Shams Badran
Shams Al Din Badran (born 1929) was one of the defense ministers of Egypt during Gamal Abdel Nasser's era. He was among the leading figures in Egypt before the 1970s.
Early life and education
Badran was born in 1929. He attended military academy and graduated in 1948.
Career
Badran was the head of the military security services in the mid 1960s. He also served as the office manager of then-Field Marshal Abdul Hakim Amer under the Nasser's rule. He was one of the top aides of Amer. Then Badran was appointed minister of defense in Fall 1966 shortly before the 1967 War or Six Day War, replacing Abdel Wahab Al Bishri in the post. Amer had supported his appointment.
Badran was also named as the chief of Nasser's cabinet the same year. On 25 May 1967, Badran visited Moscow and met senior Soviet officials, including then prime minister Alexei Kosygin, to secure their support regarding Israeli threat. He resigned from office during the war, and was replaced by Amin Howeidi as defense minister in June 1967.
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
People
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 (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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