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Saudi Students Express their Love to King Salman with a Mosaic
A few foundation year students from Umm Al-Qura University in Mecca, Saudi Arabia recently completed and displayed their intricate project paying tribute to the Saudi King, Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, in a rather creative way. It was a portrait made using a mosaic technique.
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The students expertly fashioned the King’s portrait title “Salman Al-Saad”, using about 2000 smaller images (1,943 to be precise) as tiles to the overall mosaic. After the début of the masterpiece, the dean of Umm Al-Qura University, Bakri Assas revealed that the chef-d'oeuvre will be trying for a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records as “the largest mosaic of any kind prepared by student”.
After a few praising and supportive words for the new king of KSA, Assas pointed that the students’ novel artwork is a sign of how much the nation trusts and takes pride in Kind Salman’s leadership.
Also present at the presentation event was the Dean of the PY (preparatory year), Ghassan Al-Noman. He admired the work of the students saying that “it is a matter of pride for the university”.
Source: Arab News
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