Idriss is seen with a rehabilitation specialist at the Skilled Nursing Home at the Medical City

By Noimot Olayiwola/Staff Reporter

He is suffering from lower extreme paralysis sustained after a road accident in 2007 and is undergoing rehabilitation. But Mohamed Nzar Idriss is determined to co-ordinate an extraordinary event of writing the world’s longest peace message for the Guinness World Records.
Guinness World Records (GWR), known until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records, is a reference book published annually, containing a collection of world records, both human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.
The idea of the peace message first struck Idriss, 30, about seven months ago, as he watched with keen interest the revolutionary uprisings in a number of Arab countries.
The Syrian plans to call to action all people living with disabilities across the country, both young and old, asking them to contribute messages based on the concept of peace as well as ways and means to achieve international peace and security through writing, drawing and signature campaigns.
“Mohamed has plans to work with a number of local organisations such as the Shafallah Centre for Children with Disabilities, Al Noor Institute and a number of schools through the Supreme Education Council as well as hospitals including Rumailah Hospital, Orthopaedic unit and the Interim Skill Nursing Facility at the Medical City where he is receiving rehabilitation treatment since May 2010,” explained case manager Nahrida Nazir and social worker Shaiyma al-Ansari, who spoke to Gulf Times on his behalf.
She said there are also plans to work with a yet-to-be-named very important personality in Qatar, who is renowned for peace initiatives,
as an icon for the project.
“We have contacted the National Human Rights Committee on behalf of Mohamed to help us identify such an individual who would be willing to endorse the initiative and ensure that it succeeds,” Nazir said.
She also said that the Interim Skilled Nursing Home Facility’s Community Rehabilitation Committee will help co-ordinate the initiative based on GWR requirements and rules and regulations. Idriss said now was the most appropriate time to send such a message to the world to explain the dire need for peace, security and a change for the better.
Since the initiative has been welcomed by the GWR management, Idriss hoped that a voluntary work agency or an entity caring for the disabled in Qatar would sponsor his plan and help him in compiling patients’ opinions and comments on the concept of international peace.