Mohamed Hadid – Luxury Real Estate & Property Developer : USA

Mohamed Hadid (aka) Mohamed Anwar Hadid . Real Estate Developer. Philanthropy.

Main focus on building luxury hotels and mansions in Washington DC, Colorado, Los Angeles and specialised projects around the world.

Father of Supemodels Gigi Hadid, Bella Hadid and Anwar Hadid

Sports:

-Represented Jordan for speed skating at the Winter Olypmics (1992). Hadid is the only person to have represented Jordan at the Winter Olympics 1992.

www.mohamedhadid.com

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American / Jordan-Palestine / Arab-American

Hany El Behairy first Egyptian to join Carrousel du Louvre Fashion Show in Paris : January 2020

Hany El Behairy – Haute Couture Fashion Designer. Egyptian couturier.

Famed designer Hany El Behairy has become the first Egyptian to participate in the Oriental Fashion Show at the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris, which was held on Monday, January 20 and entitled “The Wonders of the Silk Road.“

During the show, Behairy impressed audiences with a diamond-studded wedding gown, modeled by Egyptian actress Mai Omar. 

Numerous celebrities have worn designs from Behairy Haute Couture, including Yousra, Laila Elwy, Warda Al Gazaeria, Elham Shahin, Safaa Abu El Seoud, Latifa, Hanan Tork, Dalia El Behairy, Sabah, Ghada Abdel Razek, Shaimaa Saeed, and Poussu Shalaby.

Awards :

– Best Fashion Designer in Egypt (2001) / Best Fashion Designer in Cairo Cinema Festival (2009) / Best Fashion Designer in the Arab World (2005)/ Best Fashion Designer in Alexandria Cinema Festival (2014) etc.

-Award for the Best Fashion Designer of 2006 at Mediterranean Festival in Napoli along with the “Moda Week” festival in Italy

– Best Fashion Designer.” at ‘LUX Festival’ in Lebanon

– Behairy was honored by the Italian Ministry of Culture as well as the Mayor of Rome in 2006.

www.hanyelbehairycouture.com

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pix: egyptindependent.com

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Egypt

Khaldoon Al Mubarak : CEO & MD – Mubadala Investments -Abu Dhabi (UAE)

Khaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak . Leader. Emirati Entrepreneur. Businessman.

-CEO & MD – Mubadala Invesments Company

-Board Member (incl) First Abu Dhabi Bank, Aldar Properties, Ferrari etc.

-Executive Council Member of Emirate of Abu Dhabi / Chairman – Executive Affairs Office – Abu Dhabi

Sports:

-Chairman – Manchester City Football Club / Chairman: Abu Dhabi Motor Sports Management Company (ADMM)

-Member Board of Trustees New York University

Awards:

-Appointed ‘Commander of the Star of the Order of the Italian Solidarity ‘(2007)

-Appointed ‘Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) (2013)

-Awarded the Grand Gwanghwa Medal, the highest class of the South Korean Order of Diplomatic Service Merit

-Awarded ‘Asian Business Leadership Forum Award (ABLF) 2016

-Listed as One of the 100 World’s Most Influential Arabs (2017) by Arabian Business

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Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE)

SKYLINE : World’s Largest Residential Building Project – on Track in Egypt – The Morshedy Group – Cairo, Egypt

Memaar Al Morshedy . One of the Egypt’s biggest Development and Real Estate Companies .

Founder : Mohamed Morshedy / CEO: Hasan Morshedy / Head of Sales: Rami Morshedy / Chairman of the Group: Hassan Sedky

The Morshedy group has begun construction on ‘SKLINE’ with a goal and vision to be the World’s Biggest Residential Project.

Memaar Al Morshedy in currently working on 14 different projects.

SKYLINE is based in the upcoming central area of Kattameya, Cairo.The development extends over 200,000 sq meters with parks and recreation facilities. It is planned to have about 13,500 apartments of various sizes.

Architect: One of the leading global archictects Mohamed Hadid / Local Designer: Raef Rahmy / International Design – Spanish Design Studio VDP Barcelona.

Guinness World Record Attempt Granted.

Plans for WORLD’s :

  • World’s Biggest Residential Project
  • World’s Biggest Rooftop Park in a building
  • World’s Biggest Infinity Swimming Pool
  • Egypt’s Biggest IMAX cinema-

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Hassan Morshedy with his father and the company’s founder Mohamed Morshedy
pix : forbesmiddleeast.com

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Egypt

Nicolas Hayek – Co-Founder, Chairman of the Board: SWATCH Group – Switzerland

Dr.Nicolas Hayek (aka) Dr. Nicolas George Hayek. Co-Founder, Chairman of the Board and CEO – The Swatch Group.

The Swatch Group was earlier ‘Societe Suisse de Microelectronique et d’Horologerie’ or SMH. Later The Swatch Group.

The watch brands of the Swatch Group being Swatch, Blancpain, Omega, Longines, Rado, Tissot, Certina, Mido, Hamilton, Pierre Balmain, Calvin Klein, Flik Flak, Breguet and Lanco.

Nicolas Hayek is credited with the engineering and re-birth of the Swiss Watch industry.

He is the inventor of the Swatch Watch Company which used only 51 parts as opposed to the nearly 100 parts needed to make a traditional wrist watch. At the time it was first and foremost a technological break through.

-Member- Advisory Board of EPFC (Ecole Polytechniqu Federale de Lausanne)

Awards:

  • Distinction of ‘Grosses Ehrenzeichen mit Stern ‘ – Government of Austria
  • Conferred ‘Officier de la legion d’honneur ‘ – Government of France
  • Conferred ‘Commander de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres’ – Government of France
  • Appointed ‘Honorary Citizen of Biel-Bienne, Switzerland
  • Conferred ‘Meisterschwanden’ – Aargau
  • Awarded ‘ Swiss Lifetime Achievement Award (January 2007)

www.swatchgroup.com

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Swiss / Lebanese-American / Swiss-Arab

Saudi Arabia – The Largest Country in the World without River

Saudi Arabia is the biggest country in the world without a permanent river.

It has a land area of 830,000 sq.miles (2,149,690 sq.km) of which 95% is desert.

Many parts of the country have not received any rainfall for years. All the Water collected is stored in underground acquifers.

Even though Saudi Arabia does not have any permanent rivers, it has several wadis. Wadis are intermittently or permanent dry river beds.

pix: gulfnews.com

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Saudi Arabia