Session Two (Part 3) - Rethinking Real Estate and Urban Development

Eman, Chief Editor
Budoor, Dina, Raghad, Rama, Hatoon; Contributing Editors

After the Teayana break, the second session continued, marking the last part of the first day of the forum.

Mr. John Defterios introduced the session by giving a short account of speakers and the topics to be emphasized.

This session was showing more of a local perspective of the state. A moderated discussion panel between Mr. Mohammed Fayez, Mr. Tariq Faqih, Mr. David Sucher and Dr. Ahmed Madani took place.

Panelist David Sucher, clarified that all sorts of alliances that are made are formed on the basis of coincidence or accidental meetings that usually end up in a great business successes and partnerships.

Mr. Mohammed Fayez was the next speaker. He mentioned his new association "Friends of Jeddah Parks". One of the projects made him construct the first amazing park, which has playgrounds for different sport activities. He presented his project in a very attractive video.

This community has young and old people who need a clean and safe place to live in with an organized sports area that brings all sorts of people together.

Following was Mr. Tariq Faqih who spoke about "Jabal Omar" the huge expansion of a residential area in Makkeh, which has already started. This mega construction project is expected to be complete within three years. This project will serve millions of Muslims (Pilgrimage and Umra) during the years to come.

Then the microphone was passed to Dr. Ahmed Madani whose major speech was stressing human needs, the importance of profit and human centre developments merge systems.

After that, Mr. John Defterios ended up the day by thanking all of the guests.

By observing and analyzing this session, I found that the last part was the most interesting and preferable part because of the multimedia. This actually was able to not only to show, but persuade people. I was happy to see how dreams came true through partnerships. In conclusion, figuring out our needs and working together as one soul are key sources of success in any society.