MUSCAT – Omani fashion designer Zamzam, who has mastered the benefits of sun salutations from yoga expert Dr Kavitha Ramakrishna, has enunciated the benefits of the yoga repertoire surya namaskars (sun salutations).Record of 648 surya...
She is a one-woman army for the promotion of Omani female tour guides. She maybe one of the biggest promoters of female tour guides in Oman, but don’t call her a ‘female’ tour guide – she may not like that. But, Wisal Al Rashdi, a very enterprising young Omani lady...
By Adarsh Madhavan I have a confession. I am male, but if you want the naked truth: women are better than men. It is not they who have to struggle hard to become like us. That is just a dark lie. It got sold earlier. Not anymore. It is the other way around. We have to...
By Maimuna Al Sulaimani Not in the dress I don’t think it is in the dress. It is much more than that. You can’t judge a book by its cover and you can’t call a woman an Omani just by looking at her dress. There has to be much more than that. It is in that glow It is in...
Ruqaia Thani Al Wahaibi Ruqaia Thani Al Wahaibi is a perfect example of an ordinary woman with the halo of extraordinariness around her. And not just a halo. Her extraordinariness is not just a figment of our imagination – it is in and all around her. It is in the way...
Hasna Al-Daoudi The world is replete with tales of the middle aged and elderly not giving up on their dreams. Here in Oman, in search of such nuggets, the Purple stumbled on Hasna Mohammed Al-Daoudi, an Omani woman from Sur, in South Sharqiyah, who has breathed new...
Badriya bint Hilal Al-Farai An Omani lady was paying her electricity bill at an official payment counter in Musannah recently, when she happened to mention the name of her enterprise. Immediately the faces of the young Omani men at the counter lit up when the name...
Muna Al Bulushi A little over 12 years back, Muna Al Bulushi, then 33, was working in the precious metal testing and hallmarking section at the directorate general of specifications and metrology, at the then ministry of commerce and industry (currently renamed to...
Amna bint Mohammed AlHarrassi There is no better person in this world than the one who makes an effort to bring a smile on someone else’s face, wipe away their tears and relieve them of their pain or suffering. Amna bint Mohammed Hamed Al Harrassi is one such woman...
Afra Ali Abdulrahman Al-Raisi Give Afra Ali Abdulrahman Al-Raisi, 37, some new dish to taste and she will reel out the ingredients in it one by one. Or let her read a new recipe and she will tell you exactly how the dish was going to taste like.“Let’s just say that I...
Yasmeen Al Balushi With these words, I started the journey of my life. I am Yasmeen Al Balushi, married and a mother to four wonderful kids – Fatma, Amina, Mohammed and Yousuf. I had my first child when I was just 16. And also, just some months before that,...
NADIYA SUBAIH AZBOOT BELAL Not a day passes by without Nadiya Subaih Azboot Belal encountering one challenge or the other. For this 60-year old grandmother, bukhoor maker and seller, from the New Salalah area in Salalah, facing one challenge after the other has become...