Shamma Al Bastaki is recorded in this encyclopedia from the source named below.
Overview
Shamma Al Bastaki, Arabic: شما البستكي (born 1996) is an Emirati poet and artist from Dubai. Al Bastaki holds a master's degree from Harvard University and a bachelor's degree from New York University Abu Dhabi. She completed diplomatic training at the Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy, earning a postgraduate diploma in Diplomacy and International Relations in 2021. She is also an ambassador for Louvre Abu Dhabi, as well as the recipient of awards for her writing and art. Al Bastaki co-founded several literary networks, including JARA Collective, Untitled Chapters, and is a member of the Cultural Office Women's Creative Network. In 2019, she won the ADMAF Creativity Award for her poetry collection "Bait La Bait (بيت لبيت)", an excerpt of which was published in the Asymptote Journal and taught in universities in Japan, Taiwan, and the US. Her poems 'The Sparrows are Waiting' and 'Veto on the Feminine Noon' were published in the Harvard Graduate Review.
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