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Shihab Ghanem

Shihab Ghanem is a physics topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Shihab Ghanem rather than just read about it. In short: Shihab Ghanem (Arabic: شهاب غانم) (born 1940) is an Emirati engineer, administrator, poet and author. Ghanem was the first Arab to win The Tagore Peace Award in 2012 from the Asian Society in Calcutta, India, the Poetry Award for Culture & Humanism in 2013 from the World Poetry Society Intercontinental, Chennai, India; and the Cultural Personality of the Year in 2013 from Al-Owais Creativity Award, Dubai, UAE.

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Reference excerpt

Shihab Ghanem (Arabic: شهاب غانم) (born 1940) is an Emirati engineer, administrator, poet and author. Ghanem was the first Arab to win The Tagore Peace Award in 2012 from the Asian Society in Calcutta, India, the Poetry Award for Culture & Humanism in 2013 from the World Poetry Society Intercontinental, Chennai, India; and the Cultural Personality of the Year in 2013 from Al-Owais Creativity Award, Dubai, UAE. Ghanem is also a translator, translating modern Arabic poems into English, as well as works from around the world into Arabic. His poems have been translated into 12 languages.

Biography Shihab Muhammad Abduh Ghanem Al-Hashmi was born in Aden in 1940 and completed his secondary education at Aden College. He then obtained a double degree in Mechanical and Electrical engineering from Aberdeen University in Scotland in 1964. Ghanem obtained a master's degree in Water Resources Development from Roorkee University in India in 1975 and a Doctorate in industrial development from the economics department of Cardiff University in Wales in 1989. He became a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers of UK in 1990, and a Fellow of the Institute of Management of UK in 1990. He also received an honorary Doctorate in 2015 from Soka University in Japan.

Engineering career Ghanem worked as Deputy Permanent Secretary of Public Works and Communications in Aden, Chief engineer of Eterno Supplies in Lebanon, Plant Manager of Gulf Eternit in Dubai. He was editor of "World of Engineering" from 1996 to 1999. Between 1988 and 2023 he worked as Director of Engineering of DP World and Jebel Free Zone, and managing director of Mohammed Bin Rashid Technology Park.

Literary career Ghanem was editor of Aden College magazine (1957–60), committee member of Al-Muntada, the UAE first literary magazine (1983–87), member of the advisory committee of Shuoon Adabiyah UAE writers magazine (2003–2005), member of advisory committee of Kalima translation project (2011–2015), advisor of Aden College website since it was established in 2009, advisor of Al-Mishkat literary magazine since 2012, and an Advisory member of Kalima project. He is the co-founder and advisor of the international poetry festival Poetic Heart since 2011. Ghanem has published 62 books, including 24 collections of translations of verse from Arabic to English or English to Arabic. His 16 poetry books include works in Arabic such as Complete Poetry works (2009), One Hundred and One Poems (2011), and Al-Amwaj (2015), as well as works which have been translated into English: Shades of Love (1995), In the Valley of the Muses (2011) and other collections. Ghanem's 22 prose works include: Industrialization in the United Arab Emirates (in English, Avebury, U.K., 2002), Bayn Madinatain (Biography of his father in Arabic) (2008), 1500 English Proverbs with Arabic Equivalents (Express Printing, 2015), Al-Fatihah (in English co-authored with his son Dr Waddah Ghanem, Patridge, Singapore 2016)

Awards Shihab Ghanem was awarded the Tagore Peace Prize in 2013 from the Asiatic Society based in India for his "significant contribution to the development of Human Understanding towards peace". He is the first Arab to receive this award. He also received the Poetry Award for Culture and Humanism from <World Poetry Society Intercontinental the same year. He was the recipient of the Rashid Prize for Scientific Excellence in 1989, the Ibha Literary Club poetry prize from Saudi Arabia and The Dubai Kairali Kala Kendram award for literature (both in 1996), as well as the *Al Owais Prize For Innovation & Scientific Research in 1999. he has also been Honoured by the Minister of Culture and Tourism in Yemen and the UAE Society of Engineers in 1999, and the Minister of Culture in Tunis in 2000.

Personal life Ghanem's paternal grandfather Abduh Ghanem (1889–56) was a legislative council member and president of the Arab Reform Club in Tawahi, Aden. His maternal grandfather advocate and novelist Mohammed Ali Lokman (1898–1966) was a renaissance figure in Aden and established the first Arabic and first English independent newspapers there. His father is Arab poet Muhammad Abduh Ghanem (1912–1994). Ghanem lives in Dubai, UAE and has three children.

References

Al-Babateen Dictionary of Contemporary Arab Poets,(in Arabic), vol 2, 1995 U. A. E. Poets Encyclopedia (in Arabic), Bilal Al-Budoor, 2015 Dr. Shihab Ghanem to be honoured during annual Sivagiri pilgrimage Dr. Shihab Ghanem gave a lecture on "Al Fatihah―The Opening Chapter of the Quran" ഡോ. ശിഹാബ് ഗാനിം: മലയാള കവിതകള്‍ നെഞ്ചോട് ചേര്‍ത്ത അറബി കവി "شهاب غانم.. الشاعر الذي هاتف أحبته من الصومعة ليهرب من وحدته". Alriyadh.com.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Shihab Ghanem

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Shihab Ghanem claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In physics, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Shihab Ghanem before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Shihab Ghanem ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Shihab Ghanem

In research: Shihab Ghanem appears in physics research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Shihab Ghanem in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Shihab Ghanem is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1940 births, 20th-century Emirati poets, 21st-century Emirati poets, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Shihab Ghanem outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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