This week, Aly Ghazal became the first Egyptian footballer in history to become a permanent captain of a European football team. Ghazal was handed the captain's armband by coach Manuel Machado at Nacional da Madeira where he plays as a regular starter, having joined the Portuguese club in 2013.

The tall midfielder with a muscular build started his football career with Al-Sekka Al-Hadid club before moving to Wadi Degla in 2006, captaining the team temporarily last season.

Ghazal, 24, could barely hide his delight. "Thank God I've been picked as captain of Nacional da Madeira, it's undoubtedly something that'll add to my responsibilities towards the team," he told Al Masr Al Youm.

"I will strive to lead the team to finish in a high position in the Portuguese Liga this season."

He was capped three times internationally after former national team coach Bob Bradley first called him up to the team in 2013.

Ghazal, who can also play as a central defender, intends to stay in Portugal for the time being where he has earned the respect of his teammates and football analysts in the country.

Ghazal helped Nacional, based in southwest of Portugal, to avoid relegation last season, finishing 11th place in the Portuguese Liga.

Despite being a regular member in Nacional's starting line-up, Ghazal is rarely called up to Egypt's squad.

Dubai rarely fails to impress us with world records. From being home to the world's largest gathering of people dressed as nurses to the world's largest graffiti scroll and much more, it is now back with a new record.

During Ramadan, we saw the community in Dubai come together to raise food, clothes, and other forms of aid for millions of under-privileged people.

The result? They broke the world record for the "largest collection of clothes for donation."

OMO Arabia and Comfort's Share a Touch of Love were the organizers of the clothing drive.

India previously held the record, with 193,623 clothing items. The Dubai-based initiative had a combined collection of 295,122 items from across the UAE and Qatar.

“This is the seventh year we have run the campaign in the UAE and every year we witness a remarkable increase in the number of people giving back," said Ageel Angawi, Homecare vice-president for Unilever North Africa and Middle East, according to Gulf News .

Working in collaboration with Emirates Red Crescent, the donations made this year will be going to five refugee camps in Iraq and two camps in Jordan.

The initiative, launched during Ramadan, combined humanitarian work with technology to facilitate the donation process. OMO Arabia partnered with regional ride-sharing app, Careem . All one had to do was prepare a bag of clothes, and request a Careem pick-up.

Donations were also made at 63 locations across the UAE. There were collection points in Qatar, too.

This wouldn't be the first time Dubai has broken a clothing drive record.

In 2014, the campaign set a Guinness World Record for the largest clothing collection, and broke its own record in 2015.

Mabrouk!