Emirati poet, novelist and visual artist.

She has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Center for Translation in Egypt since October 2021.

She held several positions at the Abu Dhabi Cultural Foundation between 1989 and 1995, including: Head of the Arts and Publishing Department, the Arts Department, and the Cultural Department.

She held 9 art exhibitions in Egypt, the Emirates, Jordan and Bahrain, such as: “Scribbles on the Wall of Spells and Memories of a Gulf Woman Fascinated by Letters and Color,” “Standing on the Ruins of Romance” in 1992, and “Narration in Its Form” in 1993. She also participated in the “Arab Women Artists Exhibition” in the United States of America.

She wrote several novels, including “Rayhana” in 2003, and “In My Mouth a Pearl” in 2016. She also published several poetry collections, including: “This is How I Call Things” 1983, “Al-Rihan”, “Flowing in the Matter of the Body”, “The House” 1992, “The Other in His Darkness”, “Another Place”, “The Narrative in Its Form”, and “A Crazy Man Who Doesn’t Love Me” 2001. She also published two poetry collections in the Egyptian colloquial dialect, entitled “Pretending to Be Okay” and “Hiding in Her Clothes the Pampering”.

She won the Sheikh Zayed Book Award in 2022 for her book Café Riche: An Eye on Egypt, and the Cavafy International Poetry Prize in 2013.

I graduated from the Department of Political Science in 1982 from the Faculty of Economics and Political Science in Egypt.