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Amat Al Alim Alsoswa
Amat Al Alim Alsoswa ( ar, امة العليم السوسوه; Ta'izz, Yemen, August 27, 1958) is a Yemeni journalist, and Yemen's first female ambassador and minister. She served as the Assistant Secretary-General, then Assistant Administrator and finally Director of UNDP's Regional Bureau for Arab States. Biography Alsoswa began her career as a journalist at a very young age: she began broadcasting at the age of 10 as part of a local radio program in Taiz Governorate. Later on, she became a news anchor on Yemeni television, also serving as a political commentator. Alsoswa holds a B.A. in Mass Communications from Cairo University (1980) and an M.A. in International Communications from the American University in Washington, DC (1984). She speaks Arabic and English fluently and also speaks French and Russian. Between 1984 and 1986, she worked as Deputy TV Programs Director at Sana’a TV, where she held the most senior position as a woman in Yemeni television. Later, she became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amat Al Alim Alsoswa UNDP HQ 2010
Amat may refer to: Names * Amat (surname), surname of Provençal/Catalan origin * Amat (name prefix), Arabic female name prefix People * Ismail Amat (1935–2018), Uyghur politician of China * Zain Amat (born 1975), Singaporean trap shooter Other uses * Annie Maunder Astrographic Telescope The Royal Observatory, Greenwich (ROG; known as the Old Royal Observatory from 1957 to 1998, when the working Royal Greenwich Observatory, RGO, temporarily moved south from Greenwich to Herstmonceux) is an observatory situated on a hill in G ... at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich * Applied Materials, US semiconductor manufacturing equipment supplier, NASDAQ symbol * Average memory access time, a performance metric in computer architecture {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Légion D'Honneur
The National Order of the Legion of Honour (french: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour ('), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil. Established in 1802 by Napoleon Bonaparte, it has been retained (with occasional slight alterations) by all later French governments and regimes. The order's motto is ' ("Honour and Fatherland"); its seat is the Palais de la Légion d'Honneur next to the Musée d'Orsay, on the left bank of the Seine in Paris. The order is divided into five degrees of increasing distinction: ' (Knight), ' (Officer), ' (Commander), ' (Grand Officer) and ' (Grand Cross). History Consulate During the French Revolution, all of the French orders of chivalry were abolished and replaced with Weapons of Honour. It was the wish of Napoleon Bonaparte, the First Consul, to create a reward to commend civilians and soldiers. From this wish was instituted a , a body of men that was not an order of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yemeni Women Diplomats
Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, and borders Saudi Arabia to the north and Oman to the northeast and shares maritime borders with Eritrea, Djibouti, and Somalia. Yemen is the second-largest Arab sovereign state in the peninsula, occupying , with a coastline stretching about . Its constitutionally stated capital, and largest city, is Sanaa. As of 2021, Yemen has an estimated population of some 30.4 million. In ancient times, Yemen was the home of the Sabaeans, a trading state that included parts of modern-day Ethiopia and Eritrea. Later in 275 AD, the Himyarite Kingdom was influenced by Judaism. Christianity arrived in the fourth century. Islam spread quickly in the seventh century and Yemenite troops were crucial in the early Islamic conquests. Several dynasties emerged in the 9th to 16th centuries, such as the Rasulid dynasty. The count ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
