Al-Shaaban’s ambitions pushed him to be nominated as the stations correspondent at the GCC Summit in 2008 and 2009, in the Sultanate of Oman and State of Kuwait respectively.
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In 2005 Shaaban was presented with "the Most Distinguished Woman in a Governmental Position" award by the Arab League.
A hardliner who believed that force was a good solution in politics, the radical Shaaban broke away from the Islamic Group soon after the June 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, in protest for that Party’s leadership decision of adopting a non-violent, moderate political line in the early 1980s.
Some of the leading thinkers who grew up around Nasiriyah were Aziz al‑Syed Jasim, Aziz Abdul Sahab, Sadiq Atemish, Mohamed Ali al-Nasiri, along with many poets (e.g., Ayniah al‑Husewani, Aryan Syed Khalif), singers (e.g., Hazery Abu Aziz, Taleb al‑Qayraqwli, Hussein Nameh) and artists (Huessien al‑Halali, Majed al‑Najar).
Shaaban spoke on CBC about his film, its role, and the uprising against former President Hosni Mubarak at the end of January of that year.
Speaker of the East African Legislative Assembly, Mr. Abdi Ramadhan, Cabinet Ministers Mohamed Yusuf Haji, Jamleck Irungu Kamau, Dr. Naomi Shaaban, Samuel Poghisio, Professor Sam Ongeri and Dr. Mohammed Kuti and MPs Charles Cheruiyot Keter, Aden Bare Duale and Mohamed Maalim Mohamud also attended the event.