#Khaled Abdalla

[i-am-aprl]

While most news organizations, including the largest mainstream organizations in the United States, the UK and Europe chose not to broadcast South Africa's historic case live at the ICJ, they did choose to show Israel's defense against South Africa's accusation of genocide live.

Despite this dereliction of duty, more than two dozen actors have contributed to a video series, published by the Palestine Festival of Literature, in support of South Africa's motion, accusing Israel of genocide in its war against Hamas in Gaza in which they read excerpts of the case out loud.

More than two dozen prominent names from the acting world including #SusanSarandon, #Cynthia Nixon, The Crown actors #KhalidAbdalla and #TobiasMenzies, and Game of Thrones stars #CharlesDance, #CariceVanHouten and #Lena Headey have contributed to a series of videos supporting #SouthAfrica's historic case charging Israel with genocide at the International Court of Justice in the Hague.

[sumechiayuu]

Rafah is currently under bombardment, so I will spreading as much links as I can possibly can. If I miss any, please add on if you can

Help Mayar and her family

Help Nour

Help Marah Owda escape Gaza

Help Sobhe and his family escape Gaza

Help Razan and family escape from Gaza

Help Ahmed’s family escape Gaza

Help the Zamli family evacuate

Help this handicapped child escape Gaza

Help this family get out of Gaza

Help this family evacuate

Help Salah’s family

Help evacuate this family to safety

Help this family survive

Help Zayn’s family

Help Mohammed’s family

Help Abdullah Salem’s family

Help Dalia Masoud and her family

Help Mahmoud’s family

Help Eyad’s family

Help Osama’s family evacuate

Help Dr. Abdelwahab and his family

Help this displaced family

Help Abood and his family leave Gaza

Help Lara Sharif evacuate her family to safety

Help secure this family

Help Muhammed evacuate his family

Help Walid and family escape

Help Sarah Aljamal and her family

Help Walaa and her family evacuate from Gaza

Help Aya evacuate her sick mother from Gaza

Help Mohamed Zaqout’s brother escape Gaza

Help Bayan Meghari and her family

Help evacuate this injured father out of Gaza

Help Hossam and his family

Help evacuate the Abu Halabia family

Help treat Mulataf who has brain disease

Help a family of 7 evacuate Gaza

Help this child with cerebral palsy evacuate

Help Abdalla Mughari and his family

Help the Alashi family

Help Ghadeer Saeed’s family

Help Yousef and Khaled Al-Sultan’s family

Help Firas protect his family

Help Moneer and his family

Help Aya Adham get treatment for her hematoma

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Please keep Palestine in your minds tonight and onwards even with distractions like the Oscars, helping the people is more important

[lonniemachin]

Palestinian Evacuation and Support Fundraisers -- Less than Halfway to their Goal

As the title says, these are support and evacuation fundraisers from my main list that are currently less than halfway to their goals. Please support these fundraisers by donating and sharing them so that they may complete their goals as quickly as possible and secure safety and/or evacuate should the Rafah crossing open again soon.

Last Update: 05/23/2024

Fadi Al-Sharif and family ($24,702/$62,500 goal)

Fatima Alshanti (kr21,597 SEK/kr150,000 goal)

Shahed Ghazi and family ($21,109 CAD/$94,838 goal)

Little Yusuf and family (€24,261/€85,000 goal)

Sara & Huda Hajjaj and family ($9,271/$25,000 goal)

Mohammed JH Shamia's family (kr49,084 SEK/kr250,000 goal)

Maram Ahmed and family (€9,015/€30,000 goal)

Hamza Almofty and family ($6,941/$35,000 goal)

Mahmoud Jomaa (€2,664/€10,000 goal)

Dr. Mohammed Shaga ($2,551/$20,000 goal)

Abdulrahman Alshanti and family (kr147,985 SEK/kr350,000 goal)

Besan Almabhouh's family (€8,324/€25,000 goal)

Hussein Shamiya, his pregnant wife, and son ($18,911/$40,000 goal)

Almadhoun family ($24,040/$80,000 goal)

Sana'a and family (£27,043/£70,000 goal)

Noha Ayyad and family ($32,691/$95,160 goal)

Maryam Ayyad and family ($1,010/$15,000 goal) - Maryam is related to Noha listed above, who is managing her fundraiser.

Hamza Sameer and family ($6,453/$55,000 goal)

Hamza is related to Noha, he is her uncle’s son.

Nazmi Mwafi and family ($6,721/65,000 goal)

Ibrahim Almofty and family ($7,712/$40,000 goal)

Mohammed Ali and family ($10,375/$25,000 goal)

Mohammed Abuhasanein and family (kr10,817 SEK/kr 350,000 goal)

Rawan and Yemna (kr48,777 SEK/kr319,315 goal)

Laila Auda (€7,281/€35,000 goal)

Ola Madi (€2,699/€40,000 goal)

Tawfik Satoom and family ($6,302/$45,000 goal)

Laila Abd El Bari, her husband, and unborn baby Sham (€7,007/€25,000 goal)

Abdullah Mohammed and family ($7,417/$47,000 goal)

Ruba Abushaban and family (€11,862/€50,000 goal)

Hala, her husband, and their daughter ($7,072 CAD/$50,000 goal)

Hoda and Abdul Rahman ($2,619/$18,000 goal)

Al Maghari family (£4,824/£74,000 goal)

Arwa Abudawaba and family (kr241,706 NOK/kr500,000 goal)

Hani Alhajjar’s family (€13,726/€50,000 goal)

Ouda family ($19,254 CAD/$50,000 goal)

Rawan Ahmed and family ($14,305/$40,000 goal)

Dr. Wael Eldahdouh's family (€5,511/€110,000 goal)

Abdullah Lulu and family ($5,905/$18,000 goal)

Lara, Abdalla, and family (€11,453/€50,000 goal)

Dr. Mohammed Alshaer and family (€5,525/€18,000 goal)

Haya and family (€6,286/€60,000 goal)

Firas Salem and family (€16,429/€65,000 goal)

Ahmad Iyd and family (£5,771/£150,000 goal)

Renad and family (£1,612/£25,000 goal)

Mohammed Aljbour and family (€4,568/€25,000 goal)

Sarah's mother (€5,906/€15,000 goal)

Sarah reached her initial goal to evacuate her mother and has raised the goal to provide support for she and her family once they are in Egypt.

Dr. Hasan Adwan and family (€5,026/€98,000 goal)

Marah Atallah and family ($950/$27,000 goal!!!)

Dr. Nasrallah Almassri ($8,778/$30,000 goal)

Afnan Hasaballah (€5,697/€20,000 goal)

Muhammad Al-Thalateeni and family (€7,244/€20,000 goal)

Al-Zaeem family ($4,638/$50,000 goal)

Mahmoud Al Tibi and family (€8,911/€60,000 goal)

Almoghrabi family (€2,225/€25,000 goal)

Mohammad's family (€8,707/€30,000 goal)

Aziz and his mother ($3,008/$50,000 goal)

Mohammed, his wife, and their newborn son ($971/$50,000 goal!!!)

Tala, her aunt, and their family (€18,219/€50,000 goal)

Ala Osama ($125/$50,000 goal!!!)

Aesha Balaha and family ($1,231/$10,000 goal)

Farah and family (€2,086/€35,000 goal)

Zinh Dahdooh ($5,324/$40,000 goal)

Rana and family (€7,680/€30,000 goal)

Al-Alami family ($3,035 CAD/$100,000 goal)

Khaled and family ($83/$15,000 goal!!!)

Tamer Alnoaizy and family (€3,597/€20,000 goal)

Ahmed Dawoud and family ($2,300/$87,000 goal)

Omar and family (€3,500/€20,000 goal)

Haytham and family ($827 CAD/$70,000 goal!!!)

Hamdi and family ($306 CAD/$62,000 goal!!!)

Mahmoud & Rawan (€944/€15,000 goal!!!)

Hashem, Samar, and baby Omar (€340/€45,000 goal!!!)

Aseel Maher and family (€1,930/€30,000 goal)

Mayada Jihad and family (€2,150/€30,000 goal)

Amal, her children, and her unborn baby ($2,019/$15,000 goal!!!) URGENT! 15 DAYS TO COMPLETE!!!

Tahani Shorbajee and family ($3,367/$50,000 goal)

Baby Youssef and family (€5,067/€50,000 goal)

Iman Eyad and family (£992/£60,000 goal!!!)

Mohammed & Hamza Hilles and family (€684/€30,000 goal!!!)

[sageandred]

Some Palestinian Blogs to Support (that have reached out to me)

/posts you can share, along w/GoFundMe achievements as of 09/18/24

ps) I'm not a vetter; i'm just going frm what I can tell..

Vetted:

(These aren't in order of percentage rate).

¹khaledanqar2000 (acct deleted, see gfm below)- 177/57,300 / ²abdallahblog0- 656/30,000 / ³leenakhamiss- 4,321/100,000 / ⁴d-mohammed- 4,673/100,000 / ⁵abuadam86- 17,525/500,000 / ⁶haithem-2- 8,168/200,000 / ⁷(acct deleted, but gfm is) Raneen Bakroon- 8,934/80,000 / ⁸majedgh2 (acct deleted, see gfm below)- 5,250/70,000 / ⁹hassanmadi2- 1,097/50,000 / ¹⁰mahmoudayyad- 5,797/55,000 / ¹¹yara-family- 2,105/20,000 / ¹²samarsh11- 10,092/45,000 / ¹³mahmoudjsy- 3,783/25,000 / ¹⁴mohmoud-j- 15,440/60,000 / ¹⁵severeninjan-4,048/10,000 / ¹⁶hebamater492-(has multiple campaigns & lowest funds is 938/30,000 for this linked post)

Close to Goal: ¹⁷karamalmadhoun0-17,257/20,000 / ¹⁸yasermohammad- 22,756/35,000

Unvetted:

¹⁹ahmad1988- 3,758/500,000 / ²⁰qualitycatcollector- 17/60,000 / ²¹(acct deleted, gfm is) Emtsal Malhe- 6,677/50,000 / ²²savesmahfamily- 332/50,000 / ²³abdallaalhaj- 230/50,000 / ²⁴wisammurtaja- 160/50,000 / ²⁵ibrahimmajed10- 60/50,000 / ²⁶malkhelles- 35/40,000 / ²⁷mohammednasr- 125/50,000 / ²⁸malokamohamed- 340/40,000 / ²⁹mohammednasers-blog- 5,188/38,000 / ³⁰zainsami- 560/35,000 / ³¹alaakhaled0- 189/20,000 / ³²mones1998gaza- 993/20,000 / ³³mohmad77 <CW blood >2ND most shared post -4,572/80,000 ³⁴ghadahalmadhoun- 4,212/50,000

the Go Fund Me's (in order) | Vetted: ¹Khaled Alanqer / ²MV / ³Lina Khames / ⁴Mohammed Shurrab / ⁵Naya Albozom / ⁶Mohammed Mohammed / ⁷already linked Raneen / ⁸Maged Gaza / ⁹Hassen Wajih / ¹⁰Mahmoud Ayyad / ¹¹Yara Mohammed / ¹²Hashim Friend / ¹³Renee Hassert / ¹⁴Anna Marfleet / ¹⁵Ramzy zaher Foura / ¹⁶Ashika Jaffar

Close 2 G: ¹⁷Abdulkareem Madhoun / ¹⁸Roba Ayyad

Unvetted: ¹⁹Ahmad Quandil / ²⁰Talib Hussien / ²¹already linked Emtsal / ²²Samah Hijazi / ²³Abdalla Alhaj / ²⁴Zayed Soliman / ²⁵Ibrahim Majed / ²⁶Malk Helles / ²⁷Mohammed Nasr / ²⁸Mohammed Ibraheem / ²⁹Dunia E D Habib / ³⁰Zain Sami / ³¹Alaa Khaled / ³²Mo'nes Naji / ³³Abed M / ³⁴Hind Al-madhoun

Added) Hanan Mahmoud-vetted 781/100,000 hanangaza

*Updated 09/20/24

Vetted:

shamia962 / Mohammed JH Shamia goal: 60,327/250,000

karamrafeek / Ahmed Kaddad goal: 75/7,000

fahedshehab-new / Ahmed Shamia goal: 56,114/85,000

Unvetted:

farahalhabil / Ibrahim Family goal: 440/20,000

Noura Ayman goal: 278/5,000 (org by Mohammed Almeshaal)

[zinogirl]

Hello ,I hope my message finds you well.❤️

I'm abdallah from Gaza 🇵🇸💔

I live with my family in suffering in the middle of a hellish war, fleeing death.

I would be very grateful if you could donate to me and my family.

Donate even 10$, your donation will save the life of an entire family.🙏

Thank you in advance.🫶

Donation Link⬇️

https://chuffed.org/project/115127-help-abdalla-and-his-family-escape-from-gaza

[snaggletoothedbastard]

Dear person with a kind heart🌹💟

I'm Abdalla from Gaza 🇵🇸❤️

I hope you donate or share link please 😔🙏🙏

Some help from you make a huge difference to me and to my family please ♥️♥️♥️🫂🇵🇸

https://chuffed.org/project/115127-help-abdalla-and-his-family-escape-from-gaza

[probably-not-forsaken]

THE PINNED POST

Hi, I’m Millie and welcome to my pinned post. I use They/Them, He/Him, and It/Its pronouns

MINOR! Please don’t send creepy stuff

Verified Palestine GoFundMe under the cut

Help Khaled and his family escape Gaza

Help lara and abdalla Family to be safe in Gaza

Emergency: Help Ibrahim's Family Find Safety - $50 is 500kr

HELP Ezzideen & his Family to EVACUATE Gaza

Your help is the only hope to save us from war.

Hope : Help Little Elen Fetch a brighter Future

Help Aseel’s family evacuate from Gaza.

EMERGENCY: HELP evacuate Bashar from Gaza

Help Mohammad Hammad evacuate his family from Gaza

Help Madleen's Family From Gaza

Help Jehad Evacute From Gaza

Help a med student & his family evacuate to safety

Help Fadi's Family Rebuild Their Life Amidst Crisis

Help Us Safely Evacuate a family from Gaza

Help child with Cerebral Palsy evacuate

Protect an open source engineer and his family

Help Bring Ayah’s Family in Gaza to Safety

Call to Action: Keep Gazas Talent Alive

Help Belal and His Family Escape the War in Gaza

Urgent Rescue Mission for the Mortaja Family

Save my family from the war in Gaza

Urgent: Help Evacuate My Family From Gaza War

Urgent help to evacuate my family out of Gaza

Help evacuate Safi’s family from Gaza in warfare

emergency : Help Support the Khalaf Family in Gaza

Help AbdulAziz and his family

Help Yousef escape Gaza and treat his cancer

Help my family rebuild home und evacuate Gaza

Please Help Me Evacuate My Children To Safety

Escape From War Nightmare: Support Gazan Family

Help my family in Gaza

Salaam Animal Care, find a safe home for animals

URGENT HELP help my family to evacuate Gaza

Help me & my Family Evacuate from Gaza

Urgent Appeal for Support: Help a Photographer

Help Jana's Family Find Refuge and Peace

Help me to save my family from the war in Gaza

Help evacuate my brother and his family from Gaza

Urgent apeal to help Elzomar family leave Gaza immediately

Help my mum to travel to a safe place

Help Afnan to find safety and to complete her education

Support getting Linda and her family out of Gaza

Support Mohammed and His Family Affected by the Gaza War

Help Ala's Family Overcome Crisis in Gaza

Freedom and home repair for Aesha an family

Help us evacuate and rebuild what's left of our lives

Help Tamer and his Family in Gaza!

Help my family escape death and reunite with me.

Help me and my family escape the Genocide in Gaza

Help rebuild Ahmed's family life in Gaza .

Emergency : Saving My Mother and only brother From War Zone

Rescue Mahmoud's Family: A Call to Escape Gaza's Devastation

Help Mohammed & His Family To Safety

Help Almoghrabi family to evacuate Gaza strip

Urgent Appeal: Help Save Ruba & Muhammad in Gaza!

Urgent help to evacuate my family from Gaza

Help Alia's family and their children get out of Gaza

Urgent Appeal: Save Little Yusuf and His Family Amidst Gaza

Support My Family Escape War in Gaza

Help me get my family out to safety

Help my family out of Gaza

Help me get my family out to safety

Help my children and family from the Gaza war !!

Please Help Evacuate Fadi's Family from Gaza

URGENT: Help Hayam and her Family Escape the Genocide

For what remained in us من أجل ما تبقى فينا

Please Help Restore The Sharifs home & Help Leave A War Zone

Help Shymaa's Family Reunite in Egypt

Help Mahmoud’s family evacuate from Gaza

Donate to help Deyaa and his family escape Gaza

Fatima’s Journey to Restore Artistry in Gaza

My family under fire, help them evacuate Gaza.

Help me to evacuate from the genocide

Help Mahmoud to evacuate from Gaza to continue education

Help my family evacuate from Gaza

Help Sana’a and her family evacuate from Gaza

Haytham needs your help to support his family

Help my family survive and evacuate from Gaza

Help me rebuild a shelter for my family in Rafah

HelpYoussef and his family get out of Gaza for a better life

Let my family be safe and live in peace!

Relief Appeal: Secure Evacuation from Gaza War

Please Help Tahani save her children and husband

Urgent Help Appeal: exit the war of Gaza"

Help My Family Get Out Of Gaza

Vegetables, food, and water for Palestinian families

HELP Muhammad evacuate his family out of GAZA

Secure a Safe Future for Youssef’s Family - Act now

Support My Journey to a New Start

Help Shymaa's Family Reunite in Egypt

Help Me and my Family to evacuate from Gaza ASAP

Saving My Family from the Horrors of War in Gaza

Help the Allahawani family escape genocide

URGENT - Help Azzam evacuate his family from Gaza

help my children get out of gaza safely

Emergency: Help Evacuate My Family from Gaza

Help Safaa secure her children‘s lives after war

Help Kareem get his family from Gaza to safety

Help Karim and his family get to a safe place

Fandoms & DNI

Fandoms: 

TMA/TMAGP (Big Hyperfixation Time)

The Mechanisms

Slay The Princess

WTNV

DNI:

TERF’s

RadFems

Zionists

General Bigotry

If you notice that I’ve accidentally perpetuated bigotry, please tell me!

[creating-something-stuff]

Hello, my name is Abdalla. I am from Gaza City🇵🇸🍉

. I need your help, please don't skip my message. My family and I are trying to get out of Gaza to a safe place after surviving several strikes during the current war. Your help, even $5 or $10, will make a difference and save our lives. Please help us by donating or sharing the link below. Thank you

Donation link ⬇️

https://gofund.me/e20ebdb0

[ferretly]

Hi 👋

I hope you are well, my friend🙏

I am from Gaza and I need your help

You may know the bad conditions we are going through here because of the war here 💔😔

If you can help me and make it easier for me to save my family❤️

Donate even $20 and reblog my post🙏🫂Your help will make a huge difference to me and my family🩷

I hope you understand what we are going through, and be generous to a family who is pleading with you from death🫶🇵🇸❤️

Hi there, thank you for the kind words and I wish the same for you and your family. I can't donate right now, but I will as soon as I can

Number 132 on el-shab-hussein and nabulsi's spreadsheet of verified fundraisers

vouched for by bilal-salah0

September 11: £173 raised of £50,000!

Please share and donate if you can, funds for this campaign are ridiculously low!

[catnapdreams]

Hi 👋

I hope you are well, my friend🙏

I am from Gaza and I need your help

You may know the bad conditions we are going through here because of the war here 💔😔

If you can help me and make it easier for me to save my family❤️

Donate even $20 and reblog my post🙏🫂Your help will make a huge difference to me and my family🩷

I hope you understand what we are going through, and be generous to a family who is pleading with you from death🫶🇵🇸❤️

Please donate and/or repost! I have donated to handful of fundraisers and I will again when/if I am able to. <3

Posted by Bilal-salah0 who is #132 on the vetted list

So I consider him vetted by association in the link below:

[shahananasrin-blog]

[ad_1] ABU DHABI, 28th September, 2023 (WAM) -- The Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE) and the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) have today entered into a Bilateral Currency Swap Agreement between the UAE Dirham (AED) and the Egyptian Pound (EGP). The agreement, signed by Khaled Mohamed Balama, Governor of the Central Bank of the UAE, and Hassan Abdalla, Governor of the Central Bank of Egypt, allows for the exchange of local currencies between the two central banks with a nominal size of up to AED 5 billion and EGP 42 billion.Commenting on the agreement, the Governor of CBUAE said, "The Bilateral Currency Swap Agreement between the UAE and Egypt reflects the strong relationship between the two countries and serves as an opportunity to promote cooperation and develop our respective economic and financial markets. In line with the efforts of the UAE and Egypt's leadership to collaborate more broadly across multiple areas, the CBUAE is keen to deepen its cooperation with the CBE to achieve common interests, positively impact the trade, investment and financial sectors, and enhance financial stability."Hassan Abdalla, Governor of CBE, said, "In support of the continued robust relations between the UAE and Egypt, the Central Bank of the UAE and the Central Bank of Egypt have entered into a Bilateral Currency Swap Agreement, which I am confident will bolster cooperation between both financial sectors in their respective currencies." [ad_2]

[popsixsquishcicerolipschitz]

Hema Atef Azima, Ahmed Mostafa, Ahmed Samir Sulayman, Mohamed Ali, Mohamed Abdelmenem, Ahmed Italiano, Khaled Salah and Tarek Gamal Abdalla 

[tasksweekly]

[TASK 176: UNITED ARAB EMIRATES]

There’s a masterlist below compiled of over 90+ Emirati faceclaims categorised by gender with their occupation and ethnicity denoted if there was a reliable source. If you want an extra challenge use random.org to pick a random number! Of course everything listed below are just suggestions and you can pick whichever faceclaim or whichever project you desire.

Any questions can be sent here and all tutorials have been linked below the cut for ease of access! REMEMBER to tag your resources with #TASKSWEEKLY and we will reblog them onto the main! This task can be tagged with whatever you want but if you want us to see it please be sure that our tag is the first five tags, @ mention us or send us a messaging linking us to your post!

THE TASK - scroll down for FC’s!

STEP 1: Decide on a FC you wish to create resources for! You can always do more than one but who are you starting with? There are links to masterlists you can use in order to find them and if you want help, just send us a message and we can pick one for you at random!

STEP 2: Pick what you want to create! You can obviously do more than one thing, but what do you want to start off with? Screencaps, RP icons, GIF packs, masterlists, PNG’s, fancasts, alternative FC’s - LITERALLY anything you desire!

STEP 3: Look back on tasks that we have created previously for tutorials on the thing you are creating unless you have whatever it is you are doing mastered - then of course feel free to just get on and do it. :)

STEP 4: Upload and tag with #TASKSWEEKLY! If you didn’t use your own screencaps/images make sure to credit where you got them from as we will not reblog packs which do not credit caps or original gifs from the original maker.

THINGS YOU CAN MAKE FOR THIS TASK -  examples are linked!

Stumped for ideas? Maybe make a masterlist or graphic of your favourite faceclaims. A masterlist of names. Plot ideas or screencaps from a music video preformed by an artist. Masterlist of quotes and lyrics that can be used for starters, thread titles or tags. Guides on culture and customs.

Screencaps

RP icons [of all sizes]

Gif Pack [maybe gif icons if you wish]

PNG packs

Manips

Dash Icons

Character Aesthetics

PSD’s

XCF’s

Graphic Templates - can be chara header, promo, border or background PSD’s!

FC Masterlists - underused, with resources, without resources!

FC Help - could be related, family templates, alternatives.

Written Guides.

and whatever else you can think of / make!

MASTERLIST!

F:

Badriya Ahmad (1964) Emirati - actress. 

Huda El Khateib (1964) Emirati - actress. 

Ahlam Alshamsi (1969) Emirati / Bahraini - singer. 

Fatima Al Hosni (1969) Emirati - singer. 

Layla Kaylif (1971) Emirati - singer-songwriter and screenwriter.

Mahira Abdel Aziz (1982) Emirati - tv anchor. 

Salama Mohamed (1987) Emirati - instagrammer (salamamohamed).

Amal Mohammed (1987) Emirati - actress. 

Sarah Al Agroobi / Sarah Alagroobi (1989) Emirati / Syrian - actress, filmmaker, and interdisciplinary artist.

Aroob Ali (?) Emirati - model.

Nadya Alwiny (?) Emirati / Chinese - model.

Shamma Hamdan (?) Emirati - singer.

F - Athletes:

Elham Al Qasim (1982) Emirati - skier. 

Shahad Budebs (1994) Emirati - crossfit games athlete.

Khadija Mohammed (1995) Emirati - weightlifter. 

Zahra Lari (1995) Emirati - figure skater.

Nada Al-Bedwawi (1997) Emirati - swimmer. 

Amna Al Qubaisi (2000) Emirati - racing driver.

Mahra Al-Hinaai (2001) Emirati - ju-jitsu practitioner.

M:

Jaber Nagmoosh (1950) Emirati - actor. 

Abdallah Belkhair (1950) Emirati - singer. 

Ahmed Al Jasmi (1962) Emirati - actor. 

Saif Al Ghanim (1962) Emirati - actor. 

Ahmed Alansari (1963) Emirati - actor. 

Habib Ghaloom (1963) Emirati - actor.

Fayez Al Saeed (1974) Emirati - singer and composer. 

Ahmed Abdul Khaleq (1977) Emirati - blogger.

Ali F. Mostafa (1981) Emirati / British - filmmaker.

Khalid Al Ameri (1983) Emirati / Scottish - instagrammer (khalidalameri).

Yaser Alneyadi (1990) Emirati - actor.

Omar Almulla (1992) Emirati - actor.

Spek / Hussain Yoosuf (?) Emirati - rapper.

Ahmed Khamis Ali (?)  Emirati - actor.

M - Athletes:

Mohammed bin Sulayem (1961) Emirati - rally driver. 

Mubarak Ghanim (1963) Emirati - footballer. 

Zuhair Bakheet (1967) Emirati - footballer. 

Samir El-Mais (1980) Emirati - boxer.

Obaid Al-Jasmi (1981) Emirati - swimmer. 

Rami Yaslam (1981) Emirati - footballer. 

Hasan Ali (1981) Emirati - footballer. 

Mahmoud Almas (1983) Emirati - footballer. 

Ali Al-Wehaibi (1983) Emirati - footballer. 

Mahmoud Hassan (1984) Baloch Emirati - footballer. 

Mohamed Hammadi (1985) Emirati - paralympic athlete.

Yousif Jaber (1985) Emirati - footballer. 

Walid Abbas (1985) Baloch Emirati - footballer. 

Salem Abdullah (1986) Emirati - footballer. 

Abdullah Faraj (1986) Emirati - footballer. 

Abdulla Sultan Al Nasseri (1986) Emirati - footballer. 

Yaqoub Al Hosani (1987) Emirati - footballer. 

Mubarak Al-Besher (1988) Emirati - swimmer. 

Humaid Abdulla Abbas (1988) Emirati - footballer. 

Yousif Mirza (1988) Emirati - cyclist. 

Fawaz Awana (1988) Emirati - footballer. 

Ali Al-Hosani (1988) Emirati - footballer. 

Khaled Abdulrahman (1988) Emirati - footballer. 

Tareq Ahmed (1988) Emirati - footballer. 

Jasim Abdalla (1988) Emirati - basketball player.

Saeed Rashid Al Qubaisi (1989) Emirati - judoka.

Nasser Abdulhadi (1989) Emirati - footballer. 

Hazza Salem Al Faresi (1989) Emirati - footballer. 

Amer Abdulrahman (1989) Emirati - footballer. 

Hamdan Al-Kamali (1989) Emirati - footballer. 

Mohammed Khalaf (1989) Emirati - footballer. 

Bandar Al-Ahbabi (1990) Emirati - footballer. 

Abdulla Al-Karbi (1990) Emirati - handball player.

Habib Al Fardan (1990) Emirati - footballer. 

Ali Mabkhout (1990) Emirati - footballer. 

Mohammed Ali Ayed (1990) Emirati - footballer. 

Hamad Al-Hammadi (1991) Emirati - footballer. 

Hamad Al-Ahbabi (1991) Emirati - footballer. 

Qais Alshabebi (1991) Emirati - basketball player. 

Al Hassan Saleh (1991) Emirati - footballer. 

Waleed Hussain (1991) Emirati - footballer. 

Shahin Abdulrahman (1992) Emirati - footballer. 

Masoud Sulaiman (1992) Emirati - footballer. 

Majed Hassan (1992) Emirati - footballer. 

Abdullah Al-Naqbi (1993) Emirati - footballer. 

Salem Sultan (1993) Emirati - footballer. 

Waleed Jumaa (1993) Emirati - footballer. 

Suhail Al-Mansoori (1993) Emirati - footballer.

Sebil Ghazi (1994) Emirati - footballer.

Mohammed Jamal (1994) Emirati - footballer.

Rashed Muhayer (1994) Emirati - footballer.

Rayan Yaslam (1994) Emirati - footballer.

Khaled Ba Wazir (1995) Emirati - footballer.

Khalfan Mubarak (1995) Emirati - footballer.

Yaaqoub Al-Saadi (1996) Emirati - swimmer. 

Abdullah Kazim (1996) Emirati - footballer.

Mohamed Al Shamsi (1997) Emirati - footballer.

Mohammed Al Attas (1997) Emirati - footballer.

Ali Saleh (2000) Emirati / Scottish - footballer. 

Humaid Al-Derei (?) Emirati - judoka.

Sayed Ibrahim Al Hashmi (?) Emirati - bodybuilder.

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Sudan’s Prime Minister Hamdok dismisses police chief and his deputy

Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok said on Saturday he dismissed the chief of police, Lieutenant-General Khaled Mahdi Ibrahim Al-Emam, and his deputy. Lieutenant-General Anan Hamed Mohammed Omar was appointed as the new police chief and Major General Muddathir Abd al-Rahman Nasr al-Din as his deputy, Hamdok added in a post on Twitter. For the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel…

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Top 10 Cited Papers Software        Engineering & Applications          Research Articles From 2017      Issue

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 International Journal of Software Engineering & Applications (IJSEA)

                  ISSN : 0975 - 9018 ( Online ); 0976-2221 ( Print )

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                                Factors on Software Effort Estimation

                                            Simon WU Iok Kuan

 Faculty of Business Administration, University of Macao, Macau, China

 ABSTRACT

Software effort estimation is an important process of system development life cycle, as it may affect the success of software projects if project designers estimate the projects inaccurately. In the past of few decades, various effort prediction models have been proposed by academicians and practitioners. Traditional estimation techniques include Lines of Codes (LOC), Function Point Analysis (FPA) method and Mark II Function Points (Mark II FP) which have proven unsatisfactory for predicting effort of all types of software. In this study, the author proposed a regression model to predict the effort required to design small and medium scale application software. To develop such a model, the author used 60 completed software projects developed by a software company in Macau. From the projects, the author extracted factors and applied them to a regression model. A prediction of software effort with accuracy of MMRE = 8% was constructed.

 KEYWORDS

Effort Estimation, Software Projects, Software Applications, System Development Life Cycle.

For More Details : http://aircconline.com/ijsea/V8N1/8117ijsea03.pdf

Volume Link:            

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                             A Brief Program Robustness Survey

  Ayman M. Abdalla, Mohammad M. Abdallah and Mosa I. Salah

 Faculty of Science and I.T, Al-Zaytoonah University of Jordan, 

                                       Amman, Jordan

 ABSTRACT

 Program Robustness is now more important than before, because of the role software programs play in our life. Many papers defined it, measured it, and put it into context. In this paper, we explore the different definitions of program robustness and different types of techniques used to achieve or measure it. There are many papers about robustness. We chose the papers that clearly discuss program or software robustness. These papers stated that program (or software) robustness indicates the absence of ungraceful failures. There are different types of techniques used to create or measure a robust program. However, there is still a wide space for research in this area.

 Keywords:

 Robustness, Robustness measurement, Dependability, Correctness.

 For More Details: http://aircconline.com/ijsea/V8N1/8117ijsea01.pdf

 Volume Link: http://www.airccse.org/journal/ijsea/vol8.html

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                                                                                           Citation Count – 02

                 Culture Effect on Requirements Elicitation Practice in 

                                         Developing Countries

Ayman Sadig1  and Abd-El-Kader Sahraoui2 1Ahfad University for Women                                   and SUST Khartoum Sudan

2LAAS-CNRS, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, U2J, Toulouse, France

 ABSTRACT

 Requirement elicitation is a very important step into developing any new application. This paper will examine the culture effect on requirement elicitation in developing countries.

 This is a unique research that will look at requirement elicitation process in 10 different parts of the world including Arab word, India, China, Africa and South America. The focus is how the culture affects (RE) and makes every place has its own practice of RE. The data were collect through surveys and direct interviews. The results show astonishing culture effect on RE.

 The conclusion is that culture effects deeply the technique gets chosen for requirement elicitation. If you are doing RE in Thailand, it will be very different from RE in Arab world. For example in Thailand respect for leader is critical and any questioning of manager methods will create a problem while in Arab world decision tree is favourite RE technique because visual are liked much more than documents.

 KEYWORDS

 Culture impact, requirement elicitation.

 For More Details:http://aircconline.com/ijsea/V8N1/8117ijsea05.pdf

 Volume Link: http://www.airccse.org/journal/ijsea/vol8.html

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          A User Story Quality Measurement Model for Reducing Agile 

                                   Software Development Risk

                                              Sen-Tarng Lai

 Department of Information Technology and Management, Shih Chien                                             University, Taipei, Taiwan

 ABSTRACT

 In Mobile communications age, the IT environment and IT technology update rapidly. The requirements change is the software project must face challenge. Able to overcome the impact of requirements change, software development risks can be effectively reduced. Agile software development uses the Iterative and Incremental Development (IID) process and focuses on the workable software and client communication. Agile software development is a very suitable development method for handling the requirements change in software development process. In agile development, user stories are the important documents for the client communication and criteria of acceptance test. However, the agile development doesn’t pay attention to the formal requirements analysis and artifacts tracability to cause the potential risks of software change management. In this paper, analyzing and collecting the critical quality factors of user stories, and proposes the User Story Quality Measurement (USQM) model. Applied USQM model, the requirements quality of agile development can be enhanced and risks of requirement changes can be reduced.

 KEYWORDS

 Agile development, user story, software project, quality measurement, USQM.

 For More Details : http://aircconline.com/ijsea/V8N2/8217ijsea05.pdf

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                    A Survey of Verification Tools Based on Hoare Logic

                                                   Nahid A. Ali

 College of Computer Science & Information Technology, Sudan University                       of Science & Technology, Khartoum, Sudan

 ABSTRACT

The quality and the correctness of software has a great concern in computer systems. Formal verification tools can used to provide a confidence that a software design is free from certain errors. This paper surveys tools that accomplish automatic software verification to detect programming errors or prove their absence. The two tools considered are tools that based on Hoare logic namely, the KeY-Hoare and Hoare Advanced Homework Assistant (HAHA). A detailed example on these tools is provided, underlining their differences when applied to practical problems.

 KEYWORDS

 Hoare Logic, Software Verification, Formal Verification Tools, KeY-Hoare Tool, Hoare Advanced Homework Assistant Tool

 For More Details : http://aircconline.com/ijsea/V8N2/8217ijsea06.pdf

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 The Impact of Software Complexity on Cost and Quality - A Comparative                 Analysis Between Open Source and Proprietary Software

                            Anh Nguyen-Duc IDI, NTNU, Norway

 ABSTRACT

 Early prediction of software quality is important for better software planning and controlling. In early development phases, design complexity metrics are considered as useful indicators of software testing effort and some quality attributes. Although many studies investigate the relationship between design complexity and cost and quality, it is unclear what we have learned beyond the scope of individual studies. This paper presented a systematic review on the influence of software complexity metrics on quality attributes. We aggregated Spearman correlation coefficients from 59 different data sets from 57 primary studies by a tailored meta-analysis approach. We found that fault proneness and maintainability are most frequently investigated attributes. Chidamber & Kemerer metric suite is most frequently used but not all of them are good quality attribute indicators. Moreover, the impact of these metrics is not different in proprietary and open source projects. The result provides some implications for building quality model across project type.

 KEYWORDS

 Design Complexity, Software Engineering, Open source software, Systematic literature review

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