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I have been thinking about silence and how it settles around women who are told to wait, lower their voices, and soften their ambition until meaning blurs. Breaking that silence rarely arrives as a...

Years ago, when I was working in fisheries, we explored the idea of drawing cold water from the deep seas off Oman. The vision was simple on paper and ambitious in practice: water cool enough to...

Some mornings in Muscat I wake before the city stirs. Heat gathers early, heavy before sunrise. At a summer camp last week, a girl in the front row asked how to plan a life when the map keeps...

Some stories force us to confront more than injustice. They ask us to examine the limits of our empathy, the thresholds of our action and the truths we are still unwilling to hold. A legal ruling. A...

The sun streamed into my office last Wednesday afternoon as I watched history unfold from thousands of miles away. At the Peace Palace in The Hague, the International Court of Justice delivered its...

What happens to a country that uses nearly 195 million tonnes of materials a year, only to reuse 2 per cent of them? This question became the framing lens for Oman’s first Circularity Gap Report,...

I was catching up on the news when a headline from Brazil caught my eye. COP30’s presidency has initiated a global call to address what they are identifying as climate disinformation. Not soft...

What if you were offered $232 billion to shape the future of your region? No contest. No catch. Only a choice. To act with care, with courage and with creativity.That figure is real. It is the...

Stepping out just after dawn in Muscat, heat drapes across my shoulders, heavy as a wool cloak. The car thermometer already blinks 35, yet a news alert says Brussels will match us by mid-afternoon. A...

The cotton tote in my handbag has become muscle memory. Unroll, fill it with tomatoes and coriander, and feel the weave tighten across my knuckles. On Monday evening while shopping in Muttrah, that...

I didn’t come to TED Countdown, a global gathering focused on accelerating climate solutions, in search of answers. I came carrying questions. Heavy ones. About exhaustion. About how long one can...

Ten years ago, I stood in a crowded hallway in Paris, watching history unfold. The Paris Agreement had just been adopted and the room erupted. There were cheers, tears and applause. I remember the...

They stood in a row, robes a little too long, shoes slightly untied, voices carrying more truth than they knew as they sang: “One step closer to being the best that I can be.” I had the honour of...

I often find that the most powerful ideas are the ones we overlook. We get caught up in chasing innovation, in launching megaprojects, in building the future as if it is something far away. But...

It was sunset in Muttrah and the sky over the corniche was brushed with hues of apricot and rose. The scent of frankincense drifted through the air as I sat at Bait Al Luban with a visiting friend, a...

When I arrived at Oman Sustainability Week, I was ready to dive straight in. Instead, I found myself trapped in loops around a packed parking lot. My coffee cooled as frustration grew. By the time I...

When Salalah’s first raindrop kisses the parched earth you can almost taste the sweet tang of wet frankincense on the breeze and hear the hush that falls just before the downpour. You might even...

This Monday, millions across Spain and Portugal found themselves in the dark. A massive blackout swept through both countries, halting trains, silencing cities and sending newsrooms scrambling. In one...

While corporate CEOs are stepping back from bold climate rhetoric, quietly and with little fanfare, a new architecture for sustainability is being cemented beneath their feet in the very structure of...

There are moments in one’s career that feel heavy with meaning. Not because of the titles in the room, but because of the quiet sense that something lasting is being built. For me, that moment came...