hafez in English
noun
Arabic first name; Hafez al Assad (1928-2000) Syrian statesman and president from 1971-2000; Hafiz-e Shirazi, lyric poet and mystic of Persia
Use "hafez" in a sentence
1. The reproductive potential and development of the three soil predaceous mitesHypoaspis miles (Berlese),Laclaspis zaheri Shereef & Soliman andLasioseius africanus Hafez & Nasr were tested using the acarid mite,Tyrophagus casei Oudemans as an alternate prey.
2. 12 One could still watch black-and-white films from the liberal pre-Nasser era on television and find ancient taxi drivers nostalgically crooning songs by Umm Kulthum or Abdel Halim Hafez.
3. In Lisa Wedeen's 1999 study of the Syrian regime of Hafez al-Assad, Ambiguities of Domination, she wrote that the Assad regime "can compel people to say the ridiculous and to avow the Absurd." In
4. Under the rule of the Syrian Ba'ath Party, the Syrian Arab Republic was ruled by the Alawite Hafez al-Assad, his son Bashar al-Assad, and other Shi'ites, giving the 3,000,000 Alawites in Syria rule