Can you talk us through your career?
After a short stint at an advertising agency, I joined our family business in 2000, the Easa Saleh Al Gurg Group (ESAG), to focus on marketing and communications. Since 2009 I’ve been Director of Retail, responsible for strategy and operational development of the Group’s international and local retail brand portfolio. It’s been a fascinating experience, as I’m the second generation of our 60-year-old business.
What inspired you to venture into philanthropic work? SUBSCRIBE FOLLOW US
Both my parents were role models and had traits that I wanted to emulate and build upon. During my teens and early twenties, I was greatly influenced by my father’s charitable projects across geographies spanning East Africa, the Gulf and across to the Indian subcontinent. He eventually went onto to build one of the UAE’s first official family-sponsored charity foundations.
Letters to the editor: Cuyahoga Falls should work with historical society on saving house Akron Beacon Journal
Cuyahoga Falls must halt demolition plan
When Progress Through Preservation of Greater Akron (PTP) became concerned that Akron might be considering demolition of the 1870 one-room school house they own in West Akron, they contacted the city. An agreement was worked out which gave PTP control of the property and the opportunity to obtain grants, donations and services to rehabilitate the structure for use as PTP’s headquarters (now known as Preservation House) as well as to make it available for community use. See their website, www.preservationakron.org.
Yogafest Dubai will go ahead in 2021 from March 18 to 20.
For the tenth time, the annual outdoor festival will take place at Dubai Internet City Amphitheatre, with a packed schedule of educational workshops, classes and talks on health and wellness topics.
In 2020, the event was cancelled because of Covid-19, and
attendees in 2021 can expect to follow strict health and safety guidelines. This includes bringing your own yoga mat or buying one
on-site, as no rental mats will be available.
The schedule for the three-day event has been revealed, with the
highlights including sessions on how to prime your immune system and combat Covid-19 through specific breathing exercises, shaking and sound therapy.
Gaza City – Water in the Gaza Strip is mostly undrinkable and loaded with health hazards.
Large-scale desalination plants, funded by international donors and private businesses struggling to mitigate the crisis, are in full swing in the besieged Palestinian enclave. But a new high-tech effort is coming from an unlikely source: a company based in Israel.
Israel’s crippling 14-year blockade has worsened the water disaster facing Gaza residents, with key materials and equipment needed to produce potable water withheld from the coastal enclave.
A Russian-Israeli billionaire – shocked by images of children filling water in plastic containers from a street vendor – decided to act.