{"id":126440,"date":"2018-11-30T21:07:51","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T13:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=126440"},"modified":"2018-11-30T21:07:51","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T13:07:51","slug":"global-ummatic-18-embraces-unity-in-diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=126440","title":{"rendered":"Global Ummatic 18 embraces unity in diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Fachri Mirza Muhammad<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, 30 November 2018: The most awaited annual event, Global Ummatic Festival, marked its closing with a joy and excitement of its colours of culture and diversity last night (29 November), ending with a stunning cultural performance from finalist countries, magic performance, singing, and other dance performance.<\/p>\n<p>The event was successfully held for a week from 18 to 28 November 2018 at the IUM Cultural centre (ICC) under the theme &#8220;unity and diversity&#8221;. It was participated by 23 countries across the globe.<\/p>\n<p>This festival is another effort by IIUM to spread unity among students from different nationalities, cultures and heritages.<\/p>\n<p>Festival activities consist of cultural performances, cultural exhibition, sisters&#8217; cultural night, international talent awards, and international Ummatic sports.<\/p>\n<p>The event brought international students closer to home where they tested their food, and shared the beauty and uniqueness of their culture with local students and the campus community.<\/p>\n<p>The participating countries showcased their culture through cultural dances and exhibits with their cultural items and heritage displayed in their respective booth at ICC.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the list of winners:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Booth exhibition<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1<sup>st<\/sup> place: Yemen<\/p>\n<p>2<sup>nd<\/sup> place: Sudan<\/p>\n<p>3<sup>rd<\/sup> place: Sri Lanka<\/p>\n<p>Consolation winner: Palestine, Egypt, Turkey, Somalia<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cultural performance<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1<sup>st<\/sup> place: Indonesia<\/p>\n<p>2<sup>nd<\/sup> place: Singapore<\/p>\n<p>3<sup>rd<\/sup> place: Palestine<\/p>\n<p>Consolation: Somalia &amp; Sudan<\/p>\n<p>The events programme manager, Iman, said, &#8220;This is what Global Ummatic Festival is all about, celebrating all the diversity we have, and the differences that we have should not be a barrier to bring us together.\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Iman chose to close her speech with a statement, \u0153Unity in diversity: learn, care, and love one another.&#8221; ***<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Fachri Mirza Muhammad KUALA LUMPUR, 30 November 2018: The most awaited annual event, Global Ummatic Festival, marked its closing with a joy and excitement&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":126441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,114,3],"tags":[724,725,91],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_9075.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126440"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126440"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126461,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126440\/revisions\/126461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/126441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}