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He was awarded the USD 38,000 ‘Deutsche Borse Photography Foundation Prize 2020’ for his ‘Free Trade’ installation.
It was first exhibited across an entire floor at a Monoprix Supermarket in France as a part of the ‘Les Recontres d’Artes Photography Festival’ in 2019.
Bourouissa uses different mediums including photography, video, painting, text, drawing and sculpture.
His work reflects the lives of the marginalised and dispossessed.
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The Algerian-born artist is known for his politically-charged series that highlight the marginalized communities of Paris. File/Supplied / pix: arabnews.com
Dr. Mohammed ‘Mo’ Ibrahim (aka) Mo Ibrahim. Businessman. Engineer. Philanthropist.
Founder : Mo Ibrahim Foundation, London. Goal to encourage better governance in Africa.
Established ‘Mo Ibrahim Index’ to evaluate nations’ performance.
-Established Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership. Awards USD 5 million initial payment
Business:
-Founder : ‘Celtel’. Sold to Kuwait based Zain Communications (2005)
-Founder: ‘MSI Consultancy’ (1989). Sold to Marconi company
Others:
-Member, Africa Regional Advisory Board of London Business School
Honours:
-Top 100 List 2018 – Time Magazine
-Ranked First in the annual Powerlist of influential Black Britons
Education:
-Ph.D : Mobile Communications, University of Birmingham (UK) / Masters in Electronics and Electrical Engineering, University of Bradford (UK) / Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering, Alexandria University (Egypt)
-Chevalier of the Legion of Honour – France / – Grand officier of the National Order of Merit – France / Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Letrres – France / Knight First class of the Order of the Lion of Finland / Grand Cordon of the National Order of the Cedar – Lebanon / Officier of the Order of Cultural Merit – Monaco
-Spanish Prince of Asturias Award for Literature (2010)
-Sheikh Zayed Book Award for “Cultural Personality of the Year” -2016
-Elected member of the Academie francaise – 23 June 2011 . Maalouf is the first person of Lebanese heritage to receive that honor
Books / Fiction :
–Leon l’Africain (1986) Leo Africanus-translated by Peter Sluglett / Samarcande (1988) Samarkand – translated by Russell Harris / –Les jardins de lumiere (1991) – The Gardens of Light – translated by Dorothy S. Blair / –Le Premier siecle apresBeatrice (1992) – The First Century after Beatrice – translated by Dorothy S. Blair / –LeRocher de Tanios (1993) – The Rock of Tanios – translated by Dorothy S. Blair / –Les Echelles du Levant (1996) – Ports of Call – translated by Alberto Manguel / –Le Periple de Baldassare (2000) – Balthasar’s Odyssey – translated by Barbara Bray
Books / Non-Fiction :
–Les Croisades vues par les Arabes (1983) – The Crusades Through Arab Eyes / –Les Identites meurtrieres (1998) – In the Name of Identity : Violence and the Need to Belong – translated by Barbara Bray / –Origenes (2004) – Origins : A memoir – translated by Catherine Temerson / – Le Dereglement du monde (2009) – Disordered World – translated by George Miller
Dr Hani Najm MD, MSc – Chairman, Congenital and Pediatric Heart Surgeon , Cleveland Clinic Children’s Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio.
Dr Najm has performed more than 5,000 open heart surgeries sucessfully.
-Recently selected as Member, Board of Trustees of American College of Cardiology (ACC) for the years (2021 – 2014)
Academic :
King Saud University, Riyadh (M.D. 1985) /King Saud University General Surgery (1986- 1989) / University of Ottawa General Surgery (1989- 1994) /University of Toronto Cardiothoracic Surgery (1995-1996) /Hospital for Sick Children Pediatric Cardiac Surgery fellowship(1996-1997) /University of Toronto Cardiovascular Sciences Master program (1997-1998) /Assistant professor, King Saud University, 1999 /Assistant professor, King Saud University for health sciences 2002 /Associate professor, King Saud Univ. for Health Specialties, 2010
Founder and Director of ICAP at Columbia University. Director – Center for Infectious Disease Epidemiologic Research ‘CIDER’ at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and Professor at Columbia University.
Dr. El-Sadr joined the faculty of Columbia’s College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1988 and become a professor of epidemiology and medicine at the Mailman School of Public Health, of which she is an alumna.
In 2013, she was appointed University Professor, Columbia’s highest academic honor.
She also holds the Dr. Mathilde Krim-amfAR Chair in Global Health, and is the director of the Global Health Initiative at the Mailman School.
Awards & Honours :
-Dr Wafaa El-Sadr received the MacArthur Prize from the MacArthur Foundation (2008)
–Rolling Stone magazine named her to its list of “100 People Who Are Changing America” .(2009)
-Named as one of the ” 10: Guiding Science for Humanity” of “Scientific American” (2008)
-Member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Medicine .
– “Utne Reader” named Wafaa El-Sadr, one of the “50 visionaries who are changing your world. ” (2009)
Qorsho Hassan is the First Somali-American educator to win the honour of ‘Minnesota Teacher of the Year Award’ 2020.
The award is sponsored by ‘Education Minnesota’ the state’s largest educator union.
Qorsho Hassan teaches 5th grade at the Gideon Pond Elementary School in Burnsville. She was selected out of 134 nominees.
Qorsho Hassan, Minnesota’s 2020 Teacher of the Year, holds her makeshift award in front of the state Capitol Thursday night. The frame will be replaced with an engraved plaque. Credit: Jaida Grey Eagle | Sahan Journal
Sharjah Art Foundation announces winners of Short Film Production Grant.
Filmmakers Nadira Amrani (b. 1993, Manchester, UK), Soha Shukayr (b. 1989, Baljarshi, Saudi Arabia) and Pelin Tan and Anton Vidokle (b. 1974, Hilden, Germany; b. 1965, Moscow, Russia) have been awarded a total of US$ 30,000 to support the creation of the three original short films.
The winning candidates were selected from a pool of more than 500 applicants from over 65 countries,
All three films will be shown at future editions of the Sharjah Film Platform.
Shukayr presenting her film at 3rd edition of Sharjah Film Platform, 4th to 21st November 2020, and Amrani and duo Tan and Vidokle presenting their films at the 2021 edition.
“Sharjah Film Platform was conceived to support filmmakers from all over the region and around the world ” said Hoor Al Qasimi, Director of Sharjah Art Foundation. “
