Nimah Ismail Nawwab
Nimah Ismail Nawwab is an English writer, photographer, activist, lecturer and internationally recognized poet. Educated in Saudi Arabia, she is considered a trailblazing writer and poet.
Her work and her bestselling book have been featured in Newsweek International, MSNBC, AP, The Washington Post reproduced in the Japanese English Yomiuri Shimbum, LA Times, BBC Persia, Asian Age, the Malay Berita Harian, Hi magazine, Arabian Lady, Arab News and Saudi Gazette. She has been interviewed by Channel News Asia, NPR, Canadian Channel M and others.
She was nominated a Young Global Leader of the Young Global Leaders Forum, an affiliate of the World Economic Forum, joining 175 new leading executives, public figures and intellectuals from 50 countries. Nimah's interests in diversity, change, tolerance, women’s issues and empowering youth have led to involvement in various activities and presentations.
Her widely-read academic articles and essays have been translated into Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese and Arabic including others.
Throughout her varied activities she seeks to build bridges of understanding and was recently dubbed a ‘cultural ambassadress’ and a ‘voice for Arab women’ based on a range of interactive readings and presentations in various countries across the East and West.
Her poetry has been published on several websites, translated into numerous languages, included in anthologies and taught at schools and colleges in Arabia, the U.S, Canada, Singapore, Japan, India and others. Her work has been included in various anthologies. She is also a poetry judge and facilitator of poetry sessions in several countries.
The first Saudi Arab woman poet to be published in the United States, her pioneering work includes a historic, first-of-its-kind public book signing in Arabia and another in Washington D.C.
Nimah is currently working on two anthology projects revolving around women and youth. Her poems about freedom, faith, women, family, culture, traditions, tolerance and change are woven together within The Unfurling. Events she has been involved with are featured on www.theunfurling.com
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