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  • 1 Feb 2022 19:20
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Kuwaiti engineer and inventor Jenan Al-Shehab officially withdraws her participation in the Dubai Expo 2020 after an advertisement entitled "Let's celebrate with Israel" was published on the exhibition's account.

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  • Kuwaiti engineer Jenan Al-Shehab rejects normalization withdrawing from Dubai Expo
    Kuwaiti engineer Jenan Al-Shehab rejects normalization by withdrawing from Dubai Expo.

Kuwaiti engineer and inventor Jenan Al-Shehab officially withdraws her participation in the Dubai Expo 2020 after an advertisement entitled "Let's celebrate with Israel" was published on the exhibition's account.

The Expo 2020 Dubai account had published a story on Instagram featuring the “Israel” pavilion in the exhibition with the phrase “Let’s celebrate with Israel”. Al-Shehab responded through her Instagram account also by saying: “And Unfollow and I announce my withdrawal from Expo."

  • A screeshot of the Kuwaiti engineer story
    A screenshot of the Kuwaiti engineer story

Al-Shehab's stance was very welcomed by the Arab audience on Twitter, who praised her and her action, expressing their pride in her and what she did.

شكرا #جنان_الشهاب
شكرا #محمد_العوضي
موقفكم مشرف و بطولي pic.twitter.com/2djJKuoVCM

— ﮼محمدعباس (@Mohamd_Abbas_LC) January 31, 2022

هذه المرة البطلة الكويتية المهندسة والمخترعة العالمية جنان الشهاب تعلن إلغاء مشاركتها رسمياً في إكسبو دبي بسبب إعلان في حساب إكسبو: لنحتفل مع إسرائيل..
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البطل/ة له قيم لن ت/يتنازل عنها في أي ظروف كان#الكويت #النشيد_الوطني pic.twitter.com/TxXtnLonzs

— د. حنان العتيبي (@Dr_Utaybi) February 1, 2022

في الوقت الذي يلهث فيه المطبعين لتبييض صورة الكيان.. يثبت الكويتيون رجالا ونساء وأطفال أنهم ثابتون على كره الصهاينة فطوبى لهم..
المهندسة الكويتية جنان الشهاب والحاصلة على جوائز عديدة في البحث العلمي كل التحية والفخر بك 🇰🇼❤️🇵🇸#أحرار_ضد_التطبيع pic.twitter.com/pul2MGrsn2

— Shireen Nafe (@shireenmustafa) January 31, 2022

Al-Shehab's withdrawal came a few days after the withdrawal of the Kuwaiti tennis player, Muhammad Al-Awadi, as the latter won Kuwaiti popular sympathy and a national solidarity campaign by hanging his pictures in the public streets of Kuwait.

Read more: Al-Quds' Golden Medal shines in Beirut: Supporting athletes against normalization

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