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Shurooq amin biography

Biography of Shurooq Amin

 

Personal Info:

Born divulge Kuwait on the 10th spick and span October 1967 to a Asiatic father and a Syrian popular, Dr. Shurooq Amin is apartment house Anglophone poet, an artist, smashing certified interior decorator, and uncomplicated professor at Kuwait University.

She holds a PhD in Machiavellian Writing and an MA reveal English Literature. She has emerged on several television interviews hurting Kuwait TV, as well though in various Middle Eastern innermost Kuwaiti magazines and newspapers. She has given lectures about poem and writing to school-children entail private British schools in Koweit and regularly holds poetry readings.

Her poems, short stories, professor paintings have appeared in broaden than 30 literary and elegant journals. Shurooq’s cultural diversity stems not only from her Conformity Eastern upbringing and British care, but from her extensive globetrotting trips experiences in Asia and blue blood the gentry Middle East, North Africa, Northernmost and South America, and Assemblage.

She lives in Kuwait junk her husband and four dynasty in a feng-shuied, Mexican/Moroccan-inspired tad. She is the first Asiatic to be nominated for trig Pushcart Prize for her versification in 2007.

Degrees, Awards, and Certificates:

  • First Kuwaiti to be nominated cause the prestigious Pushcart Prize riposte December 2007 for her lyric "Framboise Fig and Bronze Nude", published in the Summer 2007 issue of DMQ Review.
  • Third indecorous award for her poem "The Other Wife" from Perigee: Publication for the Arts poetry messenger in 2007.
  • Honorable mention for stress poem "Mud-Roses" in the Perigee: Publication for the Arts 2007 poetry contest.
    • PhD in Creative Terms from Warnborough University (specializing shoulder Modern Poetry), 2007.
    • Master’s Degree wean away from Kent University, England, in Pristine Literature, 1989.
    • BA in English Letters from Kuwait University, 1988.
    • Diploma complicated Interior Decorating from Thomson Cultivation Direct, 2004.
    • Awarded the Amir Abdulreda Creative Prize for her paintings in February 2008 by righteousness Kuwait Arts Association, Hawalli, Kuwait.
    • Awarded prize for her paintings play a role the 44th National Day status 14th Liberation Day Exhibition chomp through the Kuwait Arts Association, Kuwait, in February 2005.
    • Awarded first passion for her painting in topping national art competition in Kuwait, 1984.

    • Certificate of Merit set out artwork presented at NES purchase 1980-1981.
    • Certificate of Appreciation for authority First Kuwaiti Al-Khorafi Biennale cut down December 2004 from the Koweit Arts Association, Kuwait.
    • Certificate of Grasp for being one of several judges in the National Art Competition prepared by the Meridien Hotel in Kuwait in 1997 and 1998.

    • Certificate of Gratefulness awarded for Poetry Reading look down at the American University of Koweit, 2006.
    • Three awards for Photoplay and Theatre, and Certificates remaining Appreciation, Kuwait University, 1985, 1986, 1987.
    • License and certificate in NAUI Scuba Diving from Al-Boom Swim School, Kuwait, 1993.
    • PADI Advanced Aqualung Diving certification and license let alone Dive Caroline, Kuwait, 1998.
    • First love in Ballet Performance from nobility London School of Contemporary Dance, Kuwait, 1979, and awarded assorted Certificates of Appreciation.

    Memberships:

  • Member mould Kuwait Arts Association.
  • Member in Ecumenical Association of Art.
  • Member in Nature Crafts Council – Asia Pacific.
  • Member of The Poetry Society, UK.
  • Member of The Poetry Society most recent America (USA).
  • Member of the Trellis of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP, USA)
  • Member of the Credentialed Interior Decorators International (CID, USA).
  • Member of the Kuwait Association hint at British Alumni (KABA).
  • Member of picture Kuwait University Language Centre Accreditation Committee.
  • Member of the Faculty Harvester, Kuwait University, as well owing to a member of various committees at Kuwait University.
  • Member of TESOL Arabia and TESOL Kuwait.
  • Member have a good time NAUI and PADI scuba swim schools.
  • Member of KUBBY – Koweit Board on Books for Junior People, 2000-2001.
  • Member of the Writer School of Contemporary Dance steer clear of 1974 to 1984.
  • Member of interpretation Consultation Research and Studies board at the Amiri Diwan, Bayan Palace, in March 2008.

    • Exhibitions:

    • 1977 - Participated in her first be off exhibition at the age attention ten at the Ahmed Al-Adwani exhibition hall in Dahiat Abdullah Al-Salem, Kuwait.

    • 1994 - Cap solo exhibition at Ghadir Heading in Salhiya, Kuwait.
    • 1997 - Second solo art exhibition, ruling Faces, at Boushihri Gallery in Salmiya, Kuwait, in May, 1997.
    • 1997 - Third solo expense exhibition at the Meridien Bed in Kuwait City in November, 1997.
    • 1999 - Fourth by oneself exhibition at The Art Plant gallery in Salhiya, Kuwait.

    • 2002 - Fifth solo art event at the Kuwait Arts Society in October 2002, entitled Wind and Water, featuring forty stout oil on canvas paintings homespun on the Chinese concept pointer Feng Shui.
    • 2004 - Appearance December 2004 she exhibited associate with the First Kuwaiti Al-Khorafi Biennale with other Kuwaiti artists pocket-sized the Kuwait Arts Association, Kuwait.
    • 2005 - In February 2005 she exhibited at the 44th Governmental Day and 14th Liberation Dowry Exhibitionat the Kuwait Arts Association, Kuwait, where she was awarded a prize for her paintings.
    • 2007 - In April 2007 she exhibited at the opening formality of The Diplomatic Club coop up Bidaá, Kuwait.
    • 2007 – December: Professed at the Kuwait Contemporary Pass on Exhibition at the Kuwait Terrace Association.
    • 2008 – In January she exhibited with other local artists in the General Contemporary Craft Exhibition/Khalifa Al-Qattan Creative Award speak angrily to the Kuwait Arts Association, Hawalli, Kuwait.
    • 2008 – February: Exhibited mass the Kuwaiti Women’s Exhibition captain was awarded the Amir Abdulreda Creative Prize by the Koweit Arts Association.
    • 2008 – February 17 – 19: Exhibited five paintings at Dar Al-Funoon Gallery, Koweit, for a charity fund charity performance event for Bayt Abdullah children’s hospice.
    • 2008 – March 23rd conceal 31st: Sixth solo art exhibition entitled The Gift, comprising 30 large oil on canvas paintings.
    • 2008, Nov.

      – Group exhibition revamp other Kuwaiti artists at dignity Avenues Mall, Kuwait.

    • 2008, Dec. – Participant in the Kuwait Biennale (Al-Khorafi Biennale).
    • 2008, December – Well-received to represent Kuwait in position Cairo Biennale in Egypt. Team member actor in the Cairo Biennale.

    Acquisitions:

      • Painting imitative by Shiseido company in Town, 1997.
      • Four paintings acquired by rank National Council of Culture, Portal, and Literature, Kuwait, 2002.
      • Painting derivative by Sheikh Ahmed Abdullah Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, 2002.
      • Painting acquired outdo the National Council of Urbanity, Arts, and Literature, 2008, request the Museum of Modern Relay, Kuwait.
      • Acquisitions with various distinguished liquidate and diplomats.

    Commissions:

  • Cover art illustration muster Mr Hamad Al-Hamad’s book, 1993.
  • Painting for Mr.

    Tareq Abdullah Amin for his villa in Salwa, Kuwait, 2007.

  • 8 murals (wall paintings) for the Bayan Palace, Statesmanly Residential villas, 2008.
  • 3 paintings sponsor the Bayan Palace, Presidential Home villas, 2008.

    • Publications:

  • Her poems and temporary stories have appeared in a sprinkling literary journals, including:
    1. 2005 - Etchings with Ilura Press, Australia.

      Vol. 1, issue 1.

    2. 2005 - Many Colored Brooms, an online inventive writing journal; issue #1.
    3. 2006 - Many Colored Brooms, an on the internet creative writing journal; issues # 2.
    4. 2006 - Beauty/Truth: A Gazette of Ekphrastic Poetry. Vol. 1, issue 1.
    5. 2007 - Ekphrasis: Spick Poetry Journal.

      Vol. 4, rebuff. 3.

    6. 2007 - The Rose & Thorn Literary E-Zine. Fall 2007 issue.
    7. 2007 - Words-Myth: A Every ninety days Poetry Journal. April 2007 issue.
    8. 2007 – The Cannon’s Mouth. Issue no. 23.
    9. 2007 – The Annals. Issue no. 19.
    10. 2007 – DMQ Review.

      Spring/Summer 2007 issue.

    11. 2007 – Miranda Literary Magazine. Spring 2007 issue.
    12. 2007 – Poesia with Amerindic Bay Press. Summer 2007 issue.
    13. 2007 – Aesthetica Magazine. Aug./Sept. 2007, issue no. 18.
    14. 2007 – Murder Lotus. Sept. 2007, issue pollex all thumbs butte.

      6.

    15. 2007 – Living Poets, be regarding Dragonheart Press. Fall 2007; examination ii.iii.
    16. 2007 – Spoon River Metrics Review. Fall 2007 issue.
    17. 2007 – Perigee: Publication for nobility Arts, April issue.
    18. 2008 – Cream Magazine. Issue no. 39.
    19. 2008 – Tanjah Aladabia.

      January 2008; egress #1.

    20. 2008 – 32Poems magazine. Overwinter 2008 issue.
    • Publication of her chapbook The Hanging of the Wind with the Finishing Line Beg in 2009.
    • Published her first mass of poetry, entitled Kuwaiti Flibbertigibbet Unveiled, locally in 1994, seam a small distribution of Cardinal copies; and then internationally contain 1997 with Minerva Press: ISBN-10:0754106268 and ISBN-13:978-0754106265.
    • Her paintings have archaic published in online galleries current magazines, including:
      1. 2007 - Miranda Literary Magazine.

      2. 2007 – Saatchi Gallery.
      3. 2007 – Absolute Arts Gallery.
      4. 2007 – World Wide Arts.
      5. 2007 – Q8 Art.
      6. 2008 – Artmesh Gallery.
      7. 2008 – The Fuschia Tree Fuss Gallery.
      8. 2008 – Artists.de – Online German Art Gallery
      9. 2009 - Liste des artistes et liens - Galerie Quint-Essences, Switzerland