Sheikh Youssef al Qaradawi, a spiritual guide to the Muslim Brotherhood who championed the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings and unsettled rulers in Egypt and the Gulf with his Islamist preaching, died on September 26, 2022. He was 96.
Amy Hunter is an Irish cricketer who plays for Dragons and Ireland.
In October 2021, during the final match of Ireland's tour of Zimbabwe, Amy Hunter became the youngest cricketer, male or female, to score a century in an ODI match.
The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain signed agreements on September 16, 2020, for normalising relations with Israel, becoming the latest Arab states to break a longstanding taboo in a strategic realignment of Middle Eastern countries.