Mohammad Burbayea, Jet Ski racer, has the most IJSBA World Championship wins (male) by an individual : 22 , achieved by between 2007 and 2018.
Burbayea has won over 28 titles including 15 World Championships with 12 consequtive wins.
IJSBA : International Jet Sports Boating Association
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Kuwait
The largest hand-woven carpet sits in Sheikh Zayed Al Nahyan Mosque in Abu Dhabi.
The massive Persian carpet was created in 9 parts and assembled inside the mosque. It took 1,200 weavers from the Khorasan province about one year to hand craft. The carpet features 2.2 billion hand-tied individual rug knots, weighs 12 tons and is 5,360 square meters (60,000.81 sq. feet) . It was manufactured in Iran in 2007.
Record by the Guiness World Records
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Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Amal Al-Agroobi – Emirati Neuro-scientist . Documentary filmmaker, Director, Producer, Writer and Entreprenuer
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M.Sc. : Neurosciences, University College, London
B.Sc : Biomedical Sciences, University of Durham, U.K.
Certificate : Short film production
Certificate : Acting for film
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United Arab Emirates
Thirteen women have been appointed to the Saudi Human Rights Commission (HRC) under a royal decree issued by Saudi Arabia’s King Salman.
“Appointing 13 women as members of the HRC council, with a total of 26 members, is in line with efforts made by the Kingdom’s leadership to enable women to occupy leading positions in various fields, and helps achieve what is best for the country,” said Dr. Awwad bin Saleh Al-Awwad, head of the HRC
source: www.arabnews.com
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Saudi Arabia
Mohamed Alabbar (aka) Mohamed Ali Rashid Alabbar – Emirati businessman –
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United Arab Emirates
Taleeda Tamer, Jeddah based Kingdom’s first fashion model.
Made history in July 2018 as the first Saudi model to walk the Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week. Opened for the Italian designer Antonio Grimaldi couture show at ‘Salons France-Amerique’ in Paris.
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Saudi Arabia
Novartis Oncology , a medical company specializing in cancer patients, achieved the Guinness World Records of ” Largest Aluminium Sculpture ” on October 7, 2017.
The statue – 7.71 m tall, 5.03 m long, 3.95 m wide – was made in the shape of a jackhammer to represent “the powerful tool breaking through cancer,” and was presented at the Novartis Oncology Breast Cancer Summit, Sofitel Event Hall, Jeddah in Saudi Arabia.
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Saudi Arabia
The Shieikh Jaber Causeway is the 4th longest bridge in the world.
Named after Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah who ruled during the Gulf war.
About 80 percent of the sea-bridge is over water and connects Kuwait City to Subiya where a USD 100 billion dollar mega-city is being built.
The drive around the bay usually takes over an hour, but with bridge’s construction completed, it shortens to less than 20 minutes.
The USD 2.6 billion causeway was designed by Paris based engineering and consulting group ‘Systra’. Lead by a consortium of South Korea’s ‘Hyundai Engineering & Construciton Co.’ and Kuwait’s ‘Combined Group Contracting Company’.
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Kuwait
Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) established its rotor blade manufacturing plant mid- october in Tangiers Automotive City, a free-trade zone.
The plant offers wind turbine blades and is the first such facility in Africa and the Middle East.
The project allows the development of a good ecosystem in the ‘renewable energy industry’.
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Morocco
Saudi Arabia will no longer impose death penalty on people who committed crimes while still minors.
It has replaced executions in cases where crimes were committed by minors with a maximum penalty of 10 years in a juvenile detention centre.
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Saudi Arabia