(Qatar)
Writer, doctor in medical physics, she worked for years in the scientific field before devoting herself completely to literature. She received the Qatar National Prize in Healthcare Medical Sciences (2018). Precocious, both in her literary and journalistic production, her first collection of short stories Al-Mikhala saw the light in 1997. It was followed by Untha , 1998, and Abatil , 2000. Two years later she would publish Ayn tara, a compilation of articles that appeared in various Qatari and Arabic newspapers. In 2010, she published a new anthology of short stories, Hala tushbihuna, which was followed in 2012 by a children's play, al-Naba al-dhahabi . She has been part of a good number of technical commissions and juries under the Ministry of Culture of Qatar, especially for the awarding of prizes for theatrical work. In the international scene, she was a member of the jury of the Arabic Novel Prize, known as Arab Booker, in its 2012 edition, as well as that of Katara, also for the novel written in Arabic, of the year 2018.
In 2021, she published a new collection of short stories, Qumut (Diapers), set in the shops of goods and clothes for babies in the seventies and eighties of the last century. Among her most recent works we find a fictionalized autobiography, Hina jabuhu al-najil 2023, and her novel Zaafarana, 2024.
The most recent sample of his literary work we have in the Huda wa Kalila collection (Huda and Kalila), published by the Hamad ben Khalifa University Press, Doha, in 2025, from where the short stories presented in the summer publication of the magazine have been extracted from Banipal.
Other activities involving the participant:
Annual International Storytellers Conference
FIL Program 
