Taqawi named Badminton president
Manama : Bahrain Badminton and Squash Federation president Sawsan Taqawi was named an unprecedented president of the Arab Badminton Federation (ABF).
The decision was announced after the ABF General Assembly held recently at Hani Royal Suite in Juffair, where former vice-president Omar Bilali of Morocco chaired the meeting.
Representatives of 10 countries out of 13 that are under the umbrella of the ABF were present at the meeting – Bahrain, Sudan, Jordan, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Egypt, Palestine, Morocco and Lebanon, while Iraq, Tunisia and Mauritania were unable to attend.
Supreme Council for Youth and Sports assistant general secretary and BOC general secretary Abdulrahman Askar and Union of Arab National Olympic Committees general secretary Saud Abdulaziz were also present.
The Bahrain Badminton federation was represented by Sawsan Taqawi and general secretary Hisham Al Abbasi.
After Taqawi was declared the next term president, she made a presentation on her plan to develop badminton in the Arab region.
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