Ray Bassil (aka) Ray Jacques Bassil.
Won her first title at age 15, Female Arab Championship, Algiers.
Other Honours:
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LEBANON
Four Saudi students, represented by The King Abdul Aziz and His Companions Foundation for Giftedness and Creativity (Mawhiba) and the Education Ministry, won the prestigious International Mendeleev Chemistry Olympiad (IMChO) 2021.
The students, Mohammed Al-Hadlaq, Mohammed Al-Hudaithi, Abdulaziz Al-Juaid, and Saeed Baghdadi, won bronze medals. The number of awards won by Saudi Arabia at the IMChO has now reached 18 — three silver and 15 bronze medals.
IMChO is a major international competition for students in chemistry. It started in the then-USSR as the All-Union Olympiad in Chemistry in 1967.
Now more than 30 countries participate in IMChO and an international jury of leading chemical scientists around the world make up the tasks for the Olympiad.
source/content : arabnews.com
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SAUDI ARABIA
Dubai project recognized as largest single-site natural gas power facility in the world.
Dubai has chalked up another Guinness World Records entry — and this time it’s for a gas project.
The Jebel Ali complex of the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has been recognized as the largest single-site natural gas power generation facility in the world, state news agency WAM reported.
The complex has an electricity generation capacity of 9,547 megawatts.
source/content: arabnews.com
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DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (U.A.E.)
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has won the ‘2020 Middle East and Africa Renewables Deal of the Year’ from Project Finance International (PFI) magazine for the photovoltaic 5th phase of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park. PFI magazine, a subsidiary of Thomson Reuters, focuses on tracking and analysing projects, financial budgets and project deals worldwide.
The solar park is the largest single-site solar park in the world with a planned production capacity of 5,000 megawatts by 2030″
The fifth phase is to provide clean energy to 270,000 residences in Dubai. This will reduce 1.18 million tonnes of carbon emissions annually. The project is due for commissioning in stages starting Q3 of 2021.
source: wam.ae
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DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (U.A.E)
Currently, Qatar is the largest LNG exporter, and it is working to increase its liquefaction capacity to 126 mtpa (million tonnes per annum) by 2027.
Post-2027, a further 55 mtpa of speculative LNG projects remain to be completed.
It is forecast that Qatar will maintain its position as the top LNG exporter in the world by 2050,” noted the 5th edition of ‘Global Gas Outlook 2050’ by GECF.
Qatar along with Iran will contribute significantly in the growth of natural gas production in the Middle East, noted a report released by Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) yesterday.
source: www.thepeninsulaqatar.com
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QATAR
Egypt’s Tahya Misr Fund sets a new record for the World’s Largest Aid Convoy with 470 trucks carrying food and other essentials on behalf of ‘The Long Live Egypt Fund’.
The Record was certified by Guinness World Records.
The convoy set off on November 20th, 2020 to poor villages in the 27 Egyptian governorates to distribute food. It had 1 million cartons of foodstuffs, 2,000 tons of poultry, 1 million blankets, over 500,000 items of clothing, 1,500 dialysis machines to serve 120,000 patients and 1,000 wheel chairs for distribution.
The cost of the ‘The Long Live Egypt Fund’ initiative had reached EGP 1 billion (USD 63.88 million) and is dedicated to serving 1 million citizens.
The previous record holder was the Netherlands with 416 trucks since 2004.
Another Record Broken:
The largest poultry donation convoy in the world
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EGYPT
Deena Rahman, Bahrain’s National Team mid-fielder breaks the World Record in Football for ‘Taking the Most Penalites in 24 Hours’.
Deena Rahman hammered home 7,876 penalties including facing 24 female goal-keepers, at the Kick Off Academy in Saar – smashing the previous record as a part of 2020’s Equal Playing Field’s (EPF)
.The challenge started on November 17th at 7am and ended 24-hours later at 7am on November 18th coinciding with Guinness World Record Day.
The previous record was held by Vickrant Mahajan in 24 hours with 1,111 penalties.
This was the 5th Guinness World Record held by Deena Rahman.
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BAHRAIN
Omeir Saeed – wakeboarder from Abu Dhabi broke 2 Guinness World Records (GWR) previously set by Jerome Macquart 2004 and 2005 respectively.
Omeir Saeed’s new GWR records are in the category
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Abu Dhabi, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Saudi Arabia hosts the G20 Summit in 2020. First for an Arab Nation.
Leader’ Summit
In 2020, the G20 Leaders’ Summit will be held virtually, proudly hosted by the Saudi G20 Presidency. The virtual meeting will take place over two days on November 21-22, 2020.
The Group of Twenty, or the G20, is the premier forum for international economic cooperation. The G20 brings together the leaders of both developed and developing countries from every continent.
Each G20 Presidency develops a theme for the year which is central to international discussions. The 2020 G20 Presidency will focus discussions, forums, working groups and Ministerial Meetings under the theme of:
Realizing Opportunities of the 21st Century for All
www.g20.org
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SAUDI ARABIA
Member : Refugee Olympic Athletes Team (ROT). Competed under the Olympic Flag at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
Appointed as UNCHR Goodwill Ambassador (27th April 2017).
Yusra Mardini represented Syria : 2012 FINA World Championships (25m) 200 metre individual medley, 200 metre freestyle and 400 metre freestyle events.
Represents : Under Armour sports brand
Book: Autobiography : ‘ Butterfly: From Refugee to Olympian – My Story of the Rescue, Hope and Triumph’ by Yusra Mardini
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GERMANY / SYRIA