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Ali Ibrahim
Ali Ibrahim (19 December 1971 – 28 March 2010) was an Egyptian rower who competed at four Olympic Games. He also has multiple World Rowing Championship medals, including 3 silver medals and 2 bronze medals.
Life and rowing career.
Ali Ibrahim was born on 19 December 1971, in Al Sharqia, Egypt. He began rowing in 1990.
He became the most successful Egyptian rower, when he finished 8th in the men's single scull at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia,
revolted against the Ottoman government after the death of their leader Ibrahim Pasa and some of them eventually settled for the most part on the Syrian side of the newly drawn Turkish-Syrian border of 1922.
The immigration of some Kurds to Syria began in 1926 following the failure of the rebellion of Saed Ali Naqshbandi against the Turkish authorities. They were granted citizenship by the French mandate authorities. During the great war, Kurdish tribes attacked and sacked and villages in Albaq District immediately to the north of Hakkari mountains. According to Lieutenant