Manar Alhinai is an award-winning writer and storyteller. She also advises institutions and brands, creates conceptual art, curates, and co-founded two platforms, Sekka and the Khaleeji Art Museum, that amplify Gulf voices through literature, art, and expression. It all comes back to one thing: telling stories.

Her writing has appeared in Vogue, CNN, BBC, and National Geographic. At the heart of it, she writes about life, culture, identity, and the shifts that shape modern society. She also writes fiction in both Arabic and English, where themes of identity, home, and belonging always find their way onto the page.

As an advisor, she helps organisations figure out what they want to say, and how to say it with clarity, creativity, and purpose. As an artist and curator, she turns spaces into stories, creating art and environments that invite reflection and dialogue.

Whether on the page, in a room, or in strategy, she is always chasing the same pursuit: stories that connect, illuminate, and endure.