Her Highness Sheikha Khawla Bint Ahmed Al Suwaidi

Her Highness Sheikha Khawla Bint Ahmed Khalifa Al Suwaidi

H.H. Sheikha Khawla Bint Ahmed Khalifa Al Suwaidi is the wife of H.H. Sheikh Tahnoon Bin Zayed Al Nahayan, the National Security Advisor of UAE.

Her Highness grew up in a culture-oriented house and artistic household of her father, H.E. Ahmed Khalifa Al Sowaidi who was the first Minister of Foreign Affairs for the United Arab Emirates, and the founder of the Abu Dhabi Cultural Foundation; the home of the first National Library, and the Theatre and Community Arts Centre in the UAE. Ever since childhood, Her Highness has possessed an unquestionable compassion for reading, and has absorbed a great deal of literature and poetry, thanks to her father’s influence and the encouragement of her husband, H.H. Sheikh Tahnoon Bin Zayed Al Nahayan.

Her passion of literature encouraged her to write her own poetry, which is of a patriotic, nostalgic and philosophical nature. Which has led to her first poetry book “Jenan”.