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Jun 2024
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Sahar Parham Al Awadhi is an award-winning pastry chef who was the inaugural winner of the Best Pastry Chef Award of the 50 Best's Middle East & North Africa list. She started her career at La Serre Bistro & Boulangerie in downtown Dubai and in 2016, joined Burj Al Arab becoming the first Emirati to cook at the hotel, and a few years later, the first Emirati woman to be a pastry chef in Dubai.

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Theme music: Peninsular, Tarek Yamani 🔊 https://spoti.fi/47I59ns

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Mikey Muhanna 👉 https://www.instagram.com/mikey_mu/?hl=en-gb

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