Diwan Ousha at the Women’s Museum, Dubai

Client: Women’s Museum, Dubai
Year: 2011
Scope: Thuluth calligraphy murals for the poetry hall

Diwan Ousha is a room at the Women’s Museum in Dubai dedicated to the poetry of Ousha bint Khalifa Al Suwaidi, known as Fatat Al Arab. The museum’s founder, Dr Rafia Ghubash, conceived the room around sand dunes, the desert landscape in which the poet lived.

Narjes designed the layout of the poems and wrote them across the walls in Thuluth script.

The room has hosted private visits by HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan and many other Royals and international VIP guests.