Famous Emirati writers

This is a list of United Arab Emirates writers, including novelists, short story writers, poets,
essayists, and journalists.

 Nasser Al-Dhahiri
 Yasser Horeb
 Adel Khozam
 Nora al nomad

1. Nasser Al Dhahiri

Nasser al-Dhahiri (born 1960) is an Emirati writer and journalist.[1] He was born in al-

Ain, Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. He was educated in the UAE and in France. He
has published several volumes of fiction and non-fiction, including short story collections and
novels.
As a journalist, he has been involved with a number of publications, such as al-
Ijtihad newspaper, Fairuz magazine, al-Diary magazine, and Faris magazine. He is the
publisher and chief editor of Hud Hud, an electronic newspaper which appears in Arabic,
English, French and Spanish.
In 2009, al-Dhahiri was a participant in the inaugural IPAF Nadwa.[2] His work has appeared
in English translation in Banipal magazine.

2 . Yasser Horeb
Yasser Hareb is a writer and TV presenter from the Emirate of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. [1]
[2][3][4][5][6]
 Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the
UAE and Ruler of Dubai awarded Yasser Hareb, the Arab Social Media Influencers Award in
the Positivity and Tolerance category in 2016.[7][8] He was acting CEO and as Vice President of
Culture and Education at Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation. Prior to that he was
Director of Special Projects at The Executive Office of HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al
Maktoum. He was also Secretary General of the Arab Strategic Forum and Director of
Operations at the Dubai Institute for Human Development. Currently he is a member of
Supreme National Committee for Tolerance established in the UAE, by the President, His
Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, to celebrate 2019 as the Year of Tolerance.[9][10]
[11][12][7][13][9][14][6][15][16][17]
 He is known for his novel “Take Off Your Shoes” whose foreword is by Paulo
Coelho.[18] He is also a co-founder of Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies global forum, which
is hosted annually by Abu Dhabi City.
3. Adel Khozam
Adel Khozam (born 1963) is an Emirati poet, writer, journalist, and broadcaster, currently
working in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. He is a deputy manager of Sama Dubai TV channel.
Since 1984 he has published three poetry collections, a history of Emirati visual art and has
also written music for theatre and the cinema. His work has been published
in Banipal magazine.[1]

4. Nora al nomad

Her first novel, Jawan, was published in 2012 and won the Best YA Book Award of the
Etisalat Children's Books Award in 2013.[2] Al Noman said that she wrote the novel because
she was unable to find young adult science fiction in Arabic for her daughter to read, noting
that both teenage fiction and science fiction were virtually non-existent in Arabic.
The novel follows the titular heroine, a 19-old girl, on an interplanetary quest to rescue her
infant son from a nefarious organization who wants to turn him into a super-soldier.
According to al Noman, the plot reflects contemporary political concerns in Arabic countries,
in that it describes "men who have a hidden agenda to acquire power, and they use the pain
and suffering of minorities or marginalized peoples to turn them into their own private
armies".[3]
A sequel to Jawan, Mandean, was published in 2014. More sequels are planned