John Goodlet
John Hay Goodlet( 22 March 1835 – 13 January 1914) was a Scottish- born Australian timber merchant and philanthropist.
He was born in Leith to merchant George Goodlet and Mary Hay.
He migrated to Melbourne in 1852, working for a building firm until 1855, when he moved to Sydney.
He imported timber from Jervis Bay, and entered a partnership with James Smith in 1859.
On 3 May 1860 he married Ann Dickson, who would go on to be the third president of the Young Women's Christian Association's Australian branch in 1886.
He had a sawmill in Erskine Street and later a brickworks at Granville, a pottery in Surry Hills and two further mills.
He was twice chairman of the Australian Mutual Provident Society, and was a railway commissioner from 1890 to 1891.
He was also a lieutenant- colonel in the militia.
Goodlet survived the 1893 bank crash with difficulty, but had recovered well and became known for charitable donations, including Sydney Hospital, the Benevolent Society and, most significantly, the Presbyterian church.
He was a New South Wales representative at the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Churches and at the 1910 World Missionary Conference.
His wife died in 1903 and on 3 February 1904 he married Elizabeth Mary Forbes.
Goodlet died, childless, in 1914.
Raja'a Al-Naqqash
Mohammed Raja'a Abdel Mo'min Al- Naqqash( Arabic: رجاء النقاش), often referred to simply as Raja'a Al- Naqqash, was an Egyptian literary critic, intellectual, and journalist.
A graduate of the Department of Arabic Language in Cairo University.
Raja'a became a journalist, then editor, covering the modern literary scene of Egypt during its most formative years.
He retired in 2008, continuing to write actively on literary topics he had focused on throughout his career.
Godwin Davy
Godwin Davy( born 15 December 1979) is an Anguillan international footballer who plays as a goalkeeper.
He made his international debut in a World Cup qualifying match against El Salvador, resulting in a lopsided match, losing 12- 0 in February 2008, and also played in the 4 – 0 loss to the same country in the return match in March 2008.
Ablabius (assassin)
Ablabius was a Byzantine would- be assassin, known for a failed attempt to kill Emperor Justinian I( r. 527–565) in 562.
The main sources about him are John Malalas and Theophanes the Confessor.
Athanasius (grandson of Theodora)
Athanasius was a Byzantine monk and a grandson of Theodora, wife of Justinian I.
The main sources about him are John of Ephesus, Michael the Syrian and Bar- Hebraeus.
Raja'a Al-Naqqash
Mohammed Raja'a Abdel Mo'min Al- Naqqash( Arabic: رجاء النقاش), often referred to simply as Raja'a Al- Naqqash, was an Egyptian literary critic, intellectual, and journalist.
A graduate of the Department of Arabic Language in Cairo University.
Raja'a became a journalist, then editor, covering the modern literary scene of Egypt during its most formative years.
He retired in 2008, continuing to write actively on literary topics he had focused on throughout his career.
Gul Mohamad Zhowandai
Gul Mohamad Zhowandai( 1905 – 1988) was born in Kabul, Afghanistan.
A poet and writer, his publications were novels written in Persian, and several volumes of inspirational verse.
He was editor of Islah and Anis Publications in 1950s.
He was 83 years old when he died.
His published works include:
In Timeri Murari's novel" The Taliban Cricket Club" the narrator described Gul as our most celebrated poet and writer.
Alexandra Avierino
Alexandra Avierino( November 1872 – 1937) was a Lebanese- born Egyptian writer.
Of Greek descent, she was born Alexandra Khuri in Beirut.
Her paternal grandmother was Egyptian, her paternal grandfather was Russian.
She was educated at convent schools in Lebanon and then Alexandria.
While still in her teens, she married Miltiades di Avierino, who was of Italian and Spanish descent.
The couple had two daughters and a son.
Avierino became a British subject through her marriage.
In 1898, she founded" Anis Al- Jalis The Sociable Companion"), a monthly women's magazine, also serving as its editor.
In 1900, she travelled to Paris, where she represented Egypt at the conference of the Alliance universelle des femmes pour la paix, an international peace society, which was held during the Exposition Universelle of that year.
Its founder Princess Gabrielle Wiesniewska bequeathed her title to Avierino, so after the princess died, she called herself Princess Alexandra di Avierino Wiszniewska.
In 1901, she started a French literary review" Le Lotus"; it was expensive to produce and only appeared for a year.
She continued to produce" Anis Al- Jalis" until she was forced to shut it down for financial reasons in 1907.
Avierino also wrote poetry and a play.
She held a salon where intellectuals, both women and men, could gather.
She contributed to newspapers such as" al- Muqaṭṭam"( pro-British) and" Al- Mu'ayyad"( anti-British).
During the early 1920s, she was forced to travel to England to resolve issues related to her status as a British citizen.
Then, in July 1924, she was arrested by Egyptian authorities and accused of being involved in an assassination attempt on Prime Minister Saad Zaghloul.
After being interrogated and released, she left for England.
On her return, she was denied entry into Egypt.
She later died in London.
Willem Brakman
Willem Pieter Jacobus Brakman( 1922 – 2008) was a Dutch writer who made his literary debut with the novel" Een winterreis" in 1961.
Brakman received the P. C. Hooft Award in 1980.
He was born on June 13th, 1922 in The Hague, Netherlands, and died on May 8th, 2008 in the same country.
Anis al-Naqqash
Anis al- Naqqash( born in 1951), also known as Naccache, is a political activist based in Lebanon.
He is also known for being a Lebanese guerrilla fighter.

Question: Are John Goodlet and Anis Al-Naqqash both from the same country?
Answer: no