Ousha the Poet

Ousha bint Khalifa Al Suwaidi (Arabic: عوشه بنت خليفة السويدي) also known as Fatat Al-Arab (Girl of the Arab), Ousha Al Sha'er (Ousha the Poet) is a poet from the United Arab Emirates.

Ousha was born and raised in Al Ain and moved later in life to the emirate of Dubai. Her outstanding talent in poetry has put her at the top of Arabic Nabati poets with a large number of poems sung by popular Emaraty and artists from Arabia.

In 1989, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai at the time, dedicated a poem from his first poetry publication giving her the sobriquet "Fatat Al Arab" instead of her original sobriquet "Fatat Al Khaleej" (Girl of the Gulf) in her honor. In 2010 she was awarded in Sharjah's Festival of Classic Poetry XI and later won the Abu Dhabi award^[1] handed by Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

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