Khadr

Khadr or Khader, Kheder, Khidr/Khizr, Khodr, Khudr, Xidir etc. are romanizations of خضر, an Arabic given name and surname. In surnames, it is sometimes accompanied by the definite article Al- (خضر, romanized as Al-Khodr, Al-Kheder, Al-Khudr, etc.). The Arabic word denotes the colour green, and Khidr or Al-Khidr ('the green one'), is a figure in Islam and related religions.

Khadr/Khader

People with the surname

• Khadr family, Canadian family noted for their ties to Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda
  • Abdulkareem Khadr (born 1989)
  • Abdullah Khadr (born 1981)
  • Abdurahman Khadr (born 1982)
  • Ahmed Khadr (died 2003)
  • Maha el-Samnah (born 1957)
  • Omar Khadr (born 1986)
  • Zaynab Khadr (born 1979)
  • Amanda Khadr (born 1981)
• Naim Khader (1939–1981), Palestinian Fatah member
• Naser Khader (born 1963), Danish politician
• Saad Khader (born 1943), Saudi actor
• Samir Khader, Iraqi journalist

People with the given name

• Khader Abu-Seif (born 1988), Palestinian copywriter and LGBT rights activist
• Khadr El-Touni (1916–1956), Egyptian weightlifter

Places

• Khader, Fars, Iran
• al-Khader, Palestinian town west of Bethlehem, West Bank
• Hader, Syria

Kheder

People

• Ferrid Kheder (born 1975), Tunisian judoka and mixed martial artist
• Qusai Kheder (born 1978), also known by mononym Qusai (and Qusai aka Don Legend the Kamelion), Saudi Arabian hip hop artist

Places

• Hajji Kheder, village in Samen Rural District, Samen District, Malayer County, Hamadan Province, Iran

Khidr/Khizr

Khidr or Khizr (al-Khidr, al-Khizr, Arabic: الخضر, romanized: al-Ḫiḍr, lit. 'the green one')

• Al-Khidr, a figure in Islam
• Khidr (Khan of Golden Horde) (r. 1361-1362)
• Khidr Khan Surak, Suri governor of Bengal
• Khizr Khan, founder of the 15th-century Sayyid dynasty
• Khizr M. Khan, Pakistani American lawyer
• one of the pseudonyms used by American black supremacist Dwight York

Khodr

People with the given name

• Khodr Alama (born 1963), Lebanese music executive and entrepreneur

People with the surname

• George Khodr, Metropolitan of Archdiocese of Mount Lebanon, Byblos and Botrys of the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch
• Jihad Khodr (born 1983), Brazilian professional surfer
• Salam Khodr, Lebanese journalist and correspondent
• Zeina Khodr, international journalist and TV news correspondent

Khudr

People with the given and middle name

• Ismail Khudr Al-Shatti, Kuwaiti politician

People with the surname

• Humood AlKhudher (born 1989), Kuwaiti singer
• Ahlam Khudr, Sudanese activist

Places

• Sahwat al-Khudr, village in southern Syria

Xidir

• Pîr Xidir Silêman (1952–2021), Yazidi-Kurdish academic, writer, politician and scholar

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This page was last edited on 25 November 2023, at 17:41