An Emirati artist and singer.

Her real name is Maitha. The artist Mohammed Abdu nicknamed her "The Artist of the Gulf" and she called herself "The Queen".

She is a member of the judging panel for the programs "Arab Idol" and "The Voice" on "MBC Channel". She also presented the program "The Queen" in 2016 on "Dubai TV", but it was stopped after the first episode aired at the request of the audience.

Her artistic beginnings were in performing at weddings in the Gulf countries when she was 18 years old. Then the composer Anwar Abdullah helped her sign a contract with "Emirates Arts Company" until she released her first album "I Love You to Death" in 1995, and released her second album "Goodbye" in 1996, which contained the song "Do You Know Why?", which gained wide fame and through which her fame increased in the Arab world.

She collaborated with several production companies, including Rotana, Alam El Fan, and Platinum Records, and is still with Queen International (her own production company, whose golden logo shows dreams wearing a crown). Her last albums were “Abtahadak” in 2015, “Maw’edak” in 2013, “Hatha Ana” in 2009, “Ahsan” in 2003, and others, in addition to many singles, the most famous of which are “Ahlef” in 2018, “Wajh El Qamar” in 2020, “Hazin” in 2021, “Ma’a El Salama” in 2022, “Wayyak Wayyak” in 2023, “Ah Min Qalbi” in 2025, “Asma’ Sada Sawtak” in 2025, “Ya Qatar” in 2026, and “Atr El Qasa’id” in 2026, which she dedicated to Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak .

She revived many Arab festivals such as Jerash, Carthage, Palmyra, and others. Ahlam was the first Gulf artist to sing in Tunisia at the Carthage Festivals, and the first Gulf singer to participate in the Jerash Festival in Jordan in 1996. She also performed a concert at the Olympia Theater in Paris as the first Gulf artist to sing on this stage and the third Arab artist to sing on it after Umm Kulthum and Fairuz. She participated in the operettas "The Arab Dream" and "The Arab Conscience," and today, in addition to her artistic concerts, she performs many family and royal concerts.

In February 2018, Dar Al Tayeb Perfumes launched a new perfume called “Ahlam” amidst an advertising campaign.

She has received several awards, including an award from the "Arab Singing Festival" in Abu Dhabi in 1995, the "Diamond Award" from the "Big Apple Music Award" (BAMA) committee for her artistic career in 2015 in Germany, an "Honorary Award from Murex d'Or" in Lebanon in 2013, and the "Best Gulf Singer Award" for 2014 from "Murex d'Or".

She was also honored by the Iraqi Ministry of Culture and given the title of “Artist of the Arabs”, in addition to being honored by Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak and being given the title of “Ambassador of the Emirates”, and she was honored by Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan at the “A Touch of Loyalty to the Mother of the Emirates Festival”, and was given the title of “Knight of Quality” by the United Nations and the International Organization of ISO in 2013, and was chosen to be the Ambassador of Young Arab Artists after Ms. Fairouz and the artist Kazem El Saher in 2014.

In 2017, she was ranked among the "Top 100 Arab Personalities" by " Forbes Middle East Magazine ".

She married Mubarak Al-Hajri in 2003, and had three children with him: her son Fahd (from whom she took her title Umm Fahd) and her two daughters Fatima and Luluah. Ahlam had started studying Islamic Sharia at the University of Dubai, but she did not complete her studies because of her inclination towards art.