Bodour Al-Qasimi becomes the first woman in an Arab Gulf State to win the prestigious Bologna Ragazzi Prize

The editor, author and defender of the women of the United Arab Emirates Sheikha Bodour Al-Qasimi has made history by becoming the first woman of an Arab Gulf State to receive the prestigious Bologna Ragazzi Prize for Fiction. Bodour Al-Qasimi received the award for her innovative children’s book “The House of Wisdom” at a ceremony held at the impressive Farnese Chapel at Palazzo d’Accursio in Bologna. Bodour Al-Qasimi opens the exhibition “From…