Salim Ghaza, Syrian-born Lebanese Melkite Catholic hierarch, Curial bishop of Antioch for Melkites (2001–2005) died he was , 79.

Salim Ghazal  was a bishop in the Melkite Greek Catholic Church died he was , 79. . He was the auxiliary bishop of the Patriarchate of Antioch from 2001-2005.

(July 7, 1931 – April 29, 2011)

Biography

Ghazal was born in Machghara, Lebanon.^[1] He was ordained a priest in the Arrouhbaniat Albassiliat Almoukhalissiat (Order of the Savior, also known as the Basilian Salvatorian Order) on June 22, 1958.^[2] In 1962 Father Ghazal was assigned to an area near Sidon, Lebanon. There he was involved in inter-religious cooperation as a religion teacher to both Christian and Muslim students. He arranged with the sheikh who was leading the Islam classes to learn and teach each other’s material.^[3]
In 1990 Ghazal and like-minded Muslims and Christians founded the Center for Dialogue and Development. The center sponsors symposiums, lectures, conferences and weekly discussion groups to encourage inter-religious cooperation. The organization also supports a retirement home, works with Habitat for Humanity to offer no-profit homeownership loans and offers computer training and Internet access.
Ghazal served as Apostolic Administrator of Saïdā (Lebanon) from 1985–1987. He was the Superior General of the Basilian Salvatorian Order from July 17, 1995 to June 22, 2001.^[1]
On June 22, 2001 Ghazal was named Titular Bishop of Edessa in Osrhoëne and Auxiliary Bishop of the Patriarchate of Antioch in Syria. He was ordained a bishop on August 5, 2001 by Patriarch Grégoire III Laham, B.S. The principal co-consecrators were Archbishops Georges Kwaïter, B.S. of the Archeparchy of Saida and Jean Mansour, S.M.S.P., Auxiliary Bishop of the Patriarchate of Antiochia.^[2]
From 2001 to 2006 Bishop Ghazal served as Bishop of the Melkite Curia.^[1] In 2001 Bishop Ghazal became the first national chairman for Habitat for Humanity Lebanon.^[3] His resignation as auxiliary bishop was accepted on April 14, 2005. He received the Pacem in Terris Peace and Freedom Award in 2007 for his 50 year commitment to Muslim-Christian dialogue.^[

 

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Abdul Hameed, Pakistani writer and novelist died he was , 83.

Abdul Hameed was a popular Urdu fiction writer from Lahore, Pakistan who wrote over 200 books died he was , 83..

( 1928 – 29 April 2011) 
Hameed was born in 1928 in Amritsar British India. He passed his secondary education in Amritsar. He migrated to Pakistan after partition and passed intermediate in Pakistan as a private candidate and join Radio Pakistan as assistant script editor. After working some year for Radio Pakistan he joined Voice of America.
Manzil's first collection of short stories received popular acclaim and made him a recognized romantic short story writer. Apart from writing short stories and novels he wrote columns for national news papers. He also wrote for radio and television.
He has written more than 200 books. Urdu She'r Ki Dastan, Urdu Nasr ki Dastan (in which he has given information about the prose literature of many Urdu prose writers from Banda Nawas gesu Draz to the recent prose writers of Daccen and Gugrat), Mirza Ghalib, Dastango Ashfaq Ahmad and Mirza Ghalib Lahore mai are his most famous books.
His drama Ainak Wala Jin was popular with children in the 1990s. Moreover his fantasy series of 100 novels for children known as AMBAR NAAG MARIA Series was a real fame for him.
Hameed died on 29 April 2011 at the age of 83.^[1]

 

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Jeff Kargola, American freestyle motocross rider, died from a race accident he was , 27.

 Jeff 'Ox' Kargola  was an American professional Freestyle Motocross (FMX) rider died from a race accident he was , 27..

(November 29, 1983–April 29, 2011)

He was a member of the Metal Mulisha FMX team. His career was highlighted by a silver medal in the Men's Best Trick competition at the 2005 Winter X Games. Kargola died on April 29, 2011, after sustaining a head injury and internal bleeding on the second day of the Desert Assassins' Rip to the Tip motocross event in Baja, California.

 

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Vladimir Krainev, Russian pianist, People's Artist of the USSR, died from a aortic aneurysm he was , 67.

Vladimir Krainev was a Russian pianist and professor of piano, People's Artist of the USSR died from a aortic aneurysm he was , 67..

(April 1, 1944 – April 29, 2011)

Biography

Krainev was born in Krasnoyarsk, the son of musician Vsevolod Krainev and pediatrician Rachil Gerschoig.
He studied at the Central School of the Moscow Conservatory in the class of Anaida Sumbatyan, and also studied at the Conservatory in the classes of Heinrich Neuhaus, and his son, Stanislav Neuhaus.
After winning second prize at the Leeds International Piano Competition and first prize at the Vianna da Motta International Music Competition (ex-aequo with Nelson Freire), and especially after his brilliant victory at the ninth International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow (1970), his career as a pianist began.
He performed with some of the world's leading orchestras and conductors, and collaborated with renowned artists throughout the world. Alfred Schnittke dedicated one of his piano concertos to him. International music festivals known as "The Invitation of Vladimir Krainev" were held each year in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan, and concerts called "Vladimir Krainev: his Friends and Pupils" were given annually at the Moscow Conservatory. Krainev was a jury member of many international piano competitions, for instance: Leeds, Lisbon, and Tokyo, as well as the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.
Vladimir Krainev was a professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hanover, Germany, where 29 young pianists from the People's Republic of China, France, Germany, Korea, Russia, Ukraine, and other countries studied with him. Among his students were Katia Skanavi, Vladimir Sverdlov, Igor Tchetuev, Aglika Genova and Liuben Dimitrov, Pascal Godart, Alexandre Moutouzkine, Irma Issakadze, Denys Proshayev, Hisako Kawamura, Dong-Min Lim, Ilya Rashkovsky, and Mariya Kim. In 1992, Krainev organized the first international competition of young pianists in Kharkiv, Ukraine. The competition is broadcast on radio and television.
In 1994, Krainev established the Vladimir Krainev International Fund for Young Pianists.
He lived in Hanover, Germany, and was married to Tatiana Tarasova, a renowned figure skating coach, who trained the winners of nine Olympic gold medals.[1]
On April 29, 2011, Krainev died in his house in Hanover, aged 67.

 

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David Mason, British trumpeter, played trumpet solo on "Penny Lane", died from leukemia he was , 85.

David Mason  was an English orchestral, solo and session trumpet player died from leukemia he was , 85.. Despite his long career, he was probably best known for playing the piccolo trumpet solo on The Beatles' song, "Penny Lane".

(1926 – 29 April 2011)

Career

Mason was born in London,^[1] and educated at Christ's Hospital and the Royal College of Music where he studied with Ernest Hall. His early playing career benefited from the timing of the Second World War: as a sixteen-year-old he was ineligible for callup where many older players had already been recruited, and was thus able to pick up a lot of work in London before and during his time as a student at the Royal College of Music, which was itself interrupted by his own callup into the Band of the Scots Guards. Before callup he was the youngest member of the then National Symphony Orchestra.

After leaving the Royal College of Music, Mason became a member of the orchestra of the Royal Opera House, moving on later to the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra where he eventually became principal trumpet. After seven years in that role he moved to the Philharmonia, where he remained for most of the rest of his orchestral career. He was a professor of trumpet at the Royal College of Music for thirty years and thus taught many of the trumpet players who now make up the core of the profession in the UK.^[3]
The Royal College of Music has awarded a David Mason Prize for Orchestral Trumpet Playing.^{[citation needed]}
Mason was the flugelhorn soloist for the world premiere of Ralph Vaughan Williams's Symphony No. 9 on 2 April 1958. The novelty of the flugelhorn (often seen as a jazz or brass band instrument) being used in such a significant mainstream classical work attracted much press comment at the time, perhaps to the detriment of the symphony's overall coverage and consideration.^[3]

"Penny Lane"

On 17 January 1967 at Abbey Road Studios Mason recorded the piccolo trumpet solo which is a prominent part of The Beatles' song "Penny Lane".^[4] The solo, inspired by Mason's performance of Bach's 2nd Brandenburg Concerto with the English Chamber Orchestra,^[5] is in a mock-Baroque style for which the piccolo trumpet (a small instrument built about one octave higher than the standard instrument) is particularly suited, having a clean and clear sound which penetrates well through thicker midrange textures.^[6] Mason recorded the solo using a piccolo trumpet in A (this uses a slightly longer leadpipe than the piccolo trumpet in B-flat, which itself is exactly an octave higher than standard trumpets).^[7] Although such piccolo trumpet solos became almost commonplace in some types of pop, this was seen as innovative at the time and was among the first such uses: George Martin later wrote, "The result was unique, something which had never been done in rock music before".^[8]
Mason also contributed to several other Beatles’ songs, including A Day in the Life; Magical Mystery Tour and All You Need Is Love.^[9]

Death

Mason died of leukaemia in April 2011, at the age of 85.

 

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Siamak Pourzand Iranian journalist and dissident, committed suicide by jumping he was , 79,.

Siamak Pourzand  was an Iranian journalist and film critic committed suicide by jumping he was , 79,.. He was the manager of the Majmue-ye Farrhangi-ye Honari-ye Tehran—a cultural center for writers, artists, and intellectuals—and wrote cultural commentary for several reformist newspapers later shut down by the Iranian government. In 2001, he was imprisoned for his articles critical of Iranian leadership, a move condemned by numerous human rights and journalism organizations.

(September 1931–April 29, 2011)

Journalistic career

Siamak Pourzand began his career in journalism with the newspaper newspaper Bakhtar Emroz in 1952.^[4] In the 1960s and 70s, Pourzand served as an American correspondent for the newspaper 'Keyhan. ^[5] His notable assignments included covering the funeral of John F. Kennedy as well as interviewing Richard Nixon. He also reported on Hollywood and became one of Iran's "best known film critics", writing for the French film journal Cahiers du cinéma.^[5]
Following the 1979 Iranian Revolution, however, Pourzand lost his job at Keyhan and began working at trade journals. Pourzand was reportedly "secular to the core" and viewed the new rulers of the Islamic Republic with suspicion.^[6] In the late 1990s, he began to write a series of articles critical to the government, placing them in opposition newspapers. Among them was a piece on the funerals of Dariush and Parvaneh Eskandari Forouhar, victims of Iran's 1998 "Chain Murders", in which a series of prominent dissidents were murdered in their homes by members of Iran's intelligence agency.^[6] Pourzand also reported the funeral live by telephone for a Los Angeles-based radio station.^[5]

Arrest and trial

In 2000, Pourzand's wife Mehrangiz Kar, also a critic of the Iranian government, was arrested for her participation in a conference at Berlin's Heinrich Böll Foundation titled "Iran after the elections," at which various reform proposals were debated;^[1] she ultimately served a 52-day prison term.^[7] Pourzand's own arrest soon followed. On 29 November 2001, days after reportedly seeing men following him on motorcycles,^[6] Pourzand was forcibly disappeared by members of the Amaken, agents of Committee for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prohibition of Vice, shortly after leaving his sister's apartment.^[3] On 7 December, one of his sisters was requested by government officials to bring him a change of clothes, but was reportedly told that his whereabouts were "none of her business".^[2]
On 9 March 2002, the government-run newspaper Iran Daily announced that Pourzand would be facing trial.^[3] Immediately before the trial, Pourzand's daughter reported that her father had called her in the United States to say that the family should "treat him as if he were dead".^[3] According to Iran Daily, Pourzand confessed to nine charges, including working for the state security forces of the former Shah and maintaining contact with the Shah's son, Reza Pahlavi, overseas.^[7] His trial was closed to the public, and he was reportedly denied access to his own legal representation.^[3] He was ultimately sentenced to eleven years' imprisonment and a flogging of seventy-four lashes. Amnesty International reported that the group believed him to have been "ill-treated" during his interrogation and called for his release as a prisoner of conscience.^[2] Human Rights Watch similarly denounced the trial as a "mockery of the law", and "of a pattern of repression against reformist and independent figures that has gathered momentum since February's 2000 parliamentary elections".^[3]

Imprisonment

Pourzand appealed his sentence, but it was upheld by the Tehran Appeals Court on 9 July 2002. In a confession on Iranian television broadcast a week later, Pourzand confessed to charges including "having links with monarchists and counter-revolutionaries", "spying and undermining state security" and "creating disillusionment among young people".^[2] Amnesty International reported that he looked "frail" and "seemed to have lost at least 30 kg".^[2] At around this time, Pourzand tried to hang himself with his belt, but failed.^[6]
He was briefly released from prison on health reasons in November 2002, and stayed with his sister for several months before being brought to Evin prison in March 2003. After reportedly refusing the demands of Amaken agents to implicate other dissident figures, he was kept at the prison.^[2] At this time, he began to suffer from spinal stenosis and became unable to walk.
In March 2004, Pourzand suffered a severe heart attack, following which prison officials allegedly delayed treating him until another prisoner demanded that they do so.^[2] In 2006, in light of his ongoing health issues, Pourzand was transferred to house arrest.^[6]

Suicide and funeral

Pourzand died on 29 April 2011.^[8] According to his daughters, he committed suicide by jumping from the sixth-story balcony of his apartment in Tehran.^[9] His daughter, Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi, stated after his death that "He leapt to his own death to prove his disgust for a regime that is inhumane and un-Iranian”, while another daughter, Azadeh Pourzand, commented that “I would like to think of his death as a way for him to finally find freedom”.^[5] Banafsheh also alleged that state security forces continued to threaten the family by telephone, saying "Now that we’re rid of your father... don’t go thinking you can fill his place. We know how to deal with you and the rest of your family."^[6] The journalist-protection organization Reporters Without Borders issued a press release mourning Pourzand's passing and calling the Iranian government "responsible for Siamak Pourzand’s death".^[4] Leili and Azadeh Pourzand appeared on the Voice of America's Persian program Parazit, explaining how they found about their father's death.^[10]
The Telegraph reported that Iranian authorities initially refused to hand over Pourzand's body to his family for burial, imposed restrictions on the eulogies at his funeral, and confiscated the cell phones and cameras of reporters.^[6]

Family

Pourzand's wife Mehrangiz Kar is an internationally noted feminist and winner of National Endowment for Democracy's Democracy award.^[11][12]
Pourzand was a first cousin of Persian poet Ahmad Shamlou on his mother's side.^[8]

 

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Joanna Russ, American science fiction author, died following a series of strokes she was , 74.

Joanna Russ  was an American writer, academic and feminist. She is the author of a number of works of science fiction, fantasy and feminist literary criticism such as How to Suppress Women's Writing, as well as a contemporary novel, On Strike Against God, and one children's book, Kittatinny died following a series of strokes she was , 74.. She is best known for The Female Man, a novel combining utopian fiction and satire. It used the device of parallel worlds to consider the ways that different societies might produce very different versions of the same person, and how all might interact and respond to sexism.

(February 22, 1937 – April 29, 2011)

Background

Russ was born in New York City^[1] to teachers Evarett I. and Bertha Zinner Russis. She began creating works of fiction at a very early age. Over the following years she filled countless notebooks with stories, poems, comics and illustrations, often hand-binding the material with thread.^[2]
Russ graduated from Cornell University, where she studied with Vladimir Nabokov^[3] in 1957, and received her MFA from the Yale Drama School in 1960. After teaching at several universities, including Cornell, she became a full professor at the University of Washington.^[4]

Science fiction and other writing

Russ came to be noticed in the science fiction world in the late 1960s, ^[5] in particular for her award-nominated novel Picnic on Paradise.^[6] At the time, SF was a field dominated by male authors, writing for a predominantly male audience, but women were starting to enter the field in larger numbers.^[5] Russ, who became openly lesbian^[7] later in life, was one of the most outspoken authors to challenge male dominance of the field, and is generally regarded as one of the leading feminist science fiction scholars and writers.^[5] She was also one of the first major science fiction writers to take slash fiction and its cultural and literary implications seriously.^[8]
Along with her work as a writer of prose fiction, Russ was also a playwright, essayist, and author of nonfiction works such as the essay collection Magic Mommas, Trembling Sisters, Puritans & Perverts and the book-length study of modern feminism, What Are We Fighting For?. (She was a self-described socialist feminist, and expressed particular admiration for the work and theories of Clara Fraser and her Freedom Socialist Party.^[9])
For nearly 15 years she was an influential (if intermittent) review columnist for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.^[10] Although not an active member of science fiction fandom, she was interviewed by phone during Wiscon (the feminist science fiction convention in Madison, Wisconsin) in 2006 by Samuel R. Delany.^[11]
Russ won a 1972 Nebula Award for her short story "When It Changed" and a 1983 Hugo Award for her novella "Souls." Her fiction has been nominated for nine Nebula and three Hugo Awards, and her genre-related scholarly work was recognized with a Pilgrim Award in 1988.^[6] Her story "The Autobiography of My Mother" was one of the 1977 O. Henry Prize stories.^[12]

Reputation and legacy

Her work is widely taught in courses on science fiction and feminism throughout the English speaking world. Russ is the subject of Farah Mendlesohn's book On Joanna Russ and Jeanne Cortiel's Demand My Writing: Joanna Russ, Feminism, Science Fiction.^[12] Russ and her work are prominently featured in Sarah LeFanu's Chinks in the World Machine: Feminism and Science Fiction (1988).

Health problems

In her later life she published little, largely due to chronic back pain and chronic fatigue syndrome.^[13]
On April 27 2011, it was reported that Russ had been admitted to a hospice after suffering a series of strokes. Samuel R. Delany was quoted as saying that Russ was “slipping away” and had long had a “Do Not Resuscitate” order on file.^[14] She died early in the morning on April 29, 2011.^{[15][16][17][18] [19]}

Selected bibliography

Novels Picnic on Paradise (1968) And Chaos Died (1970) The Female Man (1975) We Who Are About To... (1977) The Two of Them (1978) On Strike Against God (1980) (novella) Short fiction collections The Adventures of Alyx (1976) (includes Picnic on Paradise) The Zanzibar Cat (1983) (Extra)ordinary People (1985) The Hidden Side of the Moon (1987)

Children's fiction Kittatinny: A Tale of Magic (1978) Play "Window Dressing" in The New Women's Theatre edited by Honor Moore. New York, Random House (1977) Nonfiction collections Speculations on the Subjunctivity of Science Fiction (1973) Somebody's Trying to Kill Me and I Think It's My Husband: The Modern Gothic (1973) How to Suppress Women's Writing (1983) Magic Mommas, Trembling Sisters, Puritans and Perverts: Feminist Essays (1985) To Write Like a Woman (1995) What Are We Fighting For?: Sex, Race, Class, and the Future of Feminism (1997) The Country You Have Never Seen (2007)

 

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