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.