Souad al-Sabah

Souad Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah
Born 1942 (age 73–74)
Nationality Kuwaiti
Institution Kuwait Stock Exchange
Field Economist, writer
Alma mater University of Surrey, UK

Souad Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah (born 1942) is a Kuwaiti economist, writer and poet.

A member of the ruling family, she obtained a degree in economics and politics at Cairo University in 1973 and a doctorate in economics from University of Surrey in the United Kingdom in 1981.[1]

Career

Al-Sabah is a member of the executive committee of the World Muslim Women Organization for South East Asia, and is on the board of trustees and executive committee of the Arab Intellect Forum. [1]

Publications

The director of the Kuwait Stock Exchange, she has written several economy-related publications in English such as Development Planning in an Oil Economy and Kuwait: Anatomy of a Crisis Economy. Other works include Wamdatt Bakira (Early Blinks), Lahathat min Umri (Moments of My Life) and poems such as A Woman from Kuwait, My Body is a Palm Tree that Grows on a Bahr al-Arab, Female 2000, and Ingratitude.[2]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Souad Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah". Blackbird.vcu.edu. Retrieved 27 March 2015.
  2. ↑ Paine, Patty; Lodge, Jeff; Touati, Samia (2011). Gathering the Tide: An Anthology of Contemporary Arabian Gulf Poetry. Sussex Academic Press. p. 364. ISBN 978-0-86372-375-9.
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