Ayesha Sultan

Ayesha Sultan is an Emirati writer and journalist, born in the Emirate of Dubai in 1962. She holds an M.A. in Communication and Media Sciences and a B.A. in Political Science from the United Arab Emirates University. Since 1996, she has written a daily column in Al Bayan newspaper entitled "Abjadiyat", before becoming Head of its Culture section from 1997 to 2004 and moving to become the Director of the political programs department of Dubai TV. She is the founding director of Warrak Publishing House in Dubai and Vice President of the Emirates Writers Union. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Culture and Science Symposium, a founding member of the Emirates Journalists Association and founder of a group of book clubs in the Emirates (Book Salon, Forum Salon). She is the author of Winter of Tales (2012), In Praise of Memory (articles, 2014) and Margins in Cities and Travel (2015).