Eman Al Yousuf

Eman Al Yousuf is an Emirati writer who was born in the United Arab Emirates in 1987. She has published three novels "the Window Which Saw", "Guard the Sun", "The Resurrection of Others" and three short stories including "A Bird in a Fish Tank" and "Many Faces of a Man. In 2015, her novel "Guard of the Sun" won the 2016 Emirates Novel Award and was translated into seven languages. She is the first Emirati woman to attend for the prestigious Program of International Writers at the University of Iowa. Eman is also a regular columnist in Emirati print media and the writer of the feminist short film "Ghafa".