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El-Baz

PronunciationArabic pronunciation:[elˈbæːz]
Language(s)Arabic
Meaning"the hawk"

El-Baz (Arabic: الباز, Hebrew: אלבז, also spelled Elbaz, Al-Baz, El Baze, Albaz or ElBez (Arabic pronunciation:[elˈbæːz]) is an Arabic surname, meaning "the hawk" or "the falcon" ("Baz" refers to the goshawk in Arabic, and to a falcon or kestrel in Hebrew).

Notable people

Elbaz

  • Alber Elbaz (1961–2021), Moroccan-Israeli fashion designer
  • André Elbaz (born 1934), Moroccan painter and filmmaker
  • Cheb i Sabbah (1947–2013), born Haim Serge El-Baz, Algerian club DJ
  • David Elbaz (born 1966), French astrophysicist and author
  • Gad Elbaz (born 1982), Israeli haredi singer
  • Gil Elbaz, American entrepreneur, founder of AdSense
  • Nathan Elbaz (1932–1954), Israel Defense Forces soldier
  • Stéphanie Elbaz, French pianist
  • Vincent Elbaz (born 1971), French actor

See also

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Farouk El-Baz is an Egyptian American space scientist and geologist, who worked with NASA in the scientific exploration of the Moon and the planning of the Apollo program. Born on January 2, 1938, in the Nile Delta town of Zagazig, Egypt, he was part of NASA’s Apollo 11 ground crew at just 31 years old.

He has referenced his first years in primary school in the Egyptian port city of Damietta, as being where his love of science and the natural world began. Upon moving with his family to Cairo, he studied geology, chemistry, biology, and mathematics, graduating with a Bachelor of Science in 1958. He later headed to the US where he gained a master’s degree followed by a PhD in geology.

In 1969, as Apollo 11’s lunar module the Eagle made its way to the surface of the Moon Farouk El-Baz, the secretary of the Lunar Landing Site Selection Committee, was in Mission Control.

Currently, El-Baz is a Research Professor and Director of the Center for Remote Sensing at Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts. He is an Adjunct Professor of Geology at the Faculty of Science, Ain Shams Unive

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Dr. Baz headed the Presidential Office for Political Affairs for a long time in the recent past. His influence was greater than most members of the cabinet, especially in matters of external policy-making. President Hosni Mubarak used to send him on sensitive missions which would be inappropriate for the foreign minister to undertake.

Born in 1931, graduated from Cairo University in the 1950s. He was a post-graduate student in the 1960s for six years in the US, where he obtained both his Master's degree and a PhD from Harvard Law School.

Dr. Baz later joined the Egyptian Foreign Service and became a counselor, as well as senior lecturer at the Foreign Ministry's Training Institute. In late 1973 he joined the personal staff of the Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmi, becoming head of the minister's private office in 1974.

In November 1977, Baz helped plan Egypt's negotiations with Israel. By then Baz had also become a special adviser to the Vice President Mubarak.

As such, Dr. Baz became Mubarak's chief of staff for political affairs, and Sadat promoted him to the rank of f

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