William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration S. Marriott Foundation, and the Engelstad Family Foundation. Founders’ gifts, along with additional industry partner donations, have helped the Harrah College of Hospitality move closer to its private funding goal. Matching funds by the State of Nevada also helped construction move forward. The building opened in January 2018. William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration The William F. Harrah College of Hospitality (formerly known as the William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration) offers graduate and undergraduate degrees in hospitality management at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). Named after William F. Harrah, the founder of Harrah's Entertainment, the
Battle of al-Harrah 682 or early 683, Uthman ibn Muhammad ibn Abi Sufyan, was young, inexperienced and unable to control the brewing opposition to Umayyad rule. Yazid sent an army of 10,000 fighters from Syria against Medina in 683 under General Muslim bin Uqbah al-Marri to "crush" the opposition from both the Medinese and Abdullah ibn Zubayr. Al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf, then a young soldier and who later played an important political role in the Umayyad caliphate, was part of this army. Abu Sa`id al-Khudri, a Medinite "Sahabi", also fought against the Umayyad army in this battle. "Harrah" is referred to an area covered