Emirati media figure and director.

She is a founding member of the Emirates Human Rights Association, and was a candidate for the 2023 Federal National Council elections for the Emirate of Dubai.

She is the first Emirati female director to work in television in 1983.

She held several positions at the United Arab Emirates University , where she worked as a coordinator of the Mass Communication Program between 2003 and 2004, Head of the Mass Communication Department and Assistant Professor between 2000 and 2004, and a teaching assistant between 1990 and 2000. She also worked as a director at Dubai TV between 1983 and 1990, and as a journalist at Al Khaleej Newspaper during 1980.

She has many studies and research on the Gulf society and media trends, and has been hosted in several seminars and media gatherings in the Gulf. She has also participated in a number of conferences and lectures inside and outside the Emirates.

She contributed to establishing the first women’s association in the Emirates, “Oman Coast Association,” which is known today as the “Omani Women’s Renaissance Association,” in 1965, and establishing the “General Women’s Union of the United Arab Emirates.”

She won the Sheikh Rashid Award for Academic Excellence for her PhD, and the Sheikh Rashid Award for Academic Excellence for her Master’s degree. She was also honored by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum among 44 Emirati figures in the second round of the Emirates Pioneers Initiative in 2015, as the first Emirati female TV director.

She holds a PhD in Mass Communication, specializing in Feminist Studies - Cinema, in 1999 from Ohio University in the United States of America, a Master’s degree in Media and Development, specializing in Middle Eastern Studies, in 1995 from the same university, and a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts, specializing in Filmmaking, in 1985 from the San Francisco Institute of Fine Arts in the United States.