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.
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American / Somali-American
Areej Al Hammadi was awarded the Guinness World Record for the most ‘hotstepper’ football control tricks (86) completed in one minute, breaking the previous world record of 56 held in the UK.
Areej Al Hammadi is a footballer and a member of the UAE National Team since 2015.
She is also the Creative Project Manager at Expo 2020 Dubai.
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Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE)
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. “
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Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (UAE)
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
Councillor Rakhia Mohammed Ismail , the first hijab wearing female Mayor of Islington, North London.
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British / Somali-British
Najat Rochdi of Morocco was appointed as United Nations Deputy Special Co-ordinator for Lebanon by Antonio Guterres, UN Secretary-General.
She will also serve as Humanitarian Co-ordinator.
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Education:
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Morocco
Amal Al-Agroobi – Emirati Neuro-scientist . Documentary filmmaker, Director, Producer, Writer and Entreprenuer
Entreprenuer:
Awards:
Education:
M.Sc. : Neurosciences, University College, London
B.Sc : Biomedical Sciences, University of Durham, U.K.
Certificate : Short film production
Certificate : Acting for film
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United Arab Emirates
Thirteen women have been appointed to the Saudi Human Rights Commission (HRC) under a royal decree issued by Saudi Arabia’s King Salman.
“Appointing 13 women as members of the HRC council, with a total of 26 members, is in line with efforts made by the Kingdom’s leadership to enable women to occupy leading positions in various fields, and helps achieve what is best for the country,” said Dr. Awwad bin Saleh Al-Awwad, head of the HRC
source: www.arabnews.com
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Saudi Arabia
Ilhan Omar (aka) Ilhan Abdullahi Omar – American politician serving as U.S. Representative for Minnesota’s 5th Congressional district since 2019.
Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar
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Education:
Book:
Memoir : ‘This is what America looks like : My journey from Refugee to Congresswoman’
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American / Somali-American
Taleeda Tamer, Jeddah based Kingdom’s first fashion model.
Made history in July 2018 as the first Saudi model to walk the Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week. Opened for the Italian designer Antonio Grimaldi couture show at ‘Salons France-Amerique’ in Paris.
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Saudi Arabia