Rahila Al Riyami

Rahila bint Amur Al Riyami was an Omani politician. Along with Lujaina Mohsin Darwish, she was one of the first two Omani women to be directly elected to the Consultative Assembly in 2000.

Biography

Al Riyami was a civil servant, serving as Director of Educational Planning at the Ministry of Education for 16 years. In 2000, she was one of fifteen female candidates in the general elections that year. Running in Bawshar, she was one of two women elected. She was re-elected to the Assembly in 2003. In 2007, she was appointed to the Council of State, serving as its head of Human Resources Development. She died in 2017