Which annual skateboarding competition was founded by a family who is of Lebanese descent?
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Maloof Money Cup The Maloof Money Cup was an annual skateboarding competition for amateur and professional skateboarders founded by Joe and Gavin Maloof of the Maloof family. The events were held in four cities: Costa Mesa, CA (Orange County) in 2008, 2009, 2010; New York City in 2010 and 2011; Washington, DC in 2011, and in Kimberley, South Africa in 2011 and 2012. The aim of the competition was to raise awareness of skateboarding and to encourage participation in skateboarding events and activities. Organizers also aim to contribute new skateboarding infrastructure and boost retail activity in those areas where events are held.
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Maloof family The Maloof family is a prominent American family based in Las Vegas, Nevada, who are owners of numerous business properties in the Western United States. The origin of the family name is Maalouf and is of Lebanese descent via their paternal grandfather.
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Nicolas Amiouni Nicolas Amiouni is a Lebanese Rally driver, born on March 16, 1989 in Achrafieh. He started his professional racing career in 2004, competing in the Lebanese go-kart championship and made his move to Rallying in 2010 as a member of Motortune Racing, participating in 7 Middle East Rally Championship rallies. Nicolas managed to clinch several notable positions during his rookie year.
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Fauzi Ayub Fauzi Mohammed Ayub (Arabic: فوزي محمد أيوب‎ ‎ ), (also "Fawzi"), (c. 1966 – May 2014) was a Lebanese-Canadian who was a member of Hezbollah and arrested in 2002 by the Israeli Defence Forces. Two years later he was released to his wife and three children in Lebanon in a prisoner exchange that saw 436 Palestinians and Lebanese released in exchange for Elhanan Tannenbaum and the bodies of three Israeli soldiers abducted four years earlier.
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Boustani The Boustani family is a prominent dynastic Lebanese and Syrian family with significant influence around the globe. Variations of the name, due to transliteration, include: Boustani as well as Boustany, Bustani, and Bestani (Arabic: بستاني‎ ‎ / ALA-LC: "Bustānī"). The name, a nisba, derives from the Arabic word for garden and is thought to date back to at least the 15th Century.
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Lebanon men's national ball hockey team The Lebanese national ball hockey team (French: "Équipe du Liban de hockey-balle" ) is the national ball hockey team of Lebanon. The team is controlled by the Lebanese Hockey Association and a member of the International Street and Ball Hockey Federation (ISBHF).
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Beirut Rock Festival Beirut Rock Festival is a rock/metal concert in Lebanon.
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Lebanon men's national ice hockey team The Lebanese national ice hockey team (French: "Équipe du Liban de hockey sur glace" ) is the national ice hockey team of Lebanon.
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Lebanon national under-20 football team The Lebanese National Under 20 Football Team represents the Lebanese Republic in Under 20 competitions. Their official nickname is The Cedars. The team is controlled by Federation Libanaise de Football Association (LFA), which is currently a member of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) and also the West Asian Football Federation (WAFF).
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David Armstrong Extreme Park The David Armstrong Extreme Park, formerly called the Louisville Extreme Park, is a 40,000 square foot (3,700 m²) public skatepark located near downtown Louisville, Kentucky, in the Butchertown neighborhood. It opened on April 5, 2002, and gained national recognition after the release of Tony Hawk's Secret Skatepark Tour, in which the park was featured. The park is open 24 hours everyday, and was designed with the input of a local task force. The public skatepark is owned by Louisville Metro Government and operated by Metro Parks.
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Ameen Rihani Museum Ameen Rihani Museum is a biographical museum in Freike, Lebanon. It is dedicated to the Lebanese-American writer and thinker Ameen Rihani and was established by his brother Albert Rihani to honor him in 1953. The museum underwent renovation in 1986 and now occupies the lower level of the home.
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Noel Jammal Noel Jammal Fernández better known as Noel Jammal (in Arabic نويل جمّال) (born 3 March 1990 in Madrid) is a Lebanese-Spanish Formula 3 driver who is in group founded by his father Youssef Jammal and he regularly represents in international competition.
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Raja G. Khouri Raja G. Khouri is a Lebanese born Arab-Canadian.
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Péri Cochin Périhane Chalabi Cochin (more commonly known as Péri Cochin) is a French TV host with Iraqi Lebanese origins. She was born in Beirut on May 28, 1965 and grew up in Tyre in a Shi’a Muslim family. She left Lebanon for France in 1975 when the Lebanese Civil War broke.
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Lycée Franco-Libanais Verdun The Lycée Franco-Libanais Verdun (Arabic: اللیسیه الفرنسیة اللبنانیة - فردان‎ ‎ ), commonly known as the Lycée Verdun, is a French lycée located in the upscale Rue Verdun in Beirut, Lebanon. It was founded in 1951 by the Agence pour l'enseignement français à l'étranger, a French governmental organization which operates French lycées around the world.
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Joe Ghanem Joe Ghanem (born May 8, 1990 in Falougha, Lebanon) is a Lebanese racing driver and son of 1980's Lebanese Rally Champion Samir Ghanem.
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Basketball in Lebanon Basketball is the most popular sport in Lebanon. The Lebanese basketball federation FLB is a member of the Asian federation FIBA Asia and international federation FIBA and also a member of the Arab Basketball Federation
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Turks in Lebanon Turks in Lebanon, also known as Lebanese Turks (Turkish: "" ), are people of Turkish ancestry that are living in Lebanon. Turks living in Lebanon have enjoyed a thriving presence in Lebanon since the Ottoman period.
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2014 Lebanese Elite Cup The 2014 Lebanese Elite Cup is the 17th edition of this football tournament in Lebanon. The competition started on 23 August through to the final in September. This tournament used to include the six best teams from the 2013–14 Lebanese Premier League season, but this edition also featured Salam Zgharta, who only just avoided relegation in 10th place, but won the 2013–14 Lebanese FA Cup.
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Lebanese National Symphony Orchestra L’Orchestre symphonique national du Liban or The Lebanese National Symphony Orchestra was founded in late 1999 in Beirut under the guidance of Dr. Walid Gholmieh and the management of "Le Conservatoire libanais national supérieur de musique" or The Lebanese National Higher Conservatory of Music. In a few years, the Orchestra has proven itself both locally and regionally and gained great success. It gives 25 to 30 concerts per season at the church of the Saint Joseph University in Beirut and in other cities, playing a varied international repertoire by world-renowned classical music composers.
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Lebanese British Friends of the National Museum The Lebanese British Friends of the National Museum or LBFNM is a private, cultural heritage organization that was founded in London in 1993 with the aim of supporting the National Museum of Beirut.
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Dwindle Distribution Dwindle Distribution, based in El Segundo, California, United States, was, as of January 2005, the world's largest skateboard company and is a component of Globe International Limited. The company was founded by Steve Rocco and Rodney Mullen. Its formation is recognized as a key event in the creation of a skateboard industry owned by people actively involved in the skateboarding lifestyle.