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Sharjah: Anfal Al Zaabi, a 15-year-old Emirati girl in Sharjah, likes to “talk to pages” – her way of describing the art of writing – when she feels she is not getting across to people.
“My definition of writing is talking to papers and sending messages from your heart, via the pages you’re writing on,” said Anfal, a grade 11 student at The American School of Creative Science in Sharjah. Anfal Al Zaabi says reading is not just for children, as many grown-ups like to think Image Credit: Supplied
National winner
In 2018, she wrote a story titled ‘Because we are the children of Zayed’, referring to the UAE’s founding father. The story won first place in the ‘Creative Fingertips Competition’, a national school level contest under the patronage of His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai.