Shams

Shams is the Arabic word for "sun" (شمس).

The word may refer to:

Arabic use

  • Ain Shams University, a university located in Cairo, Egypt
  • Al-Shams (newspaper), Libyan government newspaper till 2011
  • Ash-Shams, the 91st Sura of the Qur'an
  • Shams, a defunct Saudi Arabian newspaper
  • Shams Abu Dhabi, a real estate development on Al Reem Island, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
  • Shams solar power station, a planned concentrating solar power station in the United Arab Emirates
  • Shams Ensemble, music group performing Iranian and Sufi music
  • People

  • Shams Badran, Egyptian military officer
  • Shams Al-Baroudy, Egyptian actress
  • Shams Langeroodi, contemporary Iranian poet
  • Shams-ud-din Iltutmish, an alternate name for Iltutmish, the third Muslim Turkic sultan of the Sultanate of Delhi
  • Shams Pahlavi, elder sister of Shah of Iran, the last king of the Iranian monarchy
  • Shams Tabrizi, an Iranian Sufi mystic
  • Ibrahim Shams, Egyptian Olympic weightlifter
  • Shams (singer), a Saudi-Kuwaiti singer
  • Shams (newspaper)

    Shams (in Arabic شمس meaning Sun) was a Saudi Arabian daily newspaper published between 2005 and 2012. Its publisher described the paper as modern and trendy.

    History and profile

    Shams was launched as a tabloid paper in December 2005. Turki bin Khalid bin Faisal, a grandson of Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, was the chairman of the board of directors of Shams Information Company for Publishing and Development that published the paper. It was also reported that he partly owned the paper. Al Wataniya group was also the founder of the daily.

    There is inconsistent information about the daily print of Shams. The media group publishing the paper gave the number of daily print as 120,000.Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), on the other hand, in its 2006 report described Shams as a modest paper with the daily circulation of 40,000 copies. The Group Plus stated the daily circulation as over 70,000 copies.Shams was staffed mainly by Saudi journalists.

    Shams was being printed in Riyadh, Dammam and Jeddah.

    Shams (singer)

    Shams Bandar Al-Aslami (Arabic: شمس بندر الأسلمي, born April 28, 1980), known mononymously as Shams, (Arabic: شمس) is a Saudi-Kuwaiti singer.

    Shams released her first album in 2000, but did not achieve mainstream success until she appeared as a guest on the show Leman Yajro'a Faqat on LBC with the presenter Tony Khalifa to talk about her problems with the Saudi singer Sara. Her third album was released a few weeks after the show and has been a major success. She has enjoyed media attention after her conflict with the singer Ahlam. She also released the successful video "ahlan ezayak", which pokes fun at the Bush Administration.

    She has recorded several music videos. Some of Shams's popular songs include "ahlan izayak" with George Bush, "tatah" feat. Obama, "kobar rasek", "mothahra nesa2ya", "milion", "ain frash" and "wesh sayer".

    On September 26, 2013, in an effort to show solidarity with demands that Saudi women may be allowed to drive, she launched a single (in Arabic) titled 'It's our right to drive' which went viral on the internet.

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