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...