Abbas biography

* Born Mahmoud Reda Abbas "Abu Mazen" in Safad in 1935.

* Forced to resort with his family to Syria after the attack on the city of Safad and its occupation by the Jewish organizations in April 1948.

 * At the age of thirteen he had to work to help his family for two years, later joined the school and completed the secondary stage and worked as a teacher, continued his study at home and obtained a high school, then attended the University of Damascus, affiliation with a Bachelor in Law in 1958.

* In 1957, he worked at the Ministry of Education of Qatar as Director of personnel, during which he visited the West Bank and Gaza Strip several times to select the teachers and staff to work in Qatar. He continued his work until 1970, where he devoted himself fully to the national duty.

* He contributed to the establishment of the Palestinian National Liberation Movement (Fatah), which was launched in 1965.

* He received his Ph.D. from the Institute of Oriental Studies in Moscow in 1982, and the subject of the message was "The secret relations between Nazi Germany and the Zionist movement.”

* Served as a member of the Central Committee of Fatah Movement since 1964.

* Served as Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization since 1996.

* Chaired the Department of National and International Relations of the Palestine Liberation Organization between 1984 and 2000.

* Established the twinning project between the cities of Palestine and the Arab Towns in 1978

* Chaired the Jordanian – Palestinian Joint Committee since 1979

* Represented the Palestine Liberation Organization in several formal occasions, including the signing of the Declaration of Principles “Oslo Accords” in Washington on 31 September 1993 and the signing of the Interim Agreement in Washington on 23 September 1995.

* Headed the Palestinian delegation at the signing of the Declaration of Principles “Oslo Agreement” on 13 September 1993

Shir Mohammad Abbas Stanekzai, son of late Haji Padshah Khan, was born in 1338 in the village of Abbas village, Baraki Barak district of Logar province.

He completed his primary education in the village Masjid and Omar Khan school in Kabul and is a passed out from Kabul Military School.
He was sent to India by Sardar Mohammad Daud Khan along with other Afghan students for higher military education, and after graduating in 1981, he joined the Jihad front against the Soviet occupation.

He served as a military instructor in Jamiat-e-Islami and Ittihad-e-Islami parties, and in 1985 he was the military commander of the southwestern region of the Ittihad-e-Islami. He has been involved in numerous operations in Qalat, Kandahar Airport, Lashkar Gah and other important operations, and has since met Mullah Burjan, Mullah Mushr, Mullah Mohammad Rabbani and other former Taliban leaders.

In 1990, he was appointed as the military in charge of the Islamic Revolutionary Movement and served in this position until the fall of the Najibullah regime.

He stayed at home during the partisan conflicts and joined the Taliban Movement in the uprising. During the Taliban rule, he served first as Kandahar’s Deputy External Communications and then in Kabul as Deputy Foreign Minister and then Deputy Minister of Public Health.
Following the US invasion of the country, he resumed military and political struggle; serving as a member and then deputy of the Taliban Political Commission, and from August 2015 to January 2019 as the head of the Taliban’s political office.

Mr. Stanekzai led the negotiating team with the Americans while serving on the Leadership Council, Deputy negotiating team.

Mr. Stanekzai is currently serving as Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs following the end of the US occupation, while the Islamic Emirate has full control of the country.

Born a photographer, Abbas was an Iranian transplanted to Paris. He had dedicated himself to documenting the political and social life of societies in conflict. In his major work since 1970, he had covered wars and revolutions in Biafra, Bangladesh, Northern Ireland, Vietnam, the Middle East, Chile, Cuba, and South Africa during Apartheid.

From 1978 to 1980, Abbas photographed the revolution in Iran, to which he returned in 1997 after 17 years of voluntary exile. His book Iran Diary1971-2002 is a critical interpretation of Iranian history, photographed and written as a private journal.

During his years of exile, Abbas travelled constantly. Between 1983 and 1986 he journeyed through Mexico, attempting to photograph a country as a novelist might write about it. The resulting exhibition and book, Return to Mexico: Journeys Beyond the Mask, helped define his photographic aesthetic.

From 1987 to 1994, he focused on the resurgence of Islam throughout the world. Allah O Akbar: A Journey Through Militant Islam (1994), the subsequent book and exhibition, spanning 29 countries and four continents, attracted special attention after the 9/11 attacks by Islamic jihadists. A later book, Faces of Christianity: A Photographic Journey (2000), and touring show explored Christianity as a political ritual and spiritual phenomenon.

Abbas’s concern with religion led him in 2000 to begin a project on animism – Sur la route des esprits (2005) – in which he sought to discover why non-rational ritual has re-emerged in a world increasingly defined by science and technology. He abandoned this undertaking in 2002, on the first anniversary of 9/11, to start a new long-term project about the clash of religions, defined as a culture rather than faith, which he believes are turning into political ideologies and therefore one of the sources of the strategic struggles of the contemporary world. His book, In Whose Name? The Islamic World after 9/11 (2009), is the result of a seven

Indian actor

Mirza Abbas Ali (born 21 May 1975), is an Indian actor known for his works predominantly in Tamil and Telugu cinema, and few Malayalam and Hindi films.

Following a career as a fashion model, he made his film debut with Kathir's Kadhal Desam (1996), which became a great success and gave him instant recognition. Abbas went on to work in successful movies such as VIP (1997), Pooveli (1998), Padayappa (1999), Suyamvaram (1999), Malabar Police (1999), Kandukondain Kandukondain (2000), Minnale (2001), Aanandham (2001), Pammal K. Sambandam (2002), Adi Thadi (2004), Guru En Aalu (2009), and Ramanujan (2014).

He also appeared in notable Telugu films including Priya O Priya (1997), Rajahamsa (1998), Raja (1999), and Anasuya (2007). Abbas gained recognition in Malayalam films as well, notably in Kannezhuthi Pottum Thottu (1999). In 2023, he returned to Chennai after a long hiatus. He expressed interest in making a comeback, while looking for good offers and continuing to appear in interviews and TV shows such as Bigg Boss.

Early life

Mirza Abbas Ali was born into a Tamil speaking Muslim family on 21 May 1975 in Howrah, a twin city of Kolkata. Abbas revealed that he went through a phase of being a troubled teenager.

He has also stated that his first goal was to become an Air Force pilot. However, he wasn't successful in clearing the entrance examination for the National Defence Academy (India), which is the premier training institute for the Indian Armed Forces. After his dream of becoming an Air Force pilot didn't materialize