Ismail Poonawala
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Ismail Kurbanhusein Poonawala (born January 7, 1937) is a professor of Arabic at the UCLA department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (NELC) of over 30 years. Poonawala was born in 1937 in Godhra
, India
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Professor Poonawala's formal education includes M.A.s from University of Bombay and Cairo along with a Ph.D. from UCLA.
Godhra
Godhra is a town and originally the name came from "Gou" which means "Cow" and "Dhara" which has two meanings: one in Sanskrit which means "Hold or Land" and the other in Hindi which means Flow. So, identically it means The Land of the Cow, a municipality in Panchmahal district in Indian state of...
, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
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Professor Poonawala's formal education includes M.A.s from University of Bombay and Cairo along with a Ph.D. from UCLA.