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Huda Alkhamis-Kanoo, Founder – Abu Dhabi Festival

Huda I Alhamis-Kanoo, Patron of the Arts

Founder – Abu Dhabi Music and Arts Foundation (ADMAF) – 1996
Founder & Artistic Director : Abu Dhabi Festival (2004)

www.admaf.org / www.abudhabifestival.ae

Awards:

The Abu Dhabi Award and Abu Dhabi Medal (conferred by H.H. General Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi)
The UN-affiliated Women Together Award
The Aspen Institute Emerging Voice Award for Cultural Stewardship
The Puccini Festival Foundation Award,
The Middle East Institute’s Visionary Award,
etc…

Orders Conferred:

The Commander of the Royal Order of Isabella the Catholic (Orden de Isabel la Católica), conferred upon her by HM Juan Carlos, former King of Spain, by order of HM Philip IV, King of Spain
The Medal of Civil Merit of Spain
The Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesverdienstkreuz)
Commendatore dell’Ordine della Stella della Solidarietà of Italy
Chevalier de l’Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur of France
Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France
The Belgian Officer of the Order of the Crown, bestowed upon her by HM Albert II, King of Belgium
The Gloria Artis Medal of Poland
Order of the British Empire (OBE), bestowed upon her by HM Queen Elizabeth the Second
etc…

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Huda Alkhamis-Kanoo is the founder of Admaf and artistic director of the Abu Dhabi Festival. Courtesy Abu Dhabi Festival / pix: thenationalnews.com

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ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (U.A.E)

Moroccan Poet Abdellatif Laabi Wins 2021 Roger Kowalski Award, Lyons-France

Moroccan francophone poet Abdellatif Laabi has won the 2021 Roger Kowalski Award for Poetry, organized by the city council of Lyon, in east-central France

The Award was for his most-recent poetry book, “Presque riens” (Almost Nothing), published in October 2020.

Named after a famous Lyon-native poet, the Roger Kowalski Award for Poetry each year honors a living francophone poet who is connected to the city of Lyon. Laabi was eligible for nomination because his wife, Jocelyne, is a Lyon native. He is the first Moroccan to ever win the award.

Founder of the first ever Moroccan francophone poetry magazine, called “Souffles” (Breaths) along with other writers Mohammed Khair-Eddine and Mostafa Nissaboury (1966).

Abdellatif Laabi published a novel in 2003, “Le Chemin des ordalies” (The Path of Ordeals), where he shares memories from his experience in prison.

Published 20 poetry books and five novels, along with tens of works translated from Arabic.

source: moroccoworldtoday.com

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FRENCH /MOROCCAN- FRENCH / FRENCH-ARAB / EUROPEAN ARAB

Morocco Receives Certificate of UNESCO Heritage Registration for COUSCOUS : December 2020

UNESCO gave couscous the special designation on December 16, 2020.

Samir Addahre, Morocco’s ambassador to the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), received the certificate of registration of couscous on the Intangible Cultural Heritage list.

Couscous is Morocco’s 10th “element” on the list. Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Mauritania presented a joint request to include couscous on UNESCO’s list in December 2018.

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How heritage brings people together

The registration of “Knowledge, know-how and practices related to the production and consumption of couscous” is the result of a joint application by Algeria, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia. This joint inscription of a shared heritage illustrates the extent to which intangible cultural heritage can be a subject on which States meet and cooperate. This is, moreover, the meaning of UNESCO’s action: building bridges between peoples, bringing them closer together through the practices and knowledge they have in common.

UNESCO / www.en.unesco.org

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source: moroccoworldnews.com

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MOROCCO / NORTH AFRICA

AlAnoud Al Sharekh – First Kuwaiti Woman to Receive France’s Ordre National du Merite : 2016

Dr. AlAnoud Al Sharekh. Researcher. Academic. Author. Women’s Rights Activist.

Presently, Research Associate, The Chatham House and ‘The Arab Gulf Institute, Washington

Activity :

Founding Member – Abolish 153 (aka) Abolish Article 153
Founding Member – Mudhawi’s List
Director – Ibtkar Strategic Consulting

Awards:

First Kuwaiti Woman to receive France’s ‘Ordre National du Merite’ (National Order of Merit)
Listed among BBC’s 100 Women of 2019
Arab Prize – Best Publication in a Foreign Journal (2013-2014) by The Doha Institute (2014)
Voices of Success Kuwait Award (2018)

Education:

BA – Bachelor’s Degree – English, Kings College, London (1996)
MA – Masters Degree – Applied Linguistics and English-Arabic Language and Translation – School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London
Ph.D – Doctorate – Near and Middle Eastern Studies, Comparative Literature and Feminism

Books:

Challenging Limitations: The Redefinition of Rules for Women in the GCC (2005)
Angry Words Softly Spoken: A Comparitive Study of English and Arabic Women Writers (2006)
The Gulf Family : Kinship Policies and Modernity (2007)
Popular Culture and Political Identity in the Arab Gulf States (2008)

http://www.alanoudalsharekh.com

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KUWAIT

Nisreen Krimed – UAE based Fashion Designer and Entrepreneur

Nisreen Krimed. Entrepreneur. Fashion Designer.

Founder of hand made womens’ wear fashion label – Canava Designs which specialises in stories created with Arabic Calligraphy and Cartography.

Education:

Alumnus – Esmod Fashion Institute, Dubai
B.A – Faculty of Fine Arts, Damascus, Syria – Design and Visual Communications (1995-1999)

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Canava Design blends fashion and graphic design. (Supplied) / pix: arabnews.com

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PALESTINE / SYRIA / UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (U.A.E.)

Egyptian Ballet Dancer Luca Abdel Nour Wins 2nd Rank at International Ballet Competition Prix de Lausanne, Switzerland : February 2021

Luca Abdel Nour – Ballet Dancer claimed the second rank for classical ballet at the international ballet competition Prix de Lausanne in Switzerland which was held from January 31 to February 6.

Abdel Nour also won the “Best Swiss Candidate” award and the “Audience Favorite” Award.

78 dancers participated in this year’s competition. They were selected based on audition videos.

source: egypttoday.com

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EGYPT

Sony World Photography Awards 2021 – Regional Winners.

The National Awards program is an initiative set up by the World Photography Organisation and Sony to support local photographic communities around the world, with 53 countries taking part this year.

A National Winners – of the 2021 Sony World Photography Award of the Region are:

Photographer Abdelhamid Tahoun (Egypt)
Photographer Naser Alomari (Kuwait)
Photographer Abdulla Al-Mushaifri (Qatar)
Photographer Naif Al-Bugami (Saudi Arabia) – winning picture below
Photographer – Mireia Vilaplana (based in Dubai, UAE)

Over 330,000 images from 220 territories were submitted to the Sony World Photography Awards 2021 and over 165,000 were entered to the Open competition (from which the National Awards winner was selected).

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Photograph of Naif Al-Bugami, Saudi Arabia / pix: eyeofriyadh.com

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EGYPT /KUWAIT / QATAR / SAUDI ARABIA / U.A.E

Abeer Balubaid. First Saudi Female Pianist

Abeer Balubaid. Pianist. Composer.

Balubaid has also composed and performed two original pieces ‘Tempo’ and ‘Mystery’ with Saudi Jazz Band, Alfarbai at the King Abdulaziz Center For World Culture (Ithra) on September 23 on the occasion of 90th Saudi National Day.

She is also a Member of the Music Committee of Saudi Arabian Society for Culture and the Arts (SASCA).

Education:

B.E. : Bachelors degree in Architecture, Effat University, Saudi Arabia

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SAUDI ARABIA

A New Museum Dedicated to the Life of the Prophet (pbuh) inaugrated : February 02nd, 2021

The opening ceremony of the International Exhibition and Museum of the Life of the Prophet and Islamic Civilization took place in Madinah on February 02nd.

The International Exhibition and Museum of the Life of the Prophet and Islamic Civilization was launched under the supervision of the Muslim World League (MWL) and is the first in a series of Islamic museums scheduled to be constructed around the world under the organization’s umbrella.

Located next to the Prophet’s Mosque in Madinah, the museum is open 24 hours a day, and is dedicated to the history of the Islamic world and the life of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him).

The exhibition features dozens of paintings and interactive displays. At the moment, there are seven languages available to visitors — Arabic, English, Spanish, Urdu, French, Turkish and Indonesian. It also includes a 4DX theater, which screens a series of films about the Prophet’s life.

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The International Exhibition and Museum of the Life of the Prophet and Islamic Civilization

• Size: 5,000 square meters

• Location: Next to the Prophet’s Mosque, Madinah

• Number of floors: Two

• Exhibit and pavilion displays: 25 main pavilions

• 500 antique items from the Prophet’s era

• A main screen to feature the masterpieces found in the Qur’an and the Sunnah

• A movie theater showing a film about the Prophet’s life

• Virtual reality shows

• A special presentation of the Constitution of Madinah and the Makkah Document

• A presentation of the efforts of Saudi Arabia in serving the Qur’an and the Sunnah

• Languages: French, English, Urdu, Spanish, Turkish, Indonesian, Arabic

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source: arabnews.com

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Madinah , SAUDI ARABIA

Feb. 04 th – Birth Anniversary of Egyptian Geographer Gamal Hamdan

Gamal Hamdan was a scholar, writer, researcher and one of the pioneering Egyptian geographers.

He was a prolific author and published over 29 books both in Arabic and English and 79 research papers.

Education:

B.A. – Cairo, Egypt
M.A – University of Reading, U.K.
Ph.D – University of Reading, U.K.

Books :

In Arabic

Studies on the Arab World, Cairo, 1958.
Patterns of Environments, Cairo, 1958.
Study on Urban Geography, Cairo 1958.
The Arab City, Cairo 1964.
Arabs’Oil, Cairo, 1964.
Colonisation and Liberation in the Arab World, Cairo, 1964.
Anthropology of Jews, Dar el-Helal Publications, Cairo, 1967.
Egypt’s Identity, Dar el-Helal Publications, Cairo, 1967.
The Strategy of Colonisation and Liberation, Cairo, 1978.
Introduction to “Cairo” by Desmond Stewart, translated by Yehya Haqqi, 1969.
The Contemporary Islamic World, Cairo, 1971.
Between Europe and Aisa, A Study in the Geographic Counterparts, Cairo, 1972.
The Arab Republic of Libya, A Study in Geopolitics, Cairo 1973.
6 October War in the International Strategy, Cairo, 1974.
The Suez Canal, Cairo, 1975.
New Africa, Cairo, 1975.
Egypt’s Identity, A Study in the Genius of the Place, four volumes, Cairo, 1975-84.

In English :

Population of the Nile Mid-Delta, Past and Present, Reading University, June 1953, 2 volumes.
Khartoum : Study of a City, Geog. Review, 1956.
Studies in Egyptian Urbanism, Cairo, 1960.
Evolution of Irrigation and Agriculture in Egypt. A History of Land Use in Arid Regions, Ed. L.
Dubley Stamp UNESCO, Paris, 1961.
Egypt : the Land and the People, A Guide Book to Geology, 1962.
Pattern of Medieval Urbanism in Arab World, Geog. Review, April 1962.
A Political Map of the New Africa, Geog. Review October 1963.
The Four Dimensions of Egypt
‘The Personality of Egypt: A study of the ingenuity of the place (1967)
Jews Anthropology (1986)
Studies of the Arab World
The Contemporary Islamic World Geography

Awards:

State Encouragement Award in Social Sciences (1986)
Scientific Progress Award from Kuwait (1992)
Science Medal of First Class for his book ‘The Personality of Egypt’ (1988)

Born February 04th, 1928. Laid to rest on April 17th, 1993

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EGYPT