Voices of UAE-Osama Regaah – Walking on the Edge of Light

A Voice Chosen for the UAE’s Story of Vision and Humanity

On a quiet morning in Dubai, Osama Regaah sits behind his desk. In front of him, two worlds meet. On one side are the legal documents, precise and orderly. On the other, handwritten pages filled with stories — of forgotten people, of distant cities, of questions that have no easy answers.
For him, the law and literature are not separate callings. They are, as he says, “companions on the journey… like a river and its banks — neither has meaning without the other.”

This meeting of disciplines has defined Osama’s life. The discipline of the law gave him boundaries. The freedom of literature gave him horizons. Together, they gave him a purpose: to speak for those who have no voice.

The Voices of UAE program exists to showcase people whose work reflects the country’s deeper values — vision, service, creativity, and humanity.
Osama’s journey speaks to all of them.

In the UAE, where cultures meet and ideas travel freely, he has built bridges between professions, nations, and communities. His legal expertise protects the weak; his literature uplifts the human spirit; his public work challenges indifference. His projects — from novels that question life and justice, to a global legal charity platform — show that it is possible to combine ambition with service.

Recognising Osama in Voices of UAE is not only about honouring his career; it is about holding up an example of what one person can give to society when they choose to live with meaning.

Osama’s view of the law is simple, but rare. “The law should be a shield, not a sword,” he says — a belief born from years of seeing how rules can sometimes be used to secure injustice rather than remove it.
In response, he created a legal charity platform that connects those in need with volunteer lawyers. His guiding principle:

“When justice is sold, it becomes a commodity; when it is given, it becomes a value. The oppressed needs justice even before they need bread.”

This work reflects a core truth of his life — that power, when used well, must bend towards mercy.

Osama’s writing is not a retreat from the real world. It is a way of entering it more deeply.
He writes about women who stand alone in courtrooms, about families too poor to defend themselves, about the quiet resilience of the forgotten. These are not abstract characters. They are the people he has met, listened to, and stood beside.

“In law, a woman without support is often the weakest link,” he explains. “Literature gives me the means to grant her the strength of words.”

His empathy is rooted in lived experience. He grew up close enough to poverty to understand its silence. “I saw in their eyes stories worthy of being told.”

Osama’s works span travel literature, legal studies, memoirs, and fiction. His latest novel, Transparent Ghost, blends the corporate present with a mythical past, exploring death, the afterlife, and the justice of the Creator.

“It was both a literary act and a personal awakening,” he says. “Every sentence was a question I first posed to myself before offering it to the reader.”

The novel’s voice is philosophical yet intimate, grounded yet otherworldly — a reflection of his belief that reality and myth are not opposites, but overlapping truths.

In an age when visibility is often mistaken for value, Osama refuses to chase the spotlight.

“The spotlight fades quickly, but the impact endures. I want my words to be read long after I am gone, as if I were still breathing between them.”

His decision to avoid the easy path was driven by a simple fear: “The fear of dying before I had truly lived, and of failing to serve humanity. The soul was created to soar, not to bow.”

For him, writing is a mission, a calling, and a form of healing. His travel works are more than accounts of landscapes; they are records of self-discovery.

“Every city I visit leaves an imprint on my soul, and each imprint leads me to a part of myself I had not known.”

Osama’s books have been published in Egypt, Jordan, Turkey, Morocco, Sudan, and Iran, and translated into Persian, Turkish, Amharic, and English.

He believes their reach comes from the universality of the themes: “Humanity is the language that needs no translation. Pain, hope, love, and dreams… These are concepts every human being is born with.”

While his awards include the Golden Book Award, International Excellency Award, and an Honorary Doctorate in Creativity, he treasures most the messages from readers whose lives were changed by his words.

“Awards are beautiful, but to change a soul — that is the real glory.”

To young people searching for their place in the world, his advice is direct:

“Find yourself first, for every other road is meaningless if you do not know who walks it.”

If his life were a book not yet written, Osama would name it The One Who Walked on the Edge of Light.

“Because throughout my life I have walked between the possible and the impossible, between dream and reality, without falling into the darkness.”

Osama Regaah’s presence in Voices of UAE reminds us that the country’s strength lies not only in its achievements, but in the people who shape them with thought, service, and creativity. His story bridges worlds — the rule of law and the freedom of literature, ambition and compassion, the seen and the unseen.

He stands as proof that a life of meaning is still possible in our time — and that words, when joined with conviction, can be both beauty in one hand and justice in the other.