Hicham El Guerrouj won the 1,500 metres event at IAAF Golden League Golden Gala in Rome, Italy, in a time of 3 minutes 26 seconds on 14 July 1998.
He beat the existing record by more than a second.
El Guerrouj also retained 4 other world record times:
over one mile (indoors and outdoors) 2,000 metres (outdoors) and 1,500 metres (indoors) as on 2017
Record: Guinness World Record
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Morocco
American Omar Mwannes Yaghi, the second most cited chemist in the world.
Elected member of the US National Academy of Sciences
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American / Palestine-Jordan / Arab-American
Najat Rochdi of Morocco was appointed as United Nations Deputy Special Co-ordinator for Lebanon by Antonio Guterres, UN Secretary-General.
She will also serve as Humanitarian Co-ordinator.
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Morocco
French businessman, publisher and sports enthusiast.
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France / French -Tunisian
Ilhan Omar (aka) Ilhan Abdullahi Omar – American politician serving as U.S. Representative for Minnesota’s 5th Congressional district since 2019.
Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar
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Memoir : ‘This is what America looks like : My journey from Refugee to Congresswoman’
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American / Somali-American
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
Built around 293 A.D. in Jordan, the Aqaba Church is considered to be the world’s oldest-known purpose-built Christian church.
It was unearthed by archaeologists in 1998, and ever since then, it has been holding the world record.
Its first phase was dated between 293 and 303, which makes it older than the ‘ Church of the Holy Sepulchre’ in Jerusalem and the ‘Church of the Nativity’ in Bethlehem, both of which were built in the late 320s.
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Jordan