About Me:

Nor Arab

“The Palestinian-Canadian UAE-based author, Nor Arab, founder and owner of Nour Publishing, member of Emirates Publishers Association, Arab Children’s Book Publishers Forum, Emirates Writers Union, and General Union of Palestinian Writers, has broken all records in the children’s literature field by “creating a new methodology in writing children stories” Gulf Today newspaper, November 2020.

https://www.gulftoday.ae/culture/2020/11/28/writers-books-strengthen-mother-child-bond?fbclid=IwAR2krnNaaixQuzDWDOAeCMf44LrqACNrgvkB5Ud28HzE92GiX6ClUFsevz8

Inspired to see the world through the curious eyes of children, Arab has reflected the beautiful details that take place in every family home in the presence of a child in all her bilingual children stories. Today, her story series, Samsoom, Naya, and Fahood are available in all the U.A.E. bookstores and reach anywhere in the world. Nor Arab’s Samsoom Loves the Sleepy Moon and A Flower for Mommy are being translated into French language and are to be distributed by Bookland Press INC in North America soon. They are also being translated into Serbian and are to be published soon by Agora Publishing House in Serbian, Montenegro, and all Serbian territories as a bilingual series (Serbian/ English).

Although Arab is still in her thirties, she has published more than 90 children’s picture books. She has been under the media spotlight especially of U.A.E. T.V. channels, A.U.S. University News, and many newspapers and radio shows. A selection of her stories will be displayed and read on the most renowned Arab TV channel platform, MBC Shahid via “Let’s Read” TV show.

She has been invited as a guest speaker at Northwestern University (among top 10 universities in the world) to talk about her experience in writing. She has been named as “the youngest Arab female publisher” according to Al Wahda Newspaper, 2019.

Nour Publishing is a pioneer in publishing bilingual children’s stories and always keen on participating in book fairs and publishers conference. In June 2021, Nour Publishing was showcased as one of the successful businesses in the UAE in the applied stream business enterprise virtual workplace that thousands of Emirati students in the UAE undertake to experience the real “world of work”.

In September 2021, Nour Arab has been granted the Golden Residency (of the Class of Creators) from Dubai Culture. You can know more about Nour Arab’s journey and passion within via @nourbooks