Background
First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Ghanem was born in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates and was raised there.
First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Ghanem was born in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates and was raised there.
She studied television production and direction in Ohio University in the United States and later went on to obtain an Master of Arts in cinema production from Griffith University in Australia.
She has published six poetry collections and has produced and directed four films. She initially began her career as a journalist in the United Arab Emirates but after marrying and starting a family, First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Ghanem decided to continue her education abroad. Doctor Omnia Amin, a professor at Zayed University in Dubai, says this about al-Ghanem"s poetry and work: Nujoom al-Ghanem is one of the strongest modern Emirati poets who rose in the early 1980s in the Gulf region.
Her language is such that it permeates the soul with a rich and flavoured life experience that goes beyond the five senses.
Her ability to mix the spiritual and the physical, the real and the unreal, the mythical with the present, is what makes her poems resonate in the mind more than any other writer First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Ghanem offers a spiritual and mystical surrounding without ascending or descending into deep and obscure regions of the psyche.
Hers is an experience that combines the possible with the limitless and all-embracing possibilities of love, regeneration and an infinite room for acceptance and change. Hers is an experience that mixes the culture of the East with that of the West in unique and unparalleled way of accepting the other as part of one"s own making.
First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Ghanem is an active member of her community and currently writes poetry full-time.