by B&W Oman | Nov 15, 2021 | Purple Page
71-year old Dirbibi is Muttrah souq’s lucky charm. On a dreary Monday morning, along with other sellers and early-bird visitors, DIRBIBI AL BALUSHI, 71, shuffles in to Arabia’s oldest marketplaces, Muttrah souq, clutching many tiny packets of sweet tamarind and other...
by B&W Oman | Nov 15, 2021 | Purple Page
In a span of seven years, SAMIYA SINAN MOHAMMED AL JAHWARI, a hiker and coach/training specialist (for ladies and children) lost four very dear and close members of her immediate family. Losing them sent Samiya down a spiral of grief, despair and depression.World of...
by B&W Oman | Nov 15, 2021 | Purple Page
Zainab (* not her real name) was a kid when she started to help her fisherman father. And for several decades she continued in the same vein. Even when she married another fisherman from her village in Musannah, her prime job was to support him. But a coastal women...
by B&W Oman | Nov 15, 2021 | Purple Page
As a portion of the world’s population age, there is a need to figure out how their children (of the elderly) are going to provide them — their ageing loved ones — with increasingly complex care. It is only when we experience it that we begin to fathom the...
by B&W Oman | Nov 15, 2021 | Purple Page
In the hot, desert climate of Buraimi, some 300-plus kilometres away from Muscat, you would not believe that you would bump into a bright, young Omani woman who is always buzzing around town like a bee, doing what she knows best: volunteering; helping women become...
