Name Souad al-Sabah | Role Writer | |
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Books Abdullah Mubarak Al-Sabah: The Transformation of Kuwait | ||
Souad Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah (born 1942) is a Kuwaiti economist, writer and poet.
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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.
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.
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.