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February 25, 2008

Hanan! Listen To Me!

A 2-minute Trailer for Hanan Harchol's 23-minute animation Hanan! Listen To Me!

Harchol is an animator and musician living in New York City. Much of his animation is autobiographically based. In his animations, he’s the voice of all the characters, most importantly his own parents. One of the main protagonists in his animations is "The Nuclear Physicist", based on his father, an Israeli nuclear physicist.

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August 01, 2006

A spot in the middle of the desert

Husband_and_wife Below are some unusual meanings for the name Hanan, as sent to me today – unsolicited – by magician and language fanatic Craig Conley:

“The sanctuary of Machu Picchu is divided into two large sectors - one the agricultural sector and the other the urban or the citadel - of which the first surrounds the second. The main platform of the urban sector is an extensive plaza which in turn divides the buildings into the Hanan section and the lower section...”

Hanan is a place in Ethiopia, northeast of Negada Uen

From “Dreams of Trespass”, Tales of a Harem Girlhood by Fatima Mernissi: Hanan is "a Moroccan emotional quality that I rarely have encountered elsewhere. Hanan is hard to define exactly, but basically, it is a free-flowing, easygoing, unconditionally available tenderness. People who give hanan ... never threaten to withdraw their love when you commit some unintentional minor or even major infraction…”

“Hanan is the name of a village on the coast southeast of Hanoi”, in Lt. General Harold Moore’s book We Were Soldiers Once ... and Young (Hello there, Mel G)

In Zeruya Shalev’s novel ‘Husband and Wife’ Hanan is "the innocent, kindhearted cloud who was determined to bring rain to the parched desert plants at any price"

And of course, let’s not forget Miss Lebanon-Australia hopeful, Hanan Ballout, (18)

I’m speechless. Thank you, Craig, for this surprising little gift

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October 02, 2005

Celebrities Named Hanan

Yawn_1 If they show me a stone and I say a stone they will say a stone. A poem by Amir Gilboa, translated by Hanan Cohen

Custom tattoos by tattoo artist Tim Hanan of Elgin, IL

Klezmer-style Klezmer-player Hanan Bar Sela

Hanan Turk, one of the most beautiful Arab women for the year 2000. Her wikipedia entry

The physics of meaning from Bu Hanan Records

German Belly dancer Hanan Kadur

Israeli photographer Hanan Dror

Egyptian English to Arabic translator Hanan solomon

Hanan A. Alexander, teacher at the University of Haifa

Assistant ProfessorPhD at Johns Hopkins University Hanan Sabea

Also: Levin Human Resources Development Limited of Hong Kong. "The name Levin represents the following core values: Longevity, Energy, Velocity, Imagination, Never give up". (That’s me!)

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