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| | Akkad and the Akkadians of Mesopotamia (Ancient Akkad) |
 | | It is not known in detail how rigorously Akkad wished to control the cities to the south and how much freedom had been left to them; but they presumably clung tenaciously to their inherited local autonomy. | | | "Citizens of Akkad" filled the offices of ensi from the "nether sea" (the Persian Gulf) upward, which was perhaps a device used by Sargon to further his dynastic aims. | | | The driving force of that empire was the Akkadians, so called after the city of Akkad, which Sargon chose for his capital (it has not yet been identified but was presumably located on the Euphrates between Sippar and Kish). |
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http://history-world.org/akkadians.htm
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| | Reason: Lion of the Desert, Fanatics In the Street: The poetic injustice of Moustapha Akkad's murder |
| | Her interview with Akkad may well have been one of the most difficult she ever did: Akkad was scornfully dismissive of the nationalist rhetoric in which she couched her questions, focusing on such matters as the persistent Middle East rumors of Jewish foreknowledge of the 9/11 attacks as marks of a dysfunctional political culture. | | | Akkad was especially proud of Lion of the Desert; the old one-sheet poster is seen framed on the office wall behind him throughout his final broadcast interview. | | | In an interview broadcast last Friday, Moustapha Akkad, the Syrian-born film director and producer, noted that he was "deeply proud of my American citizenship." Akkad was appearing on Mosaic, a program directed at the Arab Diaspora, and he was addressing—in Arabic—an audience of fellow Middle Eastern expatriates. |
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http://www.reason.com/hod/cpf111605.shtml
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| | Informed Comment |
| | Akkad would have shown us the superbly civilized Saladin's resistance to the West, in contrast to the that of the thoroughly demonized Saddam, and thus demonstrated that not all Arabs are stamped from the same mold. | | | Akkad was confused as to how the Muslim world could not recognize the act of communication he was attempting to perform. | | | Saladin was a Kurd from what is now northern Iraq, and he defeated the Crusaders with a legendary chivalry that inspired their respect. |
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http://www.juancole.com/2005/11/strange-death-of-moustapha-akkad.html
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| | Moustapha Akkad |
| | Akkad was steeped in Middle Eastern history but was not involved in politics or deeply religious, Yablans and others said. | | | But within the Arab American world, he was the famous filmmaker whose movies defied stereotypes and portrayed Islam in a positive light. | | | They are only the latest in a long line of ethnic groups and nationalities cast in stereotypical bad-guy roles, from American Indians to Germans to Japanese to African Americans to Russians. |
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http://www.lukeford.net/profiles/profiles/moustapha_akkad.htm
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| | Arab film director Akkad dies after Jordan blast |
| | Akkad said he turned to the horror genre because it was hard to raise money for religious-themed movies, according to a 1998 New York Times report. | | | A telephone message left at the Los Angeles-area home of Akkad's ex-wife, Patricia, was not immediately returned. | | | "Rima is a totally American girl," Patricia Akkad, 64, said Thursday in a phone interview from Los Angeles. |
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1520173/posts
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| | Peter C. Valenti on the Amman terror bombings and the death of Moustapha Akkad, revered Muslim filmmaker. -- ... |
| | The intense coverage of Akkad’s death by Arab and Muslim media vividly illustrated his stature as the quintessential spokesperson for positive and moderate Islam. | | | He also produced historical documentaries in the Arab world, in collaboration with major Arab literati and intellectuals, and his efforts for the past 15 years had been divided between film projects on Islamic Spain and Saladin. | | | The hotel bombings in Amman, Jordan, on November 9 brought the death of a favorite son of the Arab world. |
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http://www.beliefnet.com/story/179/story_17968_1.html
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| | Reuters AlertNet - Syrian director Akkad arrives home for burial |
| | But he is most famous in the Arab world for directing a film about early Islam and another that tracks a leader of the Libyan resistance against Italy. | | | "He was very happy about this he said in a letter," Sayed told the Syrian state-run television which dedicated its prime evening hours for a programme about Akkad, 70. | | | Syrians waves Lebanese Hizbollah party and Syrian flags during protest in Damascus |
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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L12681767.htm
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| | Sumerian History |
| | Sargon united both Sumer and the northern region of Akkad - from which Babylon would arise about four hundred years later - not very far from Kish. | | | 1760 Hammurapi of Babylon defeats Larsa & takes over Sumer and Akkad | | | 2350 Sargon of Agade defeats Umma & takes over Sumer & Akkad & creates significant political & economic empire |
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http://www.crystalinks.com/sumerhistory.html
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| | The New Yorker: PRINTABLES |
| | (In an account eerily reminiscent of “The Curse of Akkad,” the Egyptian sage Ipuwer described the anguish of the period: “Lo, the desert claims the land. | | | The details of its founding, by Sargon of Akkad, have come down to us in a form somewhere between history and myth. | | | He presided over his empire from the city of Akkad, the ruins of which are believed to lie south of Baghdad. |
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http://www.newyorker.com/printables/fact/050502fa_fact3
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| | Reuters AlertNet - Syria buries Hollywood producer Akkad, bomb victim |
| | President Bashar al-Assad signed a decree awarding Akkad one of Syria's top medals for "his Arab nationalist stances". | | | Syrians men take part in a protest in Damascus | | | Akkad and his daughter Reem were among 57 people who died when three suicide bombers blew up luxury hotels in the Jordanian capital on Wednesday, attacks claimed by Al Qaeda in Iraq. |
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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L13430344.htm
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| | Bibliography |
| | 1975 Kish, Akkad and Agade Journal of the American Oriental Society 95.3 (1975): 434-453. | | | 1952 Some Factors in the Collapse of Akkad Journal of the American Oriental Society 72: 97-101. | | | and M.‑A. Courty 1993 The Genesis and Collapse of the Akkadian Empire; the accidental refraction of historical law in M. Liverani, ed., Akkad: The First World Empire. |
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http://www.cbc.yale.edu/courseware/archaeo/readers/bib.html
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| | NU 2055, lecture 5: Sumer and Akkad to the Time of Sargon |
| | War and Politics in Sumer and Akkad to the Time of Sargon | | | Most of the strictly historical records we have of early Sumer and Akkad consist of the stories of kings, their wars, and their dedications of the fruits of victory to the temples of the gods. | | | But partly because kingship became so central in Mesopotamian society, its early history is obscure. |
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http://www.nipissingu.ca/department/history/MUHLBERGER/2055/L05ANC.HTM
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| | The Reign of Sargon of Akkad |
| | The soil from the trenches of Babylon he removed, and the boundaries of Akkad he made like those of Babylon. | | | Afterward in his old age all the lands revolted against him, and they besieged him in Akkad; and Sargon went forth to battle and defeated them; he accomplished their overthrow, and heir widespreading host he destroyed. | | | Afterward he attacked the land of Subartu in his might, and they submitted to his arms, and Sargon settled that revolt, and defeated them; he accomplished their overthrow, and their widespreading host he destroyed, and he brought their possessions into Akkad. |
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http://www.historyguide.org/ancient/sargon.html
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| | Moustapha Akkad |
| | Akkad believed that the Jews had utter control of the media: | | | Akkad and his daughter Rima died in a terrorist bombing in Amman, Jordan that struck three Western hotels, killing 59. | | | Akkad purchased the rights without thinking about sequels, and when the idea was eventually presented, it was a great surprise to him. |
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http://www.nndb.com/people/456/000108132
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| | /FILM - Moustapha Akkad and Daughter: Victims of Terrorism |
| | Akkad, thank you for what you have brought us. | | | Akkad's daughter, Rima, was also killed in the terrorist act. | | | Moustapha Akkad was a man who had a passionate devotion to film. |
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http://www.slashfilm.com/article.php/20051111050233716
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| | Akkad, Inc. - Currently under construction |
| | In the anarchy that followed, no single king could lay claim to the whole of Sargon's empire, and Akkad and Sumer fell to the foreign Gutian invaders, who would control Akkad for over a hundred years. | | | He founded a new capital, the city of Agade, on the banks of the Euphrates, which is the only royal city of ancient Iraq that has not yet been discovered. | | | The Akkadians were Semitic people from the north who began migrating southward into the land of Sumer in the fourth millennium BC. |
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| | Biography of King Sargon of Akkad |
| | The lords of the other cities formed a league and besieged him in his capital. | | | He was "brought nigh to death." Akkad, however, withstood the siege, and Sargon regained something of his former authority, and closed his days in peace. | | | This remained for a time the capital of his successors; and from this gorgeous city the whole northern land once known as the land of Kish became to later ages the land of Akkad. |
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http://www.publicbookshelf.com/public_html/The_Story_of_the_Greatest_Nations_and_the_Worlds_Famous_Events_Vol_1/biography_hg.html
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| | M E M O R Y L E S S N E S S: moustapha akkad |
| | Dear Brother…For those who knows Akkad’s e mail address, please send email to me hirawan@ptcpi.com. | | | Posted by: Herry at October 31, 2003 03:04 AM | | | akkad is that he was/is involved with the Halloween films. |
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http://chach-house.net/~lobo/archives/000007.html
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| | Iraq Sumer, Akkad, Babylon, and Assyria - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, ... |
| | Iraq Sumer, Akkad, Babylon, and Assyria - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International Agreements, Population, Social Statistics, Political System | | | Source: Based on information from George Roux, Ancient Iraq, Cleveland, 1965. | | | Sargon was the world's first empire-builder, sending his troops as far as Egypt and Ethiopia. |
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http://www.workmall.com/wfb2001/iraq/iraq_history_sumer_akkad_babylon_and_assyria.html
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| | Sargon, king of Akkad |
| | Documents now support the theory that Sargon and his successors sent expeditions into SE Arabia as well as Asia Minor. | | | Sargon, king of Akkad in Mesopotamia (reigned c.2340–c.2305 B.C. By conquest he established a great empire that included the whole of Mesopotamia and extended over Syria and Elam, and he controlled territories W to the Mediterranean and N to the Black Sea. | | | Related content from HighBeam Research on: Sargon, king of Akkad |
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http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0843683.html
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| | Ancient Akkad in Mesopotamia (NorthEast Iraq) |
| | Furthermore he was overlord of all the petty states of Sumer and Akkad as were his successors -- most notably Naramsin... | | | Stele of victory of Naram-Sin found at Susa whither it had been brought by the Elamite King Shutruk-Nakhkhunte as part of the booty of Sippar in the 12th century BC. | | | Akkad flourished after Sargon began circa 2334 BC to spread wide his conquests which ranged from his capital Agade (never found) to the Mediterranean shores. |
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http://ancientneareast.tripod.com/Akkad.html
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| | Akkad Empire - Eduseek |
| | Contact us : Comments and Suggestions : Map | | | Subjects > History > History - 12+ > Empires and Civilizations > Ancient Civilizations > Mesopotamia > Akkad Empire | | | Link to us : Add Eduseek to your site : Newsletter |
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http://www.eduseek.com/static/navigate613.html
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| | Aljazeera.Net - An Arab American director's legacy |
| | Akkad told me the film fell prey to the popular politics of the times; Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi had provided some financial backing to the film and allowed it to be filmed in Libya, which was considered an enemy of the US in the late 1970s. | | | Akkad was buried in his home town of Aleppo | | | Ironically, it would be terrorism that would end his life. |
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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/EE25F3A5-6268-46D9-948C-BBD031AC1884.htm
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| | AKKAD - LoveToKnow Article on AKKAD |
| | Professor McCurdy has very reasonably suggested6 that the title "king of Sumer and Akkad" indicated merely a claim to the ancient territory and city of Akkad together with certain additional territory, but not necessarily all Babylonia, as was formerly believed. | | | 10), for one of the four chief cities, Akkad, Babel, Erech and Calneh, which constituted the nucleus of the kingdom of Nimrod in the land of Shinar or Babylonia. | | | The usual signs denoting Akkadu in the Semitic narrative inscriptions were read in the non-Semitic idiom uri-ki or ur-ki, " land of the city," which simply meant that Akkadu was the land of the city par excellence, i.e. |
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http://17.1911encyclopedia.org/A/AK/AKKAD.htm
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| | The Damascene Blog: Mustapha Al-Akkad (1930-2005) |
| | Akkad is one of greatest cinema-directors, he succeeded to figurise the freedom of nations in his movies. | | | His loss is making a void in Arab and international cinema world. | | | My deep condolences to Akkad family, to Syrian people, and to world's honest men. |
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http://www.damasceneblog.com/the_damascene_blog/2005/11/mustapha_alakka.html
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| | sumer-akkad online |
| | the gods and mysteries of the people of sumer and akkad |
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http://www.ultraviolence.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/akkad/index.cgi
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| | Kings of Akkad |
| | This book contains much about Sumer and Akkad that is not neccessarily found in any other source. | | | The area covered by the ancient is now located in the region of Iraq | | | LW King gives credit to the many scholars of his time that contributed to the known history of Sumer. |
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http://www.freeglossary.com/Kings_of_Akkad
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| | Akkad |
| | Akkad is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness. | | | A sanctuary was erected in her honor by Sargon of Akkad at Babylon (3800 BC). | | | Zarpanitu (Akkad) The goddess who was the supposed mother, by Merodach, of Nebo, god of Wisdom. |
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http://www.experiencefestival.com/akkad
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| | Moustapha Akkad (Obituary) |
| | Akkad once asked one of his sons, then aged 17, why people were prepared to pay good money to be scared. | | | The picture, which starred Anthony Quinn and Irene Papas, was about the origins of Islam, and Akkad had go outside the United States to raise the money. | | | Akkad was making an epic about the Islamic world called The Lion of the Desert when he was approached by the director John Carpenter, who said that he wanted to make a picture for $300,000. |
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1521220/posts
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| | Akkadia |
| | Apparently Semitic speaking people have lived for centuries amidst the Sumerians and gradually became an integral part of the Sumerian culture. | | | A few centuries later the first Akkadian king Sargon of Akkad ruled over an empire that included a large part of Mesopotamia. |
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http://www.crystalinks.com/akkadia.html
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| | Akkad |
| | Sargon I made it his capital in 2475 BCE. | | | Article "Akkad" created on 30 April 1998; last modified on 30 April 1998 (Revision 1). |
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| | akkad |
| | The Akkadians were a Semitic people that occupied central Mesopotamia, the area that later came to be called Babylonia. | | | The city is called Akkad in the Bible, hence the name of the empire and the language. | | | Akkad was the first Semitic empire to attain power. |
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http://www.geocities.com/garyweb65/akkad.html
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| | Akkad |
| | Akkad was also the northern of the two provinces into which Babylonia was divided. | | | The ancient city of Akkad in central Mesopotamia, founded by Sargon I, was an imperial centre in the late third millennium |
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http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0002822.html
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| | Nippur: At the Center of the World of Sumer and Akkad |
| | Nippur: At the Center of the World of Sumer and Akkad | | | In the cities of Sumer, written documentation for political, administrative, and legal purposes was monopolized by a small elite group of professional scribes. | | | The larger geographical setting can be viewed at the Map of Sumer and Akkad. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Eureka/Park/2227/nippur.html
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| | Essay 5 |
| | He was assassinated after eight years and the slightly more stable empire went to his (twin?) brother Manishtushu. | | | The city-state of Agade, probable capital of the Semitic speaking union of Akkad in northern Mesopotamia, was the starting point for the new era of empires. | | | Without a determined heir, a squabble over legitimacy ensues; such led to the collapse of Alexander the Great’s Empire, equally destroyed that of the Roman’s a few millennia later, and debilitated even the British Empire’s legitimacy. |
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http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/religion/arcproj/war/EssayFive.html
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| | KAM Africoid Populations in Asia |
| | Cush was said to be the father of Nimrod, who grew to be a mighty warrior on the earth. | | | It was written in Gen. (10:8-13) "Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the Lord." The first centers of his kingdom were said to be Babylon, Erech, Akkad and Calneh, in Shinar. | | | From that land he went to Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah and Resen, which is between Nineveh and Calah. |
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| | AllRefer.com - Sargon, king of Akkad (Ancient History, Middle East, Biography) - Encyclopedia |
| | Sargon, king of Akkad, Ancient History, Middle East, Biographies | | | B.C. By conquest he established a great empire that included the whole of Mesopotamia and extended over Syria and Elam, and he controlled territories W to the Mediterranean and N to the Black Sea. | | | AllRefer.com - Sargon, king of Akkad (Ancient History, Middle East, Biography) - Encyclopedia |
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| | The Armies of Sumer and Akkad, 3500-2200 B.C. |
| | The area of present-day Iraq is the site of ancient Sumer and Akkad, two city-states that produced the most sophisticated armies of the Bronze Age. | | | Twenty-four years later, the empire of Lugalzagesi was destroyed by the forces of a Semitic prince from the northern city of Akkad, Sargon the Great. | | | If the river is followed northward from Sumer for about 200 miles, the site of ancient Akkad can be found. |
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http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/gabrmetz/gabr0004.htm
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| | ~~~The En-hedu-Ana Research Pages ~~~ |
| | He began a tradition that was to last 500 years, whereby the king installed his daughter as en, or High Priestess, of Nanna, the Sumerian Moon God, in the ancient Sumerian city of Ur (Southern Iraq). | | | As princess of the most prolific king up to that time in history, and installed as en of Nanna, she was in a very powerful position and possessed the clout and the pride to include herself in her writings. | | | [She is often mistakenly called a Sumerian princess because she lived in the sumerian city of Ur as a high priestess but her father, Sargon of Akkad, was Akkadian and so was she.] Her high rank and royal background may explain why she is the first to include her name in her most popular hymn,nin-me-sara. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/mi/enheduanna
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| | Akkad Holding F. Z. L. L. C. |
| | Akkad holding is based in Dubai Media City, giving the company a wider exposure to IT and Media related services. | | | Behind this successful company stands Mohamad Akkad, a recognised sales and marketing consultant, with experience in various countries in the Gulf and Europe. | | | Akkad Holding's professionally trained consultants are spread over the divisions that are being incubated. |
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