Al-Ettifaq FC is a professional football club in Dammam, Saudi Arabia. It was established by the merger of three Dammam-based clubs in 1945. Al-Ettifaq were the first Saudi team to win an international title – the 1984 Arab Club Champions Cup. They were also the first to win the Saudi Premier League without any defeats, and the first Saudi team to win the GCC Champions League. Al-Ettifaq have a total of 13 titles to their name. The club also has its own futsal section.
Ali Bahjat Fadhil is a former Iraqi footballer who played as a defender. He is currently the manager of Al-Kadhimiya SC
Dawud Ibn Umar Al-Antaki also known as Dawud Al-Antaki was a blind Muslim physician and pharmacist active in Cairo. He was born during the XVI in Al-Foah and died around in Mecca in 1597. He lived most of his life in Antioch before made a pilgrimage to Mecca and took advantage of the trip to visited Damascus and Cairo. He will then settle in Mecca.
Co-Op Societies, often shortened to Co-Op, refer to public organizations that are set up in each area of Kuwait and to provide services to its residents. These services mainly manifest in setting up grocery and convenience stores in each area, but Co-Op societies also often include a variety of different stores, both operated by the Co-Op and rented to private entities. There are around 60 Co-Ops in operation today, making up around 60–70% of retail trade in Kuwait.
Sawabir is in an old district in Sharg area in Kuwait City, the capital of Kuwait. It encompasses the sixth block of Sharg. It used to house a huge plot of subsidized apartment complexes and the Ministry of Information headquarters, thus giving birth to many famous media personalities. The Sawabir apartments were demolished in 2019 and as a result, the district is mostly empty nowadays except for shops, mosques, towers, administrative buildings, and few other amenities along its edges.
Fahad Talib is an Iraqi professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper for Persian Gulf Pro League club Sanat Naft Abadan and the Iraq national team.
The Egyptian Handball League is the premier professional handball league in Egypt. It was founded in 1958. The league, which is played under CAHB rules, currently consists of 18 teams, including famous ones like Zamalek SC, Al Ahly SC, Sporting, Gezira SC and Smouha SC. The Egyptian Handball League was overseen by EHF.
Camera Obscura is a 2015 Egyptian independent historic short film written and directed by Nour Zaki. Starring Khaled Abol Naga, the film depicts the story of Al Hazen discovery of image reflection while being held in prison.
Yasser Harrak is a Canadian writer, commentator and founder of the Middle East Seminar forum. He has written in Arabic for Almothaqaf Political Daily and Annabaa Institution for Media and Culture. Among the books, he authored The Predicators, and Shiaphobia and the Iranianization of Shiism, both published in Arabic. The Book "Anthology of the Writers of Tangier" lists Yasser Harrak among the city's most notable. In 2020, The website specializing in analytics for the education sector Edurank ranked Yasser Harrak 83 among 100 most notable alumni of Concordia University (Canada). In 2016, Yasser Harrak appeared in the Oximity News list of selected writers joining some of the world's most respected authors and human rights activists like Noam Chomsky and Robert Reich. He wrote and edited articles on Middle Eastern culture, security issues and current affairs for Oximity until its acquisition by reading subscription service Scribd in November 2016. The author is also listed as top contributor to Unpublished Ottawa, Canada's only social media website dedicated to current affairs. In a study published by the Center of Studies for Arab Unity, Dr. Abdelatif Hannachi cited Harrak'a article "Salafi Revisionism" in his research on Islamic movements in the Arab world. The Moroccan Al Aan weekly magazine qualified Harrak's analysis of Shi'ism in the country as most scientific and elaborate after his interview with journalist Aziz El Hor. In his study of Sunni extremism, Iraqi leftist journalist Saeb Khalil cited Harrak's work on Shiaphobia and its sociopolitical manifestations in the Arab world. In an article on Moroccan popular culture, philanthropist Ali Issa Alwabari, from the International Center for Research and Studies, relied heavily on Harrak's essay regarding the role of Fatima Zahra in the Moroccan popular culture.
Hussein Ali Jasim Al Saedi is an Iraqi professional footballer who plays for Iraqi Premier League club Al-Shorta and the Iraq national team. A creative player, he mainly plays as an attacking midfielder but can also perform well as a winger.
The Political Prisoners Foundation is a governmental institution of the Iraqi Council of Ministers, established in 2005 to deal with the general situation of political prisoners and detainees before 2003 and to compensate them financially and morally, currently headed by Hussein Ali Khalil Al-Sultani.
Ghazwan Jassem is an Iraqi television presenter, Journalist, media personality, author of TV programs. In 20 July 2018 become Executive Director of the Asia Network Television and Currently the Founder and General Manager of Alrabiaa Network Television
The 1966 Tripoli Fair Tournament was the 5th edition of football at the Tripoli International Fair, and was held from 11 to 19 March 1966 in Tripoli, Libya. Four teams participated: Iraq, Morocco, Libya, and Tunisia. Morocco won the tournament after beating Iraq 2–1 in the playoff match.
Farah Nafi Abu Abed is an engineer from Jordan and the captain of Al-Fuheis Basketball Club.
Hussein Tahan is a Lebanese football coach and former player.
Makram Daboub is a Tunisian football coach and former player. He is the current head coach of the Palestinian national team. He worked as a goalkeeper coach for the Olympic team. Daboub supervised the local team that won the 2020 Bangabandhu Cup in Bangladesh.
Rahma Abdulredha Mezher Al-Sibahi, better known as Rahma Riad, is an Iraqi singer and actress. She is the daughter of Iraqi singer Abdulredha Mezher Al-Sibahi, better known as Riad Ahmed. As of August 2020, her song "Waed Menni" is among the top ten most streamed songs on YouTube by a female Arab artist with more than 148 million views.
Ibrahim Mohammed Saleh, commonly known as Abu Arab, nicknamed Poet of the Palestinian revolution, was a Palestinian artist and poet. He was born in Al-Shajara during the British mandate in Palestine. He lived in exile for 63 years before returning to his homeland in 2011 to participate in a cultural festival. He and his family was forced to flee during the Nakba to Syria where they ended up in Homs. Saleh lost his father in 1948 and his son in the 1982 Lebanon War.
The 2024 UNAF U-17 Tournament is the 19th edition of the UNAF U-17 Tournament. The tournament took place in Algeria, from 16 to 26 April 2024.
The 2024–25 Iraq Stars League will be the 51st season of the highest tier football league in Iraq since its establishment in 1974, and the second season since launching as a professional league under the name Iraq Stars League. The season will start on 20 September 2024 and will end in July 2025.
