Society and history

Dar al-Fonun

Dar al-Fonun (دارالفنون) was a college founded in Tehran in 1851 by the Qajar grand vizier Amir Kabir, marking the beginning of modern education in Persia.

Dar al-Hikma

Dar al-Hikma (دار الحكمة), also called Dar al-Ilm, was a Fatimid academy and library in Cairo founded by al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah in 1005 and closed in 1171.

Sep 24, 2026

Dar al-Ilm of Cairo

The Dar al-Ilm (دار العلم), also called Dar al-Hikma, was a library and teaching institution in Fatimid Cairo founded by Caliph al-Hakim in 1004 and closed in 1171.

Oct 22, 2026

Dar al-Kuti

Dar al-Kuti was a Muslim-ruled sultanate in present-day Central African Republic, lasting from about 1830 until 1911 or 1912 and serving as a major hub of slave raiding and trade.

Dar al-Nadwa

Dar al-Nadwa (دار الندوة), the "House of Assembly", was the council hall of Mecca, built near the Ka'ba by Qusayy ibn Kilab, an ancestor of the Prophet Muhammad, in the mid-fifth century AD.

Dara Calleary

Dara Calleary is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician, a TD for Mayo since 2007, serving since 2025 as Minister for Social Protection and for Rural and Community Development.

Dara Khosrowshahi is an Iranian-American technology executive who has led Uber as CEO since September 2017, after twelve years as CEO of Expedia Group, which he built into the largest US online travel agency.

Dara Shikoh (دارا شکوه)

Dara Shikoh (Dārā Šokōh, دارا شکوه, 1615–1659), eldest son and heir apparent of Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, Sufi author of Majma al-bahrayn and the Persian Upanishad translation Sirr-e akbar, defeated and executed by Aurangzeb in 1659.

Dara Singh Chauhan

Dara Singh Chauhan (born 1963) is an Indian politician and BJP minister in the Government of Uttar Pradesh holding the prisons portfolio, under chief minister Yogi Adityanath.

Daraa insurgency

Daraa insurgency: armed campaign by former rebels in Syria's Daraa governorate after the 2018 Russian-brokered reconciliation deals, marked by assassinations, the 2020 Muzayrib attack, the 2021 siege, and reactivation after Assad's fall.

Darayya massacre

The Darayya massacre was the killing of hundreds of residents of Darayya (داريا), southwest of Damascus, by Syrian government forces and shabiha militias, 20-27 August 2012, with documented tolls from 208 to over 700 deaths, followed by a deadly siege.

Sep 24, 2026

Darb al-Arba'in

Darb al-Arba'in (درب الأربعين), the Forty Days Road, was a caravan route linking Darfur and Kordofan with Asyut in Upper Egypt across about 1,100 miles of desert.

Darby Hills

Darby Hills is an American politician serving as a Republican member of the Illinois Senate from the 26th district since February 2025, after careers as a Cook County prosecutor and Barrington Hills trustee.

Dardeen family homicides

The Dardeen family homicides, also known as the Dardeen family murders, were the unsolved 1987 killings of Russell Keith and Ruby Elaine Dardeen, their son, and newborn daughter near Ina, Illinois.

Darden Copeland

Darden Copeland is an American politician and Nashville businessman, founder of the Calvert Street Group, and the Democratic nominee for the U.S. House in Tennessee's 7th District in 2026.

Dardic languages

Dardic languages, also called Pisacha languages, are Indo-Aryan varieties of the Hindu Kush region spanning northeastern Afghanistan, northern Pakistan, and Kashmir; grouped into Kashmiri, Shina, Chitral, Kohistan, Kunar, and Pashai groups, with Kashmiri the only literary language.

Darfur

Darfur (دار فور, land of the Fur) is a western Sudanese region of about 250,000 km², former independent sultanate, site of the 2003 Janjaweed atrocities, ICC case, and the 2023– SAF–RSF war and El Fasher siege.

Darfur campaign

Darfur campaign: the Rapid Support Forces' 2023–present drive to control Sudan's five Darfur states, including the El Geneina massacres, the 18-month siege, famine, and October 2025 capture of El Fasher.

Darfur genocide

The Darfur genocide is the campaign of mass killing, rape, and displacement by Sudan's government and its Janjaweed militias against non-Arab communities in Darfur from 2003, with renewed atrocities by the Rapid Support Forces since 2023.

Darfur genocide (2023–present)

The Darfur genocide is an ethnically targeted campaign of mass killing and displacement in western Sudan. The Rapid Support Forces and allied militias are the primary perpetrators.

Dargah Quli Khan

Dargah Quli Khan (درگہ قلی خان) was an eighteenth-century Mughal nobleman, born in 1710 in Aurangabad, who wrote the Muraqqa-i Dehli, an eyewitness account of Delhi's streets, shrines, and poets.

Oct 22, 2026

Darge Sahle Selassie

Darge Sahle Selassie (ዳርጌ ሳህለ ስላሴ), also known as Abba Gersa, was an Ethiopian prince, general, and governor of Salale under Emperor Menelik II, dying in 1900.

Dari (دری)

Dari (دری), or Afghan Persian (ISO 639-3: prs), is the variety of Persian that is one of Afghanistan's two official languages, alongside Pashto, named Dari by the 1964 constitution and one of the three major Persian varieties with Farsi and Tajiki.

Daria Navalnaya (Дарья Алексеевна Навальная)

Daria (Dasha) Navalnaya, born 2001, daughter of Alexei Navalny and Yulia Navalnaya; Stanford student and activist who accepted the 2021 Sakharov Prize for her imprisoned father and spoke at TED and Georgetown.

Darializa Avila Chevalier

Darializa Avila Chevalier is a Bronx-born-in-Miami American community organizer and NYC-DSA democratic socialist who unseated Rep. Adriano Espaillat, chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, in the June 23, 2026 Democratic primary for New York's 13th Congressional District.