Saudi national Salma Shaker is the GCC's "Deepesst Woman," and a record-breaking free diver, meaning she dives deep into the ocean without oxygen support.
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Aziza Sbaity is the fastest woman in Lebanon, but her journey of breaking records has been filled with challenges. It started as a child, fleeing her mother’s war-torn country of Liberia. Then there was the racism she experienced during her first years in the country, and the injuries that have hampered her performance in sports. Aziza tells the Livehealthy Arabic Podcast about how she overcame them all — and about what she plans to do...
Hanan Ezzeldin is a positive education trainer who runs The Family Hub in Dubai, a platform to work with parents to raise awareness, conduct workshops, and create a space for questions and to deliver information in a simple way to serve families. Mother to a pre-teen son, she has been a teacher for more than a decade and has lived and worked in a variety of countries as well as cultures. She was a guest on...
Faris Al Zaabi’s in an Emirati triathlete, as well as an Emirati health and wellness ambassador for Ma’an’s Let’s Connect program. Ma’an is an Abu Dhabi organization that promotes community wellness. His career in sports started in 2010, when he studied sports sciences at the University of Victoria in Canada. He moved on to a master’s degree in sports management at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. “Growing up, my family encouraged me to participate in...
We often think of being healthy in terms of going to the gym and exercising. However, exercising outdoors has proven to be better than exercise in a built environment for mental health, while exercising in either space yields positive results for physical health. How often do you head to one of Abu Dhabi’s parks to exercise? A study conducted in Finland confirms that “nature provides an added value to the known benefits of physical activity....
On her 20th birthday, Alia Alhamedh found out that she had kidney problems and would need dialysis treatment. Her brother, Buti, offered to donate his kidney – “I wanted to change her life,” he explained – but Alia initially said no. “I didn’t want the donor to be one of my family members,” she said. “But after about a year, my mental state worsened so much that I asked my brother to start the donation process.”...
Dr. Saif Darwish, a community doctor in the UAE, tells Livehealthy why we should trust all the different Covid-19 vaccines.
Growing up in Saudi Arabia, Dr Dina Al-Tayeb always loved sports. Her mother encouraged her passion, despite the severe restrictions her country imposed on women taking part in sport. The dentist and mother-of-three tells the Livehealthy Arabic Podcast how she beat the odds and how, after more than 15 years of steady hard work, she became the first Saudi woman to complete the notoriously grueling Ironman Triathlon. The triathlon combines a 2.4-mile (3.8km) swim, a 112-mile (180km)...
For years now, Omar Aldhiyebi, head of the Regional Football Training Association has been close friends with Hamad Alshehhi. One of the many reasons for their friendship is that as a young person of determination, Hamad did not have other friends. His social circle was limited to his mother and brothers. But joining the football team changed his life. It also changed Omar’s, too, ad the pair became the inspiration for Rab3i, aka “friends group.” The...
As a writer, photographer and presenter of her own podcast, “Daera,” Jehan Al Khatib explores the problems of women in collectivist societies.
Living in such a fast-paced, diverse region – not to mention the disruption caused by Covid-19 –has left many young people feeling exhausted and uncertain. Whether they are just graduating from high school or at university or trying to launch a career, or just in need of some sage advice from someone in their own age group, Dubai-based life coach Mohammed Sweidan offers support and wisdom via TikTok. His short videos have proved such a hit that...