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Saudi Camel Club' Rai Alnadhar' Platform Enters Guinness World Records

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Saudi Camel Club' Rai Alnadhar' Platform Enters Guinness World Records

Photo by SPA
Photo by SPA

The Rai Alnadhar platform, sponsored by the Saudi Camel Club, has achieved a global milestone by being listed in Guinness World Records as the largest digital platform dedicated to human heritage and camels worldwide.
Camel Club Chairman of the Board of Directors Sheikh Fahd bin Falah bin Hathleen received the Guinness certificate, marking significant international recognition.

According to SPA, this achievement coincides with the platform's success in hosting the "Mongaiyat Al-Jazeera" competition this year, which garnered unprecedented engagement from camel and heritage enthusiasts. The event reflects Saudi Arabia's ability to blend tradition with modern technology.
As one of the key digital initiatives of the King Abdulaziz Camel Festival, the platform aims to strengthen and document the public's connection to camel heritage. Within just 20 days, it has attracted a record number of users and over 30 million visits.
With this achievement, the platform reinforces its status as a digital icon of heritage, paving the way for further innovations in integrating Saudi cultural identity with modern technologies, thereby enhancing the Kingdom's reputation as a global hub for excellence and innovation.a

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A Libyan Town Comes Together to Make a Beloved Ramadan Dish 

A Libyan volunteer shows a just made traditional unleavened Libyan bread made out of barley in Tajoura, east of Libya's capital Tripoli, Tuesday, March 11, 2025, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. (AP)
A Libyan volunteer shows a just made traditional unleavened Libyan bread made out of barley in Tajoura, east of Libya's capital Tripoli, Tuesday, March 11, 2025, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. (AP)
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A Libyan Town Comes Together to Make a Beloved Ramadan Dish 

A Libyan volunteer shows a just made traditional unleavened Libyan bread made out of barley in Tajoura, east of Libya's capital Tripoli, Tuesday, March 11, 2025, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. (AP)
A Libyan volunteer shows a just made traditional unleavened Libyan bread made out of barley in Tajoura, east of Libya's capital Tripoli, Tuesday, March 11, 2025, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. (AP)

Every year during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, a Libyan town comes together to prepare — and share — one of their all-time favorite dishes: bazin.

In Tajoura, just east of Libya's capital of Tripoli, it's the perfect food for iftar, the evening meal when Muslims break the dawn-to-dusk fasting of Ramadan.

Savory and rich, bazin is usually made of unleavened barley flour and served with a rich stew full of vegetables and — hopefully — mutton. If those aren't available, which they often haven't been in the past decade and a half due to Libya's violence and turmoil, a simple tomato sauce will do.

Volunteers prepare Bazin, traditional Libyan dough bread made of barley or whole wheat flour and often served with stew in Tajoura, east of Libya's capital Tripoli, Tuesday, March 11, 2025, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. (AP)

Preparing it is a joint effort, and Tajoura residents of all ages are eager to help with roles from making the bread, handing it out to the poor or donating ingredients to the community.

Typically, the men of Tajoura volunteer to make the bread in a makeshift communal kitchen, using long wooden sticks to stir the barley flour water in large pots to make the dough.

Others then knead the dough, shaping it into large clumps that look a bit like giant dumplings, to be baked or steamed. Once ready, other volunteers hand out bazin to a people lined up outside, who eagerly wait to take it home for iftar.

Ramadan is a time of intense prayers, charity and spirituality.

And in Tajoura, it's also time for bazin.