Baraka

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Baraka can refer to several things:

Contents 1 Baraka == == Post Production Company 2 Hebrew or Jewish origin 3 Arabic or Islamic origin 4 Other languages 5 Entertainment 6 Places 7 People

[edit] Baraka == == Post Production Company

Baraka is the name of an established post production company based in the heart of London's Soho. Baraka Post Production Ltd (www.baraka.co.uk) provides a full range of visual post production services to the motion picture industry. Established in 1996 by senior compositors David Cox from The Mill and Chris Gilbert from The Moving Picture Company, Baraka provides services for all areas of production including commercials, feature films, TV station branding, music videos, corporate presentations, TV programmes and email / web virals. Baraka partners its clients on a project basis from script to delivery using the very latest technology and the best people. Baraka launched a new editing division in September 2006 named CHOP. Baraka has been responsible for creating special effects for many well known pop videos, feature films, commercials and trailers. Chris Gilbert's wife, Teresa, creatively came up with the name of the company, after the beautiful Swahili and Arabic translations which have great depth to them. Take a look at the website to see the various meanings in the introduction to the website: View www.baraka.co.uk and the Baraka editing company, CHOP's profile can be seen at www.chopsoho.com Baraka can be reached at Tel:+44 207 734 2227 or email at info@baraka.co.uk

[edit] Hebrew or Jewish origin

A Berakhah In Judaism, a berakhah or bracha (Hebrew: ברכה; plural ברכות, berakhot) is a blessing, usually recited at a specific moment during a ceremony or other activity. Berakhot traditionally start with the words Barukh attah, Adonai Eloheinu, melekh ha-olam, ... ("Blessed are you, Lord our God, King of the universe, ...").

[edit] Arabic or Islamic origin

• Baraka (or Barakah) is a term referring to a sense of divine presence, charisma, wisdom, and/or blessing transmitted from master to pupil. It can refer to "breath" (see Qi or prana), but is more often associated with a place or person.
• Baraka is a French term for luck.
• "Berkah" is the Indonesian word derived from Barakah. It means a great blessing or a great favourable gift (especially from Allah or God).
• Baraka is a type of "spiritual energy" believed to exist by a sect of Islam in Somalia.
• Baraka (Nigella sativa) seed is a spice that has purported health benefits. It is called Habbat-ul-Baraka (blessed seed) in Arabic.

[edit] Other languages

• Baraka is the Serbian and Bulgarian word for shack. The party founders of the Croatian Democratic Union refer to themselves as barakaši, derived from baraka.

• Baraka is the Swahili word for blessing ("Haraka haraka haina baraka" -- "Hurry hurry has no blessing," a Swahili proverb similar in meaning to "Haste makes waste")

[edit] Entertainment

• Baraka is a 1992 experimental documentary film directed by Ron Fricke. The name is derived from the Sufi term described above.
• Baraka is a 1983 novel written by Canadian John Ralston Saul.
• Baraka is a character from the Mortal Kombat franchise.
• The Boys of Baraka is a 2005 documentary film.

[edit] Places

• Baraka is a barangay in the Norzagaray municipality, in the province of Bulacan, Philippines.
• Baraka was a site in Gabon where American missionaries from New England established a mission in 1842. It is now Libreville.
• Al-Baraka was a popular Moroccan restaurant in the Lavapiés neighborhood of Madrid, Spain.
• Baraka is a village in the eastern congolese province of Sud-Kivu on the Lake Tanganyika.
• Baraka is also the local nickname for Barakaldo (Vizcaya, Spain)

[edit] People

• Amiri Baraka (1934 - ), a U.S. writer.
• Baraka Khan (? - 1280, son of Baibars and briefly (1277 - 1279) a Mamluk Sultan of Egypt and Syria.
• Baraka al-Yamaniyah, wife of `Abd al-`Azīz Āl Sa`ūd, first monarch of Saudi Arabia.
• Baraka was, according to the apocryphal book of Jubilees, the wife of the antediluvian patriarch Jared.
• Mersaid Baraka was a teacher to Timur, and was also placed in the mausoleum Gur-e Amir where Timur and several of his descendants are entombed.