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The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) announced that Arabic calligraphy was added to the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, as a monumental cultural symbol in the Arab and Islamic worlds.
The addition was underpinned by the fact that Arabic calligraphy “represents the story of a civilization, heritage and culture, and that it is closely linked to the Arabic language,”
After a successful collaboration between 15 Arab countries, led by Saudi Arabia and under the supervision of the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization, Arabic Calligraphy: Knowledge, Skills and Practices has been officially added to UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
In addition to the importance of its use in religious texts, calligraphy has played a pivotal role in the advancement of the Arabic language throughout history. For centuries, it has contributed to the transfer and spread of Arab culture, customs and religious values, in the process instilling a sense of pride and belonging among Arabs.
It is the ninth element registered by the Saudi Kingdom on this list, after registering eight elements of the intangible cultural heritage. Arabic calligraphy is a symbol of Arab identity, and has contributed to the transmission of culture and religious texts throughout history.
Deha Dhalac. Community Activist. Community Leader.
South Portland’s other city councilors, who are all White, elected her in a unanimous vote. The 4th largest city in Maine, is the whitest state in the country and South Portland is 90% White.
In 2018, she ran against a local business owner and won, making history as the first African American and first Muslim elected to the council.
In 2020, she ran unopposed for a second term. The city council selects from among its members who will be mayor, and in November, her colleagues unanimously supported her nomination.
Education / Community Work highlights:
Master’s Degree in Development Policy and Practice, University of New Hampshire
Master’s Degree in Social Work, University of New England
Past Program Manager for The Center for Grieving Children
Former South Portland Schools Community Builder for the Opportunity Alliance
Somali Community Center of Maine
Board president of the Maine Immigrant Rights Coalition
Board member of the Maine Women’s Fund
Family Engagement and Cultural Responsiveness Specialist with the Maine Department of Education
South Portland City Council, District 5 Representative
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Tunisian weightlifter Ghofrane Belkhir (59 kg) won Thursday two gold medals in both the categories – snatch and total weight (203 kg) at the World Weightlifting Championships (December 7-17) in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
Belkhir is Tunisia’s only representative at this event.
On May 25; 2021 – she had already won three gold medals; weighing 59 kg during the IWF World Junior Championships competitions.
Minister of Culture Dr. Ines Abdel-Daim said Egypt being chosen as the capital of Islamic culture for 2022 attests to Egypt’s outstanding cultural role in the world.
Ines Abdel-Daim said Cairo is a city of diversity and cultural richness reflecting many of the salient features of human civilisation in general and the Islamic civilisation in particular, as it has always been a meeting-point of civilisations, old and modern, and a unique centre of art, intellect, and creativity.
Director General of the Islamic World Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (ICESCO) Salim bin Mohammad Al-Malik participated in the gathering that took place in the Cairo Opera House’s Small Hall to elaborate on the details marking the start of the festivity.
source/content: english.ahram.org.eg
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Egyptian Minister of Culture Ines Abdel-Daim and Director General of the ISESCO Salim bin Mohammad Al-Malik during the press conference in Cairo on Tuesday (photo courtesy of Egyptian cabinet)
Two Algerian athletes set new world records on Thursday at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.
Skander Djamil Athmani and Safia Djelal smash world records as they take home the gold.
Skander Djamil Athmani :
Skander Djamil Athmani, 29, defeated his opponents in the men’s 400 metres T13 event to take home the country’s second gold of the games
Athmani smashed the world record, finishing with a dazzling time of 46.70 seconds. Morocco’s Mohamed Amguoun finished one second after Athmani, securing a silver medal, while Johannes Nambala of Namibia took home bronze.
Amguoun had held the previous world record of 46.92 seconds, which he set at the 2017 World Championships in London.
Algeria’s jubilation did not end there.
Safia Djelal :
Safia Djelal also went on to secure another gold for the North African country, as well as a new world record, this time in the women’s shotput F57 event.
With a staggering distance of 11.29 metres, Djelal gained a huge advantage over her opponents to take home the gold.
The previous record was held by Mexico’s Maria De Los Angele Ortiz Hernandez in Dubai in 2018 with a distance of 11.16 metres.
hina’s Xu Mian took silver with a throw of 10.81 metres. Meanwhile, Eucharia Iyiazi from Nigeria secured bronze.
On 27 August, Cherine Abdellaoui won Algeria its first gold medal of the Tokyo Games in the Paralympic women’s 52kg Judo event.
Dr. Muna Tahlak, CEO, DHA’s Latifa Hospital for Women and Children.
The United Arab Emirates achieved an important victory in the global health front as Emirati Dr. Muna Tahlak, CEO of DHA’s Latifa Hospital for Women and Children, was elected as the President of the International Hospital Federation. (IHF).
This is the first time that an Arab woman will hold this esteemed position, the highest international position in the history of the Union.
The IHF Governing Council voted to elect Dr Tahlak as the new IHF President Designate. In doing so, Dr Tahlak ends her term as Treasurer with IHF and now begins her two-year term as President Designate of the IHF.
She added that her work with the IHF over the past five years has helped her gain experience and gave her the opportunity to highlight the successful work of hospitals in the UAE on a global scale.
Awadh Al Ketbi, Director General of the Dubai Health Authority (DHA), congratulated Dr Muna Tahlak on this important and historic victory.
A few days ago the International Federation of Obstetrics and Gynecology (FIGO) selected Dr Muna Tahlak, CEO of Latifa Hospital for Women and Children, for the for the position of FIGO Regional Trustee Africa – Eastern Mediterranean 2021–2023.
Egyptian star Mohamed Mamdouh received the Best Actor Award for his role in Abu Saddam, which premiered at the festival.
The Best Actress Award went to Swamy Rotolo for her performance in A Chiara, directed by Jonas Carpignano (Italy – France), while The Golden Pyramid Award for Best Film went toThe Hole In The Fence, by director Joaquin del Paso (Mexico, Poland), and produced by Fernanda de la Peza and Joaquin del Paso. Blind Spot, by director Lotfi Achour (Tunisia, France) won the Best Short Film Award.
creening over 111 films from 63 countries, the activities of the CIFF’s 43rd edition ran from 25 November to 5 December, including 34 world premieres, workshops, seminars, as well as ceremonies to honour a number of renowned filmmakers, including Egyptian actors Nelly, Karim Abdel-Aziz and Indian composer A.R. Rahman.
The CIFF awards went to:
International Competition awards
Henry Barakat Awardfor Best Artistic Contribution: Jose Angel Alayon for the cinematography of They Carry Death (Spain – Colombia)
Best Actress Award: Swamy Rotolo for her performance in A Chiara, directed by Jonas Carpignano (Italy – France)
Best Actor Award: Mohamed Mamdouh for his performance in Abu Saddam, directed by Nadine Khan (Egypt)
Naguib Mahfouz Award for Best Screenplay: Péter Kerekes and Ivan Ostrochovský for 107 Mothers, directed by Péter Kerekes (Slovak Republic, Czech Republic, Ukraine)
The Bronze Pyramid Award for Best First or Second Feature of a Director: Aloners, by director Hong Seong-Eun (South Korea)
The Silver Pyramid: Small Body, directed by Laura Samani (Italy, France)
Special Jury Award for Best Director: Laura Samani for Small Body (Italy, France, Slovenia)
The Golden Pyramid Award for Best Film: The Hole In The Fence, by director Joaquin del Paso (Mexico, Poland), produced by Fernanda de la Peza and Joaquin del Paso
International Short Film Competition awards
Youssef Chahine Award for Best Short Film: Blind Spot, by director Lotfi Achour (Tunisia, France)
The Special Jury Award: It’s Nothing Nagy, Just Hang Up!, by director Youhanna Nagy (Egypt)
The Horizons of Arab Cinema Competition awards
Saad Eldin Wahba Award for Best Film: Awarded for directors Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige for their film Memory Box (Lebanon, France)
The Special Jury Award: Fiasco, by director Nicolas Khoury (Lebanon, the Netherlands)
Best Non-Fiction Film Award: From Cairo, by director Hala Galal (Egypt)
Best Acting Performance Award: Afef Ben Mahmoud for her performance in Streams, directed by Mehdi Hmili (Tunisia, Luxembourg, France)
Special Mention: A Second Life, by director Anis Lassoued (Tunisia)
International Critics’ Week Competition awards
Shadi Abdel-Salam Award for Best Film: Awarded to Ameer Fakher Eldin, director of The Stranger (Syria, Palestine, Germany)
The Special Jury Award: Wild Roots, by Hajni Kis (Hungary, Slovakia)
Special Mention: Actress Arcelia Ramírez for her performance in La Civil, by director Teodora Ana Mihai (Belgium, Romania, Mexico)
Best Arab Film Award: The Stranger, by Ameer Fakher Eldin (Syria, Palestine, Germany), produced by Tony Copti, Jiries Copti, and Dorothe Beinemeier
Special Mention: Fiasco, by Nicolas Khoury (Lebanon, Netherlands)
FIPRESCI Award: Tomorrow, directed by Dhafer L’Abidine (Tunisia)
Audience Award:Daughters of Abdel-Rahman’, directed by Zaid Abu Hamdan (Jordan)
Mona Sewilam has the COMESA media award (TV category), on the sidelines of the 21st COMESA Heads of State and Government Summit held in Egypt’s New Administrative Capital.
The winning documentary is an abridged special edition of one of the episodes of her programme titled “ON Africa” produced and aired on ON Network TV.
Titled “COMESA: Between Equal Opportunities and African Integration” the film was presented, scripted and directed by Sewilam.
It focuses on the important role of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) whose 21 member states have a population of 583 million which is about half of Africa’s population, and with a gross domestic product of $805 billion, and a global export/import trade in goods worth $324 billion. This renders COMESA the largest market for trade and investment in Africa.
The documentary which was mostly filmed in Zambia where the COMESA secretariat is based also highlights Egypt’s efforts to boost intra-African trade and achieve African integration. The documentary covered the significance of the Cairo-Cape Town Road that runs through Zambia. It filmed the successful Zambia-Egypt Joint Farm Venture located in Zambia, which will benefit from the road and COMESA’s incentives on exporting its products to COMESA member states like Egypt.
Sewilam previously won the COMESA award on the sidelines of the 20th COMESA Summit in the Zambian capital Lusaka.
source/content : english.ahram.org.eg
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Mona Sewilam wins the COMESA media award in TV category
To mark the UAE’s Golden Jubilee, local flower delivery service Floward organised an event to break not one but two world records.
Visitors showed up at the Address Montgomerie in Dubai, to help create the world’s largest word and number made out of flowers.
The floral display spelt out “UAE 50”.
Dubai delivery service Floward is the creator of the floral display now in the Guinness World Records.
source/content: thenationalnews.com
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Dubai, United Arab Emirates – Ahmed Bucheeri, Official Adjudicator – MENA giving Abdulaziz B. Al Loughani, Floward CEO the Guinness World Record certificate for the World’s Largest Flower Number and the Largest Flower, Floward Word Guinness World Record. Ruel Pableo for The National
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