Amira Al Hussaini, writer

Amira Al Hussaini is news editor of leading Bahrain newspaper Gulf Daily News. She loves reading, has a passion for history and hopes to one day write about the various aspects of life in her home country so people could "rediscover Bahrain". Amira, a recent winner of the UN's Dag HammarssKjold scholarship - the first Arab woman to do so - also loves painting and says if she wasn't a writer, she would be a full time artist.