Mahomet Sirocco Mahomet Sirocco Şuluk Mehmed Pasha (1525 – 7 October 1571), better known in Europe as Mehmed Siroco or Mahomet Sirocco, and also spelled Sulik, Chulouk, Şolok, Seluk, or Suluc and known with the titles Pasha, Reis, or Bey, was the Ottoman Bey (regional governor) of Alexandria in the mid-16th century. Both the foreign and the Turkish nicknames (and their various spellings) were derived from the name of the southern Mediterranean wind Sirocco, from Greek σιρόκος "sirokos" and the hence derived Levantine Arabic شلوق "shlūq", respectively. Mehmed Siroco was appointed admiral in command of the Turkish right at the Battle of
Jacques Mistral Jacques Mistral Jacques Mistral (born September 22, 1947) is a French economist and professor. He is a member of the Council of Economic Analysis ("Conseil d'analyse économique") in France, a member of the Cercle des économistes, and as of October 2009, a member of the scientific council of the center-left think tank "Fondation pour l'innovation politique". Mistral was born in Toulouse, France. He graduated from the École Polytechnique in Paris in 1967 and earned his Ph.D in Economics from the University of Paris I in 1977. Mistral has held several professorships: from 1978 to 1992, he was a professor of