Nujoom Alghanem
United Arab Emirates
Artist, Poet and Film Director
Cinema, Literature
Nujoom Alghanem is an Emirati poet, artist and film director. She holds a master’s degree in film production from Griffith University in Australia. Alghanem started her professional career in the early 1980s as a journalist and has published eight poetry collections. She also produced numerous short films, feature and short documentaries as well as art films.
Her films have won regional and international prizes and she has been honored with three outstanding achievement awards as a filmmaker in the UAE and the Persian Gulf. In 2019, she represented her country at the UAE National Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
In 2010, Nujoom co-founded Nahar Productions, a film production company based in Dubai. She is also one of the founding members of the Emirates Writers’ Union in 1984 and used to be a board member of the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage.
She is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction.

Nujoom Alghanem
United Arab Emirates
Artist, Poet and Film Director
Cinema, Literature
Nujoom Alghanem is an Emirati poet, artist and film director. She holds a master’s degree in film production from Griffith University in Australia. Alghanem started her professional career in the early 1980s as a journalist and has published eight poetry collections. She also produced numerous short films, feature and short documentaries as well as art films.
Her films have won regional and international prizes and she has been honored with three outstanding achievement awards as a filmmaker in the UAE and the Persian Gulf. In 2019, she represented her country at the UAE National Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
In 2010, Nujoom co-founded Nahar Productions, a film production company based in Dubai. She is also one of the founding members of the Emirates Writers’ Union in 1984 and used to be a board member of the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage.
She is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction.

Juror

Production Awards
2018