the Arabic department of The Center for the Great Islamic Encyclopedia in Tehran since 1986 [1], and has published over 200 articles in the field of Arabic literature, as well as a few dozen books.

Amado Azar            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Amado Azar: was an Argentine boxer who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics.In 1932 he won the silver medal in the middleweight class after losing the final against Carmen Barth.

Jacobo Majluta Azar            Origin/Culture/Country: Jamaican

Jacobo Majluta Azar: was one of the generations of politicians in the Dominican Republic whose ambition was continually thwarted by the country's labyrinthine power struggles and explosive sectarianism. He was elected Vice-President in 1978 and served as President for 42 days in 1982, replacing the disgraced Antonio Guzman who had committed suicide, but he never again held the highest office which he so openly craved. Born in 1934 into a merchant family of Lebanese origin, Majluta studied finance at Santo Domingo University before working as an accountant in the banking and state sectors. He joined the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD) in 1961, in the wake of the Dictator Leonidas Trujillo's assassination, and rose quickly, becoming the youngest minister in Juan Bosch's short-lived government of 1963. When it was overthrown by a military coup later that year, Majluta went into exile, returning to rebuild his political career and winning the PRD's vice-presidential nomination for the 1978 elections. In power, Majluta was out of sympathy with the PRD's more radical social- democratic wing. As head of CORDE, one of the large state-sector companies, he was also allegedly involved in corruption, although charges were never proven. His real concern, however, was to beat off the challenge of rival caudillos or strongmen within the PRD, and this struggle dominated the rest of his career. After Guzmán's suicide, Majluta hoped to win the PRD's presidential nomination, but lost out to Jorge Antonio Blanco. When Blanco won the 1982 elections, Majluta became president of the senate, using his position to side with the opposition and block his rival's policy program. As Blanco's administration gradually slid into bankruptcy and scandal, Majluta again aimed for the PRD's nomination. This time, however, he faced the formidable Jose Francisco Pena Gomez, and open war broke out between the two men's factions. After several rival supporters were killed in shoot- outs, Majluta finally grabbed the nomination for 1986. Despite his considerable political skills, Majluta was no match in the elections that year for Joaquín Balaguer, the grand old man of Dominican politics. Balaguer defeated Majluta by a narrow margin to return to the presidency at the age of 80. The brutal in-fighting which had won Majluta the PRD ticket had also alienated a large section of the party, and many of the PRD faithful voted against their own candidate. Majluta did not enhance his standing by claiming victory as soon as voting ended and by demanding a rerun of the election. In the end a series of meetings with emissaries from the military and Church - the country's real power-brokers - forced him to accept defeat. In 1987 Majluta was expelled from the PRD as Pena Gomez reasserted his influence, but an electoral court ruled the move illegal. In 1989 he left to form his own Independent Revolutionary Party (PRI), an organization geared specifically towards his own electoral aspirations. The PRI never gained genuine popular support, but the 7 per cent it won in the 1990 election was enough to undermine Pena Gomez's chances. Ironically, in the weeks before his death, Majluta had sought a rapprochement with his old rival and had even endorsed Pena Gomez's candidature for the forthcoming May elections. It was an uncharacteristic gesture on the part of a hard-nosed, cynical fighter who always valued personal power far higher than party democracy. .