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...
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...
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, one...
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...
Amna Abdul Jalil Mohammed Al Morshedi You can tell Amna Abdul Jalil Mohammed Al Morshedi’s story in three sentences: Started a business from home. Worked very hard at it. And then the next thing you know, you are winning an award for it. End of the...
Salima bint Khalifa Abdullah Al SalhiAsk Salima bint Khalifa Abdullah Al Salhi what makes her happy and she quietly replies: a boat full of fresh fish from the sea! “It always feels like a treasure – like an open chest with the world’s costliest jewels shining there...
Hamama Al-Abd Al-Jaradiyah Most people who live in the Maragha area in Wilayat Musannah (*) would quite often wonder how Hamama Al-Abd Al-Jaradiyah always managed to find wood from even the unlikeliest of places. When other wood collectors often came back empty...
