Reem al-Kamali (UAE) is a writer from Dubai, born in 1979. She studied history at the Lebanese University of Beirut and now works as a journalist for Emirati newspaper Al-Bayan and as a travel writer. Her first novel, The Straits of Hormuz, was published in 2013. She is passionate about a wider use of Arabic in the UAE and she is researching ancient Emirati history, an area not yet represented in literature.