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Salah Jahin
Salah Jahin (صلاح جاهين), born Mohamed Salah El-Din Bahgat Ahmed Helmy, was an Egyptian colloquial poet, cartoonist, and playwright (1930–1986) who wrote the Rubaiyat and helped found modern Egyptian caricature.
Salah Khalaf
Salah Khalaf (Abu Iyad, صلاح خلف), 1933–1991, Fatah co-founder and PLO intelligence and security chief, regarded as the PLO's number two; early two-state advocate, linked to Black September, assassinated in Tunis in 1991.
Salah Niazi
Salah Niazi (صلاح نيازي, born July 1935) is an Iraqi poet, critic, and translator who has lived in London since the 1960s and translated Ulysses into Arabic.
Salah Rais
Salah Rais (صالح رايس), also written Salih Reis, was an Ottoman naval commander from Alexandria who served as beylerbey of Algiers from 1552 to 1556 and retook Béjaïa from the Spanish in 1555.
Salah Taher
Salah Taher (صلاح طاهر, 1911–2007) was an Egyptian painter, a pioneer of abstraction in Egyptian painting who also directed the Cairo Museum of Modern Art.
Salah times
Salah times are the five daily windows when the obligatory Muslim prayers are valid, defined by the sun's position: Fajr at dawn, Zuhr at midday, Asr in the afternoon, Maghrib at sunset, and Isha at night.
Salahdine Parnasse
Salahdine Parnasse, "Lion of Atlas", French lightweight MMA fighter born 1997; former KSW featherweight and lightweight double champion, now UFC, stopped Dan Hooker in his September 2026 UFC Paris debut.
Salahiyya
The Salahiyya (الصالحية الناجمية) were the corps of military slaves, mostly Kipchak Turks, assembled by Ayyubid sultan al-Malik al-Salih Ayyub of Egypt in the 1240s.
Salahuddin power station
The Salahuddin power station (محطة صلاح الدين الحرارية), also known as the Samarra Thermal Power Station, is a 1,260 MW oil-fired power station in Samarra, Iraq, owned by Iraq's Ministry of Electricity.
Salaì
Salaì (Gian Giacomo Caprotti da Oreno, 1480-1524) was Leonardo da Vinci's companion, servant, model and pupil from 1490; his 1525 inventory records the Mona Lisa, and he is linked with the signed Head of Christ the Redeemer.
Sălaj
Sălaj (Județul Sălaj, Szilágy) is a county in northwestern Romania, seat Zalău, in the Nord-Vest region; formed 1876 from Crasna and Middle Solnoc, reestablished 1968, population about 210,000.
Salak
Salak (Salacca zalacca), snake fruit, she pi guo, is a dioecious Indonesian palm native to Java and Sumatra, grown for scaly snake-skin fruit; Central Java leads production and Bali's Karangasem salak agroforestry is a FAO heritage system.
Salakaar (सलाकार)
Salakaar (सलाकार) is a 2025 Hindi spy thriller series on JioHotstar, directed by Faruk Kabir, starring Naveen Kasturia and Mouni Roy. Five ~30-minute episodes across 1978 and 2025 timelines depict an Indian RAW agent disrupting Pakistan's Kahuta nuclear program, reportedly inspired by Ajit Doval; IMDb 5.8/10.
Salalah (صلالة)
Salalah (صلالة), capital of Oman's Dhofar Governorate and the country's second-largest city on the Arabian Sea, is defined by the June–September Khareef monsoon, over one million seasonal visitors, the UNESCO Land of Frankincense sites, and the Port of Salalah and Free Zone economy.
Salalihini Sandesha
Salalihini Sandesha (සැළලිහිණි සන්දේසය, also rendered Selalihini Sandeshaya, "The Starling's Message") is a fifteenth-century Sinhala messenger poem in 111 quatrains by the monk Thotagamuwe Sri Rahula Thera, composed around 1450.
Salam Diallo
Salam Diallo is a Senegalese singer-songwriter of mbalax-fusion and tassou, a former percussionist with Lemzo Diamono whose 2009 hit "Goana" spawned a dance of the same name.
Salam ibn Fadl (Abu Qutayba al-Baghdadi)
Salam ibn Fadl (سلم بن الفضل), known as Abu Qutayba al-Baghdadi, was a hadith transmitter who studied in Baghdad, settled in Egypt, and died there in 350 AH.
Salama Hijazi
Salama Hijazi (سلامة حجازي; 1852–1917) was an Egyptian singer, composer, and theatrical performer regarded as the pioneer of operetta composition in Egypt, recording at least 48 discs for Odeon.
Salama ibn Salama al-Ashhali
Salama ibn Salama al-Ashhali (سلمة بن سلامة الأشهلي) was a companion of Muhammad from the Banu Abd al-Ashhal clan of the Aws in Medina, present at Badr and Uhud.
Salama Musa
Salama Musa (سلامة موسى, 1887–1958) was an Egyptian Coptic writer, journalist, and socialist thinker, a leading popularizer of evolution, socialism, and the sociology of religion in Arabic.
Salaman and Absal
Salaman and Absal (سلامان و ابسال) is an allegorical Persian masnavi that Abd al-Rahman Jami composed in 1480, telling of a prince's love for his wet-nurse Absal.
Salamanca
Salamanca, western Spanish city in Castilla and León, provincial capital on the Tormes; home of Spain's oldest university (1218), UNESCO World Heritage old city since 1988, Baroque Plaza Mayor (1729–1755), Roman Bridge, and golden Villamayor sandstone; 146,110 inhabitants (2025).
Salamander
Salamander (order Caudata): tailed amphibians including newts, distinct from frogs and caecilians. Known for Jurassic fossils, lungless plethodontids, neoteny (axolotl), limb and brain regeneration, and use as forest health indicators.
Salamander (video game)
Salamander (沙羅曼蛇), aka Life Force, is Konami's 1986 arcade scrolling shooter and first Gradius spin-off, with two-player co-op, alternating horizontal and vertical stages, instant power-up modules, and sequels Salamander 2 (1996) and Salamander III (2025).
Salamander letter
Salamander letter, also called White Salamander letter: Mark Hofmann's 1984 forgery of an 1830 Martin Harris letter describing a white salamander rather than an angel at the Book of Mormon plates; exposed by forensics after Hofmann's 1985 bombing murders.
Salamandra
Salamandra (true salamanders, fire salamanders) is a genus of six Salamandridae species across Europe, North Africa, and the Near East, known for yellow-black aposematic coloration, varied viviparity, samandarine toxins, and Bsal-driven declines.
Salamandra robotica II
Salamandra robotica II is an amphibious salamander-like robot developed at EPFL's Biorobotics Laboratory that walks on ground and swims with body undulations, built to study spinal cord circuits controlling locomotion.
Salamandridae
Salamandridae is a family of salamanders containing the true salamanders and the newts, with roughly 146 species in 22 genera and the largest distribution of any salamander family.
Salamandrina
Salamandrina (spectacled salamanders), genus Fitzinger 1826, sole endemic vertebrate genus of Italy; two species, S. perspicillata north and S. terdigitata south of the Volturno Valley, in subfamily Salamandrininae.
Salamāsina
Salamāsina was a Samoan noblewoman who became the first Tafa'ifā, holding the four pāpā titles, the highest paramount ranks of Samoa, in the late 15th or early 16th century.