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Entrepreneur
03-06-2025
- Business
- Entrepreneur
Emirati-Born Brand 'Gahwatna' Partners With Union Coop to Launch First-of-its-Kind Pop-Up at Etihad Mall
You're reading Entrepreneur Middle East, an international franchise of Entrepreneur Media. Gahwatna, an Emirati-born brand which sells authentic 'gahwa' [a type of coffee native to the UAE], has partnered with Union Coop, the UAE-based grocery retail giant, to launch a first-of-its-kind experiential pop-up at Etihad Mall. This initiative aims to create an environment where the Emirati brand doesn't just sell Gahwa—rather it also immerses visitors engaging all five senses in a celebration of identity, tradition, and vision. Gahwatna is led by its partners Ali Mansoor, Chief Executive Officer and the creative force behind the brand, and Saeed Al Suwaidi, Chief Commercial Officer and the strategic shaping its vision and market presence. Together, they have curated an experience that merges modern design, authentic Emirati Gahwa traditions, and immersive storytelling. Image source: Gahwatna "At the heart of this collaboration lies a powerful belief: Union Coop belongs to us," said Mansoor. "It's where Emirati families feel at home, and Gahwatna proudly starts its journey from that place of belonging—with a mission to take our story from us, to the world." Mohamed Al Hashemi, CEO of Union Coop, visited the pop-up to personally experience what Gahwatna represents. Impressed by the depth and originality of the activation, he extended an invitation for Gahwatna to participate in the grand opening of Union Coop's new Khawaneej branch, where a tailored mini popup was launched the same day. Image source: Gahwatna "Gahwatna is a sense of belonging—it's a movement. It's Emirati, it's human, and it's global," added Mansoor. "We are honored to start this journey with Union Coop, and together, we aim to make our heritage accessible, visible, and proud across every branch." Gahwatna is now in discussions with Union Coop to roll out nationwide activations, with the goal of bringing authentic Emirati experiences to every neighborhood through storytelling, retail innovation, and sensory engagement. With Eid Al Adha holidays around the corner, Gahwatna invites families to visit the Etihad Mall pop-up and enjoy a unique experience of Gahwat Al Dhaif, Kaif, and Saif—all wrapped in a spirit of togetherness, pride, and possibility.
Hi Dubai
27-05-2025
- Business
- Hi Dubai
Dubai Strengthens Future Economy with AED100 Million Schneider Electric Education Initiative
Dubai is cementing its role as a global hub for innovation and sustainability through a new AED100 million education initiative by Schneider Electric, launched alongside the opening of its advanced Dubai headquarters, The NEST. H.H. Sheikh Mansoor bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, President of the UAE Olympic Committee, highlighted this move as part of Dubai's broader economic vision under the Dubai Economic Agenda D33, aiming to rank among the world's top three urban economies within a decade. The NEST, situated in Dubai Silicon Oasis, serves as a smart building and innovation hub designed to advance the UAE's digital and sustainable economy. The initiative focuses on equipping UAE youth with future-ready skills by modernizing engineering labs, promoting sustainability education, and fostering hands-on learning through partnerships with universities and industry players. H.H. Sheikh Mansoor emphasized Dubai's commitment to nurturing talent and attracting investment, stating the city's progress rests on strategic vision and collaboration with global businesses. He stressed that investing in education and innovation is key to building a resilient economy that aligns with national ambitions and youth aspirations. Dr. Mohammed Al Zarooni, Executive Chairman of Dubai Integrated Economic Zones Authority, described the launch as a milestone that reflects Dubai's innovation ecosystem and the shared commitment to sustainability. Schneider Electric executives reaffirmed their dedication to supporting workforce readiness and sustainability through targeted programs like Tamayuz and UAE NextGen Go Green. The five-year initiative will adapt continuously to evolving educational and industrial needs, positioning the UAE to stay ahead of global trends and lead in building a sustainable, knowledge-driven economy. News Source: Emirates News Agency
Scroll.in
22-05-2025
- Health
- Scroll.in
Memoir: Writer Andaleeb Wajid on losing her husband and mother-in-law to Covid-19 in the same week
It had all started with a swab up our nostrils. When my eldest, Saboor, developed a fever at the end of April, I told myself it couldn't be COVID. I was convinced he was going to be fine, but still, being cautious, I quarantined him in his room and reduced his contact with others. I told everyone it was probably a regular fever. But on the second day or so, I gave him some noodles to eat and he took it from me, then bent his head and sniffed the plate. He looked up at me. 'I can't smell anything,' he said. The thud I felt inside was so huge that it eclipsed everything else in that moment. I told Mansoor frantically that maybe Saboor had COVID. Mansoor dismissed my concerns saying there was no way he could have got the infection but I couldn't take such a laissez-faire attitude. I booked a home test and someone came home to take the swab for the COVID test. Our worst fears were confirmed in some hours. He had tested positive. I was beside myself with worry. As a baby, he'd already been in the NICU for fifteen days because his lungs weren't working when he was born. I focused on getting him better and making sure he was taking the medicines. This was during Ramzan, when the second wave was already raging around us. Then, as I felt the first telltale signs of a fever, and all kinds of exhaustion seeping into me, I couldn't believe this was happening. I got myself and the rest of the family tested. My mother-in-law and I both tested positive. I decided to have her quarantine with me in my room. I posted a jokey tweet saying that she constantly complained about everything in my room, right from the way I'd arranged the bed, to asking me questions about why the maid didn't clean the bathroom any better. I was even wary of opening my wardrobes within her sight because she would take one look at the mess and give me yet another lecture about keeping everything in order. Or she would offer to arrange my closet herself. Her wardrobe, after all, was nothing short of a work of art. Sarees arranged in neat rows, folded just right, petticoats on one shelf, blouses on another. Me? I didn't know which dupatta went with which salwar. I took her good-natured ribbing in my stride and told her that she was free to do up my wardrobes once she got well. The severity of the situation hadn't sunk into her. Once, I woke up in the middle of the night to see her emerging from the bathroom to make wuzu because she wanted to read the Quran. I told her that it was the middle of the night and she could do it the following morning. That's one thing everyone expects about quarantine but no one really knows until they're facing it – sitting in your room day in and day out gets old very soon. Thankfully, I had my laptop with me, but I found myself disinterested in doing anything. I didn't have the energy for it. When Mansoor developed a fever, I insisted he test himself and Azhaan again. When his results showed up as positive, I sent Azhaan away so all of us could walk around the house, since we were all infected. But it did little to ease the worry. We were all too exhausted, coughing constantly, and the loss of the sense of smell was making me feel strange and inept. On the advice from a relative who was a doctor, we decided to get our chest CT scans done. The CT scan would give us a better idea about the state of our lungs which were affected the most in the Delta variant of COVID that we all had. Mansoor drove us to the scanning centre one by one. The numbers that had stayed with me for so long elude me completely now, except that I remembered my score was the highest at 12 while Mansoor's and my mother-in-law's was 5 or so. A high score meant that the disease was more severe. This worried me, but with the foolish optimism of someone who constantly postpones worrying, I decided it was fine. The main thing was that both of them had lower scores, and given their health history, it was important that they be better sooner than me. When would this nightmare end, I thought. We all had to get better so we could look back on this period with a shudder and move on with our lives. This was not Mansoor's first stay in a hospital. In 2015, I was working as a marketing head at a software company, a job that let me work from home and I had to go into office twice a week. It was a Thursday, and it was exactly a week since my birthday. I was at work when Saboor called me and said that Abbu wasn't looking too good. He was complaining of chest pains and he was sweating excessively. Instinctively, I knew something was wrong. For years, I'd been telling Mansoor to take better care of his health but it was a joke in the family that he loved nothing more than good food. By the time I reached home from office, he'd been taken to the hospital in an ambulance. Thankfully, the doctors were able to treat him in time and he underwent an angioplasty. It had been a close call but the doctors were efficient and they got everything under control. I was surrounded by family and extended family who showed up and stayed close, offering support. Their presence alone helped me stay strong and not break down while I was in the hospital. When I returned home after his angioplasty, with my mother-in-law and the kids, while he remained in the ICU, I started crying while praying the Isha namaz. I was angry with Mansoor but at the same time grateful that he'd been spared. I was trying to hold onto the strength that came to me from being my mother's daughter. I was in my thirties, my kids were small, and our situation wasn't too different from what my family's had been when my father passed away. I told myself that I was different. I wasn't my mother. I didn't know why I thought that I was better than her. Education and worldliness give one a false sense of security and I felt I was better equipped to handle anything. When Mansoor returned from the hospital, he was a changed man. He stopped eating oily, fried food, switched to a healthier diet and lost much of the weight he'd been lugging around for years. I remember him checking himself out in the mirror, pleased that he could fit into the shirts he'd always buy in sizes that were smaller, saying they would motivate him to lose weight. Turned out, having a heart attack was the best motivation ever. Sadly, the motivation didn't last for too long. He went back to his old eating habits and started piling on the kilos like before, despite my continued efforts to make him stay on the course. The hospital visit in 2015 and the hospital visits in 2021 could have well been situated in two different universes. In 2015, no one had even dreamt of the word 'pandemic' and although worried people hung around outside ICUs, the situation was drastically different during the second wave. Everyone knows, everyone remembers what it was like then. And yet, each experience is different from the others. No one would know what it felt like for me to walk into the hospital, my face covered with a face shield, under which there were two masks. That's not right. I'm sure many people would have experienced this too.
India Gazette
12-05-2025
- Politics
- India Gazette
India-Pakistan ceasefire brings relief as guns fall silent
Pakistani people celebrate after the ceasefire between Pakistan and India, in Multan, Pakistan on May 10, 2025. (Photo by Mansoor/Xinhua)NEW DELHI, May 12 (Xinhua) -- People living close to border areas and the Line of Control (LoC) between India and Pakistan Sunday woke up to a calm morning as guns have fallen silent four days after an incessant military uneasy calm has brought relief to people in both countries, especially those living on the boundaries between them.A ceasefire reached by the two neighbors seemed to be holding, despite the accusations of ceasefire violations from both after an announcement of a ceasefire on Saturday afternoon, loud explosions were heard in the Indian-controlled Kashmir."For the last few hours, there have been repeated violations of the understanding arrived at earlier this evening between the Director General of Military Operations (DGMO) of India and Pakistan. This is a breach of an understanding arrived at earlier today," India's Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said during a briefing Saturday to Misri's comments, Pakistan expressed its commitment to the faithful implementation of the ceasefire agreement with India, despite an accusation of India's violations in some far, there have been no reports of firing or shelling from anywhere between the two people celebrate after the ceasefire between Pakistan and India, in Multan, Pakistan on May 10, 2025. (Photo by Mansoor/Xinhua)Reports from Srinagar and Jammu and neighboring Punjab and Rajasthan said calm has returned to the streets, and people were seen busy in their routine activities."Since early Sunday, there has been a calm here as well as on the frontiers, and this has brought a sense of relief and security. However, no one knows how long it will hold," said Amjad Hussain, a resident in Jammu. "One has to remain cautious. The past few days have been very chaotic and tense."On Sunday morning, shops started reopening, and people were seen resuming their daily chores."We are longing to go back to our hometown Uri. Yesterday's announcement was really a big relief," said Mumtaz Ahmad. "If everything remains peaceful, we would certainly go back tomorrow."Ahmad and his family relocated to Srinagar temporarily on Thursday after artillery shells rained on his neighborhood near the LoC in the frontier town of LoC is a de facto border that divides Kashmir into India- and Pakistan-controlled parts. The LoC is heavily guarded by the military on both Geelani, an author and expert on South Asia with a particular interest in India and Pakistan affairs, viewed the ceasefire as a big relief for the general population of the two countries."The escalatory ladder was signalling a devastating shift toward a more catastrophic situation, including the possible use of limited nukes, thus threatening peace, stability and security of the entire South Asian region," Geelani told Xinhua."It was very clear that world powers played a role behind the scenes to convince the two nuclear powers to consider de-escalation to give peace and dialogue a chance. The ceasefire is a big relief for the population living on the edge on both sides," Geelani people celebrate after the ceasefire between Pakistan and India, in Multan, Pakistan on May 10, 2025. (Photo by MansoorXinhua)India and Pakistan had targeted each other with missiles, drones and continuously resorted to fierce shelling in the frontier areas close to the border and the had also attacked each other's air bases during the skirmishes, thus flaring tensions to an even more dangerous use of missiles, drones, long-range weapons and loitering munitions by the militaries from both sides inflicted civilian casualties, besides damaging residential houses and other structures on both escalations had also forced the two countries to shut airports for civilian traffic, resulting in the cancellation of in the frontier areas were forced to leave their homes and look for safer between the two countries started on Wednesday after New Delhi carried out deadly airstrikes inside Pakistan and Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, thus evoking a strong response from airstrikes were undertaken to avenge last month's killing of 26 people by gunmen in Pahalgam, about 89 km east of Srinagar, the summer capital of the Indian-controlled Delhi blamed Islamabad for supporting the gunmen, a charge denied by Islamabad.
Sharjah 24
11-05-2025
- Politics
- Sharjah 24
Kuwait Emir receives Mansoor bin Mohammed
Strengthening UAE-Kuwait relations The Emir of Kuwait welcomed His Highness Sheikh Mansoor and his delegation at Bayan Palace, expressing appreciation for the leadership, government, and people of the UAE. He emphasised the strong fraternal bonds between the two nations and their peoples. Warm reception and diplomatic exchange Sheikh Mansoor expressed his pleasure at visiting Kuwait and extended his gratitude for the warm hospitality shown to him and his delegation. Conveying leadership greetings During the meeting, Sheikh Mansoor conveyed greetings from President His Highness Sheikh UAE delegation members in attendance Accompanying Sheikh Mansoor were Dr Ahmad Belhoul Al Falasi, Minister of Sport and Vice President of the UAE National Olympic Committee; Dr Matar Hamed Al Neyadi, UAE Ambassador to Kuwait; and Faris Mohammed Al Mutawa, Secretary-General of the UAE National Olympic Committee.
