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12.05.13
The continuous sectarian strife is part of the country’s reality.Many of Lebanon’s sports associations suffer from the sectarian tide that overwhelms the country. But Beirut Marathon Association (BMA) founded by Mrs. May al Khalil, a member of an influential business family, to promote sports is not political at all, and More...
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21.10.12
The tender for the first solar-powered World Cup 2022 stadium has been issued and the winners will be announced in November or December, the Qatar 2022 Supreme Committee has said. Construction should follow soon thereafter and if all goes according to plan, Al Wakrah stadium will be complete as soon More...
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27.09.12
Even though Qatar is the world’s second fattest nation, it will host four international sporting events in the next decade, including the 2016 World Road Cycling Championship and the 2022 World Cup. With Sheikh Saoud bin Abdulrahman Al Thani at the helm, Qatar’s bid committee spent years fighting to host More...
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28.08.12
Amman is home to the women of Jordan's national boxing team, the first female boxers in the Middle East. Nineteen-year-old Baraa Al-Absi is hoping her tenacity in the ring will lead to fighting on a bigger stage, like the Olympic Games. Except for one thing – Al-Absi is not technically More...
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06.08.12
A group of women basketball players in Saudi Arabia has been defying stereotypes as one of the few female sports teams in the kingdom. Saudi Arabia practices an austere form of Islam in which women are forbidden from playing sport in public. But Jeddah United, which has grown its membership More...
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04.06.12
Prince Ali of Jordan believes that Muslim women shouldn’t be disqualified from world-class sports because they wear the hijab, the traditional Islamic head covering. This youngest vice-president of the world football’s governing body Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is a vocal supporter in the campaign against the hijab ban. More...
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28.05.12
The bad news is that Jordan’s Bus Rapid Transit system (BRT) was suspended last year amid concerns about the associated cost and feasibility. Although the multimillion dollar project would have considerably reduced traffic and smog in capital Amman, details of the system conceived by the Greater Amman Municipality in 2009 More...
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16.05.12
Bahiya Al-Hamad is a 19-year-old college student and air-rifle shooter who is about to make history for her country. When she travels to London to take part in the Olympic Games this summer, she will be part of the first group of Qatari women ever to compete at the Olympics. More...
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06.05.12
One of the great Olympic ideals is the importance of taking part, bringing together athletes of all backgrounds from all around the world. But not everyone has had the chance to compete. Saudi Arabia is one of only three countries -- along with Qatar and Brunei -- which have never More...
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22.02.12
Omar Samra, the first Egyptian to climb Mount Everest in 2007, is one step away from achieving his "7 Summits Challenge” of climbing the highest peak on each of the seven continents. Once these seven peaks are conquered, in addition to skiing to the north and south poles, Samra would More...
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