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Ammon
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Ammon
Queen Rania shares photo for Prince Hashem, Princess Salma
Ammon News - Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah on Monday morning shared a photo on her official Instagram account featuring His Royal Highness Prince Hashem bin Abdullah and Her Royal Highness Princess Salma bint Abdullah. The image captured the two royals during their participation in the official ceremony marking the 79th Independence Day, held on Sunday evening at Al Husseiniya Palace under the patronage of His Majesty King Abdullah II. Alongside the photo, the Queen captioned: "My loves." Her Majesty was absent from attending the ceremony due to a break after treatment for back pain. Last night, Her Majesty posted a photo of herself with Princess Iman in Aqaba watching the Independence Day celebrations on TV, captioning the photo: "Happy Independence Day to our beloved Jordan! I look forward to celebrating this day alongside His Majesty each year, but I am tuning in from home after treatment for back pain - with my dear Iman graciously keeping me company!"
Roya News
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Roya News
Queen Rania shares why she missed Independence Day ceremony
Queen Rania did not attend this year's official Independence Day celebrations, which she traditionally joins alongside His Majesty King Abdullah II, due to a brief rest period for back pain treatment. In a light-hearted Instagram post, the Queen wrote: 'Happy Independence Day to our beloved Jordan! I look forward to celebrating this day alongside His Majesty each year, but I am tuning in from home after treatment for back pain – with my dear Iman graciously keeping me company.' View this post on Instagram A post shared by Queen Rania Al Abdullah (@queenrania) In Arabic, she added with humor: 'Unfortunately, this time I watched from Aqaba due to a rest period for minor treatment for back pain—after apparently joining the Jordanian 'disc club'. My darling Iman has been wonderfully helpful.'
Qatar Living
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Qatar Living
F1 Kids Broadcast on beIN's Jeem TV Makes Formula 1 Fun and Accessible for Young Arab Viewers
With its animated avatars and child commentators, Jeem TV's pioneering F1 Kids programming is engaging the next generation of motorsport fans across the Arab world like never before – and doing so entirely in Arabic. Now in its second year, Jeem TV, beIN MEDIA GROUP's leading Arabic-language children's channel, is transforming how children experience the high-octane sport of Formula 1. Blending education with entertainment, the innovative programme is making the often-complex world of motorsport both accessible and enjoyable for young viewers. F1 Kids uses cartoon-style driver avatars, child-friendly radio transmissions, and insights from young guests, along with interactive elements like quizzes, 3D-augmented graphics, and simple technical explainers, making learning fun, sparking curiosity, and demonstrating how education and entertainment can work together to build long-term interest in motorsports. Delivered entirely in Classical Arabic, F1 Kids provides an entertaining gateway into the sport, ensuring the content is not only accessible across diverse Arabic dialects, but also contributes to the preservation and appreciation of the Arabic language among younger generations. By introducing Formula 1 to young audiences in their native language, beIN is inspiring a new generation of motorsport enthusiasts who may one day pursue careers in sports, media, or engineering. F1 Kids covers seven Formula 1 race weekends this season, starting with the Monaco Grand Prix in Monte Carlo, followed by Austria, Great Britain, Netherlands, Singapore, Brazil and Abu Dhabi. Each race weekend, Jeem TV's F1 Kids programming will feature three episodes: a pre-race show on Saturday, a live race-day broadcast on Sunday, and a post-race recap on Monday. In the pre-race episode, Jeem TV presenter Iman Bakhache joins puppet co-host Anbar in a playful, competitive format. Together, they look back at past races, highlight key moments, and share inspiring stories from the world of motorsport, with the first episode shining the spotlight on Ferrari driver Lewis Hamilton. The Monaco Grand Prix race race-day show, kicking off at 15:30 Doha time, brings young fans even closer to the action. Iman welcomes two guest children to the studio to talk about their passion for F1, with features including a Monaco Grand Prix report, an online interview with an F1 expert, and a live segment from beIN SPORTS F1 reporter Stephanie Saad in Monaco. The children also compete in a fun true-or-false quiz about Formula 1. After the show, the Monaco Grand Prix race airs starting at 16:00 Doha time with commentary from beIN's F1 expert Younis Al-Araj and a young co-commentator. The weekend wraps up with a post-race episode hosted by Iman and Anbar. Each recap will include analysis from a Formula 1 expert, reflections from a young motorsport fan, and highlights from the race. The episode aims to deepen young viewers' understanding of the sport while celebrating its most exciting moments. F1 Kids has earned industry praise for its fresh and inclusive approach to broadcasting, including being named Best Kids Initiative of the Year 2024 at the BroadcastPro Awards. It stands as a model for how global sports can be made accessible, inspiring, and culturally relevant for young viewers across the Middle East and North Africa. Catch the first F1 Kids broadcast of the season this weekend, live from Monaco, and only on Jeem TV.
Yahoo
14-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Peoria start-ups unveil innovative products at showcase event
PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — On Tuesday, in celebration of Economic Development Week, the Peoria Economic Development Council hosted a start-up showcase. It was a collaboration with Distillery Labs and gener8tor. Several local entrepreneurs were able to give demonstrations of their products before participating in a panel discussion. Ashlie Inman is the founder of dotbox, a self-care subscription box that will sync to a menstruation cycle tracking app to send products when needed. She said it felt great to present her product for the first time. 'So way out of my comfort zone. But I am so glad that I did it. Just being able to get out there and knowing there's so many people in the community that are so supportive. It's just been fantastic,' she said. 'Now I have to do this because now people know it exists. So I think that's good. I think giving myself that pressure is good.' Iman partnered with other local entrepreneurs to supply the products in the subscription box. She hopes to make dotbox available by the fall. To stay up to date with dotbox, click here. Other start-ups included Bear's Bites, HuMod, AgDefense Systems, and enterN. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Irish Examiner
03-05-2025
- General
- Irish Examiner
Colin Sheridan: Let's hope Pope Francis's humility has forced a shift in the Church's mindset
Two weeks ago, thousands of middle-aged Irish men and women performed a sharp intake of breath as news broke about the passing of an 88-year-old Argentinian man called Jorge Mario Bergoglio. The reason for the intake would've had little or nothing to do with the personality of the deceased who was widely regarded as a humble, caring man, and everything to do with the church he led for a dozen years. As Pope, Bergoglio was immensely popular. Veneration can be a stinky cologne, however, and for the many, many Irish people whose lives were irrevocably altered by abuse perpetrated by men and women of the Catholic Church over the last few decades, every testimonial, every eulogy offered on television and radio this past fortnight will likely have stung a little. While Pope Francis was not to blame directly, he became the leader of an institution that destroyed countless lives. Heavy lies the crown on the head of anyone who accepts such a poisoned chalice. That he did it with an abundance of grace should go some way to heal old wounds, but there is a long, long way to go. What we do in the dark is what really matters, and if Frances chose to visit the sick and needy when the lights were off and the cameras weren't rolling, then I don't care if he was the Pope, a parish priest, an Iman or a Rabbi. So too with his nightly phone calls to churches in Palestine. He was a good man, I hope, but not wanting to disrespect anybody's faith, I do not believe any human being to be infallible, so it's entirely possible to me that Frances may have failed his fellow priests in Argentina in the 70s. He was a good man, I hope, but not wanting to disrespect anybody's faith, I do not believe any human being to be infallible, so it's entirely possible to me that Francis may have failed his fellow priests in Argentina in the 70s. If he did, perhaps his conscience evolved as a result. It's a shame his passing arrived before a true reconciliation between the church he ruled, and the victims of its abuse was ever truly reached. It's even more shameful that every revelation of truth continues only to be achieved under duress. The Church has never opened itself up to be audited the way a business facing corruption charges would. If you stole a tin of beans from a supermarket the guards would be at your door quicker than you could say a decade of the rosary. The same rules never applied for Big Religion, however. Perhaps Pope Francis reconciled that, if anybody should lead such a damaged whale of a thing, better it be a humble Jesuit than a pampered Carmelite. Whatever his reckoning, he will go to meet his maker having done much to realign the notion of church and charity, when for so long, the Vatican was an impenetrable house of horrors. I say all of this as a lapsed Catholic myself, someone who believes in a higher power but has no faith in a church that continues to be run by men we are told to be superior, to be 'chosen,' to be potentially infallible. Especially since recent history has shown us all what that potential infallibility looked like. I'm more from the Fleabag school of doubt and spiritual curiosity than the Conclave one. Daughter's communion There is an element of hypocrisy in my selective abandonment, however. This week, my daughter made her first Holy Communion. Why, if I'm motivated to be so critical of the Church in a column of a national newspaper, would I allow such a thing to happen? Perhaps because it exercises a free will that the Church denied so many for so long. An opportunity for my daughter to enjoy a rite of passage free from the burden of unnatural expectation. Is there an element of parental peer pressure? I don't think so. I admire the backbone of those who opted out of the ritual as I'm sure their children had plenty of questions why. I'm also grateful for the low-key approach my daughter's teachers took (she goes to a progressive, Jesuit-founded school). There was no religious hysteria or scaremongering, and certainly no pandering to the commercial aspects of a day that can quickly spiral out of control. Maybe Pope Francis's trademark humility finally forced a shift in mindset from a Church who were so quick for so long to tell their flock — 'know your place'. If there is a God, they might be happy they finally know theirs. Read More Conclave to elect new pope will start on May 7
