Author

The Emirati author of four novels, most recently One Year of Solitude, published by Dar Al Adab, three story collections, and a book about women and their writing in the UAE titled Bread and Ink.

Her novel "Guardian of the Sun" won first place in the Emirates Novel Award in 2016 and has been translated into more than seven languages.

She is a chemical engineer and holds a master's degree in knowledge management. In addition to a fellowship in creative writing from the University of Iowa in the United States of America, it was the first Emirati writer to be selected for the International Writers Program in 2018.

She also received a Fulbright scholarship to teach Arabic at Western Kentucky University in the United States for the academic years 2020 and 2021.

She holds a diploma in Cultural Diplomacy from Berlin, Germany and another in Future Cities Studies from Poland, in addition to the American-Canadian Board for teaching children the Arabic language, and is currently working as a consultant for the Arabic program at the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature.