Mental Health Journalism Fellowship

Nour Ibrahim

Nour is a 2025-26 mental health journalism fellow and is a social media journalist at The National. She plans to document how young people in the UAE are turning to AI for emotional support, including chatbots, journaling apps and companions

Ghenwa Yehia

Ghenwa is a 2025-26 mental health journalism fello. She writes a column for Khaleej Times wknd magazine, where she covers mental health issues and how they intersect with everyday life. Her fellowship project work will explore the emotional and ethical impact of 'grief tech'

Saeed Saeed

Saeed is a mental health journalism fellow for 2024-25 and has been on staff at The National since 2011. He is using his fellowship year to report on attitudes towards mental health in the Arabic music scene

Abeer Khan

Abeer was a mental health journalism fellow from 2023-24 and works for Al Arabiya, where she contributed features on the lived realities of expatriate fathers working far away from their families and natural support networks

Fatima Al Mahmoud

Fatima is a social media journalist at The National and was a mental health journalism fellow from 2022-23. She contributed reporting and commentary on conflict and trauma

Jenna Kleinwort

Jenna was a 2022-23 mental health journalism fellow. She previously covered business and social affairs as a video reporter at 7DNews in Abu Dhabi and Dubai. Her work has also been broadcast on Bahrain TV and German channels, including ZDF

Amandeep Bhangu

Amandeep was a 2021-22 mental health journalism fellow. She worked for BBC TV News for a decade before moving to the UAE. She has since freelanced as a presenter, reporter and filmmaker for a host of major broadcasters

Anam Rizvi

Anam was a mental health journalism fellow from 2021-22 and was on staff at The National for many years. She wrote extensively on the intersection between mental health and education, as well as mental health provision

Deena Kamel

Deena was a mental health journalism fellow from 2020-21 and is The National’s aviation reporter. She has reported on the mental health of aviation industry workers during the pandemic and on a number of business start-ups in the health sector

Raya Al Jadir

Raya was a mental health journalism fellow from 2020-21. She contributed several pieces to The National on living with disabilities

Omar Al Owais

Omar was a mental health journalism fellow from 2019-20. He contributed several columns to The National with a focus on men’s mental health

Nick Webster

Nick was a mental journalism fellow from 2018-20 and is The National’s health reporter. He has reported on a wide range of issues, including the challenges to seafarers stuck on abandoned ships, burnout and the experiences of forcibly displaced people

Nick March

Nick is one of The National’s assistant editors-in-chief and the administrator of the Rosalynn Carter mental health journalism fellowships in the UAE. He has written a range of mental health columns over several years

Advisers to UAE fellows

Iman Ben Chaibah is the Director of Strategic Initiatives and Global Markets at Sharjah Book Authority and the Founder and CEO of Sail Publishing. She was previously a Rosalynn Carter Fellow in 2017-18.

Leonard Stall is a media entrepreneur, writer and editor. He is a consultant to the Norwegian Nobel Institute and was behind the launch of Philanthropy Age magazine, a grantee of the Gates Foundation.