Bahrain Olympic Committee’s Anti-Doping Committee chairman Dr Hussain Al Haddad today
will head for Luxor, in Egypt, to attend the First Pan Arab Anti-Doping Forum.
The forum is due to take place from September 4 to 8 under the patronage of Egyptian Prime
Minister Eng. Ibrahim Mahleb.
Sixteen nations in total are expected to attend the forum, in the presence of several Arab
youth and sports ministers as well as National Olympic Committee presidents.
Other senior guests invited for the five-day event were World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)
director general David Hoffman, Director of WADA’s African Regional Office in South Africa
Rodney Swigelaar, UNESCO Anti-Doping Commission chairwoman Marcellin Dally and
Anti-Doping Committee Director at the Olympic Council of Asia Nadia Al Shamali.
The forum aims ensure a clean sport free of doping, by emphasizing the role of national
organizations in its fight against doping and open channels of communication among Arab
organizations and establishing an Arab union to combat this phenomena.
Al Haddad stressed the importance of organising such conferences that aim at combating
doping in sports field, and praised the launching of the Forum for the first time by the Arab
Republic of Egypt in an attempt to exchange experiences and expertise in the field of
anti-doping and to work on establishing Arab entity that would contribute to spreading
awareness on the dangers of doping.
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