Sarah Al Amiri, Minister for Advanced Technology and chairwoman of the UAE Space Agency. Christopher Pike / Reuters
Sarah Al Amiri, Minister for Advanced Technology and chairwoman of the UAE Space Agency. Christopher Pike / Reuters
Sarah Al Amiri, Minister for Advanced Technology and chairwoman of the UAE Space Agency. Christopher Pike / Reuters
Sarah Al Amiri, Minister for Advanced Technology and chairwoman of the UAE Space Agency. Christopher Pike / Reuters

Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid praises Sarah Al Amiri after inclusion on Time100 list


Gillian Duncan
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Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, Vice President and Ruler of Dubai, has congratulated Sarah Al Amiri for being included in a Time magazine list that honours change-makers.

Sheikh Mohammed tweeted the praise after the UAE Minister of State for Advanced Technology was named on the Time100 Impact Awards list.

The award recognises people who have “done extraordinary work to shape the future of their industries and the world at large”.

“The daughter of the Emirates ... and my daughter ... Sarah Al Amiri ...” wrote Sheikh Mohammed in Arabic.

“Among the 100 most influential figures in 2022, according to Time international magazine ... We are proud of our young men and women who have distinguished themselves nationally and globally.”

Ms Al Amiri, chairwoman of UAE Space Agency, oversaw the country’s mission to Mars in 2021.

She began her career a decade ago, building satellites after graduating in 2009 from the American University of Sharjah with a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering.

In 2009, she was hired by the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre – then called the Emirates Institution for Advanced Science and Technology – to work on the UAE’s first satellite, DubaiSat-1.

Since then, Ms Al Amiri has held many titles, including manager of space science section at the space centre, and she is chairwoman of UAE Council of Scientists.

In a Cabinet reshuffle in 2017, she was appointed as the Minister of State for Advanced Sciences.

She became the chairwoman of the federal agency that manages and supervises the nation’s space sector in 2020.

She was also named Minister of State for Advanced Technology that year.

Martian moon captured by Hope probe - in pictures

  • The UAE’s Hope probe has captured a striking image of Phobos, the largest Martian moon, here seen in front of the Red Planet. Andrea Luck / Hope Mars Mission
    The UAE’s Hope probe has captured a striking image of Phobos, the largest Martian moon, here seen in front of the Red Planet. Andrea Luck / Hope Mars Mission
  • Here, Phobos is clearly visible above the Martian surface. Photo: Jason Major / Hope Mars Mission
    Here, Phobos is clearly visible above the Martian surface. Photo: Jason Major / Hope Mars Mission
  • Phobos, which got its name from Greek mythology, circles the planet only 6,000 kilometres above the surface. Photo: Jason Major / Hope Mars Mission
    Phobos, which got its name from Greek mythology, circles the planet only 6,000 kilometres above the surface. Photo: Jason Major / Hope Mars Mission
  • Hope's high-resolution camera, called the eXploration imager instrument, allows space enthusiasts to create stunning images of the planet. Photo: Andre Luck / Hope Mars Mission
    Hope's high-resolution camera, called the eXploration imager instrument, allows space enthusiasts to create stunning images of the planet. Photo: Andre Luck / Hope Mars Mission
  • A close-up view of Olympus Mons, the largest and tallest mountain in the solar system, and the Tharsis Montes region. This image was processed by Dr Dimitra Atri of NYUAD using Hope probe's raw data. Photo: Dr Dimitra Atri / Hope Mars Mission
    A close-up view of Olympus Mons, the largest and tallest mountain in the solar system, and the Tharsis Montes region. This image was processed by Dr Dimitra Atri of NYUAD using Hope probe's raw data. Photo: Dr Dimitra Atri / Hope Mars Mission
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Bangladesh (from): Shadman Islam, Mominul Haque, Soumya Sarkar, Shakib Al Hasan (capt), Mahmudullah Riyad, Mohammad Mithun, Mushfiqur Rahim, Liton Das, Taijul Islam, Mosaddek Hossain, Nayeem Hasan, Mehedi Hasan, Taskin Ahmed, Ebadat Hossain, Abu Jayed

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Sheikh Zayed's poem

When it is unveiled at Abu Dhabi Art, the Standing Tall exhibition will appear as an interplay of poetry and art. The 100 scarves are 100 fragments surrounding five, figurative, female sculptures, and both sculptures and scarves are hand-embroidered by a group of refugee women artisans, who used the Palestinian cross-stitch embroidery art of tatreez. Fragments of Sheikh Zayed’s poem Your Love is Ruling My Heart, written in Arabic as a love poem to his nation, are embroidered onto both the sculptures and the scarves. Here is the English translation.

Your love is ruling over my heart

Your love is ruling over my heart, even a mountain can’t bear all of it

Woe for my heart of such a love, if it befell it and made it its home

You came on me like a gleaming sun, you are the cure for my soul of its sickness

Be lenient on me, oh tender one, and have mercy on who because of you is in ruins

You are like the Ajeed Al-reem [leader of the gazelle herd] for my country, the source of all of its knowledge

You waddle even when you stand still, with feet white like the blooming of the dates of the palm

Oh, who wishes to deprive me of sleep, the night has ended and I still have not seen you

You are the cure for my sickness and my support, you dried my throat up let me go and damp it

Help me, oh children of mine, for in his love my life will pass me by. 

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