Ousha bint Khalifa al-Suwaidi

Ousha bint Khalifa al-Suwaidi was born on 1 January 1920 at al-Muwaiji, near Al Ain, into a lettered family. She composed poems from childhood and was recognised at around fifteen, in a milieu dominated by men. After long years spent in Qatar, she returned to Al Ain and then settled in Dubai at the end of the 1980s. She gave up secular poetry at the end of the 1990s and died in Dubai in July 2018.

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• Poetryديوان فتاة العربOusha bint Khalifa al-Suwaidi · 1990not translated into EnglishLiterature