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‘Inspirational’ Saudi Alumni Honoured by UK at ‘7th Study UK Alumni Awards Ceremony’ Riyadh : October 21st, 2021

The British Embassy and British Council announced the recipients of the Study UK Alumni Awards 2020-2021 in Saudi Arabia at an awards ceremony hosted by British Ambassador in Riyadh, Neil Crompton.

UK alumni from Jeddah, Riyadh, Dhahran, Qassim and Thuwal were recognized for their outstanding achievements as business professionals, entrepreneurs and community leaders, and for their important contributions in strengthening collaborative ties between the UK and Saudi Arabia.

7th Study UK Alumni Award Ceremony:

“This prestigious international award celebrates UK higher education and the achievements of outstanding Saudis who studied in the UK and are using their education to make a positive impact.

The award received around 1,300 applications from international UK alumni in more than 100 countries, representing more than 120 UK higher education institutions across the UK. Following interviews with a judging panel, recipients were selected for the three award categories: Professional achievement, entrepreneurial, and social impact.

The professional achievement award, which recognizes alumni who have displayed exemplary leadership in their professional field, was presented to Dr. Roua Alsubki , alumna of University College London.

Roua is vice dean of skills and development deanship at King Saud University, the first woman to hold this position.

The social impact award, which acknowledges alumni who have made an exceptional contribution to creating positive social change, was presented to Dr. Bandar Alosaimi for establishing COVIDAT, a website that provides scientific information on COVID-19 in Arabic.

He saw a need to translate developments in medical research to the everyday Arabic reader to avoid misinformation and misconceptions about the coronavirus.

A graduate of University of Manchester and University of Salford, where he earned his master’s and Ph.D degrees, Alosaimi is assistant professor of virology at the faculty of medicine, the head of the virology research team and chairperson of Research Laboratories at King Fahad Medical City.

The entrepreneurial award was presented to Dr. Wail Mousa, graduate of the University of Leeds.

The University of Birmingham on Tuesday signed an agreement with King Saud University, he added.

2022 :

The Study UK Alumni Awards 2022 call for applications is open until Oct. 29, 2021.

source/content: arabnews.com

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Sir Steve Smith, British Ambassador Neil Crompton (from left) with Winners Dr. Bandar Alosaimi, Dr Roua Alsubki and Dr. Wail Mousa. (Supplied) / pix: arabnews.com

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SAUDI ARABIA

Abdulrazak Gurnah Awarded 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature : October 2021

Dr. Abdulrazk Gurnah. Writer. Born in Zanzibar (Tanzania) based in England.

No black African writer has won the prize since Wole Soyinka in 1986. Gurnah is the first black writer to win since Toni Morrison in 1993.

Gurnah is a Professor at the University of Kent.

His novel “Paradise” was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1994.

The Nobel prize in literature has been awarded to the novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, for his “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents”.

Gurnah grew up on one of the islands of Zanzibar before fleeing persecution and arriving in England as a student in the 1960s.

Gurnah was born in 1948, growing up in Zanzibar. When Zanzibar went through a revolution in 1964, citizens of Arab origin were persecuted, and Gurnah was forced to flee the country when he was 18. He began to write as a 21-year-old refugee in England, choosing to write in English, although Swahili is his first language. His first novel, Memory of Departure, was published in 1987. He has until recently been professor of English and postcolonial literatures at the University of Kent, until his retirement.

He has published 10 novels as well as a number of short stories. Anders Olsson, chair of the Nobel committee, said that the Gurnah’s novels – from his debut Memory of Departure, about a failed uprising, to his most recent, Afterlives – “recoil from stereotypical descriptions and open our gaze to a culturally diversified East Africa unfamiliar to many in other parts of the world”

source/content : theguardian.com

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By PalFest – originally posted to Flickr as Abulrazak Gurnah on Hebron Panel, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/

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UNITED KINGDOM (U.K) / TANZANIA

Ain Shams University- Egypt, Wins Unesco Literacy Prize : September 2021

Ain Shams University in Egypt is awarded the UNESCO Confucius Prize for Literacy 2021 for its project ‘Ain Shams University experience in organizing online literacy classes for rural areas in Egypt’.

The Cairo university is one of six international recipients recognised for outstanding inclusive distance and digital learning projects in Covid times.

Egypt’s Ain Shams University has won the Unesco Confucius Prize for Literacy for its project that uses digital technology to teach literacy in rural areas of the country.

The annual Unesco international literacy prizes were awarded to six programmes from Cote d’Ivoire, Egypt, Guatemala, India, Mexico and South Africa, on International Literacy Day.

Ain Shams University president Prof Mahmoud El Meteini spoke in an online event held to recognise the award recipients on Thursday.

The Unesco Confucius Prize for Literacy was established in 2005 with the support of the Chinese government. Each of the three prizewinners will receive a medal, a diploma and a cash prize of $30,000.

The Unesco King Sejong Literacy Prize, sponsored by the Korean government and established in 1989, gives special consideration to language-based literacy development. The three winners will receive a medal, a diploma and a cash prize of $20,000.

www.asu.edu.eg/

source/content: thenationalnews.com

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EGYPT

AUS students – Nour Elbery and Marawan Mahmoud from Egypt amongst 3 who Won ‘The Christo and Jeanne-Claude Award 2021’ : June 22nd, 2021

Nour Elbery and Marawan Mahmoud from Egypt, and Rashid Modibbo from Nigeria, selected a winners of the 9th edition of The Christo and Jeanne-Claude Award 2021.

The Award is held under the patronage of Sheikha Shamsa bint Hamdan Al Nahyan, NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), in partnership with Abu Dhabi Music and Arts Foundation (ADMAF).

The winning trio are architecture students from the American University of Sharjah (AUS).

Their winning submission, titled Cocoon, seeks to demonstrate how yesterday and tomorrow merge into one another, blurring time and rhythm, and forcing us to reflect on our shared experience of the pandemic, both individually and collectively. The installation will be available for viewing in November.

Members of this year’s selection committee included ADMAF Founder, Huda Ibrahim Alkhamis, NYUAD Interim Dean of Arts and Humanities, Awam Amkpa, Director of Abu Dhabi Art, Dyala Nusseibeh, and artist, Azza Al Qubaisi.

Executive Director of The NYUAD Art Gallery and the University’s Chief Curator Maya Allison added, “The Christo Award offers the unique opportunity to young artists to create an artwork that, in the spirit of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s work, can be publicly exhibited and enjoyed. This year we witnessed how the artists responded to the uncertainty and challenging environment of this time, by using their creativity to design a Cocoon for humanity.”

The Christo and Jeanne-Claude Award is open to UAE-based students and recent graduates and was established as a launchpad for visual artists across the Emirates.

source: wam.ae

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

Morocco Wins Gold : 28th Pan-African Mathematics Olympiad : May 24th, 2021

For the second year in a row Morocco wins at the Pan-African Mathematics Olympiad held in Tunisia.

28th Pan-African Mathematics Olympiad (PAMO) hosted virtually in Tunisia on May 23-24.

The PAMO the annual competition consists of two 4.5 hour rounds and participants must answer three questions per round. The event challenged students to answer advanced calculus and trigonometry questions.

Students from 14 countries including Angola, Botswana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Togo, Tunisia, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa, Republic of the Congo, and Zimbabwe competed in the event.

Over 60 high school students representing their home countries attended the virtual event with Morocco’s El Ibbaoui Mohamed and Achak Abderrahmane coaching the team to victory.

The organization crowned Beni Mellal’s Aya Akargout the “Queen of African Mathematics 2021” after her gold medal win alongside Marrakech’s Youssef Bouhtouch.

In addition, Morocco’s Mohammed Ayoub, Adam Kharraz, Hiba Benabou, and Asmae Hibat Allah won silver medals.

All of the students are members of Morocco’s national mathematics team operating under the Ministry of Education.

source/content : www.moroccoworldnews.com

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MOROCCO

Dr. Ali Chamseddine, Physicist

Ali Hani Chamseddine Ph.D. Physicist known for his contributions to particle physics, general relativity and mathematical physics.

Known for minimal supergravity grand unification – mSUGRA and Non commutative geometry.

Awards:

G. Bude Medal, College de France, 2007
TWAS Physics Prize, 2009
Alexander Von Humboldt Research Prize, 2001

Work:

Professor of Mathematical Physics, American University of Beirut, Lebanon-
Professor, The Institut des hautes etudes Scientifiques, France

Education:

BSc – Graduate in Physics, Lebanese University, 1975
Diploma in Physics, Imperial College, London
Ph.D – Theoretical Physics, Imperial College, London , 1976

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LEBANON

Dr. Hiba Mohamed, Award Winning Molecular Biologist

Hiba Mohamed Ph.D (aka) Hiba Salah-Eldin Mohamed

Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, Institute of Endemic Diseases, University of Khartoum

Awards/Honours:

2007 – Awarded Royal Society Pfizer Award
2004 – Awarded Wellcome Trust Research Development Award
2010 – Appointed Fellow of the Global Young Academy

Education:

BS (Hons) – Zoology, University of Khartoum (1993)
MS – University of Khartoum (1998)
Ph.D – University of Cambridge (UK), Institute of Medical Research (1998 – 2002)

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SUDAN

Dr Hajar Mousannif Winner of ‘Artificial Intelligence Award’

Hajar Mousannif Ph.D , Award winning Scientist. Educationist. Researcher

WomenTech Global Awards 2020 (Silicon Valley, California) awarded Artificial Intelligence (AI) researcher Hajar Mousannif as the golden winner of the WomenTech Global AI Inclusion Award.

A researcher and lecturer in AI, professor of machine learning and big data analysis at Cadi Ayyad University in Marrakech, the Moroccan expert conducted her latest research on wireless sensor networks and vehicle networks.

Other Awards/ Honours:

2019 – First Prize in ‘Sustainability’ in Solar Decathalon Africa
Entrepreneurial Education Award at 13th National Business Day for Morocco’s Center for Young Leaders (CJD)
2014 – Winner L’Oreal-UNESCO for Women in Science International Award
2012 – Winner ‘Literati Network Award for Excellence
etc…

www.mousannifhajar.com

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MOROCCO

Saudi Physics Team Wins 5 Medals, Int’l Competition at Nordic-Baltic Physics Olympiad : May 2021

Five Saudi students scooped the awards at the 2021 Nordic-Baltic Physics Olympiad (NBPhO).

Ahmed Al-Muhanna secured the gold, Alqasem Senegali and Hassan Mohammed Al-Lail gained silvers, and Sadeq Al-Abbad and Adel Al-Shammasi both returned home with a bronze medal.

Eight students from the Kingdom participated in the Olympiad and won one gold, two silver, and two bronze medals taking the country’s record in international scientific competitions to 413 triumphs.

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The winning Saudi participants are, from left: Alqasem Senegali (silver), Hassan Mohammed Al-Lail (silver), Ahmed Al-Muhanna (gold), Sadeq Al-Abbad (bronze) and Adel Al-Shammasi (bronze). (Supplied) / pix: arabnews.com

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SAUDI ARABIA

Dawit L Petros : Visual Artist , Educator

Dawit Petros. Visual Artist. Solo and Group Exhibitions. Researcher and Artist Lectures.

Dawit L. Petros – Assistant Professor, Department of Photography at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

He is represented by Tiwani Contemporary in London, UK and Bradley Ertaskiran in Montreal, Canada.

Awards :

Scotiabank Photography Award, Nominee
2019 Scotiabank Photography Award, Nominee

www.dawitlpetros.com

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CANADIAN / ERITREAN