Fawziyya al-Sindi

Fawziyya al-Sindi (born 1957) is a Bahraini poet and activist. She has published six collections of poetry since 1982 and her work has been translated into several languages.

Biography
Fawziyya was born in Manama, Bahrain in 1957. She has been acknowledged as one of the first Bahraini women to seek an education abroad, having obtained a degree in commerce from the University of Cairo.

Fawziyya published six collections of Arabic poetry from 1998 to 2005. She is a member of the Bahraini Association of Writers and regularly writes as a columnist to regional magazines and publications like Banipal.

Publications

 * Akhir Al-Mahab (End of the Horizon) 1998
 * Malath Al-Rooh (Refuge of the Soul) 1991
 * Rahinat Al-Alam (Hostage to Pain) 2005