All articles starting with M

Mahmoud Abbas (محمود عباس)

Mahmoud Abbas (محمود عباس), Abu Mazen, born 1935 in Safed: Fatah founder, Oslo signatory, PLO chairman since 2004, PA president since the 2005 election, State of Palestine president since 2008; no national election since 2006.

Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf

Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf (born Chris Jackson, 1969, Gulfport, Mississippi), American guard, LSU freshman scoring record holder (30.2 ppg), NBA No. 3 pick of 1990, suspended in 1996 for refusing to stand for the anthem.

Mahmoud Adi

Mahmoud Adi is a founding partner of Shorooq Partners, an Abu Dhabi-based investment firm founded in 2017, and a co-founder of Pure Harvest Smart Farms.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (محمود احمدی‌نژاد)

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (محمود احمدی‌نژاد), born 1956, president of Iran 2005–2013, former Tehran mayor and Revolutionary Guard veteran. Known for the disputed 2009 reelection, Holocaust denial, nuclear expansion, and later reported Israeli recruitment efforts.

Mahmoud Dahoud (محمود دحود)

Mahmoud Dahoud (محمود دحود) is a Syrian-born German professional footballer born in 1996 who plays as a central midfielder, most recently for Eintracht Frankfurt after Borussia Dortmund.

Mahmoud Darwish (محمود درويش)

Mahmoud Darwish (محمود درويش, 1941–2008), Palestine's most eminent poet, author of over 30 poetry books including "Identity Card" and "Rita and the Rifle," PLO executive committee member who wrote the 1988 Declaration of Independence and died in Houston after heart surgery.

Mahmoud Dowlatabadi

Mahmoud Dowlatabadi (محمود دولت‌آبادی, born 1940) is an Iranian novelist and playwright, a leading figure of contemporary Persian prose known for Kelidar and Missing Soluch.

Mahmoud Etemadzadeh (M. A. Behazin)

Mahmoud Etemadzadeh (1915–2006), known by the pen name Behazin (به‌آذین), was an Iranian fiction writer and translator who introduced Persian readers to Rolland, Balzac, Shakespeare, and Sholokhov.

Mahmoud Farshchian

Mahmoud Farshchian (محمود فرشچیان, 1930–2025) was an Iranian master of Persian miniature painting who created a distinctive modern school of Iranian painting; his works are held by museums worldwide.

Oct 21, 2026

Mahmoud Fayad

Mahmoud Fayad (محمود شعبان عبدالله فياض), Egyptian featherweight weightlifter, 1925-2002; won 60 kg gold at London 1948 with 332.5 kg and world records, then World Champion 1949 and 1950 before a 1952 professional ban ended his career.

Mahmoud Guinia

Maâlem Mahmoud Guinia, also Mahmoud Gania, was a Moroccan Gnawa master musician from Essaouira, foremost exponent of the Saouiri style, who recorded with Pharoah Sanders and died in 2015.

Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi

Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi (محمود هاشمی شاهرودی, 1948–2018), Iranian-Iraqi Shiite ayatollah born in Najaf, student of Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr; head of Iran's judiciary 1999–2009, Expediency Council chairman 2017–2018, once viewed as a possible Supreme Leader successor.

Mahmoud Khalil

Mahmoud Khalil, Palestinian-American Columbia University activist and Algerian citizen, detained by ICE 104 days in 2025 under INA foreign-policy provision, released June 20, 2025; removal proceedings continue.

Mahmoud Khalil Al-Hussary (محمود خليل الحصري)

Mahmoud Khalil Al-Hussary (محمود خليل الحصري; 1917–1980) was an Egyptian Quran reciter who made the first complete murattal recording in 1961 and was named Global Quranic Personality in 2026.

Mahmoud Kianoush

Mahmoud Kianoush (محمود کیانوش, 1934–2021) was an Iranian poet, writer, and translator known as the founder of children's poetry in Iran; he moved to London in 1974.

Mahmoud Messadi

Mahmoud Messadi (محمود المسعدي; Mahmud al-Mas'adi, 1911–2004) was a Tunisian writer and politician, considered the foremost Tunisian narrative fiction writer and a pioneer of modern Arabic literature.

Mahmoud Mokhtar

Mahmoud Mokhtar (محمود مختار, 1891–1934) was an Egyptian sculptor, the founding figure of modern Egyptian sculpture, best known for Nahdat Misr (Egypt's Awakening), unveiled in Cairo in 1928.

Mahmoud Nouh

Mahmoud Nouh, also printed Mahmoud Noah, is an Egyptian technology entrepreneur who co-founded Swvl in 2017, served as COO until 2019, and later co-founded Capiter, a Cairo marketplace that collapsed in 2022.

Mahmoud Refat

Mahmoud Refat, also spelled Mahmoud Refaat, is an Egyptian electronic and experimental musician and producer who founded the Cairo label 100Copies in 2006 and championed mahraganat street music.

Mahmoud Said

Mahmoud Said (محمد سعيد, 1897–1964) was an Egyptian painter and judge from Alexandria, widely regarded as a founder of modern Egyptian art; his villa is now the Mahmoud Said Museum.

Mahmoud Shukair

Mahmoud Shukair (محمود شقير; born 1941 in Jabal al-Mukabbar, Jerusalem) is a Palestinian writer of stories, novels, and children's books, winner of the 2011 Mahmoud Darwish Prize.

Mahmoud v. Taylor

Mahmoud v. Taylor, 606 U.S. _ (2025), a 6-3 Supreme Court Free Exercise decision by Justice Alito requiring Montgomery County, Maryland schools to grant religious parents notice and opt-outs from LGBTQ+-inclusive storybook instruction.

Oct 20, 2026

Maḥmūd Ābād

Maḥmūd Ābād (محمود آباد), a common Iranian toponym; chiefly a West Azerbaijan village with an Urartian inscription of Rusa I and a Caspian city in Mazandaran with the excavated Qala Keti tepe.

Oct 10, 2026

Mahmud Ahmad

Mahmud Ahmad is a name shared by several individually documented servicemen of the early twentieth century, including South Asian soldiers of the First and Second World Wars.

Mahmud al-Kashgari

Mahmud al-Kashgari (محمود كاشغري) was an eleventh-century Karakhanid scholar and lexicographer of the Turkic languages, known for the Diwan Lughat al-Turk, written in Baghdad from 1072 to 1074.

Mahmud Badaruddin II

Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II, born Raden Hasan Pangeran Ratu, was the seventh ruler of the Sultanate of Palembang in southern Sumatra, reigning 1803 to 1821 and resisting the Dutch.

Mahmud Barzanji

Mahmud Barzanji (محمود البرزنجي) was a Qadiri Sufi sheikh from Sulaymaniyah who governed southern Kurdistan under British appointment from 1918, then led Kurdish revolts against the British Mandate of Iraq.

Mahmud Begada

Mahmud Begada (محمود بیگڑا) was sultan of Gujarat from 1458 to 1511, known as "conqueror of two forts" for taking Junagadh and Champaner and for warring with the Portuguese at sea.

Mahmud Begada's conquest of Champaner

Mahmud Begada's conquest of Champaner (چمپانیر) was the capture of the Champaner town and Pavagadh hill fortress in Gujarat by Sultan Mahmud Begada in 1484.