About the lives of three sisters from a small village in a time of rapid social and economic change in Oman. Biography (Claudia Ott) Claudia Ott, born in 1968, studied Oriental Studies in Jerusalem, Tübingen and Berlin as well as Arabic music (reed flute / nay) in Cairo. Since 2000 she has been a research assistant at the Department of Oriental Philology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. She also works for the radio as an author and translator. Claudia Ott is a member of several international ensembles for oriental music and supervises her own programmes with music and oriental literature. Since 2007, she has been chairwoman of the jury of the Coburg Rückert Prize. New product