List of former Muslims This is a list of notable people who have been Muslims sometime during their lives but left Islam for another religion or a non-religious ideology. List_of_former_Muslims
Allan Cameron (author) Allan Cameron (born 1952) is a Scottish author and translator. He was brought up in Nigeria and Bangladesh. His own works include The Berlusconi Bonus, a dystopian novel set in a future Britain, and The Golden Menagerie. He has also translated over twenty books from Italian to English, including works by Norberto Bobbio and Romano Prodi, and has written for Italian newspapers and magazines. Allan_Cameron_(author)
Gareth Porter Gareth Porter (born June 18, 1942 in Independence, Kansas) is an American historian, investigative journalist and policy analyst on U.S. foreign and military policy. A strong opponent of U.S. wars in Southeast Asia, the Balkans, and the Middle East, he has also written on the potential for diplomatic compromise to end or avoid wars in Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Bosnia, Serbia, Kuwait, Iraq and Iran. He is the author of a history of the origins of the Vietnam War, Perils of Dominance. Gareth_Porter
James Tabor James D. Tabor is Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte where he has taught since 1989. He previously held positions at Ambassador College (1968-70 while a student), the University of Notre Dame (1979-85), and the College of William and Mary (1985-89). James_Tabor
Gérard Chaliand Gérard Chaliand (born 1934) is a French-Armenian expert in armed-conflict studies and in international and strategic relations, especially asymmetric conflicts (e.g., guerillas, terrorism). He is one of the most prolific international theoricians on these subjects. Gérard Chaliand is also a writer and a poet (La marche têtue suivie de Feu nomade, 1996). Gérard_Chaliand
Ralph Luker Dr. Ralph E. Luker is an American historian, teacher, and the author of several books about race, religion and the African-American Civil Rights Movement.Ralph Luker founded the Cliopatria history group blog on the History News Network of George Mason University's Center for History and New Media.Luker has taught in departments of history at Allegheny College, Antioch College, and Morehouse College, and in departments of religion at Lincoln University (Pennsylvania) and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Ralph_Luker
Anne Friedberg Anne Friedberg is Chair of the Critical Studies Division in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. An author, historian and theorist of modern media culture, Professor Friedberg received her PhD. in Cinema Studies from NYU. She was on the faculty of Film and Media Studies at UC Irvine, where she was the principal architect for a new interdisciplinary PhD program in Visual Studies and the founding director and programmer of UCI's Film and Video Center. Anne_Friedberg
Neda Ulaby Neda Ulaby is an American reporter for National Public Radio, covering arts, cultural trends and digital media. She lives in Washington, D.C. Neda_Ulaby
Ruth Barnett Ruth Barnett was an abortionist operating in Portland, Oregon from 1918 to 1968. She went by the nickname "Dr. Ruth", and because she was a trained naturopath, she was legally entitled to use the title, "doctor". Since her clinic advertised that it treated only "diseases of women", the fact that all her patients were female was not in itself enough to draw undue attention. Ruth_Barnett
Evolutionary physiology Evolutionary physiology is the study of physiological evolution, which is to say, the manner in which the functional characteristics of individuals in a population of organisms have responded to selection across multiple generations during the history of the population. It is a subdiscipline of both physiology and evolutionary biology. Practitioners in Evolutionary_physiology
Hysplex Hysplex () is a starting gate used in ancient Greek horse and foot races. This device was set up at the starting line and comprised of an upright vertical bar that held a horizontal gate attached to it held up by a string. Each racer stood behind his own hysplex and all of the strings were centrally connected behind the runners held by a referee. At the start of the race, the referee let go of all the strings and consequently the starting gates fell at the same time releasing the runners. Hysplex
Moira Sullivan Moira Sullivan is an international scholar, lecturer, film critic, film promoter and experimental filmmaker based in Stockholm and San Francisco, a dual national of the USA and Sweden. She has been active in the promotion of Swedish film to international film festivals in France and the USA, and films from international film festivals to Sweden. Moira_Sullivan
Mary Kelly (artist) Mary Kelly, born 1941, is an American conceptual artist, teacher, and writer. Born in Albert Lea, Minnesota, she studied fine art and music at the College of Saint Teresa, and fine art and aesthetics at the Pius XII Institute, Florence, Italy (MA 1965). She later received a postgraduate certificate in painting at St. Martin’s School of Art, London. Mary_Kelly_(artist)
Miško Šuvaković Miško Šuvaković () (Miodrag Šuvaković), Prof. Dr., is a contemporary aestheticist, art theorist and ex-conceptual artist born in 1954 in Yugoslavia, Belgrade. He was co-founder and member of conceptual artistic Group 143 (1975 - 1980), and was co-founder and member of informal theoretic and artistic "Community for Space Investigation" (1982-1989). Miško_Šuvaković
Race record Race records were 78 rpm gramophone records made by and for African Americans during the early 20th century, particularly during the 1920s and 1930s. They primarily contained race music, which comprised a variety of African American genres music such as blues, jazz, and gospel music, but many also contained comedy. Race records were marketed by Okeh Records, photo Emerson Records, photo Vocalion Records, photo Victor Talking Machine Company, photo and several other companies. Race_record
Grieg's music in popular culture classical composer Edvard Grieg continues to be relevant in popular culture into the 21st century. This is due to his music's fast pace, instrumentation, and similarity in feel to many popular musical genres. This is not a coincidence, since Grieg was known for taking many of his melodies from Norwegian folk music, especially from the western shore area around Bergen. Grieg's_music_in_popular_culture