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Hafez Bashar al-Assad
Hafez Bashar al-Assad (حافظ بشار الأسد), born 2001, is the eldest son of former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and Asma al-Assad, named after his grandfather. A Moscow State University mathematics graduate once groomed as successor, he went into Moscow exile after the regime fell in December 2024.
Haffs
Haffs is an electronic music artist and DJ billed at Soundstorm 2025, the MDLBEAST festival in Riyadh, appearing on the December 11 bill alongside Post Malone and Calvin Harris.
Hafid Bouazza
Hafid Bouazza (1970–2021) was a Moroccan-born Dutch writer of novels, stories, plays, essays, and translations whose exuberant prose won the Gouden Uil prize for Paravion (2003).
Hafid Revolution
The Hafid Revolution (ثورة الحفيظ), known as the Hafidiya, was the 1907–1908 Moroccan movement that deposed Sultan Abd al-Aziz and installed his brother Abd al-Hafid on a platform of resisting France.
Hafit period
The Hafit period, or Hafit culture, was an early Bronze Age phase of southeastern Arabia (Oman and the UAE), named for its beehive tombs at Jebel Hafit.
Hafiz (Mercurian crater)
Hafiz is a 280-km-wide impact crater on Mercury in quadrangle H-09, IAU-approved June 23, 2014, named for the Persian poet Hafiz of Shiraz (c. 1320-1389); it contains low-reflectance material and hollows.
Hafiz (حَافِظ) (Quran)
A hafiz (حَافِظ), plural huffaz, is a person who has memorized the entire Quran, all 114 suras, and can recite it aloud from memory without looking at the text.
Hafiz al-Assad (حافظ الأسد)
Hafiz al-Assad (حافظ الأسد) was a Syrian military officer and Baathist who seized power in a 1970 coup and ruled Syria as president from 1971 until his death in 2000.
Hafiz Barkhurdar
Hafiz Barkhurdar (Punjabi: حافظ برخوردار; 1658–1707) was a Punjabi Sufi poet of the qissa tradition, best known for his Mirza Sahiban and for writing during Aurangzeb's reign.
Hafiz Gul Bahadur Group (حافظ گل بهادر)
Hafiz Gul Bahadur Group (حافظ گل بهادر), a Pakistani militant umbrella organisation independent of the TTP, based in North Waziristan among the Wazir and Dawar tribes; once the 'good Taliban' fighting only in Afghanistan, it now leads the Ittehad-ul-Mujahideen Pakistan alliance and rivals the TTP.
Hafiz Ibrahim
Hafiz Ibrahim (حافظ إبراهيم), also known as the Poet of the People, was an Egyptian poet who wrote about social and national themes under British occupation. He served at Dar al-Kutub.
Hafiz Osman
Hafiz Osman (حافظ عثمان) was an Ottoman calligrapher of Istanbul who lived 1642 to 1698 and is regarded as the leading master of the craft in his day.
Hafiz Rahmat Khan
Hafiz Rahmat Khan (حافظ رحمت خان) was the Rohilla chief who ruled Rohilkhand as Hafiz-ul-Mulk from 1749 until he was killed in the Rohilla war of 1774.
Hafiz Saeed
Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, Pakistani cleric (born 1950, Sargodha), founder and leader of Lashkar-e-Taiba and amir of Jamaat-ud-Dawa; UN-listed 10 December 2008, $10 million US bounty, serving a 78-year terror-financing sentence since 2020.
Hafiz Uddin Ahmad
Hafiz Uddin Ahmad is a Bangladeshi politician of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party who has served as Speaker of the Jatiya Sangsad since March 2026, after seven terms representing Bhola-3.
Hafiz-i Abru
Hafiz-i Abru (حافظ ابرو) was a Timurid court historian and geographer who served Timur and Shah Rukh at Herat and died in 1430 after a campaign in Azerbaijan.
Hafizabad
Hafizabad (حافظ آباد) is a city and district headquarters in central Punjab, Pakistan, founded under Mughal Emperor Akbar by his advisor Hafiz Meerak. Known as the city of rice, it hosts Pakistan's biggest rice market; city population 245,784 (2017).
Hāfizābād District
Hāfizābād District (ضلع حافظ آباد), Punjab, Pakistan: a central-Punjab district created 1 July 1993 from Gujranwala district, two tehsils (Hafizabad, Pindi Bhattian), 2,367 sq km, 1,156,954 people (2017), Chenab boundary, now in Gujrat division.
Hafizul Hassan
Hafizul Hassan, also written Hafiz Ul Hasan or Hafizul Hasan Ansari, is an Indian JMM politician and Jharkhand minister for water resources and minority welfare.
Hafizullah Amin (حفيظ الله امين)
Hafizullah Amin (حفيظ الله امين), Afghan Khalq communist leader, PDPA organizer of the 1978 Saur Revolution, foreign minister, prime minister, and head of state from September 16 to December 27, 1979, overthrew Taraki and was killed in the Soviet Operation Storm-333.
Hafız Suleymanoglu
Hafız Suleymanoglu (Hafiz Süleymanov), born 1967 in Sumqayıt, Azerbaijani weightlifter; 1989 world and European bantamweight champion for the USSR who defected to Turkey, set 1995 snatch world records, and DNF'd at the 1992 and 1996 Olympics.
Hafler Trio
The Hafler Trio is an English conceptual sound art project (H3O) founded in Sheffield around 1980/1982 by Andrew McKenzie and Chris Watson (ex-Cabaret Voltaire), with a fictitious third member; known for psychoacoustic drone works, elaborate packaging, the 1991-1993 trilogy, and Autechre collaborations.
Hafnarfjörður
Hafnarfjörður, Iceland's third-largest municipality (about 32,400 people), a historic harbour town in the Reykjavík Capital Region, once the Hanseatic League's main Icelandic port, granted borough status 1 June 1908.
Hafner Rotabuggy
The Hafner Rotabuggy, also called the Malcolm Rotaplane or Flying Jeep, was a British experimental aircraft combining a Willys MB jeep with an unpowered rotor kite.
Hafner Rotachute
The Hafner Rotachute, also known as the Rotachute, was a one-man gyroglider developed in wartime Britain by Raoul Hafner to land a soldier more accurately than a parachute.
Hafnia
Hafnia (Hafnia alvei, Hafnia paralvei) is a genus of gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic, motile Enterobacterales rods from feces, soil, water, and dairy; an opportunistic human pathogen with intrinsic colistin resistance and cheesemaking uses.
Hafnia alvei
Hafnia alvei, a Gram-negative facultatively anaerobic rod of the Enterobacteriaceae and type species of genus Hafnia, sucrose-negative, VP-positive; found in clinical, food, and animal sources; intrinsically colistin-resistant.
Hafnia-based FeFET memory
Hafnia-based FeFET memory is a nonvolatile technology using ferroelectric hafnium oxide as a MOSFET gate dielectric, made practical by the 2011 discovery of ferroelectricity in doped hafnia.
Hafnia–zirconia ferroelectric memory
Hafnia–zirconia ferroelectric memory is a class of nonvolatile memory built on ferroelectric films of hafnium oxide and hafnium zirconium oxide, first reported in 2011 and compatible with CMOS processing.
Hafnium
Hafnium is a corrosion-resistant transition metal, atomic number 72, discovered in Copenhagen in 1923, known for neutron absorption in nuclear reactor control rods and its oxide in microchips.