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World’s Longest Chandelier – at ‘Ali Bin Khalifa Al Hitmi’, Doha, Qatar : June 2010

The world’s longest chandelier by number of lights called ‘ Reflective Lights’ is installed at the Ali Bin Khalifa Al Hitmi & Co, office building on the water front in Doha on June 23rd, 2010.

-Largest Chandelier in the world

-Largest inter-active LED light sculpture

The exhibit is an organic art sculpture by day and then transformed when the light is introduced behind the glass frame.

The ‘Reflective Lights’ chandelier weighs 18,000 kg (39,683 lbs) and has 165,000 LED units. It measures 5.8m (19ft) in height at 12.5m (41 ft) in linear width and 38.5 m (126 ft 4in) in linear length. Certified by Guinness World Records.

The Chandelier is designed by Beau McClellan, Scotland.

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Qatar

World Record for ‘Spinning 200 Hula Hoops Simultaneously ‘ – Marawa Ibrahim – Somali Australian

Marawa Ibrahim (aka) Marawa The Amazing, has the World record for performing ‘200 Hoops at one time’. Acrobat. Author. Teacher.

She also holds another 12 records. Austraclian champion of records.

Author of the book ‘The Girl Guide’ – helping to empower young women to live changing their bodies.

www.marawatheamazing.com

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Australian. Somali-Australian

Nuruddin Farah – International Award Winning Writer : Somalia

Nuruddin Farah (aka) Nuuradiin Faaraa . Novelist. Essayist. Short Stories. Playwright. Educator.

Books /Novels :

-From a crooked rib (1970) /A naked needle (1976) / Sweet and Sour Milk (1979) / Sardines (1981) / Close Sesame (1983) / Blood in the Sun (1986) / Maps (1986) / Gifts (1993) / Secrets (1998) / Past Imperfect / Links (2004) / Knots (2007) / Crossbones (2011) / Hiding in Plain Sight (2014) / North of Dawn (2018)…etc..

Awards/Honours :

-English-Speaking Union Literary Award (for Sweet and Sour Milk) (1980) / -Corman Artists Fellowship (1990) /- Kurt Tucholsky Prize, Sweden (1991) / -Best Novel Award (for Gifts), Zimbabwe (1993) / Premio Cavour (for Italian translation of Close Sesame),Italy (1994) / -Neustadt International Prize for Literature (1998) /- St Malo Literary Festival Award (for French edition of Gifts) (1998) etc…

Presently lives in Cape Town, South Africa

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Somalia

World’s Oldest Bread Discovered. 14, 400 Years Ago. Jordan.

Researchers working in the black desert of north-eastern Jordan found the charred remains of a flat bread baked by hunter-gatherers 14,400 years ago.

The bread was found in a stone fireplace. The oldest direct evidence of bread yet found, predating the advent of agriculture by at least 4,000 years ago.

The excavation was led by Tobias Richter, Archaeologist and researchers were led by Amaia Arranz Otaegui of the University of Copenhagen, Denmark in 2018. Findings were published in the Journal ‘Proceedings of the National Academy of Science’.

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Jordan

Largest Copper Bas-relief Sculpture : Ali Moneer Alassad , Syria 2009

The largest copper bas-relief created by Ali Moneer Alassad in Qurdaha, Lattakia, Syria, on 2 July 2009.

The bas-relief measures 122.5 sq mtr (1,318.5) sq m and is 50.10 m long and 2.44 m tall.

Alassad and his team spent 4,000 working hours to finish the copper bas-relief. The copper bas-relief is surrounded by ornamental plant Islamic framework and includes a 78 portraits represent the most important archaeological finds in Syria throughout history.

The bas-relief reflects the history of Syria since 9 thousand years BC. until the present time.

source: Guinness World Records / world-records.org /

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Syria

World’s 3rd Longest Driverless Metro Network : Dubai Metro, UAE

In 2009, when it opened Dubai Metro topped the list as the ‘Worlds Longest Automated Rail System’

Presently, it’s moved down after Vancouver’s Sky Train and Singapore.

The longest driverless metroline is the Dubai Metro Red Line which is 52.1 km in length. The second line, Green Line is 22.5 km which when combined with the Red Line will make it longer than the Vancouver Sky Train.

Dubai Metro is owned by Roads an Transport Authority (RTA), Dubai.

Image Credit: Gulf News Archive / gulfnews.com

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Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Mohammad Burbayea : World Jet Ski Champion : Kuwait

Mohammad Burbayea, Jet Ski racer, has the most IJSBA World Championship wins (male) by an individual : 22 , achieved by between 2007 and 2018.

Burbayea has won over 28 titles including 15 World Championships with 12 consequtive wins.

IJSBA : International Jet Sports Boating Association

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Kuwait

World’s Largest Hot Desert . The Sahara Desert, North Africa

The Sahara in North Africa is the largest hot desert in the world.

At its greatest length it is 5,150 km (3,200 miles) from east to west. From north to south it is between 1,280 and 2,250 km (800 and 1,400 miles).

The area covered by the desert is about 9.1 million km (9,100,000 sq km/ 3.5 million square miles).

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(Algeria, Egypt, Libya,Morocco, Sudan,Tunisia), North Africa

World’s Largest Hand-Woven Carpet – Abu Dhabi, UAE

The largest hand-woven carpet sits in Sheikh Zayed Al Nahyan Mosque in Abu Dhabi.

The massive Persian carpet was created in 9 parts and assembled inside the mosque. It took 1,200 weavers from the Khorasan province about one year to hand craft. The carpet features 2.2 billion hand-tied individual rug knots, weighs 12 tons and is 5,360 square meters (60,000.81 sq. feet) . It was manufactured in Iran in 2007.

Record by the Guiness World Records

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Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Omar M. Yaghi – The Alchemist. Winner numerous Int’l Awards for Chemistry

American Omar Mwannes Yaghi, the second most cited chemist in the world.

Elected member of the US National Academy of Sciences

Present Assignment:

James & Neeltje Tretter Chair, Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley

Education:

BS – Chemistry – Cum Laude – State University of New York-Albany, New York (1983-85)
PhD – Chemistry – Best Thesis Award – University of Illinois, Urbania-Champaign (1986-90)
NSF Post Doctoral Fellow – Harvard University (1990-92)

Director:

Founding Director – Berkeley Global Science Institute
Co-Director – Kavli Energy NanoScience Institute
Co-Director – California Research Alliance by BASF

Awards / Honours :

Solid State Chemistry Award of the American Chemical Society and Exxon Co (1998)
Sacconi Medal of the Italian Chemical Society (2004)
US Department of Energy Hydrogen Program Award (2007)
Materials Research Society
Newcomb Cleveland Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Chemical Society Chemistry of Materials Award (2009)
Izatt-Christensen International Award (2009)
Royal Society of Chemistry Centenary Prize (2010)
China Nano Award (2013)
King Faisal International Prize in Chemistry (2015)
Mustafa Prize in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (2015)\
TÜBA Academy Prize in Basic and Engineering Sciences for establishing Reticular Chemistry (2016)
Spiers Memorial Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry (2017)
Medal of Excellence of the First Order bestowed by King Abdullah II (2017)
Japan Society of Coordination Chemistry International Award(2017)
Bailar Medal in Inorganic Chemistry (2017)
Kuwait Prize in Fundamental Sciences (2017)
Albert Einstein World Award of Science conferred by the World Cultural Council (2017)
BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences for pioneering Reticular Chemistry (2018)
Wolf Prize in Chemistry in which he was cited for pioneering reticular chemistry via metal-organic frameworks and covalent organic frameworks (2018)
His work on water harvesting from desert air using metal-organic frameworks was showcased by the World Economic Forum in Switzerland as one of the top 10 emerging technologies
Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water (2018)
Eni Award in recognition of his work in applying framework chemistry to clean energy solutions including methane storage, carbon dioxide capture and conversion, and water harvesting from desert air (2018)
Gregori Aminoff Prize by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for the development of reticular chemistry (2019)
MBR Medal for Scientific Excellence of the United Arab Emirates (2019)
Nano Research Award (2019)
August-Wilhelm-von-Hofmann-Denkmunze gold medal of the German Chemical Society for his contribution to reticular chemistry and for pioneering MOFs, COFs, and molecular weaving (2020)
Royal Society of Chemistry Sustainable Water Award for his impactful development of water harvesting from desert air using metal–organic frameworks(2020)

Books/ Publications / Papers :

Several books published. Many papers presented

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American / Palestine-Jordan / Arab-American