Cannes Festival Condemns Arrest Of Iranian Actress Taraneh Alidoosti; Demands Immediate Release
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December 2022
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Saudi Female Graffiti Artist Noura Bin Saidan Hopes To Showcase Artwork Across
Kingdom
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Young Saudi Designers Given Boost With Adhlal Mentor Initiative
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Muslim Woman Donates Food Items, Wrappers, Cash Gifts To Over 50 Christian
Widows In Kaduna
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Egypt’s Team Secures 2022 WSF Women’s World Team Squash Championship For Fifth
Time In Its History
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Cannes
Festival Condemns Arrest Of Iranian Actress Taraneh Alidoosti; Demands
Immediate Release
Taraneh Alidoosti/ Instagram
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19
December ,2022
The
Cannes Film Festival demanded on Monday the immediate release of award-winning
actress Taraneh Alidoosti, among the most prominent persons arrested in Iran’s
months-long protests.
“In
solidarity with the peaceful struggle she is carrying out for freedom and
women’s rights, the @Festival_Cannes extends their full support to her,” the
festival wrote on Twitter.
Alidoosti,
38, was arrested on Saturday, official media said, after making a string of
social media posts supporting the protest movement -- including removing her
headscarf and condemning the execution of protesters.
The
unrest was sparked by the September death in custody of Mahsa Amini, 22, whom
the morality police accused of violating the Islamic Republic’s strict dress
code for women.
Alidoosti,
who starred in the Oscar-winning “The Salesman,” was in Cannes last May to
promote “Leila’s Brothers.”
The
festival tweeted that it “strongly condemns this arrest and demands her
immediate release.”
A
spokesperson of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights also
said they were “seriously concerned” by the detention of Alidoosti “for simply
expressing her views on the current protests and particularly the execution of
Mohsen Shekari, the first protester to be executed in the context of
demonstrations.”
British
pop group, the Pet Shop Boys, also tweeted about the case, saying: “Iran’s
fascist government has executed protestors recently which Taraneh has
condemned.”
Source:
Al Arabiya
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Saudi
Female Graffiti Artist Noura Bin Saidan Hopes To Showcase Artwork Across
Kingdom
Saudi female graffiti artist noura bin Saidan
completed the 40-meter-long and 30-meter- high mural in two weeks. She
described her work as a ‘story about the relationship between animals and
humans.’ (Supplied)
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Saleh
Fareed
December
19, 2022
JEDDAH:
Saudi female graffiti artist Noura bin Saidan has unveiled her latest mural at
the Riyadh Zoo.
It
took Saidan two weeks to complete the 40-meter-long and 30-meter-high mural.
Speaking
about her work, she described it as a “story about the relationship between
animals and humans.”
The
artist told Arab News that her participation in Riyadh Season, one of the
biggest events in the country, is what every Saudi artist dreams of as it is a
great opportunity to showcase his or her talents to the world.
“I’m
so proud that my murals are considered among the most important landmarks on
the Boulevard. It makes me really happy,” she said.
The
young Saudi artist’s 16 murals of singers, writers, animals and scenery adorn
walls across the Riyadh region, including Riyadh Boulevard.
“I
wish to leave a mark in every city of the Kingdom, and I am hoping to create
murals in AlUla and Jeddah. My main ambition is to spread Saudi art around the
world,” she said.
The
fine arts graduate, who has been passionate about street art since a young age,
is part of a small but growing community of Saudi female graffiti artists.
“Street
art is how we reach people from different classes, ideas and nationalities. Art
is an easy way to reach them. It does not need translation,” she said.
Source:
Arab News
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2218876/saudi-arabia
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Young
Saudi designers given boost with Adhlal mentor initiative
NADA
ALTURKI
December
19, 2022
JEDDAH:
The memorandum of understanding signed a year ago at the annual Saudi Design
Festival between the research-based consultancy Adhlal and Effat University has
now come to fruition with young student creatives transforming their work into
action.
Shada
Hotel is embracing the solutions and output of the up-and-coming Saudi design
students. Located in the heart of Jeddah, the hotel is characterized by its
breezy, clean aesthetic and modern interpretation of southern Asiri culture,
including Al-Qatt art and Sadu embroidery.
The
novel program titled “Effat University Design Project” aims to connect the dots
between academia, industry and community through research-driven design
solutions.
The
program has students divided into four groups, each addressing a different area
— customer experience, food and beverage, housekeeping and front desk. The
design initiative is in line with the goals of Vision 2030, which focuses on
economic growth, creativity and innovation.
“It’s
really important to give the students the tools that they need to succeed. And
that’s more than just how to design. It’s how to identify problems, how to
research properly, how to start a business, how to promote yourself, how to
deal with deadlines, how to deal with a real-time client, which is not
something that they really get the benefits of,” Princess Nourah Al-Faisal,
founder of Adhlal, told Arab News.
Rumaysa
Mohammed, a member of the customer-experience group, told Arab News: “I think
one of the biggest things is localization … The fact that we get to work with a
hotel that is very culture-centric, that is preserving the values and
traditions of this place, just adds to the richness of this entire project …
the fact that we’re preserving, and we’re not being influenced by the West in
this. It’s very much made by our people, for our people.”
“If
you look at the products that are being designed or anything that’s been
designed, it is so heavily influenced by the culture, that some people argue
that the design is the culture,” Mohammed added.
Dr.
Sajid Khalifa, head of the design department at Effat University, told Arab
News: “The objective of this project is to give our students real industry and
work experience so that they are acting as design consultants.”
Dr.
Ahmed Kassab, assistant professor of industrial design, said: “It gives them
the empowerment of industry experience and dealing with a real customer with
real needs.”
Dennis
Meulenbroeks, founder and director of Dutch design consultancy NEAR, acting
under Adhlal, said that during a tour of the campus their specialists found
that students were not particularly research driven.
After
conducting its own research, Adhlal worked with Effat faculty members to
identify the disconnect between the needs of design market stakeholders and the
university students.
A
big goal of the initiative is to legitimize the design education system and
sector within the Kingdom. As mega-projects take center stage across the
Kingdom, from NEOM to The Line, industry leaders believe that design will be at
the core of upcoming initiatives.
Batool
Justanieh, the leader of the front-desk group, told Arab News: “Designers’
minds and hands shape the aesthetics and the structure of the product, and the
Effat design department has contributed and made us capable of participating in
international and national projects.
“They’re
striving for our growth, and they’re giving us solid foundations and digital
modeling, and rendering and sketching. It’s all tools that can help us do the
research and the work that we need to do to move forward (with) the project.”
Princess
Nourah was optimistic about the road ahead. “Design thinking is only a few
years old (in Saudi Arabia). And the implementation of design research, design
consultancy and strategy are all very new things for us here. For me, the
ability to not have to start from scratch, to be able to jump off of what we
can learn from the rest of the world and let that propel us into the future is
really quite an opportunity,” she said.
After
an initial presentation of the students’ findings earlier this month, Shada
Hotel’s CEO and Creative Director Reem Garrash said she was impressed by the
high standard of the students’ work.
“It’s
outstanding. They’re at the level of international consultancies … We are so
grateful to have worked with them and experienced the values that they’ve added
to the hotel. Questioning every element in order to enrich the experience was
the ultimate goal for us,” she told Arab News.
Princess
Nourah said Adhlal hopes to develop this initiative and work with more
institutions and businesses to grow the Saudi industry. “I’m very excited about
this type of approach to empowering a new generation, and I hope that more and
more universities are really going to start being open to things like this. If
done correctly, I really think and believe that there’s no limit to what we
could achieve,” she said.
Source:
Arab News
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2218871/saudi-arabia
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Muslim
woman donates food items, wrappers, cash gifts to over 50 Christian widows in
Kaduna
December
19, 2022
As
part of this year’s Christmas celebration amidst the high inflation, rising
food prices across the country, a Muslim woman, Ramatu Tijjani, has again
distributed foodstuffs, wrappers and cash gifts to many Christian widows.
According
to her, she is targeting over 200 widows, saying that this is part of efforts
to boost peaceful coexistence among the different faiths.
She
said the gifts are aimed at putting a beautiful smile on their faces so as to
take care of their orphans and to enable widows celebrate the season with joy
and happiness like any other Christians around the world.
Ms
Tijjani made the donations at the Church of Christ Evangelical and Life
Intervention Ministry, Sabon Tasha, on Sunday in Kaduna .
According
to her, the donations stemmed from her passion and need to impact the lives of
underprivileged widows who have gone through so much pain and discrimination
and might have lost hope.
She
said for the past 10 years, she has been donating bags of grains, wrappers and
other beverages to Christian widows and orphans during Christmas, and Easter
celebrations with the aims of strengthening Christians and Muslims relationship
in the north.
The
News Agency of Nigeria reports that the Christian women called Tijjani “Mama”
because of her outstanding kindness and good relationship that she has built
with them in strengthening Christian and Muslims relationship in the state and
the country at large.
She
said “one thing we should always remember is that we are created by One God and
Adam and Eve were our original biological parents, and we all have holy books
that guide us on ways to live in peace and harmony.
She
stressed the need to assist the widows and orphans during a season like this,
irrespective of their tribe, culture, regions, language and historical
background.
Ms
Tijjani said “Christmas provides the Golden opportunity for Muslims to
demonstrate to their Christian neighbours that Islam is a faith of peace, love
and tolerance.
“I
want to see widows, orphans and elderly person at yuletide season smiling and
enjoying themselves like any other Christian family during a festive season
like this.”
She
added that more wrappers and foodstuff will also be shared to other churches in
Kaduna and other neighbouring states with the aims of making widows smile
during the festive season with their orphans.
Ms
Tijjani pointed that the gesture was her own way of enthroning peaceful
co-existence and religious tolerance among different faith organisations in the
country.
“I
want to assure you that, with the support from almighty God, I enjoyed
supporting underprivileged widows to have a positive outlook on life despite the
problems they experience by losing their loved one, mostly the breadwinner of
the family.
“We
are one family under God, and we all believed in paradise and hell.”
This
year’s Christmas season comes amidst high cost of food prices, banditry,
kidnapping and terrorism which have affected the entire life of both rural and
urban dwellers.
Furthermore,
she stressed that for the past 10 years , she usually distribute 10 Christmas
trees to many pastors, reverend fathers each year for peace promotions across
the north.
She
added that many people in the country have started emulating what she is doing
to enhance togetherness, peace and unity.
”I
enjoy helping widows and elderly persons and their families at all times and it
is my hope to see other people emulating me in helping the poor and other needy
person as seasons like this approach,” she said.
Responding,
the General Overseer of the church, Pastor Yohanna Buru, who is equally an
interfaith specialist in Nigeria and the winner of United Nations world
international interfaith week and harmony 2023, expressed satisfaction with
Tijjani’s gesture and called on wealthy individuals to be assisting the needy
during a season of the birth of the Holy Christ and beyond.
The
Christian clergy added that the church cannot forget the donation of the 50
bibles by Hajiya Ramatu Tijjani which is to enable Christians study their bible
very well.
Mr
Buru said three years ago, the philanthropist distributed foodstuff to the
widows for the Christmas and the Lenten season.
He
used to bail Christians at prisons with minor offences for the sole purpose of
joining their friends, relatives and families in celebrating Christmas and
Easter.
He
called on Muslims and Christians to always live together in peace and harmony
while appealing to marketers to offer Christmas bonanza like it was done in
developed countries.
Source:
Daily Nigerian
https://dailynigerian.com/muslim-woman-donates-food/
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Egypt’s
team secures 2022 WSF Women’s World Team Squash Championship for fifth time in
its history
December
19, 2022
Egypt’s
national team was crowned the 2022 WSF Women’s World Team Squash Champion after
defeating the American team 2-0 in the final match to achieve the title for the
fifth time in its history.
Egyptians
has been maintaining its supremacy of the squash game, whether in terms of the
number of world championships that Egypt has achieved over the past few years
or the top players of the men’s and women’s world rankings.
The
championship concluded with a huge concert by Sharmoofers, which was attended
by a large number of fans.
The
2022 WSF Women’s World Team Squash Championship witnessed the participation of
17 countries, including the US, China, UK, Japan, Germany, France, Hong Kong,
Canada, Australia, Malaysia, Australia, Switzerland, Ukraine, Scotland, Wales,
and South Africa, along with Egypt, which is hosting the tournament for the
second time after organising it for the first time in 2008.
Omar
Hisham Talaat — Chief Business Development Officer at Talaat Moustafa Group
(TMG) — said that Madinaty Sporting Club’s hosting of the 2022 Squash World Cup
is the second global sporting event hosted by TMG’s clubs.
Previously,
Madinaty hosted the Asian Tour series golf championship, in which 120 players
from more than 40 countries participated. He added that the group’s clubs have
ambitions to become a meeting place for world championships in light of their
unique and distinguished capabilities, which contribute to the revitalisation
of sports tourism in Egypt.
For
his part, Minister of Youths and Sports Ashraf Sobhy affirmed that Egypt has
become an international destination to host major tournaments thanks to the
many advantages enjoyed by the sports facilities and infrastructure, which
dazzled the whole world in the various international forums that were held on
its soil.
The
minister also thanked the Hisham Talaat Moustafa Foundation for their
continuous support of the sports and youth sector in Egypt by organising this
tournament, which is a testament to the fruitful cooperation between the
private and government sectors, praising the distinguished level of Madinaty
Sporting Club.
Furthermore,
World Squash Federation (WSF) President Zena Wooldridge confirmed that Egypt is
able to host new international squash tournaments in light of the wide support
and popularity of the game, as well as the distinguished media coverage
throughout the days of the current world championship.
Wooldridge
also praised the distinguished organization of the 2022 WSF Women’s World Team
Squash Championship — which was held at Madinaty Sports Club from 10 to 16
December — and thanked TMG for its contribution and support for hosting and
organising the tournament.
The
WSF approved TMG’s hosting of the championship in light of its distinguished
sports stadiums, represented in the squash complex that includes 11 courts, in
addition to the main glass stadium that hosted the semi-final and final matches
of the tournament that can accommodate about 1,200 attendees.
Source:
Daily News Egypt
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