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Amina Muaddi : Footwear Designer : Paris. Italy.

Amina Muaddi . International Footwear Designer

Her own brand : Amina Muaddi. Designed in Paris. Produced in Italy. Launched in 2018

Co-Founder : Oscar Tiye, Milan. Her first shoe brand

Amina Muaddi commissioned by Rihanna to design the footwear for her brand Fenty

Designer also for shoeline of French couturier Alexandre Vauthier

Awards :

-‘Designer of the Year’ at ‘2019 Footwear News Achievement Awards’, New York

-2018 FNAA Award for ‘Launch of the Year Award’ for her own label Amina Muaddi

Education:

-European Institute of Design, Milan

-Styling stints at L’Uomo Vogue and GO US

www.aminamuaddi.com

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pix : en.vogue.me

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JORDAN-ROMANIA

Mona Kosar Abdi – Multimedia Journalist : USA

Mona Kosar Abdi (aka) Mona Kosaar Cabdi (Somali). Reporter. Journalist. News Presenter

Presently:

-Co-Anchor : ABC World News Now and America This Morning

-Former : WSET Reporter and Co-Host

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AMERICAN / SOMALIA

Abdi Jama – Somali British Wheel Chair Basketball Player : U.K.

Abdi Jama (aka) Abdillah Jama is Basketball player playing for Britain and Clubs.

Currently plays and trains for ‘Wolverhampton Rhinos’, West Midlands.

Records:

2011 – European Championship, Nazareth, Israel – Team won Gold medal
2009 – European Championship, Adana, Turkey – Team won Bronze medal
2008 – Represented Great Britain ‘2008 Paralympic games’, Beijing – Team won Bronze medal
2007 – European Wheelchair Basketball Championship, Wetzlar, Netherlands – Team won Silver medal

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UNITED KINGDOM (U.K) / SOMALIA / SOMALI-BRITISH

Lebanese Author Amin Maalouf Awarded ‘ National Order of Merit, France ‘ : March 2020

Amin Maaloof . Scholar. Writer. Novelist.

Honours / Decorations :

-Chevalier of the Legion of Honour – France / – Grand officier of the National Order of Merit – France / Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Letrres – France / Knight First class of the Order of the Lion of Finland / Grand Cordon of the National Order of the Cedar – Lebanon / Officier of the Order of Cultural Merit – Monaco

-Spanish Prince of Asturias Award for Literature (2010)

-Sheikh Zayed Book Award for “Cultural Personality of the Year” -2016

-Elected member of the Academie francaise – 23 June 2011 . Maalouf is the first person of Lebanese heritage to receive that honor

Books / Fiction :

–Leon l’Africain (1986) Leo Africanus-translated by Peter Sluglett / Samarcande (1988) Samarkand – translated by Russell Harris / –Les jardins de lumiere (1991) – The Gardens of Light – translated by Dorothy S. Blair / –Le Premier siecle apres Beatrice (1992) – The First Century after Beatrice – translated by Dorothy S. Blair / –Le Rocher de Tanios (1993) – The Rock of Tanios – translated by Dorothy S. Blair / –Les Echelles du Levant (1996) – Ports of Call – translated by Alberto Manguel / –Le Periple de Baldassare (2000) – Balthasar’s Odyssey – translated by Barbara Bray

Books / Non-Fiction :

–Les Croisades vues par les Arabes (1983) – The Crusades Through Arab Eyes / –Les Identites meurtrieres (1998) – In the Name of Identity : Violence and the Need to Belong – translated by Barbara Bray / –Origenes (2004) – Origins : A memoir – translated by Catherine Temerson / – Le Dereglement du monde (2009) – Disordered World – translated by George Miller

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French / French-Arab / Lebanese-French

Dr. Hani Najm – Chair, Congenital and Pediatric Heart Surgery – Cleveland Clinic – USA

Dr Hani Najm MD, MSc – Chairman, Congenital and Pediatric Heart Surgeon , Cleveland Clinic Children’s Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio.

Dr Najm has performed more than 5,000 open heart surgeries sucessfully.

-Recently selected as Member, Board of Trustees of American College of Cardiology (ACC) for the years (2021 – 2014)

Academic :

King Saud University, Riyadh (M.D. 1985) /King Saud University General Surgery (1986- 1989) / University of Ottawa General Surgery (1989- 1994) /University of Toronto Cardiothoracic Surgery (1995-1996) /Hospital for Sick Children Pediatric Cardiac Surgery fellowship(1996-1997) /University of Toronto Cardiovascular Sciences Master program (1997-1998) /Assistant professor, King Saud University, 1999 /Assistant professor, King Saud University for health sciences 2002 /Associate professor, King Saud Univ. for Health Specialties, 2010

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American / Saudi Arabia

Dr Wafaa El-Sadr – Epidemiologist – Global Health Visionary – Director, ICAP , Columbia University, USA.

Dr Wafaa El-Sadr MD, MPH, MPA .

Founder and Director of ICAP at Columbia University. Director – Center for Infectious Disease Epidemiologic Research ‘CIDER’ at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and Professor at Columbia University.

Dr. El-Sadr joined the faculty of Columbia’s College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1988 and become a professor of epidemiology and medicine at the Mailman School of Public Health, of which she is an alumna.

In 2013, she was appointed University Professor, Columbia’s highest academic honor.

She also holds the Dr. Mathilde Krim-amfAR Chair in Global Health, and is the director of the Global Health Initiative at the Mailman School.

Awards & Honours :

-Dr Wafaa El-Sadr received the MacArthur Prize from the MacArthur Foundation (2008)

–Rolling Stone magazine named her to its list of “100 People Who Are Changing America” .(2009)

-Named as one of the ” 10: Guiding Science for Humanity” of “Scientific American” (2008)

-Member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Medicine .

– “Utne Reader” named Wafaa El-Sadr, one of the “50 visionaries who are changing your world. ” (2009)

(Photo source: Hugh Siegel – © ICAP at Columbia University)

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American / Egyptian-American

First Somali-American Educator -Qorsho Hassan Wins ‘Minnesota Teacher of the Year Award’ : 2020

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.

Qorsho Hassan, Minnesota’s 2020 Teacher of the Year, holds her makeshift award in front of the state Capitol Thursday night. The frame will be replaced with an engraved plaque. Credit: Jaida Grey Eagle | Sahan Journal

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American / Somali-American

Winners of ‘Short Film Production Grant’ – Sharjah Art Foundation – UAE : July 2020

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)

World Record for ‘Spinning 200 Hula Hoops Simultaneously ‘ – Marawa Ibrahim – Somali Australian

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

Nuruddin Farah – International Award Winning Writer : Somalia

Nuruddin Farah (aka) Nuuradiin Faaraa . Novelist. Essayist. Short Stories. Playwright. Educator.

Books /Novels :

-From a crooked rib (1970) /A naked needle (1976) / Sweet and Sour Milk (1979) / Sardines (1981) / Close Sesame (1983) / Blood in the Sun (1986) / Maps (1986) / Gifts (1993) / Secrets (1998) / Past Imperfect / Links (2004) / Knots (2007) / Crossbones (2011) / Hiding in Plain Sight (2014) / North of Dawn (2018)…etc..

Awards/Honours :

-English-Speaking Union Literary Award (for Sweet and Sour Milk) (1980) / -Corman Artists Fellowship (1990) /- Kurt Tucholsky Prize, Sweden (1991) / -Best Novel Award (for Gifts), Zimbabwe (1993) / Premio Cavour (for Italian translation of Close Sesame),Italy (1994) / -Neustadt International Prize for Literature (1998) /- St Malo Literary Festival Award (for French edition of Gifts) (1998) etc…

Presently lives in Cape Town, South Africa

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Somalia