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Saad Abid Wins ‘ 2021 Social Innovation and Change Award, U.S.A’ : March 2021

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 .

source/content : moroccoworldnews.com

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MOROCCO

Tawhida Ben Cheikh: Tunisia’s First Female Physician

Tawhida Ben Cheikh. Medical Doctor. Gynaecologist. Feminist. Editor

Google dedicates doodle to Tunisia’s first female physician

First/s:

First Female Tunisian to graduate from Secondary School in 1928
First Female Tunisian Physician. Graduated from Paris.
Founder and First editor of ‘Leila’. Tunisia’s first French language women’s magazine
World’s First-ever banknote to feature a female doctor ’10 Dinar note in 2020 – Dr Tawhida Ben Cheikh

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Tawhida Ben Cheikh was a pioneer in women’s medicine, in particular contraception and abortion access. Image Credit: Google doodle

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TUNISIA

Dubai – Another Guinness World Records in Energy Sector : March 2021

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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The Jebel Ali complex of the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has an electricity generation capacity of 9,547 megawatts. (File/AFP) / pix: arabnews.com

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DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (U.A.E.)

Mohammad Suleiman and Gamal Bakhit Honored in Egypt’s Opera House : March 25, 2021

Egypt’s Cultural Icons Musician and Composer Mohammad Suleiman and Poet Gamal Bakhit honoured as Icons of Egypt.

The ceremony was at the Opera House.

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EGYPT

UAE Turns ‘Largest Major Investor’ with $10bn Pledge for Indonesia Wealth Fund: 2021

Indonesia welcomed the UAE’s commitment to invest $10 billion in its recently launched sovereign wealth fund, which a senior official said made the emirates the “largest major investor” in the initiative.

“With this investment, so far the UAE has become the largest major investor in the Indonesia Investment Authority (INA),” Husin Bagis, Indonesia’s ambassador to the UAE, told Arab News.

The UAE helped Indonesia establish the INA through its Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (AIDA) in February this year, with the AIDA serving as one of its advisers.

source/content: arabnews.com

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The UAE helped Indonesia establish the INA through its Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (AIDA) in February this year, with the AIDA serving as one of its advisers. (Shuttertstock/File Photo) / arabnews.com

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ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (U.A.E.)

Mohamed Mechbal Awarded 2021 King Faisal Arabic Literature Award : February 2021

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

Award/s:

Sheikh Zayed Prize for Critical Studies 2018
Katara Prize for Critical Studies 2018

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MOROCCO

Samia Hassan – First Female President of Tanzania : March 2021

Samia Suluhu Hassan (aka) Samia Hassan makes history by becoming the First Female President of Tanzania and the country’s 6th President.

Former First Female Vice President of Tanzania
Minister of Union Affairs 92014)
Minister of Trade & Tourism (2000)

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TANZANIA

Zeina Barhoum, Arab Soprano to perform at Palestine Museum US on March 21st, 2020

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

website : www.zeinabarhoum.com

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JORDAN

Egyptian Women’s Day – March 16th

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.

source: content: www.egypttoday.com

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EGYPT

Najla El-Mangoush – Libya’s First Woman Foreign Minister : 2021

History is being created with the first female woman foreign minister of Libya – Najla El-Mangoush. She will be accompanied with 4 other women who will be joining her.

Presently:

Practising Advocate and Lawyer in Criminal Law
Assistant Professor – University of Benghazi

Education:

Bachelor’s Degree in Law
Master’s Degree in Conflict and Peace Management, Eastern Mini Knight University, USA
Ph.D in Conflict and Crisis Management, George Mason University, USA

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LIBYA