Author: Zain Farra

Oman Airports is set to host Aerohack on Tuesday at Oman Convention and Exhibition Centre, marking the first event of its kind in the sultanate. Powered by AWJ Innovation and .Nxt Ventures, Aerohack aims to foster innovation in aviation and aerospace by bringing together problem solvers, entrepreneurs, innovators, scientists, technology developers and designers. With trends in aviation rapidly evolving, there’s growing need for inventive solutions in airport operations. Oman Airports is committed to establishing itself as a leader in innovation, both regionally and globally, in anticipation of swift changes in user behaviour, environmental concerns and technological advancements. Deadline for registration…

Sierra Leone is prepared to establish an embassy to Israel in Jerusalem, its president announced on X, formally Twitter. In a tweet, President Julius Maada Bio referred to the “warm relations” between the two countries, adding that he had had “a progressive telephone conversation” with Israel’s Foreign Minister, Eli Cohen, yesterday. Adding that he “expressed his government’s readiness to establish an Embassy of Sierra Leone in #Jerusalem, the capital of the State of Israel.” Formal diplomatic ties between the two nations were established in 1961 when Sierra Leone gained independence. Nevertheless, the West African country does not currently maintain a diplomatic mission…

A favorite Bangladeshi companion to morning, midday and evening tea, biscuits are increasingly also a top export product, especially to the Middle East. Bangladeshis like their biscuits, cookies or crackers flour-based, flat, unleavened and crunchy. Traditionally sweet or plain, they have lately also been made savory, winning appeal abroad. For Shafiqur Rahman Bhuiyan, the president of the Biscuit Association of Bangladesh, the reason for growing demand of the snack is because biscuits are no longer seen as merely nibbles. “Instead of rice, someone may have biscuits as they contain all the food nutrients like carbohydrates, fat, protein, etc.,” he said.…

Astana, Beijing, Seoul (20/2 – 60) Kazakhstan has been a dominant force in boxing at the Asian Games, winning eight gold medals and 20 total medals since 1994. It’s almost a tradition that Kazakhstan wins gold medals at boxing at the Asian Games. Kazakhstan first competed at the Asian Games in 1994. Since then, boxing has won gold medals for the Central Asian country. In 1994, Hiroshima, Japan, Nurzhan Smanov (welterweight) and Kanatbek Shagatayev (light-middleweight) were the Kazakhstani gold medalists. Four years later in Bangkok, Thailand, three Kazakhstani boxers won gold medals. They were Yermakhan Ibraimov (light-middleweight), Vyacheslav Burba (middleweight),…

In an interview with Al Jazeera, Sudani said these groups have long been residing in Iraq as refugees but their armed activity against Iran is illegal. “Their presence as armed people with a military camp and under military training or their entry into Iran’s territory and carrying out armed actions is completely rejected according to the text of the Iraqi constitution,” the Iraqi prime minister said, according to Fars News. He added, “It is problematic that these groups enter Iran’s territory to carry out armed operations, then return to Iraq’s territory, because firstly, the Iraqi constitution does not allow hostile…

The total trade between the two countries during 2013-2022 amounted to $86.15bln. ABU DHABI – Non-oil foreign trade between the UAE and Kuwait has grown 87 percent over the past ten years to reach AED43 billion by the end of 2022, compared to AED23.3 billion in 2013, according to preliminary data issued by the UAE’s Federal Competitiveness and Statistics Centre (FCSC). The FCSC data showed that the total trade between the two countries during 2013-2022 amounted to AED316.2 billion, of which re-exports constituted 53 percent and valued at over AED168 billion, non-oil exports represented 27 percent and worth more than…

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), India’s ruling party, has accused the BBC of “visceral political hatred” for the Narendra Modi government, as controversy over a recent documentary that zooms in on the prime minister’s role in the 2002 Gujarat riots continues to spiral. Over the weekend, Delhi took the extraordinary step of exercising emergency laws to block the screening and the sharing of links to the BBC documentary that implicates Modi in the anti-Muslim pogroms that left around 2,000 dead in three days of mayhem in the western Gujarat state 21 years ago. In an interview with Middle East Eye,…

Under pressure from Washington to stem the flow of dollars into Iran, Iraq’s Prime Minister sent elite counter-terrorism forces more accustomed to battling Islamist militants to shut down dealers smuggling the currency to the Islamic Republic. Saturday’s raids in Baghdad represent an early test for Prime Minister, Mohammed Al-Sudani, who took office in October after more than a year of political paralysis and must now tread a delicate diplomatic path. The New York Federal Reserve introduced tighter controls on international dollar transactions by commercial Iraqi banks in November. The move was designed to stop the illegal siphoning of dollars to…

There is no doubt that a common language and global culture can play a vital role in building a peaceful world and uniting all of us. Jan. 22, 2023 10:41 a.m.Can Language Be a Bridge for Peace in the Middle East?Languages can be a bridge for peace. In our long history, war and diplomacy have proven insufficient to create peace for our planet. It is now time to search for alternatives, and there is no doubt that a common language and global culture can play a vital role in building a peaceful world and uniting all of us. “More Israelis…

Dubai, UAE: Reinforcing Dubai’s growing renown for educational excellence in the region and in line with the recently launched Dubai Economic Agenda ‘D33’, the EM Normandie French Business School inaugurates its first regional campus at Dubai Knowledge Park, a member of TECOM Group PJSC. A significant addition to Dubai’s higher education community, the university marks strengthening ties between France and UAE on the heels of a state visit between UAE President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan and President Emmanuel Macron in July 2022. EM Normandie is the first specialised Business School in the UAE offering a bachelor’s…