History of ARANIB
It started in Ramadan 1994 with overseas graduates and postgraduates, as a network for Arab friends in London, the initial idea behind the Arab Network in Britain, as a forum for free dialogue. The name was Nexus1, this was redefined as The Arab Network In Britain in the following months, or ARANIB in short2, to give it a focused and accessible scope. On May 3, 1994, a new central account for the mailing list was launched3, and on September our web site was launched4 providing us with new member applications. In May 1995, a committee was formed to draft the ARANIB charter5. In order to limit the proportion of non-UK based members, the membership voted to amend the charter to enable one sixth of the members to be non-UK based, however in 1999 this increased to one fourth. 1998 saw the central account move to egroups.com. ARANIB is going from strength to strength -- make it stronger!
List of Administrators
May 2000, Omer Rana, Khalid Farrage & Diaa Hadid
May 1999, Najla Abu-Taleb elected
October 1998, Mohammed Al-Hussaini re-elected
October 1997, Mohammed Al-Hussaini elected
October 1996, Nawwaf Kharma elected.
October 1995, Ahmad Shihab re-elected.
August 1994, Ahmad Shihab elected.
Spring 1994, Nawwaf Kharma elected.
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as suggested by Nawwaf Kharma2
as suggested by Usama Al-Bahaarna3
by Ahmed Shihab4
by Omer Rana5
The committee's members were Nawwaf Kharma (head), Amina Znaidi and Ahmed Al-Shabibi.Ra'id Al-Jamali and Ahmad Shihab also helped in drafting the final version.