Wafa Zaiane. BBC News Anchor. Reporter. Broadcaster
Hosts her own TV show Ana Shahid (Eye Witness)
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BRITISH / TUNISIAN–BRITISH
Egyptian painter Riham El-Adl has won an award at Italy’s Il Biennale Internazionale D’Arte Contemporanea Della Versilia, a prestigious arts competition in Florence.
The artist will have her paintings – “Sun Shining Day” and “Promised Land” – exhibited for a year at an art gallery in Florence under the management of Art Expertise, the organisation behind the contest.
source/content: arabnews.com
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EGYPT
‘The Voice of the Arabs’ radio station was launched in the Egyptian Capital, Cairo on July 04th, 1953
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EGYPT
Fady Elsayed (aka) Fady El Sayed. British Actor.
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Casualty | Zak Woodma | Guest role (1 episode) |
| 2014 | Silent Witness | Nuri Kavur | Recurring cast (2 episodes) |
| 2014 | Penny Dreadful | Lead Familiar | Guest role (1 episode) |
| 2014 | Law & Order : UK | Jamal | Guest role (1 episode) |
| 2015 | River | Aten Olama | Guest role (1 episode) |
| 2015 | Citizen Khan | Tutor | Guest role (1 episode) |
| 2016 | The Aliens | Henri | Guest role (1 episode) |
| 2016 | Class | Ram Singh | Main role (8 episodes) |
| 2020 | Baghdad Central | Ibrahim Jabani | Recurring Cast (4 episodes) |
| 2020 | Little Birds | Aziz | 3 episodes |
Film
Year Title Role Notes
2012 My Brother the Devil Mo
2012 Twenty8k Ray
2013 Sixteen Josh
2013 Ending Ibby Short film
2015 Shakespeare on Love The Speaker Short film
2016 Brotherhood Wino
2017 Boys Don’t Cry Karim Short film
2018 Little Monster Ryan Short film
2018 A Private War Mourad
2019 Ser du månen,Daniel George (Beatles)
2019 London Arabia Sayid Short film
2020 Faith TBA
Glia Satish Jarel
LondonBoys Ash
source: wikipedia.com
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BRITISH / EGYPTIAN BRITISH
“Beacon,” by Polish artist Carolina Halatek, broke the record for the largest LED (light-emitting diode) structure. The sculpture, which was on show at the King Abdul Aziz Historical Center between March 18 and April 3, consisted of 272,160 LEDs.
“Star in Motion,” by Belgian artist Koert Vermeulen, was suspended at a height of 256 meters on the Kingdom Center tower and radiated 1.2 million lumens of light. It set the world record for the brightest suspended ornament.
Noor Riyadh is an initiative of the Riyadh Art Project, which hopes to establish more than 1,000 public artworks throughout the city.
source/content : arabnews.com
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SAUDI ARABIA
Mahira Abdel Aziz. TV Host. Broadcaster. Actor
Currently performing her first acting role in UAE-made Netflix’s thriller ‘Platform’
Emirati actor Mahira Abdel Aziz plays Sheikha.
She co-stars with high-profile names including Maxim Khalil, Abdulmohsen AlNemr, Salloum Haddad, Muna Wassef, Khaled Al-Qish and Leen Gherra.
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UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (U.A.E)
Samir Zain-Sassi. Hollywood Actor.
The 8-year old young actor from Connecticut works out of New York City and Los Angeles and has been playing different roles in the entertainment industry for three years.
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AMERICAN (U.S.A) / MOROCCAN
Twitter unveiled a new version that allows Arabic language users to be addressed as female rather than male, in efforts to use “inclusive language” on the platform, popular in the Arab world.
Arabic verbs and adjectives have both masculine and feminine forms, including imperative verbs such as “tweet” and “explore” found on social media apps.
People who select this setting will be addressed in the feminine form. For example, “Tweet” will be “غرّدي” (which addresses women) rather than the default Arabic today which is “غرّد” (addressing men). Also, “Explore” will be “إستكشفي” rather than “إستكشف”.
To access the new feature, users can go to “settings and privacy,” select “accessibility, display and languages,” select “languages” and go to “display language,” and easily switch to “Arabic feminine.”
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Officials in Saudi Arabia have announced a joint project to establish the largest coral garden in the world at NEOM, the futuristic mega-city being built in the Kingdom’s northwest.
NEOM and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) said that the project that will cover 100 hectares on Shusha Island on the shores of the Red Sea.
The Shusha Island Coral Park will become a global center to showcase innovations to protect and restore coral reefs and accelerate conservation solutions, helping to reduce the effects of climate change, a statement issued by Saudi Press Agency said.
Shusha Island is home to more than 300 species of coral and 1,000 species of fish.
The project is scheduled to be completed in 2025, making NEOM a world leader in restoring and developing coral reefs.
source/content: arabnews.com
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Al-Azhar Mosque opens for prayer in 971.
It was commissioned for construction by Al-Mu’izz li-Din Allah of the Fatimid dynasty in the new capital of Egypt in 970 and built by the builder of Egypt, Gawhar El-Seqelly. Construction began on April 04th, 970.
Cairo’s historic Al-Azhar mosque was the first artistic architectural building constructed by the Fatimids, the Islamic dynasty that ruled Egypt, North Africa and parts of the Arabian Peninsula from the tenth to the twelfth centuries.
Previously called ‘Cairo’s Mosque,’ Al-Azhar was named after the Prophet Mohammed’s daughter Fatimah al-Zahraa.
Because it was the first mosque and the first Islamic university to be built in Cairo, the city was named since then “The City of A Thousand Minarets”. After Al Karaouine in Idrisid Fes, which is a university in Morocco, Al-Azhar has developed to be the second most important university in the world.
Al-Azhar mosque was later turned into a university under the ruling of a senior Fatimid Islamic scholar Al-Aziz Billah. The university included 37 scholars who carried out religious teachings and dormitories to accommodate students.
After operating as an educational platform, Al-Azhar mosque was shut down in 1171 for 100 years under the auspices of the Ayyubid caliphate.
The historical mosque was later reopened by Mamluk Sultan al-Zaher Baybars in 1266.
Al-Azhar was first renovated following an earthquake in 1302.
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