'I feel like it’s meant to be': Eight-year-old Emirati acrobat finds her feet in the air

“I feel like it’s meant to be': Eight-year-old Emirati acrobat finds her feet in the air”

Jawaher Essa Sharafi wears an outfit splashed with pink, turquoise, lime green and yellow in a brushstroke pattern. Suspended from a hoop, she twists, twirls and drops as she practises at Aerial Lab in Arjan, Dubai. The eight-year-old has already taken her skills to the international stage, winning bronze in aerial hoop at the IAAA Grand Open Cup in Belgrade, Serbia, in September. The youngest competitor among more than 100 athletes from 11 countries, she became the first Emirati to compete…