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Jordan’s King Abdullah and Queen Rania Receive Vatican’s ‘2022 Path to Peace Award’

Vatican envoy to UN presents royal couple with 2022 Path to Peace award at gala event
Queen Rania praised for focus on education, prioritization of young people

The Vatican’s Path to Peace Foundation has presented Jordan’s King Abdullah and Queen Rania with the 2022 Path to Peace award for their promotion of interfaith harmony and dialogue.

Commending the royal couple for a “years-long effort” in promoting peace and interfaith cooperation in the Middle East, Vatican Ambassador to the UN Archbishop Gabriele Caccia made the presentation at the foundation’s 29th annual gala in New York.

The envoy singled out the queen’s focus on education and the prioritization of young people in her work.

He said: “She has long shown concern for the questions of education, connectivity, and cross-cultural dialogue, as well as sustainability, the environment, and migration, which places young people at the heart of solutions and is imbued with a sense of hope.”

King Abdullah said he accepted the award on behalf of “Jordanians, men and women, young people and elders, Muslims and Christians alike.”

Noting that Jerusalem was also home to many Arab Christians, part of the oldest Christian community in the world, he noted that “our journey to peace must travel through Jerusalem,” describing the city as “key to the future and stability that we all seek.”

He added: “Jerusalem should be an anchor for peace and coexistence, not for fear and violence.

“The (world’s most difficult challenges) will be met by drawing on our faith in God, our common humanity, and our will to jointly defeat poverty and despair, and end occupation and injustice.

“(Also), to help refugees everywhere return home, ready to rebuild shattered communities, and renew the hope that young people everywhere so desperately need.”

The monarch called on the international community to work toward a just and lasting peace in the Holy Land through a two-state solution with East Jerusalem as the capital of an “independent, sovereign, and viable Palestinian state … living side-by-side with Israel.”

source/content: arabnews.com (edited)

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Gender Equality ‘Champion’ Jordanian Sima Bahous appointed as Executive Director to Head ‘UN Women’ : September 13th, 2021

Dr. Sima Sami Bahous (aka) Sima Bahous. Diplomat. Leader.

Sima Bahous is one of the highest highest ranking officials from the Arab world in the UN system.

Secretary-General António Guterres described Sima Sami Bahous of Jordan, as “a champion for women and girls”, announcing on Monday her appointment to lead the UN’s gender equality and empowerment entity, UN Women.

Ms. Bahous brings to the job more than 35 years of leadership experience at the grassroots, national, regional and international level.

Most recently, Ms. Bahous served as Jordan’s UN ambassador in New York. 

Prior to that, she was the Assistant Administrator and Director of the Regional Bureau for Arab States at the UN Development Programme (UNDP) from 2012 to 2016 and Assistant Secretary-General and Head of the Social Development Sector at the League of Arab States, from 2008 to 2012.

The new UN Women chief has also served in two ministerial posts in Jordan as President of the Higher Media Council from 2005 to 2008 and as Adviser to King Abdullah II from 2003 to 2005. 

She has also worked for UN Children’s Fund UNICEF, and with a number of UN and civil society organizations, as well as teaching development and communication studies at different universities in her native Jordan. 

She is fluent in Arabic and English, and proficient in French.

source/content : www.news.un.org

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Saleh Elsharabaty Wins Jordan’s First Medal, Tokyo 2020 Olympics : July 2021

Saleh Elsharabaty (aka) Abu Salah. Athlete. Taekwondo.

Saleh Elsharabaty won the Silver medal. Fell just short of grabbing an Olympic gold for Jordan when he lost the Taekwondo men’s 80 kg final 20-9 to Maksim Khramtcov of the Russian Olympic Committee at the Makuhari Messe Hall in Tokyo.

Elsharabaty – Jordanian of Palestinian origin. Member of the Jordanian Taekwondo team

Earlier Wins :

Silver medal at the 2018 Taekwondo Grand Prix in Moscow
Gold at the 2018 Asian Championship
Bronze at the 2016 Asian Championship
Bronze at the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta
Bronze at the 2017 Asian Indoor
Bronze at the Martial Arts Games in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan

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World’s Oldest Bread Discovered. 14, 400 Years Ago. Jordan.

Researchers working in the black desert of north-eastern Jordan found the charred remains of a flat bread baked by hunter-gatherers 14,400 years ago.

The bread was found in a stone fireplace. The oldest direct evidence of bread yet found, predating the advent of agriculture by at least 4,000 years ago.

The excavation was led by Tobias Richter, Archaeologist and researchers were led by Amaia Arranz Otaegui of the University of Copenhagen, Denmark in 2018. Findings were published in the Journal ‘Proceedings of the National Academy of Science’.

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