The first female Skating National Team of Saudi Arabia was founded in 2018.
The President of Saudi Skating Team is Zaher Al-Asiri, its coach is Abdul Aziz Al-Qahtani and the teams’ Media and Public Relations Officer is Aljawhara Minwer.
The Saudi Skating League was also established.
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SAUDI ARABIA
Mamoudou Athie. Actor. Producer. Soundtrack.
Film/s :
Experimenter / Jean of the Joneses / Patti Cake$ / One Percent More Humid/ The Circle / Jack / Jared / Virgil / The Front Runner / Watch Room / Underwater / Unicorn Store / Uncorked / Blackbox / Jurassic World: Dominion ….
Television:
Madam Secretary / Me & Mean Margaret / The Get Down / The Detour / Sorry for your Loss / Cake / Oh Jerome, No …..
Education :
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AMERICAN / MAURITANIA / AMERICAN-MAURITANIAN
Two Saudi Women Asrar Damdam and Lama Al-Abdi recently won awards from the L’Oreal-UNESCO for Women in Science Middle East Regional Young Talents Program for their work.
Dr. Asrar Damdam, was honored in the Ph.D. students’ category for her role in the development of a pump meant to revolutionize the way a healthy heartbeat is regulated — combining medicine, electrical engineering and electro-physics.
Dr. Lama Al-Abdi in recognition of her research on chromatin — a substance within chromosomes consisting of DNA and protein — and the regulation of genes in relation to vision loss.
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SAUDI ARABIA
Elias Rahbani – Musician, Composer, Song Writer, Performer, Conductor.
Elias was the youngest brother of celebrated musicians Mansour and Assi Rahbani, known together as the Rahbani brothers.
In a career spanning almost six decades, Elias Rahbani wrote music for many famous Lebanese singers Fairuz including the late Wadih al-Safi and Sabah.
Elias Rahbani distinguished himself from his brothers, who were the industry’s best known duo, with his more modern styles and mix of Middle Eastern and Western music that won him international awards. He wrote some of Fairouz’ best hits, as well as the music and lyrics for many patriotic songs.
He has more than 2,500 songs to his credit, almost half of which were composed for film, television or advertising, a field in which he was a pioneer among the artists of his region.
Elias Rahbani passed away on Monday – January 04th, 2021
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LEBANON
Each year on January 8, the Arab League Education, Cultural and Scientific Organisation (ALECSO) marks Arab Literacy Day.
It was adopted by the League of Arab States in 1970.
Emirati Referee Yahya Ali Al Mulla has been included in the Asian Football Confederation’s referees for the elite panel for 2021
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UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (U.A.E)
Ouahib Timoulali claimed a win in the Global STEM Alliance competition.
Timoulali is an industrial engineer from the National School of Applied Sciences (ENSA) in Kenitra.
He worked within a team of different nationalities. Their idea labeled the “Cybercastle,” won the “Cybersecurity in the Age of IoT” challenge.
First Moroccan national to win the competition in the history of the New York Academy of Sciences.
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MOROCCO
In the virtual presence of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, Dubai Press Club held a virtual ceremony to honour the winners of the 19th Arab Journalism Award.
President of the Dubai Press Club and Secretary General of the Arab Journalism Award Mona Al Marri, members of the Board of Arab Journalism Award and a host of editors in chief, journalists and media leaders attended the virtual event.
The winners represented daily newspapers, magazines, online web portals and various media organisations from the Arab world.
The winners were announced at the 19th Arab Media Forum.
The 11 winners of the Arab Journalism Award 2020 are:
• Media Personality of the Year: Nayla Tueni, CEO and Editor-in-Chief of Annahar newspaper, Lebanon
• Best Column Award: Othman Mirghani, Editor-in-Chief of the independent newspaper Al-Tayar, Sudan
• Political Journalism Award: Mohamed Amin Al Masri from Al-Ahram newspaper, Egypt
• Economic Journalism Award: Al Khaleej newspaper, UAE
• Investigative Reporting Award: Jamal Jouhar from Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper
• Press Interview Award: Mohammed Mansour from Al-Roeya newspaper, UAE
• Cultural Journalism Award: Tareq Al Taher from Akhbar Al-Adab magazine, Egypt
• Sports Journalism Award: Motaz El Shamy from Al-Ittihad newspaper, UAE
• Photojournalism Award: Saber Nooraldin from the European Pressphoto Agency
• Young Journalist Award:
– Samar Saleh from El-Watan newspaper, Egypt
– Abdul-Samad Edinadin from Bayane Al-Yaoume newspaper, Morocco
– Ahmed Atef from Al-Dostor newspaper, Egypt
• Smart Journalism Award: Youm7 newspaper, Egypt
This year, the General Secretariat of the Arab Journalism Award decided to host the award ceremony virtually due to the current global challenges related to COVID-19 and the travel restrictions imposed in some countries.
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The fastest 300 km by speed boat is 1 hour 55 minutes and 14 seconds and was achieved by Sheikh Hassan bin Jabor al-Thani and Abdullah al-Sulaiti .
The event was organised by Qatar Marine Sports Federation in Doha on 10 February 2010.
The route, pre-approved by Guinness World Records, was from Abu Dhabi to Doha, Qatar.
The boat used was a twin gas turbine engine Nor-Tech speed boat named Qatar Challenger. The engines on the boat are also used on Cobra helicopters.
source: guinnessworldrecords.com
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QATAR
Omani Author Jokha Alharthi became the first Arab Woman Arabic language novelist to win Man Booker International Prize 2019 for the novel ‘Celestial Bodies’.
The award also carries a cash prize of GBP 50,000 (USD 64,000).
The novel ‘ Sayyidat el-Qamar ‘ published in Arabic was translated into English by US academic, now UK based translator Marilyn Booth who teaches Arabic literature at Oxford University. Celestial Bodies was published by Sandstone Press, Scotland.
Dr. Jokha Alharthi studied Arabic poetry and did her Ph.D in Classical Arabic literature in Edinburgh and is now a Professor teaching at the Sultan Al Qaboos University, Muscat.
Alharthi has published three collections of short stories, three children’s books, and three novels (Manamat, Sayyidat el-Qamar and Narinjah)
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OMAN