Shaykha al-Nakhi

Shaykha Mubarak al-Nakhi (; born 1952) is a writer in the United Arab Emirates, the first Emirati woman to publish a short story. In addition to a pioneer of the short story in the UAE, she is considered one of the country's best-known women writers.

Nakhi was born in 1952 in Sharjah, a city in the United Arab Emirates. She also wrote a novel, Qisat Al Raheel ("Story of Departure"). Her work has been published in French translation, and in 2009, her story "Threads of Delusion" was published in English translation in the collection In a Fertile Desert.

In 1990, she helped found an organization for Emirati women authors, and she worked to produce its magazine Voice of Women, sometimes described as the first women's magazine in the UAE.