Hani bin Abdullah bin Mohammed Mominah, Saudi ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina

Ambassador Hani bin Abdullah bin Mohammed Mominah. (SPA)
Updated 25 July 2019
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Hani bin Abdullah bin Mohammed Mominah, Saudi ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina

Hani bin Abdullah bin Mohammed Mominah has been the Saudi ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina since March 2015.

He has also been a non-resident ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Serbia and Croatia since 2017. He served as the ambassador to Tanzania between 2012 and 2015.

Before that, Mominah worked as head of mission and charge d’affairs at the Saudi Embassy in Bangkok between 2002 and 2005.

He was an adviser at the Saudi Foreign Ministry from 2009 to 2011, and director general of the office of the undersecretary for consular affairs from 2005 and 2008.

Between 2000 and 2001, he worked as head of the consular department at the Saudi Embassy in London.

Mominah began his diplomatic career in 1987 as an attache at the Foreign Ministry. He was appointed as the second secretary at the ministry under the undersecretary for consular affairs in 1992.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from King Saud University (KSU) in Riyadh.

He received a higher diploma from the Institute of Diplomatic Studies, and a diploma in English from KSU.

The King Fahd Cultural Center recently held a farewell party for pilgrims benefitting from the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques’ Guests Program for Hajj and Umrah this year.

The party, sponsored by Mominah, took place in Sarajevo for pilgrims going for Hajj from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia.


Saudi Arabia’s KAUST named FIFA’s first research institute in MENA

The canal in the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology campus. (Shutterstock)
Updated 10 February 2026
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Saudi Arabia’s KAUST named FIFA’s first research institute in MENA

  • KAUST President Prof. Sir Edward Byrne said that the university’s selection as the fifth FIFA Research Institute in the world — and the first in the region — marks a significant achievement, reflecting Kingdom’s growing presence in international football

RIYADH: FIFA has designated the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology as its first research institute in the Middle East and Asia to support the development of innovative football research, the Saudi Press Agency reported on Tuesday.

The recognition highlights KAUST’s commitment to integrating sports, academic research and industry through advanced, high-level initiatives grounded in rigorous scientific methodologies, contributing to the advancement of football studies.

KAUST President Prof. Sir Edward Byrne said that the university’s selection as the fifth FIFA Research Institute in the world — and the first in the region — marks a significant achievement, reflecting Saudi Arabia’s growing presence in international football.

The accreditation aligns with national efforts to invest in research and development and promote the knowledge economy, supporting Saudi Vision 2030’s goals of building an advanced sports system based on innovation and sustainability.

The collaboration’s first project focuses on developing advanced AI algorithms to analyze historical FIFA World Cup broadcast footage, transforming decades of match videos into structured, searchable data, according to the KAUST website.

This work opens new opportunities to apply state-of-the-art computer vision techniques and deepen understanding of how football has evolved over time.

The second project uses player and ball tracking data from the FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar and the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 in Australia and New Zealand to compile comprehensive datasets capturing in-game dynamics.

These datasets provide deeper insights into human movement, playing techniques and performance dynamics through AI-driven analysis.