August 15, 2020 –Socotra Online
Reporting and Photography: Ibrahim Youssef –Arif Abdo –Saeed Abu Wazer –Ahmed Noah –Saad Mohamed Taha
The Emirates Red Crescent in Socotra organized the third collective wedding for 200 grooms and brides yesterday. The celebration was held with outstanding environment of joy and happiness of the parents blessing such amazing wedding, which was held with blessing of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the United Arab Emirates.
The wedding, which was presented by representative of Khalifa Foundation, group of Directors General of Executive Offices, Sheikhs, leaders, social influencers, and group of security and military commanders, included several artistic heritage shows by the popular bands in addition to poetry expressing joy and happiness of such wedding.
The wedding also included several shows of Socotra products and old Socotra clothes for men and women. Such clothes revived the old heritage of the Island and recognized the new generation of the unique heritage of Socotra. It also included competitions of camels running and jumping over camels with large participation by owners of camels and youngmen.
Sheikh Ghanem Al Zahqi, Identifier of Nujed districts, commended the great support by the United Arab Emirates to the youngmen of Socotra including the third collective wedding to be held today, which drew smiles on faces of 200 young men and women from different places and villages across Socotra. He also highlighted that everybody would be in Sheikh Zayed City 1 for participation in this wedding.
Sheikh Ahmed Ghaleb bin Yaqoob expressed his happiness for this event and implementation of the third collective wedding on expense of the Emirates Red Crescent. He also asserted that the United Arab Emirates has been the supporter to the people of Socotra in all fields.
Mr. Fahmi Ali Ibrahim Al Theqali commended the outstanding effort in Nujed Cultural and Heritage Festival, and expressed his happiness for this event thanks to the Emirates Red Crescent and leaders of the United Arab Emirates. He also mentioned that this was not new, and the people of Socotra used to witness these events with support of the United Arab Emirates.
In this regard, the groom, Sameh Ameen Jamaan, expressed his happiness and joy for his marriage with number of youngmen with blessing of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi. He added that these days were the best in his life, as he made his dream real.
Furthermore, the groom, Abdullah Shoniah, expressed his thanks and appreciation to the United Arab Emirates and Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed for this blessing and generous effort, mentioning that such event would be positively reflected on the society of Socotra.
