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23 October 2024: King Abdullah II visited Al Hussein Technical University (HTU), which has graduated 688 students since its establishment in 2016, with a 100 per cent employment rate.

An initiative of the Crown Prince Foundation, HTU was established with the aim of bridging the gap between the number of graduates and their employment rates in technical fields.

Accompanied by Crown Prince Hussein , His Majesty toured the university, which is based on learning through practical projects and experiences.

Crown Prince Hussein said the university is successful thanks to the outstanding efforts of the team behind it, which has worked to provide quality education and training, with a focus on jobs of the future.

The Crown Prince spoke about the steady growth in enrolment levels in HTU, starting with 180 students in 2017 and reaching 2,600 students today, adding that admission is based on students' desire and readiness.

HTU offers bachelor's and technical degrees, and includes specialties in engineering and information technology, providing modern courses in data science, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and videogame design and development.

During a meeting with members of HTU’s board of trustees and deans, His Majesty was briefed by HTU President Ismael Al Hinti on the university's role in promoting technical education in Jordan to achieve high employment rates, as well as increasing students' ability to keep pace with labour market needs and the rapidly changing industrial sector.

He said the university has formed more than 245 partnerships with the public and private sectors locally and internationally to provide eight-month internship opportunities in a real work environment that provides students with practical and technical skills to ensure they later have the best employment opportunities.

The university's skills enhancement programmes have helped employ more than 2,800 young people in the ICT sector, while HTU’s THE CORE tech incubator and accelerator has supported more than 60 local start-ups, according to Hinti.

During a visit to the German Energy Academy, hosted at HTU’s School of Engineering Technology, His Majesty was briefed on the academy's role as a regional centre for honing the skills of professionals and engineers in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and smart grids.

At the robotics laboratory, the King also listened to a briefing on how the lab provides a dynamic environment for learning through experimentation and application.

At the university's library, which is the first public library at a Jordanian university opened in partnership with Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation, His Majesty and the Crown Prince spoke with a group of students and graduates and listened to their experiences at the university and their achievements.

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Smuggling Lemons

Jumana Emil Abboud

2006

20', 4:3 aspect ratio, sound, 1 channel video.

Synopsis

In the video Smuggling Lemons from 2006, Jumana E. Abboud takes us on a journey from Jerusalem to Qalandiya/Ramallah. It is a journey of contrast, which begins in a green garden at the artist's grandparents home in Galilee and ends in a heap of ruins in Qalandiya/Ramallah. She is smuggling lemons. In fact she wanted to take an entire lemon tree with her, but she can't carry it along and must settle with the fruits. Quoting Jumana, "every Palestinian home once has a lemon tree in its reach, but an aggressor's acts of expulsion have not only divided Palestinians from eachother, but have also severed our reach to our own gardens. I attempt - through symbolic action - to carry the lemons, to smuggle a tree's worth across the divide. When completed, (and this you will not see in the video), I will invite you to drink sour lemonade made from the very lemons I smuggled; in so doing, obliterating the lemons entirely. Yet their taste remains in the memory of your consciousness". At first, the lemons are carried in a belt around the waist, that looks suspiciously like a garment a suicide bomber would use. Then they travel handheld along the demarcation wall. Images of the enormous grey concrete wall against the body of the luminous lemon (in the soft hand), brings us to recognize the imbalanced power situation in the region. Abboud visualizes the limitations in movement which the Palestinians experience daily, simply going from one city to another. - Pia Torgersen

Biography

Jumana Emil Abboud (b.1971) Lives and works in Jerusalem & London. She uses drawing, video, performance, objects and text to navigate themes of memory, loss and resilience. She is interested in oral histories; the investigation of personal and collective mythologies and their re-telling.

Abboud has participated in numerous venues over the last two decades including, Qalandiya International, the Venice, Istanbul, and Sharjah Biennials; Hayward Project Space (London); The Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center, The A.M.Qattan Foundation, (Ramallah); Fattoush Gallery (Haifa); Darat Al Funun – The Khalid Shoman Foundation, (Amman); Ashkal Alwan (Beirut); Kunstraum Gallery (London); BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, (Gateshead); Bildmuseum, (Umeå); Tate Modern, (London); Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA) and The Palestinian Museum (Birzeit).

She participated in artist residencies with Villa Vassillief (Paris); Delfina Foundation (London); Cove Park (Glasgow); AiT (Tokyo), and in Aarau Switzerland. She published a book with Black Dog Press entitled In aching agony & longing I wait for you by the Spring of Thieves, edited by Lara Khaldi (2018).

She has been awarded the Pernod Ricard Fellowship, Bétonsalon (2020), and the Arab Fund for Art & Culture grant (AFAC) (2017). She is currently a PhD candidate at Slade School of Fine Art, UCL.

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https://mayamnesia.diaart.org/ 

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May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth

Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme’s May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth (2020– ) examines how individuals bear witness to experiences of violence, loss, displacement, and forced migration through performance. Since the early 2010s, Abbas and Abou-Rahme have collected online recordings of everyday people singing and dancing in communal spaces in Iraq, Palestine, and Syria. This work brings these recordings together with new performances conceived by the artists, a dancer, and a group of musicians in the cultural underground in Ramallah, Palestine. According to Abbas and Abou-Rahme, through the circulation of this footage, “these fractured communities are resisting their own erasure and laying claim to space, self, and collectivity once more.”

This evolving project, co-commissioned by Dia Art Foundation and The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, will be presented as both an online project and physical exhibition. The online platform will launch as part of Dia’s Artist Web Projects series. A subsequent exhibition will be presented at MoMA’s Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Studio.

Postscript: after everything is extracted

On December 10, the online project opens with a reflection on the act of mourning titled Postscript: after everything is extracted. Soon after the COVID-19 pandemic shut down much of the world, the artists gave focus to a piece of writing that they had begun before the lockdown, which speaks to a constant state of grief and pain experienced across virtual and physical spaces. This text will be layered with digital portraits and a new sound piece created by the artists in Palestine. The digital platform will expand in summer 2021 to include the extensive collection of found online recordings the artists have archived over the last decade alongside the original recordings.

May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth is co-commissioned by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Dia Art Foundation, New York.

May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth is made possible by support from the Khalid Shoman Foundation-Darat al Funun and by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

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Queen Rania of Jordan visiting the Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation - 04.10.17

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خلال السنوات الأربعة الماضية ألّفنا الأغاني وأقمنا الحفلات الموسيقية والمسرحيات وأطلقنا الكتب وتطبيقاً هاتفياً، والآن، نعمل على منهاج عالمي لتعليم الأطفال اللغة العربية. ولكن، قبل أن نشرف على المرحلة القادمة من مشوارنا، أردنا أن نعرفكم على إنجازاتنا في السنين الماضية وأن نأخذكم في جولةٍ في كواليسنا... فوراء كل أغنية وحفلة ساعات وأشهر من العمل، ووراء كل كلمة نكتبها عددٌ من الأخصائيين والمستشارين. هذا الڤيديو عبارة عن رسالة شكر لمؤسسة عبدالحميد شومان التي دعمتنا مدة ثلاث سنوات لنقدم لكم مشروع "آدم ومشمش،" ولكم مشاهدينا من أولياء أمور وأطفال على مشاهدة حلقاتنا وحضور حفلاتنا ودعمكم لنا. ابتدأنا بفكرة بسيطة لنساعد الأطفال على تعلم اللغة العربية. أمّا اليوم، ففي رصيدنا ما يفوق ١٠ملايين مشاهدة على أكثر من منصة ومتابعين من جميع أنحاء العالم وأكثر من ٣٠ حفلة موسيقية ومسرحية وسلسلة كتب سنطلقها مع دار السلوى قريباً وتطبيق هاتفي مع Maysalward وقدّمنا حصص تكلم باللغة العربية لأكثر من ١٠٠ طفل، والآن سنقدم هذه الحصص من خلال منهاج عالمي يساعد كل طفل عربي أينما كان في العالم. ومؤخراً، انضممنا إلى عائلتيّ Oasis500 وBeyond Capital اللتين استثمرتا فينا لمساعدتنا على نشر رسالتنا حول العالم. فشكراً لكل من شاهدنا وساعدنا ودعمنا! شكراً أيضاً لكل أفراد فريق آدم ومشمش شكراً أيضاً لجميع أفراد فريق آدم ومشمش، ابتداءً بالمؤسسين لينا العدناني وإبراهيم طه ولطفي زايد ولمى العدناني، المنتج الموسيقي Chris Mullender، أيوب طمس الذي يعمل على التأكد من كل حرف وكلمة، المستشارة الأكاديمية الدكتورة رزان إبراهيم، فريق الرسوم المتحركة Sketch in Motion، فريق المسرحية: المخرجة ريتا عكروش وكمال خريسات في دور الشرير وياسمين مروم في دور السنجاب والقرد والنورس. ونتقدم بالشكر الجزيل أيضاً لشركة لبيبة التي رافقتنا في العام الماضي في كل مكان لتصوير كواليس رحلتنا. In the past 4 years, we've written songs, done concerts and plays, written a book series, developed an app (you'll see these last two soon), and now we're working on a worldwide curriculum to help teach every Arab child the Arabic language. But before we enter the next stage of our journey, we wanted to take a minute and take you on a journey backstage to show you all our accomplishments and what it takes to create everything you see on Adam Wa Mishmish. Behind every song written and every performance done are hours and months of hard work from a number of professionals, consultants and experts. This video is really a message of thanks to the Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation that has supported us for the last 3 years. Without them, non of this would have been possible. It is also a message of thanks to all the parents and kids who watch us, come to our concerts and shows, and take the time to send us videos and tell us how much of a difference our program has made in their child's journey in learning Arabic. It all started with a single song to help teach our son Arabic, and now we help kids all over the world learn Arabic with over 55 episodes and songs, over 30 concerts, plays and shows, a book series with Dar Al Salwa, an augmented reality App with Maysalward, and over 100 children attending our conversational Arabic classes. These same classes are now being turned into a curiculum to help any Arab child anywhere in the world learn and love their mother tongue. We are so proud to have recently joined the Oasis500 and Beyond Capital family to take our project further, and we can't wait to show you what the future holds. Special thanks to our team members: The four founders: Ibrahim Taha, Lina Al Adnani, Lutfi Zayed, Luma Al Adnani Our Music Producer: Chris Mullender Our copywriter and word magician Ayyoub Tams Our Educational consultant Dr. Razan Ibrahim Our animation team Sketch in Motion. Special thanks to our play cast members: Our Director and script writer Rita Akroush Al Shireer Kamal Khreisat and Yasmine Maroum as the Squirrel, Monkey and Seagull. A very special thanks to Labiba Productions for following us around for a year to capture our life behind the scenes.

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JACIR, EMILY

1970, Bethlehem, Palestine

Lives and works around the Mediterranean

Education

Memphis College of Art

University of Dallas

Exhibitions (selected)

2015 –17 

Europa, Whitechapel Gallery, London; The Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), Dublin 

2014 –15 

A star is as far as the eye can see and as near as my eye is to me, Darat al Funun– The Khalid Shoman Foundation, Amman 

2014 

intervals, Alexander and Bonin, New York Emily Jacir, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London

2007 

ENTRY DENIED, Galeria Alberto Peola, Turin

Awards (selected)

2015 –16 The Rome Prize, The American Academy in Rome 

2011 Alpert Award in the Arts, The Herb Alpert Foundation and California Institute of the Arts, Santa Monica, California 

2009 Hugo Boss Prize, Guggenheim Museum, New York

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24/5/2018: On the occasion of Jordan’s 72nd Independence Day, King Abdullah bestowed medals on a number of leading national institutions and a group of distinguished Jordanian men and women

The medals, bestowed during a ceremony marking the occasion, are in appreciation for their contributions to Jordan’s prosperity and progress, and in recognition of their success at the national and international levels.

Queen Rania and Crown Prince Hussein, as well as a number of royal family members, and senior officials and officers attended the ceremony, held at Al Husseiniya Palace. (Source: Petra)

King Abdullah bestowed the Order of Al Istiqlal (Independence) of the First Degree on the Jerusalem Awqaf Department, in recognition of its efforts to preserve Islamic sites in the holy city, in implementation of the Hashemite Custodianship and with the additional goal of supporting the steadfastness of Arab Jerusalemites and safeguarding the Arab, Islamic, and Christian identities of Jerusalem.

His Majesty also bestowed the King Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein Order for Distinction of the First Degree on Marwan Qteishat, in appreciation for his long years of public service, including his efforts to enhance the performance of the Civil Status and Passport Department.

The King bestowed the King Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein Order for Distinction of the First Degree on Abdullah Abbadi, in recognition of his achievements in medicine and introducing bone marrow transplant procedures to Jordan and the Arab region, as well as his work in stem cells and prolific scientific research.

His Majesty honoured Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation with the King Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein Order for Distinction of the First Degree, in appreciation for its support for culture, science, and arts since its establishment in 1978.

The King bestowed the Order of Al Istiqlal of the First Degree on the Centre for Strategic Studies, in recognition of its efforts in producing research and conducting studies and opinion polls, while committing to transparency and scientific accuracy.

The centre was ranked the top think tank in the Middle East and North Africa two years in a row on the Global Go To Think Tank Index Report released by the US University of Pennsylvania.

His Majesty also bestowed the King Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein Order for Distinction of the Second Degree on Hala Zreiqat, in appreciation for her achievements and innovations in biomedical engineering.

Zreiqat, who has six patents in her field, has developed innovative biomaterials for tissue regeneration, among other innovations.

In addition, the King bestowed the King Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein Order for Distinction of the Second Degree on Fayzeh Zoubi, in recognition of her dedication to voluntary service for over 55 years and her contributions to women’s empowerment.

His Majesty honoured the Nashmi Centre for Youth Empowerment with the King Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein Order for Distinction of the Second Degree, in appreciation for its efforts to promote volunteerism among young Jordanians of various backgrounds.

The centre has implemented over 21 voluntary initiatives at the national level, with the participation of more than 5,000 young people.

Moreover, the King bestowed the King Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein Order for Distinction of the Second Degree on the Jordan Trail Association, in recognition of its efforts to promote Jordan as a key destination for adventure tourism while benefiting local communities around the Kingdom.

The Jordan Trail has been recognised as among the best 21 tourist destinations for 2018.

His Majesty honoured Bayt Al Ruwad band with the King Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein Order for Distinction of the Second Degree in appreciation for their work in preserving and spreading Jordanian folk songs and supporting talented musicians and vocal artists.

In addition, the King bestowed the King Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein Order for Distinction of the Second Degree on the Madaba Mosaic School for its role in promoting mosaic art throughout the Middle East and awarding degrees in this field.

His Majesty honoured Nayef Steitieh, the founder of the Jordanian Business Development Centre, with the King Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein Order for Distinction of the Second Degree for his work to promote entrepreneurship and innovation among youth, while equipping them with employability skills through initiatives like SANAD Youth Empowerment and Employability, and Maharat Training and Employment, which have benefited thousands of young people.

The King bestowed the King Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein Order for Distinction of the Second Degree on the cast and crew of “Abnaa Al Qalaa” television series for their efforts to highlight milestones in Jordan’s and Amman’s history.

His Majesty also honoured Myassar Saadi with the King Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein Order for Distinction of the Third Degree, for her work for over 40 years in local and international associations for women’s empowerment, as well as here activism in empowering families financially through self-reliance.

The King bestowed the King Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein Order for Distinction of the Third Degree on Buseirah Sports Club in Tafileh for supporting judo in Jordan and contributing to major sporting achievements over 16 years, while also serving youth in Tafileh and encouraging them to support their communities.

His Majesty honoured Hussam Ayyad with the King Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein Order for Distinction of the Third Degree, for ongoing efforts over 25 years to train and hone the skills of young people with disabilities, turning them into sports champions.

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Royal Fashion → The Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation (3 October 2017)

Fendi high cut-out neck satin blouse ($1,250)

Ellery belted asymmetric crêpe midi skirt ($1,100)

Dior high-heeled shoes in black suede calfskin with gold-tone CD initials (£670)

Names by Noush “Tiny Treasures” Roman double initial between fingers ring ($1,400)

Apple Watch “Series 2” stainless steel case with Milanese loop in 42mm ($699)

Fullmosa 42mm calf leather band in pink ($35)

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3/10/2017: Queen Rania visited the Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation, where she was introduced to the foundation’s various cultural programs. Located in Jabal Amman, AHSF is a non-profit organization dedicated to investing in cultural and social innovation. The foundation’s work focuses on the advancement of thought leadership, literature and arts, and employment and innovation within local communities.

Her Majesty and the AHSF team joined a number of Jordanian innovators and startup founders at the library for a discussion on building identity through culture. The conversation focused on the vital role culture plays in identity formation, as well as its ability to drive innovation and entrepreneurship among the nation’s youth. During the conversation, participants addressed the necessity of enriching Arabic digital content catered to young children and the benefits of encouraging both creative and critical thinking from an early age. They also highlighted the importance of universal access to the arts, mentioning the need to support the musical sector, encourage local photographic talents, and use cinema to address social issues. (Source: Petra)

The conversation then turned to AHSF’s various cultural programs, including AHSF Cultural Days, held across Jordan’s governorates, as well as Jabal Amman Cultural Week. Qussisiya reaffirmed AHSF’s ongoing commitment to supporting culture, education, and science, particularly through the Abdul Hameed Shoman Fund for Scientific Research and the Abdul Hameed Shoman Award for Arab Researchers.

Her Majesty then stopped by the AHSF’s children’s library Knowledge Path, where children were engaged in storytelling, musical, and innovation-promoting activities. Under its collaboration with the Ministry of Education, AHSF aims to expand its programs into local schools, in addition to establishing school libraries and book clubs, enhancing school librarians’ training, and supporting technology and literacy-based student awards. AHSF was established by the Arab Bank in 1978. The foundation offers a vast selection of programs supporting creativity, scientific research, and cultural enrichment, which are aimed at positively impacting local communities.