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 Sahara in North Africa is the largest hot desert in the world.
At its greatest length it is 5,150 km (3,200 miles) from east to west. From north to south it is between 1,280 and 2,250 km (800 and 1,400 miles).
The area covered by the desert is about 9.1 million km (9,100,000 sq km/ 3.5 million square miles).
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(Algeria, Egypt, Libya,Morocco, Sudan,Tunisia), North Africa
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
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
Mohamed Alabbar (aka) Mohamed Ali Rashid Alabbar – Emirati businessman –
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United Arab Emirates
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
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