Rahila Al Riyami | |
Office1: | Member of the Consultative Assembly |
Term1: | 2000–2007 |
Constituency1: | Bawshar |
Office2: | Member of the Council of State |
Term2: | 2007– |
Rahila bint Amur Al Riyami (Arabic: رحيلة بنت عامر الريامي, died 5 February 2017) 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.[1]
Al Riyami was a civil servant, serving as Director of Educational Planning at the Ministry of Education for 16 years.[1] 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.[2] In 2007 she was appointed to the Council of State, serving as its head of Human Resources Development.[1] She died in 2017