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Samira Ghannoum – First Muslim woman of Arab descent to have won this competition
A Lebanese Brazilian Muslim woman who won the first series of Bake Off Brasil in 2015 is now a well-known figure all over the country. Samira Ghannoum won the competition over 13 weeks watched by millions in 20 countries across Latin America.
As a winner of Bake Off Brasil, she published her first cookbook in partnership with the programme.
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Samira Ghannoum on the set of “Bake Off Brazil” [Middle East Monitor] / pix: middleeastmonitor.com
The first phase was launched at the 2019 Beijing International Book Fair, which saw the translation of Saudi classical works into Chinese, such as ‘The Price of Sacrifice’, ‘A Hole in a Night Robe’, among others.
Eight books were on display at the ceremony of the second phase, including an Arabic to Chinese transation of ’10 scenarios for the Development of the Relationship between Saudi Arabia and China’ and Chinese to Arabic translations, such as ‘The Rule of Law in China’.
Four of them were translated and printed in Riyadh from Chinese into Arabic, while the other four were translated and printed in Beijing from Arabic into Chinese, and published in association with Shanghai University of International Studies.
source/content: arabnews.com
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Dr. Yahya Mahmound bin Junaid, President of CRIK, giving the Shield of Knowledge Communication to Chen Weiqing, China’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia. (Source/SPA) / pix: arabnews.com
Saad Abid – content creator, ecologist. Founder and President – the Bahri Association.
Saad Abid from Morocco has been awarded the 2021 Global Ties US International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) Decade of Social Innovation and Change Award.
The award recognizes Abid’s accomplishments over the past decade, including organizing beach cleanups, educating his 400,000 social media followers about environmental degradation, and encouraging youth engagement.
Abid is best-known for launching the digital campaign Maymkench2026 to promote Morocco’s bid to organize the FIFA World Cup 2026 .
Professor Dr Mohamed Mechbal has been awarded the King Faisal International Prize for Arabic Literature in recognition of his project ‘ The New Rhetoric ‘.
The King Faisal Foundation initiated the award in 1977. The award recognizes the exceptional contributions of five groups of individuals and institutions. These include, service to Islam, Islamic Studies, Arabic language and literature as well as medicine, and science.
Currently he is Professor, Rhetoric and Literary criticism, University of AbdelMalek Essadi, Tetoun, Morocco
Zeina Barhoum – Arabic Soprana. Classically trained Soprano. Opera singer.
Jordanian opera singer Zeina Barhoum is set to perform at the Palestine Museum US on March 21, organizers announced. The renowned singer will virtually perform in Arabic and other languages, including the songs “Sanarjeo Yawman,” “Jerusalem, Flower of Cities,” “O mio babbino caro” and several others according to reports in ArabNews.com
Founder :
Founder of Alcántara Music and Art series
Amman Opera Festival (AOF). First Opera Festival in the Arab World launched in 2017. Under the Royal Patronage of HRH Princess Muna Al Hussein, Jordanian soprano Zeina Barhoum launched the first opera festival in the Arab world, the Amman Opera Festival (AOF), with the full operatic production of Verdi’s La Traviata at the 2000-year old Roman Amphitheater in July 2017, alongside over 150 International musicians and dancers from more than 10 countries.
Awards / Honour:
Best Soloist Award, The Eisteddfod competition
Award at the 2nd Taras Shevchenko International Singing Competition, where she sang Taras Shevchenko’s popular folk song The Mighty Dnieper Roars and Bellows in Arabic and Ukrainian for the first time
Appointed by the United Nations World Food Programmed (WFP) as its advocate and humanitarian voice (May 2020)
Education:
Bsc – Visual Communication, American University of Sharjah
Hamida Khalil was the first of six Egyptian women who were shot dead on March 16, 1919 by British soldiers while they were protesting colonialism.
This date marks the Egyptian Women’s Day.
Highlights: About the first Egyptian woman to die at the hands of British occupation:
Hamida was born in Gamalia district in Cairo and was known as the “revolutionary girl.”
She joined protesters who gathered outside Hussein Mosque in Cairo and was one of 300 women who took to streets in the first female demonstration known in Egyptian history
Four days after her murder, some 1,500 women organized an anti-colonialism protest
March 16 was chosen as Egyptian women’s day as the beginning of decades of women’s struggle against colonialism and for their political and education rights.
Ahmad bin Majid Al Sa’adi (aka) Ibn Majid (aka) Shihab ad-Din “Star of the Faith” and “The Lion of the Sea”. Poet and Writer of 44 books. Inventor of the Magnetic needle.
The manuscript is loaned from the Al Assad National Library in the Syrian Arab Republic.
The manuscript was loaned to the National Museum-Oman, for two years under the purpose of preservation and conservation and coordination was maintained with the National Records and Archives Authority, Oman – to restore this document to its original state, through the implementation of an integrated program for preservation, conservation, indexing and revision.
This manuscript was written in the 11th century AH / 16th century CE, under the ruling of Al Nabhani dynasty. It is compiled (175) sheets, (350) pages and (23) lines per page. Texts were written by “Naskh” script using black ink and headlines in red. The body of the manuscript is surrounded by two red frames.
This manuscript is one of few preserved copies of the manuscripts of Ahmed bin Majid Al Sa’adi around the world, the oldest among them is the one which is preserved in the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts in St. Petersburg Russia”.
This compiled collection includes the most important and best known of the works by Ahmad bin Majid`s. It is divided into three parts: al-Fawāid fī ilm al-bahr wa-alqawāid or (The Book of the Benefits of the Principles and Foundations of Seamanship), completed on 17 Rabi al-Thani 984 AH/ 13 July 1576. This part is dedicated to 18 benefits related to marine sciences and some proverbs. The second collections: Hāwīyat al-ikhtisār fī usūl ilm al-bihār, it is the longest section and includes 11 chapters.
The third collection consists of 14 proses, in addition to eight chapters in marine sciences.
Ahmad bin Majid Al Sa’adi was an Omani navigator and cartographer. Born in Julfar, he was educated in his early years by his father Majid bin Mohammed al-Sa’adi, who was a renowned marine captain and navigator.
Ibn Majid is one of the best-known navigators in the Indian Ocean and among the finest scholars of the art of navigation and its history among the Arabs.
He was the inventor of the magnetic needle (magnetic compass), which is used for navigation and orientation at sea.
He was also the author of nearly forty works of poetry and prose. Among his many books on oceanography, Fawā’id fī-Usūl Ilm al-Bahr wa-al-Qawāid or (The Book of the Benefits of the Principles and Foundations of Seamanship), which was compiled in the year (880-895 AH / 1475-1490 CE) at the end of his life, which is considered as one of his best.
He is remembered as Shihab ad-Din “Star of the Faith” and “The Lion of the Sea”.
