Many young camels in the Emirates are descended from Shaiba Shaheen, Old Man Shaheen, a Ras Al Khaimah camel born in 1972 and named for its owner, Shaheen Al Awani. This is Camel #816 at the Advanced Scientific Group Camel Research Facility, near Sweihan. ( Christopher Pike / The National / August 28 2013)
Many young camels in the Emirates are descended from Shaiba Shaheen, Old Man Shaheen, a Ras Al Khaimah camel born in 1972 and named for its owner, Shaheen Al Awani. This is Camel #816 at the Advanced Scientific Group Camel Research Facility, near Sweihan. ( Christopher Pike / The National / August 28 2013)
Many young camels in the Emirates are descended from Shaiba Shaheen, Old Man Shaheen, a Ras Al Khaimah camel born in 1972 and named for its owner, Shaheen Al Awani. This is Camel #816 at the Advanced Scientific Group Camel Research Facility, near Sweihan. ( Christopher Pike / The National / August 28 2013)
Many young camels in the Emirates are descended from Shaiba Shaheen, Old Man Shaheen, a Ras Al Khaimah camel born in 1972 and named for its owner, Shaheen Al Awani. This is Camel #816 at the Advanced

Meet the Shaheens: From Race Pioneer to Mystic Camels


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“This is not a camel, this is a car!” At these words, Sheikh Zayed jumped from his seat and asked for the name of the camel.

It was the early 1970s, long before racing was established as a formal sport and long before camels were established as swift. (A point, perhaps, still debatable.)

It was Shaheen who convinced the Bedouin and sheikhs that camels, like horses, could race at speed and achieve elegance on the racetrack.

When Sheikh Zayed saw this camel, it was unknown and still called by its father’s name, Al Musk, a famous camel owned by the Ruler of Umm Al Qaiwain.

Sheikh Zayed then asked the name of the camel’s owner.

“My name is Shaheen,” said the owner, Shaheen Al Awani, stepping forward.

Sheikh Zayed decreed that the marvelous camel and all its descendants would hitherto be known by its owner’s name, Shaheen. This is the story told by Bedouin of how Shaheen got its name.

The 2014 World Cup has made Shaheen a household name in the Emirates. Not one but two descendants of the original Shaheen have predicted World Cup football match outcomes, albeit with mixed success.

But no camel compares to Shaheen the First.

By the end of his first race season in 1973-4, the prodigy camel was sold to Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid, the brother of Dubai Ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, for a record Dh3,700.

You cannot buy a camel for such a small sum today, but in 1974 this was more than 10 times the going rate for a camel, which usually sold for Dh200-300 or Dh2,000 at the absolute most.

At that point, Shaheen was already renowned among the Bedouin of Ras Al Khaimah, where he raced at weddings in the days before racetracks existed.

“It would be very rare that he would ever lose a race, and most of all it was very famous in Ras Al Khaimah itself,” Al Awani’s son, Mohammed, told me a few years ago. “People used to be really scared of racing against Shaheen. People would give my father the prize and say, ‘Don’t race Shaheen because he will certainly be the winner’.”

With Shaheen, there was no competition. He raced against camels twice his age and size. He raced against camels of Sudanese descent, which are known to be the most light footed of camels.

He raced at weddings up to the bride’s house, where women covered his necks in saffron paste, a tradition continued to this day. Shaheen’s victories came so quickly, one after the other, that the smell of saffron sank into his fur and he always smelt of its perfume.

Shaheen produced many daughters and sons that became famous in their own right, like Shaheen Al Khalili and Shaheen Al Ghazaila.

The original Shaheen came to be known as Shaiba Shaheen, Old Man Shaheen.

It is said in Ras Al Khaimah that Shaiba Shaheen underwent taxidermy after death, and his photograph still hangs in Sheikh Hamdan’s home.

Today is an era of celebrity and it sometimes seems that any old camel can make a claim to fame. But in Shaheen’s time, before races were televised lived or ballads were shared on WhatsApp or camels were hashtagged, camel celebrity was truly rare, spread only by those who could witness the camel’s power and the poets who sung its praise.

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Flydubai flies direct from Dubai to Kilimanjaro International Airport from Dh1,350 return, including taxes; this can be followed by a short flight from Kilimanjaro to the Serengeti with Coastal Aviation from about US$700 (Dh2,500) return, including taxes. Kenya Airways, Emirates and Etihad offer flights via Nairobi or Dar es Salaam.   

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Started: 2018

Founders: Eslam Hussein and Pulkit Ganjoo

Based: Dubai

Sector: Transport

Size: 9 employees

Investment: $1,275,000

Investors: Class 5 Global, Equitrust, Gulf Islamic Investments, Kairos K50 and William Zeqiri

Winners

Best Men's Player of the Year: Kylian Mbappe (PSG)

Maradona Award for Best Goal Scorer of the Year: Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich)

TikTok Fans’ Player of the Year: Robert Lewandowski

Top Goal Scorer of All Time: Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United)

Best Women's Player of the Year: Alexia Putellas (Barcelona)

Best Men's Club of the Year: Chelsea

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Best Defender of the Year: Leonardo Bonucci (Juventus/Italy)

Best Goalkeeper of the Year: Gianluigi Donnarumma (PSG/Italy)

Best Coach of the Year: Roberto Mancini (Italy)

Best National Team of the Year: Italy 

Best Agent of the Year: Federico Pastorello

Best Sporting Director of the Year: Txiki Begiristain (Manchester City)

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History's medical milestones

1799 - First small pox vaccine administered

1846 - First public demonstration of anaesthesia in surgery

1861 - Louis Pasteur published his germ theory which proved that bacteria caused diseases

1895 - Discovery of x-rays

1923 - Heart valve surgery performed successfully for first time

1928 - Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin

1953 - Structure of DNA discovered

1952 - First organ transplant - a kidney - takes place 

1954 - Clinical trials of birth control pill

1979 - MRI, or magnetic resonance imaging, scanned used to diagnose illness and injury.

1998 - The first adult live-donor liver transplant is carried out

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Estijaba – 8001717 –  number to call to request coronavirus testing

Ministry of Health and Prevention – 80011111

Dubai Health Authority – 800342 – The number to book a free video or voice consultation with a doctor or connect to a local health centre

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Knowledge and Human Development Authority – 8005432 ext. 4 for Covid-19 queries

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34 goals - Robert Lewandowski (68 points)

34 - Ciro Immobile (68)

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*29 - Erling Haaland (50)

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Founder: Ibrahim Kamalmaz
Based: UAE
Sector: Finance / legal
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