Gene McDaniels, American singer-songwriter died he was , 76.

Gene McDaniels  was an American singer and songwriter, who had his greatest recording success in the early 1960s.

(February 12, 1935 – July 29, 2011)

Biography

Born Eugene Booker McDaniels in Kansas City, Missouri, United States,^[1] McDaniels grew up in Omaha, Nebraska. As well as singing gospel music in church, he developed a love of jazz, and learned to play the saxophone and trumpet. After forming a singing group, the Echoes of Joy, later known as the Sultans, in his teens, he studied at the University of Omaha Conservatory of Music before joining the Mississippi Piney Woods Singers, with whom he toured in California. There, he began singing in jazz clubs, and came to the attention of Sy Waronker of Liberty Records.^[2][3]
After recording two unsuccessful singles and an album, he was teamed with producer Snuff Garrett, with whom he recorded his first hit, "A Hundred Pounds of Clay," which reached no. 3 in the Billboard Hot 100 chart in early 1961 and sold over one million copies, earning gold disc status.^[1] Its follow-up, "A Tear", was less successful but his third single with Garrett, "Tower of Strength," co-written by Burt Bacharach, reached no. 5 and won McDaniels his second gold record.^[2] "Tower of Strength" reached #49 in the UK Singles Chart, losing out to Frankie Vaughan's chart-topping version.^[4]
In 1962 he appeared performing in the movie, It's Trad, Dad!, directed by Richard Lester. He continued to have minor hit records, including "Chip Chip", "Point Of No Return" and "Spanish Lace" each in 1962, but his suave style of singing gradually became less fashionable. In 1965 he moved to Columbia Records, with little success, and in 1968, after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, he left the US to live in Denmark and Sweden, where he concentrated on songwriting. He returned to the US in 1971, and recorded thereafter as Eugene McDaniels.^[2]
After the late 1960s, McDaniels turned his attention to a more black consciousness form, and his best-known song in this genre was "Compared to What," a jazz-soul protest song made famous (and into a hit) by Les McCann and Eddie Harris on their album, Swiss Movement, and also covered by Roberta Flack, Ray Charles, Della Reese, John Legend, The Roots and others.^[3] McDaniels also attained the top spot on the chart as a songwriter. In 1974, Roberta Flack reached #1 with McDaniels' "Feel Like Makin' Love" (not to be confused with the Bad Company song of the same name), which won a Grammy Award. McDaniels also received a BMI award for outstanding radio airplay; at the time of the award, the song had already had over five million plays.
In the early 1970s, McDaniels recorded on the Atlantic label, which released the McDaniels albums, Headless Heroes of the Apocalypse and Outlaw.
In the 1980s, McDaniels recorded an album with the percussionist Terry Silverlight, which has not yet been released. In 2005, McDaniels released Screams & Whispers on his own record label. In 2009, it was announced that he is to release a new album, Evolution's Child, which featured his lyrics, and a number of songs composed or arranged with pianist Ted Brancato. Some of the songs featured jazz musician Ron Carter on concert bass.
McDaniel's "Jagger the Dagger" was featured on the Tribe Vibes breakbeat compilation album, after it had been sampled by A Tribe Called Quest.
McDaniels also appeared in films. They included the 1962 film, It's Trad, Dad!, (released in the United States as Ring-A-Ding Rhythm), which was directed by Richard Lester. He also appeared in 1963's The Young Swingers. McDaniels is briefly seen singing in the choir in the 1974 film, Uptown Saturday Night.
McDaniels lived as a self-described "hermit" in the state of Maine. In 2010, he launched series of YouTube videos on his website, featuring his music and thoughts on some of his creations.
McDaniels died on July 29, 2011 at his home.^[5]

Discography

Studio albums

• In Times Like These - Liberty (1960)
• Sometimes I'm Happy, Sometimes I'm Blue - Liberty (1960)
• A Hundred Pounds Of Clay - Liberty (1961)
• Gene McDaniels Sings Movie Memories - Liberty (1962)
• Hit After Hit - Liberty (1962)
• Tower Of Strength - Liberty (1962)
• Spanish Lace - Liberty (1963)
• The Wonderful Word Of Gene McDaniels - Liberty (1963)
• Outlaw - Atlantic (1970)
• Headless Heroes of the Apocalypse - Atlantic (1971)
• Natural Juices - Ode (1975)
• Screams & Whispers - Sky Forest Music (2005)

Produced by Eugene McDaniels

• The First Time - Carri Coltrane, 1999
• Flamenco Sketches - Carri Coltrane, 1998

Chart singles

Year	Single	Chart Positions
		US Pop[6]	US R&B[7]	UK[8]
1961	"A Hundred Pounds of Clay"	3	11	-
	"A Tear"	31	-	-
	"Tower of Strength"	5	5	49
1962	"Chip Chip"	10	-	-
	"Funny"	99	-	-
	"Point of No Return"	21	23	-
	"Spanish Lace"	31	-	-
1963	"It's A Lonely Town"	64	-	-
1972	"River" as Universal Jones	115	-	-

Filmography

• It's Trad, Dad! (a.k.a. Ring-A-Ding Rhythm, 1962)
• The Young Swingers (1963)

 

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John Edward Anderson, American businessman and philanthropist, died from pneumonia he was , 93.

John Edward Anderson was the president and sole shareholder of Topa Equities, Ltd. Anderson oversaw more than 40 wholly owned subsidiaries in diverse industries such as agriculture, automotive dealerships, insurance, real estate, oil, and wholesale beverage distribution. In 2006, he was ranked #189 on the Forbes Magazine list of the 400 richest Americans, with a net worth of $1.9 billion.^[2] He made charitable donations to the University of California, Los Angeles, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, and other Southern California educational institutions during his lifetime.^[3] Anderson died from pneumonia at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.

(September 12, 1917 – July 29, 2011)

Early years

Anderson was born on September 12, 1917 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.^[3] He was the son of a barber.^[4] Anderson was the valedictorian of his high school class.^[4] Anderson also earned the rank of Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America in 1931.^[5][6] He attended UCLA from 1936 to 1940, playing on the ice hockey team,^[7] and graduating Phi Beta Kappa with a bachelor's degree in business administration.^[8] While at UCLA, he was a member of the fraternity Beta Theta Pi.^[9] He then attended Harvard Business School on scholarship, graduating with a MBA after World War II had broken out.^[4] While at Harvard, he was a George Fisher Baker Scholar.^[10] Anderson entered the military on the staff of an admiral, and passed his CPA exam while in the Navy.^[4] Anderson continued his education after the war, earning his JD from Loyola Law School in 1950.^[10][11] He graduated first in his class at Loyola, and was offered a full-time teaching position.^[4] For the next 25 years, Anderson taught at the law school in mornings and evenings while he worked at his law firm.^[4]

Family life

In 1942, Anderson married his UCLA sweetheart, Margaret Stewart, and they had five children.^[4] Margaret died of cancer in 1965, and he married his current wife Marion in 1967.^[4] His daughter Debbie died at the age of seventeen in a car accident in 1969.^[4] Anderson's son John, Jr. is an executive vice presidents in Topa Equities, Ltd., his daughter Judith manages the agricultural ranch in Ojai, California. His sons also manage the family's beverage distribution and automotive businesses. He resided in the East Gate Bel Air section of Los Angeles, California.^[2][12] Anderson has 15 grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren.^[4] His wife Marion runs the Marion & John E. Anderson Foundation charity.^[4]

Business life

Anderson was the founding partner of Kindel & Anderson law firm in 1953.^[9][11] On April 1, 1956, Anderson founded Ace Beverage Co. with exclusive rights to distribute Budweiser in Los Angeles, California.^[2] In 1980, he founded Topa Properties, Ltd., which owns a sizeable amount of property in the US Virgin Islands.^[13] His portfolio included 4,000,000 square feet (370,000 m²) of commercial property and 4,500 residential units.^[2] He was a chairman of the YMCA of Metropolitan Los Angeles, a trustee and former president of Saint John's Hospital and Health Center Foundation and trustee of Claremont McKenna College.^[8][10] Anderson was on the Board of Visitors at the Anderson School of Management, which is named after him.^[14] Anderson also taught several business courses at UCLA.^[8]

Philanthropy

Among his charitable endeavors, Anderson and his wife Marion donated more than $50 million for the construction of a new building for Children's Hospital Los Angeles, where Marion Anderson is a board member. Beginning in 1987, the Andersons donated $42 million to the University of California, Los Angeles.^[15] The UCLA Graduate School of Management was later renamed the John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management.

Awards

• 1985 — Distinguished Service Award, Loyola Law School^[10]
• 1987 — UCLA Graduate School of Management was renamed the John E. Anderson School of Management after he donated $15 million^[16]
• 1987 — Southern California Entrepreneur of the Year^[10]
• 1988 — Outstanding Individual Philanthropist on National Philanthropy Day^[10]
• 1995 — UCLA Alumnus of the Year^[10]
• 1995 — UCLA Medal^[10]
• 2002 — Master Entrepreneur of the Year^[10]
• 2002 — John E. Anderson Distinguished Alumnus Award, UCLA John E. Anderson School of Management^[10]
• 2003 — Business Person of the year, Business Hall of Fame^[10]
• 2004 — Humanitarian Award, National Conference for Community and Justice^[8]
• Unk — Distinguished Eagle Scout Award

·         Elazar Abuhatzeira (9 August 1948 – 29 July 2011) was an Orthodox Sefardi rabbi and kabbalist, known among his followers as the "Baba Elazar."

·         He was born in Rissani, Morocco to Meir and Simcha Abuhatzeira, was the grandson of the Baba Sali, Rabbi Yisrael Abuhatzeira, and the brother of Rabbi David Chai Abuhatzeira of Nahariya.

·         He made aliyah to Israel in 1966, remaining in Beersheba, where he ran a yeshiva.

·         Abuhatzeira was known for his work and influence with business and political leaders, as well as his study of Kabbalah. Abuhatzeira, who had studied at Porat Yosef Yeshiva, had a following as a spiritual leader.

·         He was one of Israel's leading kabbalists, and appeared in a list of the country's wealthiest people, with estimated assets of $80 million in 2011.^[1]

·         Abuhatzeira was known for wearing a cloak whose long hood covered most of his face, reportedly so he would not see any "immodest images of women". He had a tunnel dug between his home in Beersheba and the yeshiva he headed, where he received believers.^[2][3]

Fraud and tax evasion claims

·         In 1997, a investigation by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz led by the journalist Yossi Bar-Moha, linked several incidents of corruption to Abuhatzeira. The articles further claimed that Abuhatzeira tried to impress people, persuaded them to pay him in exchange for a blessing, and threatened them with a curse if necessary. ^[4] The 1997 report claimed that Abuhatzeira had sold land designated for a religious girls school instead of building the school, and was evading property tax in Beer Sheva.^[5] Bar-Moha discovered that the Rabbi's bank account contained NIS 250 million in gifts and contributions.^[6]

·         The articles prompted a police investigation against Abuhatzeira. In 2003, Abuhatzeira was ordered to pay NIS 100 million to the Israeli Income tax on money he received from followers, but in the end reached settlement to pay NIS 20 million to charitable organizations.^[7][8]

·         By 2004, Bar Moha claimed that the Rabbi's income had grown to NIS 500 million (USD 141 million in 2004 values), and he filed a joint petition with the Progressive Judaism Movement to the Israeli Supreme Court, demanding the tax settlement to be cancelled. The petition has been dismissed. ^[6]

·         In 2009, a man was indicted for threatening to kill Abuhatzeira, claiming that the rabbi made him a medical promise that hadn't come true.^[1]

·         In 2010 Rabbi Abuhatzeira has been accused by New York Jews of charging hundreds of thousands of dollars in exchange promised miracles that never came to fruition ^[4] Yossi Bar Moha, the journalist who investigated the Rabbi in 1997, claimed that "Elazar Abuhatzeira is a charlatan, con man and impostor who takes advantage of people's innocence, exploits them and brings to the verge of poverty". One of the students of the Rabbi defended him, saying that the Rabbi is humble and modest, and would never do such a thing.^[5] Other disciples acknowledge that the rabbi was wealthy, but insisted he used his wealth for the poor, citing, for instance, a huge house owned by the rabbi which included a soup kitchen where hundreds of poor people were fed on a daily basis.^[1]

·         Due to investigation by the prosecutor in Brooklyn, New York, Abuhatzeira stopped traveling to the United States. ^[1]

Death

·         Elazar Abuhatzeira was murdered on 28 July 2011 in his Beersheba yeshiva, while hosting guests for consultation. According to an initial police investigation, the rabbi was stabbed in the upper body after receiving the killer for a private audience. The attacker, 42-year old Asher Dahan of El'ad, was said to have been unhappy with marital advice the rabbi had given him. Dahan stabbed Abuhatzeira in the upper body before being subdued by his students, who handed him over to police. Magen David Adom personnel attempted to recuscitate him before rushing him by ambulance to Soroka Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.^[3][9]

·         Abuhatzeira's funeral was held in Jerusalem on 29 July, and the rabbi was buried on the Mount of Olives. The funeral was attended by tens of thousands of people, including Israel's chief rabbis, haredi ministers, and Knesset members. Euologies were delivered at the Porat Yosef Yeshiva and the Jerusalem neighborhood of Geula.^[10]

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Sam Norkin, American caricaturist and illustrator died he was , 94.

Sam Norkin  was a Brooklyn, New York-born cartoonist who specialized in theater caricatures for more than seven decades. His drawings of theater, opera, ballet and film celebrities appeared in Variety, Back Stage, The Philadelphia Enquirer, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe and many other publications.
Norkin learned composition and anatomy from the muralist Mordi Gassner. He received a scholarship to the Metropolitan Art School after his high school graduation, and he later attended Cooper Union, the Brooklyn Museum Art School and the School of Fine and Industrial Art. During the 1940s, newspaper editors wanted to devote more space to new theatrical productions, but photo opportunities usually did not happen until a show opened. Norkin took advantage of the situation and gained access to rehearsals, performers, costume sketches, fittings and scenic designs, providing editors with illustrations prior to an opening.^[1]
From 1940 to 1956, his theatrical illustrations were a regular feature in the New York Herald Tribune. Then for the next 26 years, he covered the performing arts for the Daily News. Since 1940, Norkin has had more than 4000 drawings published.
When he began doing theatrical caricature, he supplied his own captions, which eventually prompted him to write articles and reviews. He was an art critic for the Carnegie Hall house program and a cultural reporter for the Daily News.

(January 10, 1917 – July 30, 2011)

Books

Norkin's theater reminiscences and 266 drawings came together in the book Sam Norkin, Drawings, Stories (Heinemann, 1994), which was reviewed by David Barbour:

A Norkin caricature is often densely packed with detail and may feature a great deal of solid black space. He also is more daring in his drafting; many of his pieces, in particular one from the Broadway production of The Phantom of the Opera, feature steeply raked lines which plunge vertiginously from top to bottom, to highly dramatic effect. On the other hand, many of Norkin's effects border on the surreal. His version of Michael Jeter and Jane Krakowski in Grand Hotel depicts the pair as a series of interrlated curves; Jeter, in particular, looks like a machine that you crank up and let loose on stage. His version of Constance Cummings as a stroke victim in Wings, uses cruelly sharp angles to create a Cubist deconstruction of the actress's face and limbs, which mirrors the disintegration of the character's mental functions. Norkin offers a wide-ranging collection of his works... He also showscases actors at different points in their careers (as in a trio of portraits of John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson) and different takes on different productions (he gives us a number of Salomes from the Metropolitan and New York City Operas).^[2]

Exhibitions

Artwork by Norkin has been exhibited in the Lincoln Center Library and Museum of the Performing Arts, the Museum of the City of New York, the Metropolitan Opera House, the Hudson River Museum in (Yonkers, New York) and various galleries.

Awards

In 1942, Sam Norkin drew Joan Roberts, who was then starring on Broadway in Oklahoma!.

Various awards received over the years by Norkin include an award for "Outstanding Theater Art" from the League of American Theatres and Producers. (1980) and an award for “Lifetime Body of Work” (1995) from the Drama Desk, the association of drama critics, drama editors and drama reporters. He received two awards from the National Cartoonists Society, the Special Features Award (1980) and the Silver T-Square Award (1984).^[3]

 

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Daniel D. McCracken, American computer scientist, died from cancer he was , 81

Daniel D. McCracken  was a computer scientist in the United States. He was a Professor of Computer Sciences at the City College of New York, and the author of over two dozen textbooks on computer programming. His A Guide to Fortran Programming (Wiley, 1961) and its successors were the standard textbooks on that language for over two decades. His books have been translated into fourteen languages.

(July 23, 1930 – July 30, 2011)

Career

McCracken was born in 1930 in Hughesville, Judith Basin County, Montana, a mining town, and graduated in 1951 from Central Washington University with degrees in mathematics and chemistry. He worked seven years with the General Electric Company in computer applications and programmer training. After that, he worked at the New York University Atomic Energy Commission Computer Center, and was a graduate student at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. In 1959 he became a consultant and continued writing on computer subjects. In 1970 he earned a Master of Divinity degree from the Union Theological Seminary in New York.^[1]
From 1976-78, he was vice president of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), from 1978-80 he was president of the ACM, and in 1994 he was inducted as a Fellow of ACM. He joined the City College of New York Computer Sciences Department in 1981. In 1989 he received the Norbert Weiner Award for Social and Professional Responsibility from Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility and is an honorary member of the Golden Key International Honour Society.^[2]

Death

McCracken died of cancer a week after his 81st birthday on July 30, 2011 in New York City. He was survived by his second wife, Helen Blumenthal, seven children, nine grandchildren, and two great-grand children. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Evelyn Edwards, three brothers and two sisters.^[1][3]

Books

• McCracken, Daniel D. (1957). Digital Computer Programming (1 ed.). Wiley.
• McCracken, Daniel D.; Harold Weiss, Tsai H. Lee (1959). Programming Business Computers (1 ed.). Wiley. ISBN B000MFMTLG.
• McCracken, Daniel D. (1961). A Guide to Fortran Programming (1 ed.). Wiley. ISBN B0000EGLDD.
• McCracken, Daniel D. (1962). A Guide to Algol Programming (1 ed.). Wiley.
• McCracken, Daniel D. (1962). A Guide to IBM 1401 Programming (1 ed.). Wiley.
• McCracken, Daniel D. (1963). A Guide to Cobol Programming (1 ed.). Wiley.
• McCracken, Daniel D.; Fred J. Gruenberger (1963). Introduction to Electronic Computing (1 ed.). Wiley.
• McCracken, Daniel D.; William S. Dorn (1964). Numerical Methods and Fortran Programming (1 ed.). Wiley.
• McCracken, Daniel D. (1965). A Programmer’s Introduction to the IBM System/360 Architecture, Instructions, and Assembler Language (1 ed.). IBM.
• McCracken, Daniel D. (1966). A Guide to Fortran IV Programming (1 ed.). Wiley. ISBN B000GSBIIE.
• McCracken, Daniel D. (1967). Fortran with Engineering Applications (1 ed.). Wiley.
• McCracken, Daniel D.; Umberto Garbassi (1970). A Guide to Cobol Programming (2 ed.). Wiley. ISBN 978-0471582441.
• McCracken, Daniel D. (1972). To Love or to Perish: The Technological Crisis and the Churches. J. Edward Carothers, Margaret Mead, Roger L. Shinn (eds.) (1 ed.). Friendship Press.
• McCracken, Daniel D.; William S. Dorn (1972). Numerical Methods with Fortran IV Case Studies (1 ed.). Wiley.
• McCracken, Daniel D. (1974). A Simplified Guide to Fortran Programming (1 ed.). Wiley.
• McCracken, Daniel D. (1976). A Simplified Guide to Structured Cobol Programming (1 ed.). Wiley.
• McCracken, Daniel D.; William S. Dorn (1976). Introductory Finite Mathematics with Computing (1 ed.). Wiley.
• McCracken, Daniel D. (1978). A Guide to PL/M for Microcomputer Applications (1 ed.). Addison-Wesley.
• McCracken, Daniel D. (1981). A Guide to Nomad for Applications Development (1 ed.). Addison-Wesley.
• McCracken, Daniel D. (1984). Computing for Engineers and Scientists with Fortran 77 (1 ed.). Wiley.
• McCracken, Daniel D. (1986). A Second Course in Computer Science with Pascal (1 ed.). Wiley. ISBN B001NBX18S.
• McCracken, Daniel D.; William I. Salmon (1987). A Second Course in Computer Science with Modula-2 [data structures] (1 ed.). Wiley.
• McCracken, Daniel D.; William I. Salmon (1988). Computing for Engineers and Scientists with Fortran 77 (2 ed.). Wiley. ISBN 978-0471625520.
• McCracken, Daniel D.; Donald G. Golden (1990). Simplified Structured Cobol with Microsoft/MicroFocus Cobol (1 ed.). Wiley. ISBN 978-0471514077.
• McCracken, Daniel D. (1992). Learning GEL By Example (1 ed.). Gain Technology.
• McCracken, Daniel D.; Rosalee J. Wolfe (2003). User-Centered Website Development: A Human-Computer Interaction Approach (1 ed.). Prentice Hall. ISBN 978-0130411617.

 

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Hikmat Abu Zayd, Egyptian politician, first female cabinet minister died she was , 96.

Hikmat Abu Zayd (Arabic: حكمت أبو زيد‎; pronounced Hekmat Abu Zeid in Egyptian Arabic; ) was an Egyptian politician and academic. She became the first female cabinet minister in Egypt in 1962.  Her tenure as Minister of Social Affairs set a precedent. Afterwards, it became common for women to head that ministry. An avowed advocate of Nasserism, Abu Zayd has had a major impact on Egyptian law and policy in the areas of social affairs and insurance.

(1922 or 1923 – July 30, 2011)

Early life and education

Born in the village of Shaykh Daud, located near the city of al-Qusiyya in Asyut Governorate, Abu Zayd grew up in a nationalist household. Her father's job at the Egyptian State Railways meant that he was assigned to many stations and was constantly on the move. Although her mother was illiterate, Abu Zayd was encouraged to read and was given access to her father's large library.^[7]
Abu Zayd received an advanced education. After completing her secondary education at the Helwan Girls School, she obtained a licence in history from Cairo University (then named Fuad I University) in 1940. She progressed further in her academic studies by receiving a teaching certificate in 1941, a Master of Arts in education in 1950, and finally a doctorate in educational psychology from the University of London in 1957. She taught in the Women's College from 1955 to 1964, before being promoted to the rank of professor at Cairo University in 1965.^[7]

Tenure as minister

In 1962, Abu Zayd sat on the preparatory committee for the National Congress of Popular Forces. During her membership of the committee, she expressed her disagreement with President Gamal Abdel Nasser over some sections in the Charter of National Action. Impressed, Nasser decided to appoint her as a minister.^[9] On 29 September 1962, Abu Zayd was named Minister of Social Affairs in Ali Sabri's first government.^[10] She retained her role when the cabinet was reshuffled in March 1964,^[11] and served until 1965.^[12]
Abu Zayd was part of a new female leadership that shared the same lower middle class background of Nasser and his fellow Free Officers.^[13] Her appointment by Nasser was made in the context of his new socialist program, which put emphasis on broadening access to education and employment for all people, regardless of gender or social class.^[6] The 1950s and especially the 1960s were a time of increased female emancipation in Egypt.^[14] Polygyny was on the decline, and women were increasingly holding key posts in government, industry and academia.^[15] The country's first two female parliamentarians, Rawya Ateya and Amina Shukri, were elected in 1957.^[16] Karimah al-Sa'id became the deputy minister of education in the 1960s. Such high-level appointments of a few well-qualified women were showcased by the government, while the majority of Egyptian women remained stuck in the lower echelons of society.^[6]
Nasser's appointment of Abu Zayd was a politically significant move. Including a woman in the cabinet was a way for him to co-opt female-run charitable organizations into the Arab Socialist Union (ASU), the country's newly formed sole political party.^[17] Many of these associations were headed by women from prominent families and were protective of their independence, which Nasser found objectionable. His regime targeted women's organizations in the early 1960s and moved to take over most of their functions as state responsibilities, thereby depriving the associations of their momentum and autonomy. Abu Zayd implemented these policies, which were aimed at benefiting female workers and peasants.^[18] The Ministry of Social Affairs which she headed was increasingly specializing in women's issues.^[13] In 1963, it organized a general and wide-ranging women's conference to discuss, among other things, ways to increase female economic productivity, working women's leading role in spreading family planning, as well as the rise of family income through the employment of female members. Abu Zayd was named to preside over the conference, thereby cementing her status as leader of the women's movement in Egypt.^[13] She became coordinator for women's activities within the Arab Socialist Union in 1963,^[7] at a time when the party had nearly 250,000 female members.^[15]
During her time in office, Abu Zayd worked on several different social issues. She strongly supported a law that prohibited Islamic oral repudiation and made it mandatory for a husband to go to court to be able to divorce his wife.^[19] In order to combat mendicity, she imposed prison terms on recidivist beggars who returned to begging after they had received state-sponsored training in handicrafts.^[20] In addition to registering NGOs and expanding their development activities, she launched projects aimed at improving the status of rural women.^[21] One of the most sensitive tasks assigned to Abu Zayd was the relocation of thousands of Nubians, displaced by the construction of the Aswan Dam, to newly built villages. Her management of the resettlement process led to her being nicknamed the "Merciful Heart of the Revolution" by Nasser.^[9] Nevertheless, the Nubians' forced displacement remains controversial in Egypt to this day, with some blaming Nasser for the neglectful conditions in which the relocated Nubians have been living since then.^[21]
On a personal level, Abu Zayd faced domestic problems during her tenure as minister. Her husband was resentful of her responsibility-laden role and of the amount of time she spent outside the house. Their previously modest lifestyle changed considerably as she hired a 12-year-old houseboy and was provided a chauffeur-driven car by the government.^[22]

Exile in Libya

Following Nasser's death in 1970 and Anwar Sadat's ascension to the presidency, Abu Zayd's career progression was blocked. She moved to Libya with her husband in 1974.^[7] Her Nasserist convictions were in line with the anti-colonialism, anti-Zionism and pan-Arabism of Libya's leader Muammar Gaddafi.^[9] Abu Zayd spent nearly two decades in Libya, during which time she taught political science at Al Fateh University in Tripoli.^[21] She also penned articles and made speeches denouncing the Egyptian government.^[7]
Abu Zayd began criticizing President Sadat in the mid-1970s. She became a leader of the Egyptian National Front, which was set up in Damascus in 1980 by General Saad El Shazly. The organization called for the overthrow of Sadat's government.^[23] Due to her opposition to Sadat's peace overture to Israel, Abu Zayd was accused of high treason, terrorism and spying, and was consequently deprived of her Egyptian nationality.^[9] This turned her into a stateless political refugee.^[21] A long legal battle ensued, which was finally resolved in late 1991 when a judge ruled that Abu Zayd and her husband were entitled to their Egyptian passports.^[7] She was also acquitted of the charges of high treason and terrorism.^[9][21]

Return to Egypt

After having recovered their nationality, Abu Zayd and her husband came back to Egypt in March 1992.^[7] She was treated as a VIP upon her return, and rushed to visit Nasser's mausoleum.^[9] During the 1990s, she opposed the Gulf War, the Madrid Peace Conference, as well as Israeli and American imperialism. She wrote articles for al-Osboa newspaper in 1998 dealing with the issues of Western imperialism and Arab unity.^[7] In late 2010, she was hospitalized at the Anglo-American Hospital in Cairo to receive treatment for her bone fractures.^[21] Farkhonda Hassan visited her there on behalf of then First Lady Suzanne Mubarak.^[24] During her stay at the hospital, Abu Zayd granted an interview to Almasry Alyoum newspaper in which she defended Nasser's legacy and lamented the loss of tolerance in Egypt.^[21]
Abu Zayd died on July 30, 2011.

Awards

Abu Zayd received the Lenin Peace Prize in December 1970.^[25]

 

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Binka Zhelyazkova Bulgarian director died she was , 88,

Binka Zhelyazkova (Бинка Желязкова), was a Bulgarian film director who made films between the late 1950s and the 1990s. She was the first Bulgarian woman to direct a feature film and one of the few women worldwide to direct feature films in the 1950s.

(1923-2011)

Zhelyazkova graduated from the Sofia Theatre Institute in 1956 and briefly worked as an assistant director at Sofia Film Studios "Boyana" before directing her first feature Life Flows Quietly By... (1957). This film established the collaboration with her husband, screenwriter Hristo Ganev, with whom she worked on many of her films. The film explored the lives of the former partisan fighters now in positions of power and was critical to the new communist regime in Bulgaria. It was met with fury but the party's leadership and banned for 30 years with a party decree. This marked the beginning of Binka Zhelyazkova's complex relationship with the new regime.
During her career Zhelyakzova directed seven feature and two documentary films. An active member of the anti-fascist youth movement during WWII she was soon disillusioned by the new realities, which had little to do with her ideals. Her work ofter reflected her struggles and four of her nine films were banned from distribution and reached audiences only after the end of the regime. Particularly damaging for her career was the fate of the "The Tied Up Balloon" an innovative and highly stylized film, which showed the power of Binka's imagination and her potential as a film director. After its success at the 1967 Expo in Montreal the film was seen as an insult to the party leader, when in one of the scenes a group of villagers lift a donkey in the air. Again the communist party issued a decree and stopped the film. The same fate met the two documentary films "Lullaby"(1981) and "The Bright and Dark Side of Things" (1981)about women in prison, a rear and uncompromising look at women's treatment in the socialist society, which were never released to the public.
Despite her difficulties at home her films won numerous awards outside of Bulgaria. "We Were Young"(1961) was awarded the golden medal at the Moscow Film Festival in 1962. "The Attached Balloon"(1967) had a successful run at the 1967 Expo in Montreal. "The Last Word"(1974) for which she also wrote the screenplay was in competition at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival along with films by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Karlos Saura, Ken Russell and Liliana Cavani.
Binka Zhelyazkova's style was influenced by Italian Neo-Realism and the French New Wave, as well as Russian Cinema. The poetic and metaphoric imagery of her films often prompted critics to compare her to Federico Fellini and Andrey Tarkovski. Her distinctive directorial style along with her perfectionism and nonconformism won her the label, “the bad girl of Bulgarian cinema”. Despite the many interruptions her work was always reflective of what was going on in the world at the time: the personality cult and the Hungarian uprising of 1956, the war in Vietnam and the waves of protests that swept many countries in the 60ties, the feminist movement in the 70ties and the 80ties, and the stagnation of the last years of socialism.
In the 1980 ties Binka Zhelyazkova became the director of the Bulgarian section of Women in Film, an organization created in 1989 after the international women in film conference, KIWI, in Tbilisi, Georgia. She stopped making films after 1989, which coincided with the fall of the communist regime in Bulgaria. For some time after that she remained active in the women in film organization but soon completely withdrew from public life.
Since 2007 there has been renewed interest in Zhelyazkova's work mainly due to the documentary Binka: To Tell a Story About Silence by the New York based Bulgarian film maker Elka Nikolova.^[1]

Feature Films as director

• Life Flows Quietly By...(1957)
• We Were Young (1961)
• The Tied Up Balloon (1967)
• The Last Word (1973)
• The Swimming Pool (1977)
• The Big Night Bathe (1980)
• On The Roofs At Night (1988) TV
• Life Flows Slowly By (1988)
• Lullaby (1981) Documentary film
• The Bright and the Dark Side of Things (1981) Documentary film

 

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Louis, Serbian singer, died from a car accident he was , 59.

Ljubiša Stojanović "Louis" was a Serbian singer, born in Leskovac. Louis was known for his unique musical style and was in the music business from 1970 until his death. His stage name Louis originated from when he was nine and successfully performed Louis Armstrong's songs. He graduated from the music high school in Niš. He got his B.A. in Music from the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, majoring in voice and composing with arrangement and folklore.




(Љубиша Стојановић "Луис"; 25 June 1952 – 31 July 2011)
 
He was among the first to combine jazz with Serbia's folklore. In 1980 he recorded his first record titled Ne kuni me, ne ruži me, majko (Do Not Scold Me, Do Not Rebuke Me, Mother), gaining high sales. Together with the Serbian band Flamingosi, he almost won the Beovizija 2006 festival for the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 in Athens, Greece.^[1]
He died in a car accident on July 31, 2011, on the road between Feketić and Vrbas.^[2] His last show was on July 22, 2011 at Club Jez in Sarajevo.

Discography

• Ne kuni me, ne ruži me, majko
• Dudi, s puno ljubavi
• Srcem i dušom
• My way I
• My way II
• Kamerav
• Hajde da se pomirimo
• Dunjo moja
• Louis (uživo)
• Louis (leptir)
• The Best of Louis
• Pogled iznutra
• Čarobnjak
• The Last King of Balkans [2011 Snail Records]

 

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