Balkis


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Balkis

(ˈbælkɪs)
n
(Biography) the name in the Koran of the queen of Sheba2
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He said an independent candidate from the 2013 elections, Wan Balkis Wan Abdullah will be contesting under PFP at the Machang Bubuk state seat this time.
The women who inspired this research and feature prominently in the work include Balkis Sharara, wife of celebrated Iraqi architect Rifat Chadirji who in 1979 smuggled copies of his works into Abu Ghraib allowing him to write three of his seminal books while in prison; artist Nuha Al Radi whose diaries of 1990/91 offer unique insights into the struggles of daily life in Baghdad during the war; artist Fahrelnissa Zeid, wife of the Iraqi Ambassador in London, at the time when Le Corbusier received the telegram confirming the approval of his design proposal; poet Iman Mersal who paid a solidarity visit to Baghdad in 1993 while it was under siege and was given an audience by Saddam; and architect Zaha Hadid, whose work influenced the imagination of Iraqi architecture students in the 1990s.
For example, academic life satisfaction has been negatively associated with academic procrastination (Balkis, 2013; Jackson et al., 2003).
Though there are several juices from concentrate, Lebanon's fresh juice market is dominated by south Lebanon-based Balkis, which produces a variety of juices with a 30-day refrigerated shelf life, including orange, mandarin and lemon juice.
One of the market leaders, Alhaja Balkis Alimi, also bemoaned the fact that not even the slightest hope of any possible compensation by the government had been given to them.
Aquatic pollution studies attract the attention of many investigators (Balkis et al.
This finding corroborates results from previous studies (Balkis, 2013; Prohaska, Morrill, Atiles, & Perez, 2000).
The first study at the island was carried out by Ostroumoff (3,4) followed by studies by Okus (5), Yuksek (6) and Balkis (7).