Shaikha Al-Jabri

Shaikha Mohammad Al-Jabri is an Emirati poet, media personality, researcher, and writer.

Education and career Al-Jabri was born and raised in Al Ain, where she completed most of her schooling. She earned a Bachelor's degree in Media and Arabic Language from the United Arab Emirates University in 1988. In 2012, she was awarded the Gulf Cooperation Council Medal for Cultural Leadership in Poetry. In 2014, she received the for her column writing.

She began her literary career with classical poetry, essays, and short stories before focusing on popular literature. Her published collections include Maybe, For the Wind, Your voice flows through me, and On a Tone. In addition, she has compiled anthologies of poetry, such as Women on the Tends of Poetry (1999), which features selected poems by women in popular poetry. She has also participated in numerous poetry festivals and events.

Beyond literature, Al-Jabri has written and researched Emirati customs, traditions, and intangible heritage. Her first publication in this field was a folk narrative story belonging to the Emirati genre of kharareef, which she wrote during her university studies and published in Majid magazine. She has participated in several conferences on heritage studies, and her work includes A Guide to Fieldwork in Collecting Popular Heritage: Towards a Systematic Approach in the United Arab Emirates.

Children's literature The Khaliji Cinderella Al-Badiha Umm Qurain The Riddle The Enchanted Pool The Fox and the Crow