The "Diwan of the Pen" announced in a statement that the third "Arab Female Creatives Forum", which will take place in the capital of the Sultanate of Oman, Muscat, on April 29-30, 2024, will be under the supervision of the Ministry of Social Development, represented by Minister Aida Al-Sababi, and the "Diwan of the Pen," represented by its president, Dr. Salwa Al-Khalil Al-Amin. Following this, Muscat has been declared the Arab Capital of Creativity for the year 2024.
The statement continued: "The selected Arab female creatives were chosen based on their accomplished positions. They have been selected by the Diwan of the Pen with the approval of the Ministry of Development in Muscat. They are:
From the United Arab Emirates: Dr. Reem Al-Falasi, Secretary-General of the Supreme Council for Motherhood and Childhood, and Dr. Mariam Al-Roumi, Director-General of the Family Development Foundation.
From the Kingdom of Bahrain: Dr. Naima Al-Qusair, Director at the World Health Organization.
From the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan: Dr. Alia Burqan, Minister of Tourism, Antiquities, and Environment.
From the Republic of Tunisia: Dr. Naziha Al-Abidi, Minister of Women, Family, and Childhood.
From the State of Qatar: Dr. Amal Mohammed Al-Maliki, founding Dean of the College of Humanities at Hamad Bin Khalifa University.
From the State of Kuwait: Dr. Amal Al-Khrafi, the first Gulf woman to hold the position of Minister in Kuwait in 2000 and the first female Director of Kuwait University, and Dr. Massouma Al-Mubarak, Minister and Director of Kuwait University.
From the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Dr. Mishaal Al-Shamimari, the first Saudi woman to join NASA.
From the Republic of Lebanon: Dr. Lina Awad, the National Coordinator for Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, and Counterterrorism.
From the Kingdom of Morocco: Dr. Bassima Al-Haqawi, Minister and Deputy.
From the Arab Republic of Egypt: Dr. Ghada Hammam, an expert in capacity building.
The founding committee that emerged from the Arab Female Creatives Forum includes the following: Dr. Salwa Al-Khalil Al-Amin (President), MP and poet Saida bint Khatir Al-Farsi from Oman (Advisor), novelist and media figure Fawzia Rashid from Bahrain (Advisor), Minister and Ambassador Moushira Khattab from Egypt (Advisor), Dr. Mouza Ghabash from the UAE (Advisor), and Engineer Rasha Al-Amin as the executive coordinator from the Diwan of the Pen.
The statement concluded: "This is what we do at the Diwan of the Pen by highlighting the creativity of Lebanese and Arab creatives at home and abroad. We started from Beirut, then moved to Egypt, and now to the Sultanate of Oman, and next to the United Arab Emirates... to establish a phase of Arab women’s creativity across Arab countries and the world."
