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An Emirati poet and writer, she holds a master’s degree in Arabic language and literature. She is a member of the Emirates Writers Union, and the Emirates Female Writers Association. She has published two collections of poetry entitled In the Face of the Winds and O Spoken Wall, as well as two short stories collections entitled A Broken Wall Clock. She wrote a weekly column for the Emirati newspaper Al Roeya from 2013 to 2018, and writes poetry in both classical and Nabati Arabic.

When his soul left his body and this world, he left a house for poetry, a place for his things, and walls where the poetry he loved would remain. The Bahraini poet Ibrahim Al Arrayed, and all those who (followed) him in his literary journey and translated works, were retained by the Sheikh Ebrahim bin Mohammed Al Khalifa Centre for Culture and Research in his city which he belonged, Manama. For it was the house of fame, as the first among the homes of cultural centers outside the city of Muharraq.

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