Soha Alsoufi

Background

About Soha Alsoufi

Soha AL Soufi Seasoned professional with over 18 years of journalism, translating, and cultivating relationships with key media outlets and reporters. The long experience in Middle East, Gulf, and the US shaped her professional life as a writer, journalist, and Arabic linguist. In Middle School, Soha published her first articles in her city’s local newspapers. She was only fourteen years old when she wrote her first novel to participate in Dar Souad Al-Sabah Publishing and Distribution’s competitions for Arab youth in Kuwait. Her first professional step as a journalist started in when she left Syria to the United Arab Emirate. She worked as a freelancer in AL Khaleej Newspaper/ Sharjah, one of the leading news publishing outlets in Gulf, to join later KUL AL USRA, a weekly social magazine as an investigative reporter. Meanwhile she was teaching Arabic for foreigners where she used her writing skills and experience as a novelist and poet to inspire students and assist them to develop their creativity and self-experience in writing. 2001 Soha Moved to Abu Dhabi to work in "مؤسسة الإمارات للإعلام" which turned in 2007 to be Abu Dhabi media company (ADM) where she worked in ZARAT_KhALEEJ MAGAZINE for over than thirteen years. During her staying in UAE, Soha published two poetry books and one novel and participated in many cultural events. Since 2013, Soha came to the States and worked at Embassy of the State of Qatar – Washington D.C as a Media Researcher and translator from 2014-2019. 2016 Soha published a poetry book about the journey of Syrian from the war to the unknown besides many articles in different Media outlets. 2021, Soha published a new poetry book.