Maryam Al Hashimi

Maryam Al Hashimi is a critic and university academic from the UAE. She is head of the Criticism Club in the Emirati Writers’ Union and has won numerous UAE prizes, including: the 2017 Rashid bin Saeed Prize for Outstanding Achievement; the UAE’s 2019 Al-Owais Award for Creativity (in the category of the best writer from the UAE); and the 2022 Sharjah Award for Gulf Women’s Creativity (first place, in the category of critical studies). She also won the Excellence Award (in the category of scientific studies) from the Indian Al-Nahda magazine in 2021. She is the author of publications on literary criticism and philosophy, including Lament for Cities and Kingdoms between Baghdad and Andalusia: A Study of Saadi Shirazi and Abu Al-Baqa Al-Rundi (2009), The Development of the Poetic Movement in the Emirates: Jama’a al-Hira (2017), The Intellect: Between Talent and Genius (2023), and Narrative Transformations in Emirati Literature: An Artistic Study (2024). She has served on many cultural and literary judging panels, including the 2023 Al-Owais Award (in the literary criticism category), the 2023 Sharjah Book Fair Prize (in the literary creativity category), and the 2023 Sharjah Award for Gulf Women’s Creativity.